2009 Images Festival Catalogue by Images Festival

Table of Contents Ticket Info

Membership Info

Program Calendar

Quick Guide

Party Guide

Staff + Board

Awards

Jury

Letters of Welcome

Ifpod

Artist Talks

Education Program

Membership Form

Live Images + On Screen

Off Screen

Community Partners

Artist Index

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Distributor Index

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Title Index

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Advertisersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Index

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Map of Festival Venues

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THANKS The festival acknowledges the ongoing support of our partners in the public sector: Youssef El Jai, Michèle Stanley, Kelly Langgard, Marie-Christine Feraud (Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts Section); Karla Hartl & Jeffrey Matt (Department of Canadian Heritage); Carolyn Vesely, Mark Haslam & Lisa Wöhrle (Ontario Arts Council); Agnes Zak, Patricia Jarosz and Alejandra Sosa (Telefilm Canada); William Huffman & Beth Reynolds (Toronto Arts Council); Ernest Labrèque (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade); Cecilia Ramirez (National Film Board of Canada), Victoria Jackman (Hal Jackman Foundation); Mima Casola (Ontario Ministry of Culture); Ann Webb & Alia Toor (Canadian Art Foundation); Jutta Brendemühl (Goethe-Institut Toronto), Remco Volmer (Royal Netherlands Embassy), Joël Savary and Pervenche Bourier (Consulat Général de France à Toronto); the Australian Government through the Australian Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory board; The Ian Potter Cultural Trust; the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) with assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts SA. Special thanks to our corporate & award partners: Carmen Arbour & Diane Langevin (VIA Rail Canada), Sharon Bower (The Globe & Mail), Sue Holland & Peter Lennon (EYE WEEKLY), Chris Goddard (Steam Whistle Brewing), Brandon Sawh (Xtra! Magazine), Christina Zeidler, Chris Mitchell & Penny Rose (The Gladstone Hotel), Susan Shackleton (Super 8 Hotel Downtown Toronto), Sara Budnark (Technicolor), Rob Sandolowich (Westbury National Show Systems), Rhonda Silverstone (Toronto Film & Television Office), Jamaias DaCosta (CIUT 89.5 fm), Tony Barnes (CKLN), Kevin McLaughlin & Tom Devenishek (AutoShare), Justin Lovell (Frame Discreet), George Harris (GIFTS), Silvana Marsella (Kodak Canada), Sara Diamond (OCAD), Deirdre Logue (Vtape), Brenda Longfellow (York University), Marilou Cruz (Ryerson University’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education Film Studies), Clodagh Moss (Pelee Island Winery), Greg Davis (Soundscapes), Marc Glassman & Greg King (Pages Books & Magazines), Fadi Hakim (Lakeview), Stephen Chan (Bright Pearl Restaurant), Marcello Barone (bar_one), Lynn McNeill and Will Munro (The Beaver) A HUGE thanks to our indispensable local and national colleagues: Vicky Moufauwad-Paul & Rebecca McGowan (A Space), Philip Monk & Emelie Chhangur (AGYU), Todd Eacrett & Deborah de Boer (Antimatter Film Festival), James Missen (Available Light), Terry Lau (Beehive Design), Christof Migone (Blackwood Gallery), Kate Monro & Amish Morrell (C Magazine), Lauren Howes, Larissa Fan & Jeff Crawford (CFMDC), Greg Woodbury & Ross Turnbull (Charles Street Video), Mark Peranson (Cinemascope), Andréa Picard (Cinematheque Ontario), Trudy Mascher (Clarke-Way Travel), Jennifer Waring & Josh Grossman (Continuum Contemporary Music), Benjamin Diaz (Diaz Contemporary), Kari McQueen (EMMEDIA & M:ST * Mountain Standard Time Performative Arts Festival), Charlotte Mickie (Entertainment One), Margaret Wagner (Exclusive Film), Josefa Radman (Factory Hamilton), Shannon Cochrane (FADO Performance Art Centre), Denise Rossi (Film Comment), Heather Haynes & Izida Zorde (FUSE Magazine), Lise Beaudry & Melissa Bennett (Gallery 44), Anne Golden & Liliana Nunez (GIV), Kim Simon (Gallery TPW), Janet Cramp (General Printers), Patrick Macaulay, Marlee Choo & Laura Nanni (Harbourfront Centre/York Quay Gallery/World Stage), Sean Farnel, Gisèle Gordon, and Jonathan DeSilva (Hot Docs), Jennifer Dorner & François-Xavier Tremblay (IMAA), Danis Goulet, Kerry Swanson & Kerry Potts (imagineNative), Scott Ferguson, Jason St-Laurent & Winnie Luk (Inside Out), Dana Samuel, Jennifer Cherniack & Jess Brouse (InterAccess), Annette Hurtig (Kamloops Art Gallery), Ben Donoghue & Renata Mohamed (LIFT), Ric Amis (MacTweek), Jeremy Rigsby & Oona Mosna (Media City), Camilla Singh, David Liss & Gina Facchini (MoCCA), Jonny Dovercourt & Dewi Minden (the Music Gallery), Cecilia Ramirez, Lindsay Wright & Kristine Collins (NFB), Tom Taylor (Pleasure Dome), Scott McLeod & Jayne Wilkinson (Prefix ICA), Helena Reckitt, Christy Thompson & Jon Davies (The Power Plant), Nicholas Brown (Red Bull), Heather Keung, Deanna Wong, Christina Sit Yee & Chris Chin (Reel Asian), Lorne Bly (Russell A. Farrow Customs Brokers), Tricia Martin (Saskatchewan Film Pool Cooperative), Haema Sivanesan (SAVAC), Penny McCann (SAW Video), Madi Piller (TAIS), Roy Mitchell, Jason Ebanks & Aubrey Reeves (Trinity Square Video), Sara Maclean (twig design), Sylvie Roy & Denis Vaillancourt (Vidéographe), Kim Tomczak, Lisa Steele, Wanda Vanderstoop, Erik Martinson, Deirdre Logue (Vtape), Gabriel Schroedter (Video Out), Irene Packer (WARC), Kevin Parnell (Wavelength Music Arts Project), Anita Aenishaenslin, Lisa Brown, David Sweeney & Mike Twamley (Workman Arts), Lynne Wynick (Wynick/Tuck Gallery), Serena Lee (XPACE), Ana Barajas (YYZ), and the following individuals: Lise Brin, Brett Burnell, Terence Dick, Elle Flanders, David Frankovitch, Kim Fullerton, Dara Gellman, Lesley Grant, Martin Heath, June Kim, Lev Levner, Isabelle Noël, Leslie Peters, Carol-Ann Ryan, Andres Salazar-Villafane, Peter Sandmark, Alok Sharma, Tess Takahashi, Jowi Taylor, Margie Zeidler, Michael Zryd and all of our faithful and hard working festival volunteers and interns. And thanks to the following international organizations and individuals: Andrew Lampert & Wendy Dorsett (Anthology Film Archives, New York), Geoff Andrews, Elisabetta Fabrizi, Will Fowler and Julie Pearce (British Film Institute), Chi-Hui Yang (Center for Asian American Media), Shai Heredia (Experimenta India), Jean-Pierre Rehm (Festival international du documentaire de marseille), Claartje Opdam & Pim Zwier (Filmbank, NL), Rebecca Meyers (Harvard Film Archive), Takashi Sawa (Image Forum, Tokyo), Arjon Dunnewind and Marc Boonstra (Impakt), Mark Webber (London Film Festival), Gerhard Wissner & Kati Michalk (Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest), Stefanie Schulte Strathaus & Nanna Heidenreich (Arsenal Experimental, Berlin), Christophe Bichon & Emmanuel Lefrant (Lightcone), Ed Halter and Thomas Beard (Light Industry), Mike Sperlinger (LUX), Kevin McGarry and Nellie Killian (Migrating Forms), Theus Zwaknals, (Montevideo, NL), Sally Berger (Museum of Modern Art), Gavin Smith (New York Film Festival), Karen Mirza and Brad Butler (no.w.here), Patrick Friel (Onion City/White Light Cinema), Kathy Geritz, Susan Oxtoby, and Steve Seid (Pacific Film Archive), Kristan Kennedy and Erin Boberg (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art/TBA Festival), Steve Polta (San Francisco Cinematheque), Ralph McKay (Sixpack Film Americas and Filmbank), Christopher May (TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition), Dewayne Slightweight and Brigid Reagan (Video Data Bank, Chicago), Chris Stults (Wexner Center for the Arts), Ian White (Whitechapel Gallery). And the following individuals: Steve Anker, Rebecca Baron, Paul Chan, Brett Kashmere, Irina Leimbacher, Sharon Lockhart, Scott MacDonald, Mark McElhatten, Aki Onda, Ben Russell, Astria Suparak and Lonnie van Brummelen Special thanks to the Founding Board of Directors of the Northern Visions Independent Film and Video Association: Richard Fung, Marc Glassman, Annette Mangaard, Janine Marchessault, Paulette Phillips, Kim Tomczak and Ross Turnbull.

MANY THANKS TO OUR FUNDERS AND SPONSORS

GETTING YOUR TICKETS Buy tickets online at imagesfestival.com from March 11. No service charges — use a credit card or PayPal account! Single tickets for the following select events are available in person from Soundscapes (572 College Street) and Pages Books and Magazines (256 Queen Street West) starting March 13: Opening and Closing Night Galas and Live Images 3, 5 and 6. Please note that advance tickets are not available for Free or Pay What You Can (PWYC) events.

Ticket Prices

Regular Ticketed Screenings and Performances $10 general admission $8 students/seniors/members* Live Images programming (Prices vary. Please see individual programs for exact ticket costs) $6 - 15 general admission $4 - 12 students/seniors/members* Opening Night Gala and Closing Night Gala $15 general admission $12 students/seniors/members*

Same Day Tickets

Lav Diaz Screening $13 general admission $8 Images/Cinematheque Ontario members

Festival Passes

Pay What You Can Events $5 - 8 suggested donation

Same day tickets will be available at the appropriate venue starting one hour before the event. Cash only. Festival Passes are available only as part of the “16mm” and “35mm” Images Memberships (see p. 5 for details). Please note that advance tickets are not available on these Festival Passes—tickets will be held for passholders until 15 minutes before the start of event. The Festival Pass does not guarantee a seat at PWYC events (which are first come, first served).

Youth Workshops and Screenings, Artist Talks and select ‘Talk to the Pie’ series (See p.24 for more details) FREE To reserve spaces for your class or group, contact images@imagesfestival.com. *Appropriate ID required. All ticket prices include GST.

STATEMENT ON AGE RESTRICTION Admittance to all screenings (except Youth Screenings) is restricted to those 18 years of age or older. The Images Festival believes in freedom of artistic expression and is against discrimination on the basis of age. However, under the Ontario Theatres Act, film and video festivals are required to adopt a blanket adult rating in order to hold public screenings without having to submit all works for prior classification. Film and video are the only forms of expression subject to this kind of censorship system in Ontario. The Images Festival complies with the Ontario Theatres Act under protest.

MEMBERSHIP The 2009 Images Festival Membership Program is generously supported by the following generous donors:

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MEMBERSHIP PROCLAMATION! Sign up today and begin enjoying the benefits of membership immediately! See more and save more as an Images Festival Member while helping support Canada’s largest integrated media arts festival. For 22 years, the Images Festival has been bringing challenging and innovative film, video, installation and live performance to Canadian and international audiences. Make sure you’re first to hear about our programs and first to attend by becoming a member today! For more information on membership call 416 971 8405, email membership@imagesfestival.com or visit the Advance Box Office during the festival. Memberships may also be purchased via our online store at imagesfestival.com without service charges! You can pay with Visa, Mastercard, American Express or with a PayPal account.

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35mm Membership – $300 Ideal for members who want to share the festival with a friend All the benefits of 16mm, PLUS • Additional Solo Festival Passport for a DUAL FESTIVAL PASSPORT: Includes redeemable vouchers for two free admissions to all ticketed On Screen programs and Live Images programs; • additional voucher for total of 2 free admissions to select year-round Images Festival events; • copy of additional Images publication for total of 3, such as copy of The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema; • Complimentary limited edition festival t-shirt; • 2 additional chances to win in the Festival Draw, for total of 6;

16mm Membership – $100 ($75 for students and seniors) For those who can’t bear to miss a thing All the benefits of Super 8, PLUS • SOLO FESTIVAL PASSPORT: Includes redeemable vouchers for 1 person for free admission to all (5) ticketed On Screen programs and all (6) Live Images programs; • 1 voucher for free admission to select year-round Images Festival event; • Copy of additional Images publication, such as Richard Fung monograph Like Mangoes in July for total of 2; • 2 additional chances to win great prizes in the Festival Draw (for total of 4);

Super-8 Membership – $45 Perfect for members who just want to catch a few shows • Member discount on all On Screen and Live Images events ($2 off); • Member discount on select year-round Images Festival events; • Redeemable vouchers for one ticketed On Screen program and one Live Images Event • Copy of Images Festival publication, either Richard Fung monograph Like Mangoes in July OR Philip Hoffman monograph Landscape With Shipwreck • Festival catalogue mailed directly to your home; • 20% off all YYZ Book titles (purchased in person from YYZ Artists’ Outlet); • Complimentary festival tote-bag; • 2 chances to win great prizes in Festival Draw. *Some restrictions apply. Please see Ticketing Information on page 4 for further details. Vouchers redeemable beginning March 13 at the Images Festival office until April 1 and beginning April 3 at the Advance Box Office. Vouchers not redeemable via the Images Online Store. While your admission with voucher is FREE, it doesn’t guarantee you a seat. Please arrive at the venue 30 minutes before program begins to ensure entrance. Entry deadline for festival draw is April 11, 2009. Contest open to residents of Canada, excluding Québec. Images Festival staff and board members are ineligible. Odds of winning will depend on number of entrants. Tax receipts will be issued for a portion of all memberships. Please ask for details. Our charitable registration number is #12741 8762 RR0001. The Images Festival Membership Program is non-voting.

ON SCREEN OFF SCREEN

PROGRAM CALENDAR

LIVE TALK/EDUCATION PARTY

START Sunday March 29

Friday April 3

Saturday April 4

Sunday April 5

Monday April 6

1 PM Special Bonus Screening! Melancholia by Lav Diaz (p. 32) North American premiere of Diaz’s stunning new eight hour feature! Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario $13/$8

5 PM Talk to the Pie 1: Notes on Composing (p. 24) Join the filmmakers and the composers from our opening night program for a talk about their process. Harbourfront Centre FREE

2 PM Live Images 2 Make Me Stop Smoking (p. 34) Rabih Mroué Harbourfront Centre $15/$12

2 PM Crossing Over (Under Your Skin) (p. 38) Curated by Arjon Dunnewind. A selection of videos from the Netherlands and beyond that look at issues of immigration and movement in the EU. Joseph Workman Theatre $10/$8

3 PM Talk to the Pie 4: Louise Bourque (p. 24) Join Canadian Spotlight Artist Louise Bourque for a conversation with Chris Gehman. Gladstone Hotel Art Bar FREE

Thursday April 2 8 PM Opening Night Gala!! Live Images 1 Notes on Composing: 5 Collaborations in Film and Music (p. 33) Newly commissioned films and scores with live music by Continuum and Malcolm Goldstein. Isabel Bader Theatre $15/$12

10 PM – 2 AM Opening Night Party DJ Isabelle Noël and some well deserved dancing. The Gladstone Hotel PWYC or free with ticket stub or Festival pass

8 PM Live Images 2 Make Me Stop Smoking (p. 34) Rabih Mroué North American premiere of new solo performance by this Beirutbased actor and artist. Harbourfront Centre $15/$12 9:30 PM Live Images 3 In the Room 3 (p. 36) Sung Hwan Kim, dogr and Byungjun Kwon A performance incorporating electronic music, drawing, and both live and pre-recorded video, making up simple actions that take on magical qualities. Gallery TPW $10/$8

10 PM Partytime! You bring the party. We bring the cheap refreshments. InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre FREE

2 – 5 PM Off Screen Launch Participating galleries in the 401 building, as well as Diaz Contemporary are officially open! FREE 2 PM and 3 PM Off Screen Gallery Tour (p. 25) Join Terence Dick and CarolAnn Ryan for a guided walk through all of the exhibitions in the 401 building. Meet at the Images Festival office, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 448 FREE 4 PM Talk to the Pie 2: And Then There Were None (p. 24) Artists Larissa Fassler and Richard Schütz in conversation with curator Stephanie Rogerson. InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre FREE 6 PM Live Images 4 Talking Points and Talking Ponies (p. 37) Ben Coonley A Power Point film theory lecture followed by video treats. Harbourfront Centre $6/$4 8 PM Live Images 2 Make Me Stop Smoking (p. 34) Rabih Mroué Harbourfront Centre $15/$12 9:30 PM Live Images 3 In the Room 3 (p. 36) Sung Hwan Kim, dogr and Byungjun Kwon Gallery TPW $10/$8

10:30 PM Off Screen Launch Party Come party with a set of super special karaoke videos set to everyone’s favourite rarified video art object! XPACE FREE

4 PM Talk to the Pie 3: In the Room (p. 24) Artists Sung Hwan Kim and dogr in conversation with Helena Reckitt. Gladstone Hotel Bar FREE 6 PM On Screen Program 1 A Human Drawing Blood From a Bound Prisoner, an Anthropomorphic Cat Doing the Same (p. 40) New films by Jim Trainor, Karø Goldt, Mary Billyou, Mika Kiburz, Neïl Beloufa and Julika Rudelius Joseph Workman Theatre PWYC $ 8:30 PM Canadian Artist Spotlight: Louise Bourque (p. 41 – 43) A survey of recent and not so recent work by Bourque including the premiere of her new film! Joseph Workman Theatre $10/$8 10 PM — 1AM Images Festival Lounge at InterAccess (p. 8) The Images Festival Lounge is open at InterAccess! Meet your fellow festival-goers for a drink! FREE

7 PM On Screen Program 2 And to Perfection All Our Efforts We Devote (p. 45) A new video by Akram Zaatari and Deborah Stratman’s monumental new 16mm film O’er the Land. Joseph Workman Theatre PWYC $ 9 PM On Screen Program 3 Siting Cinema (p. 46) Films by Oliver Husain, Emily Wardill, Andrew J. Paterson, Christine Lucy Latimer, Jorge Lorenzo, Steve Reinke and Isabell Spengler. Joseph Workman Theatre PWYC $ 10 PM — 1AM Images Festival Lounge at InterAccess (p. 8) FREE

Tuesday April 7

Wednesday April 8

Thursday April 9

Friday April 10

Saturday April 11

7 PM On Screen Program 4 The Limits of What We Know (p. 47) Toronto premiere of Amy Bodman’s lyrical feature documentary about land and people in Zimbabwe. Joseph Workman Theatre PWYC$

6 – 9 PM Performance Bus Tour (p. 25) Free bus to The Communism of Forms exhibition at the AGYU. Departing at 6 PM from OCAD and returning at 9 PM. Special performance guest on the bus! FREE

6 – 9 PM Blackwood Bus Tour (p. 25) Free bus tour to awashawave at Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga. Departing at 6 PM from the Gladstone Hotel and returning at 9 PM. FREE

7 PM Talk to the Pie 5: Saving George Kuchar’s Generous Cinematic Corpus (p. 50) Jeff Lambert, Haden Guest and Andrew Lampert discuss and screen recently restored films by George Kuchar. Joseph Workman Theatre $10/$8

7 PM On Screen Program 6 43 After 66 (p. 52) Althea Thauberger’s double screen 16mm film Chelsea Girls and Ian White’s performance Ibiza: A Reading For “The Flicker” Theatre Centre PWYC $

2 PM Talk to the Pie 6: 43 After 66 (p. 24) Althea Thauberger and Ian White will discuss the archival and intergenerational dialogues initiated by each of their projects at the festival. Gladstone Hotel Art Bar FREE

1:30 PM Curse! (p. 62) A commission and residency in partnership with Charles Street Video featuring new works by Guillermina Buzio, Steev Morgan, Lesley Loksi Chan, Sarah Shamash and Penny McCann. Joseph Workman Theatre PWYC

7 PM Live Images 5 Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet) (p. 56) Hanne Mugaas & Cory Arcangel An informal multimedia lecture that examines the alternate discourse on contemporary art that is unfolding on the world wide web. Theatre Centre $10/$8

3 PM On Screen Program 8 Hotel Diaries (p. 63) British filmmaker John Smith’s recently completed feature length series of short video works shot in various hotel rooms around the globe. Joseph Workman Theatre PWYC $

9 PM On Screen Program 5 Various Small Fires and Ice (p. 49) Films by Francisca Duran, Stephanie Barber, Duncan Campbell, Peter Miller and Alexander Stewart. Joseph Workman Theatre PWYC $ 10:00 PM — 1 AM Images Festival Lounge at InterAccess (p. 8) FREE

9 PM S is for Student (p. 51) A program of excellent new film and video entirely curated and made by students from Canada and beyond! Joseph Workman Theatre

10:30 PM Student Party Come celebrate the next generation! The Beaver FREE

9 PM On Screen Program 7 I Want to Wrestle with Your Mind in the Long Grass (p. 53) New works by Erica Eyres, Penny Lane, Zak Tatham, James Fritzgerald Craig, Ariel Smith, Loren Hartman, Gary Kibbins and Judith van der Made. Theatre Centre PWYC $ 11 PM Super 8 Late (p. 55) Curated by Chris Kennedy and featuring work by François Boué, Steve Polta, Jason Halprin, Karen Johannesen, Takehiro Nakamura and Philippe Cote. Theatre Centre PWYC $

9 PM Saturn Returns (p. 60) A screening and launch for the journal INCITE! curated by Brett Kashmere. Includes work by Tasman Richardson, Cory Arcangel, Ben Russell, Seth Price and Leslie Supnet. MoCCA Project Space PWYC $ 11 PM Live Images 6 Feedback Loop (p. 61) Bryant / Migone / Parant / Lemieux and Ben Russell A double-bill of cinema beyond the screen featuring 16mm projection performances by Ben Russell and Karl Lemieux. Theatre Centre $10/$8

6 PM On Screen Program 9 The Landscape as a Collective Memory Device (p. 64) Films by Heidi Phillips, Adele Horne, Naomi Uman, Michelle Smith, Elvira Finnigan and more. 9 PM Closing Night Gala Live Images 7 Cloud Eye Control & Ammo Factory (p. 65) Combining pop music, live performance and video projections, Cloud Eye Control and Ammo Factory present a new take on multimedia performance at this closing night extravaganza. Theatre Centre $15/$12 10:30 PM Awards Ceremony and Closing Party Theatre Centre FREE

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Quick Guide

Images Festival Mediatheque April 3 – 12, open daily 12 – 6 PM The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen Street West, Room 204 Free admission

IMAGES ON SCREEN

The Mediatheque contains viewing stations and a video library of works in the festival, available to all festival-goers free of charge. Starting April 3, the Mediatheque is open every day 12 – 6 PM. Drop by to watch your favourite film or video or catch up on screenings you missed.

O’er the Land by Deborah Stratman

Self Portrait Post Mortem by Louise Bourque

Ten nights including almost one hundred films and videos! The meat and potatoes of the Images Festival featuring NINE ON SCREEN PROGRAMS at the Joseph Workman Theatre and the Theatre Centre. All Pay What You Can (PWYC), featuring a dizzying array of new films and videos from fifteen countries from around the globe. In addition we present EIGHT SPECIAL SCREENINGS including a CANADIAN ARTIST SPOTLIGHT on Louise Bourque, guest-curated programs by Arjon Dunnewind and Brett Kashmere, Super 8 Late curated by Chris Kennedy, and a special screening and talk on the restored films of George Kuchar. Images On Screen pg. 31 — 65

IMAGES OFF SCREEN

LIGHT READING: california sunset by Elizabeth McAlpine

Cinematic (The Log Enchanter) by Pedro Paiva & Joao Maria Gusmao

SIXTY-ONE INSTALLATIONS by Canadian and international artists at eighteen local galleries, artist-run centres and public locations. The fastest growing section of the festival, OFF SCREEN stretches from Queen Street West to Harbourfront to North York. Opening receptions, bus tours, walking tours, performances and artist talks scheduled throughout the festival at the 401 Richmond Building, InterAccess, Gallery TPW, Diaz Contemporary, AGYU and Harbourfront Centre among others. Images Off Screen pg. 69 — 89

Images Lounge at InterAccess

LIVE IMAGES

Sunday April 5 – Tuesday April 7, 10 PM – 1 AM 9 Ossington Avenue

Head to the InterAccess Lounge following our evening events and meet your fellow festivalgoers for a drink!

Memory Data Register by Bryant/Migone/Parant/Lemieux

LIVE IMAGES continues its ascent as the most popular section of the Images Festival, with programs opening AND closing the festival this year! Armed with multiple projectors, laptops, found footage and huge musical ensembles, these filmmakers, musicians and visual artists perform behind projectors, on instruments and in front of the screen to present seven live spectacles pushing the boundaries of sound and vision. Live Images pg. 31 – 65 Final Space by Cloud Eye Control

Party Guide Opening Party Thursday April 2, 10 PM – 2 AM The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen Street West PWYC or free with ticket stub or Festival pass InterAccess Friday April 3, 10 PM – 1 AM 9 Ossington Avenue Off Screen Launch at participating galleries Saturday April 4, 2 – 5 PM A Space Diaz Contemporary Gallery 44 Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art Trinity Square Video Vtape WARC Wynick/Tuck YYZ

Videodrome Saturday April 4, 8 PM MoCCA 952 Queen Street West Video battle event with Jubal Brown Off Screen Launch Party Saturday April 4, 10:30 PM XPACE 58 Ossington Avenue Images Lounge Sunday April 5 — Tuesday April 7 See above Student Party and Awards Wednesday April 8, 10:30 PM The Beaver 1192 Queen Street West Awards Ceremony Saturday April 11, 10:30 PM Theatre Centre 1087 Queen St. West Closing Party Saturday April 11, 10:30 PM Theatre Centre 1087 Queen St. West

Performance Creation Canada: What Has Changed? April 2 – 5, 2009 Various venues and times Performance Creation Canada (PCC) is a nationwide network dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance creation in Canada, and the ecology in which it flourishes. The meeting is aimed at creating a discussion between artists in dance, theatre, music, film and visual arts who are interested in the well being of Canadian performance creation. The conference is designed to open conversation and open minds. This year, the Images Festival is pleased to join forces with Harbourfront Centre, Small Wooden Shoe, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Dancemakers and SummerWorks Festival to host this biannual gathering of artists and programmers from across Canada. For more information and to register visit: pcctoronto.wordpress.com or email: pccregistration@theatrecentre.org

STAFF PHOTO (LEFT TO RIGHT) Meg Hale, Scott Miller Berry, Pablo de Ocampo, Liz MacInnis, Rebecca Gimmi, Milada Kovacova, Jacob Korczynski and Amy Rouillard PHOTO BY Henry Chan

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Tori Allen (Co-Chair), Jody Shapiro (Co-Chair), Desmond Lee (Secretary), Rose Bellosillo (Treasurer), Giselle Basanta, Sara Chan, Emelie Chhangur, Chris Gehman, Janet Geisberger, Kathleen Mullen and Andrea Slane ADVISORY BOARD Sara Diamond (Toronto), Atom Egoyan (Toronto), Marc Glassman (Toronto), Shai Heredia (Bangalore), Mike Hoolboom (Toronto), Andrew Lampert (New York), Janine Marchessault (Toronto), Charlotte Mickie (Toronto), Serge Noël (Montréal), Andréa Picard (Toronto), Michael Snow (Toronto), Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Berlin), Karen Tisch (Toronto) and Mark Webber (London, UK)

PROGRAMS Competition Jury: Arjon Dunnewind, Kari McQueen and Dean Otto Guest Curators: Nick Brown, Arjon Dunnewind, Brett Kashmere, Chris Kennedy, Stephanie Rogerson (InterAccess), Earl Miller, Fernando Oliva and Marcelo Rezende (AGYU), Christof Migone (Blackwood Gallery), Michèle Thériault (Prefix ICA) Canadian Screening Committee: Jean-Paul Kelly, Jennifer Matotek and Kathryn McKay S is for Student Jury Members: Liya HyunJoo Choi, Owen Sheppard, Matthew Williamson

STAFF Executive Director: Scott Miller Berry Artistic Director: Pablo de Ocampo Operations Manager: Rebecca Gimmi Programmer: Jacob Korczynski Print Production Coordinator: Liz MacInnis

DESIGN Festival Creative and Design: Terry Lau, beehivedesign.com Illustrator: Jean-Paul Kelly Trailer: Jonathan Culp Web Programmer: Sara Maclean, twig design, twigdesign.ca City Set Photography: Laura Velasquez

Advertising Sales: Milada Kovacova Venue and Volunteer Manager: Amy Rouillard Publicity: Planet3 Communications (Joanne Smale, Marli Bennett, Jessica Charbonneau) Programming Assistant: Meg Hale Technical Coordinators: Antonella Bonfanti, James King Sound Technician: Ben Mayer Guest Coordinator: Marco Cheuk Year-Round Interns: David Frankovitch, June Kim, Andres Salazar-Villafane, Brett Burnell Year-Round Volunteer: Lev Levner Auditor: David Burkes, C.A. Printer: General Printers

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AWARDS Images Prize: Presented and sponsored by the Images Festival, this is our grand prize, awarded in recognition of the Best Canadian Media Artwork in the festival. The recipient receives a $500 cash prize. National Film Board of Canada Award: This prize is sponsored by the NFB to the Best Emerging or Mid-career Canadian film/ video maker in the festival. The winner receives $5,000 in services through the NFB Filmmaker Assistance Program. Technicolor Cinematic Vision Award: This prize is sponsored by Technicolor and honours excellence and innovation in the visual realization of work by a Canadian film or video artist. The recipient receives $2,500 of 35mm lab or post-production services in the Toronto office donated by Technicolor.

Tom Berner Award: This award, sponsored by LIFT (The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto), commemorates the late Tom Berner, who for many years supported and nurtured Canadian filmmakers. The award is presented annually to an individual who has provided extraordinary support to the cause of independent filmmaking in Toronto. In 2009 the Tom Berner Award is presented to Mike Hoolboom. “In addition to his exceptional work as an artist, Mike Hoolboom has made irreplaceable contributions to independent movie making through his critical writing. In his magazine writing and books, Mike has created a sustained analysis of independent movie activity ignored by mainstream arts coverage. For his contributions as a writer, Mike Hoolboom is a very worthy recipient of the 2009 Tom Berner Award.” – Mark Wihak The 2009 Images Festival Awards Ceremony is free of charge and will take place at our closing night party at 10:30 PM on Saturday April 11, 2009 at The Theatre Centre.

International On Screen (film) Award: Presented and sponsored by the Images Festival, this award honours the strongest new international film in the festival. The recipient receives a $300 cash prize. International On Screen (video) Award: Presented and sponsored by the Images Festival, this award honours the strongest new international video in the festival. The recipient receives a $300 cash prize. OCAD Off Screen Award: Sponsored by the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), this award honours the strongest new Canadian or international installation or new media work in the festival. The recipient receives a $300 cash prize. Steam Whistle Homebrew Award: Sponsored by Steam Whistle Brewing, this award honours excellence and promise in a local artist. The recipient receives a $500 cash prize and a Steam Whistle Prize Package. Overkill Award: This award was established by the Images Festival in 2000 to honour former Executive Director Deirdre Logue (1996 through 1999 festivals), and is presented annually to a film, video or installation artist whose work approaches extremes of incorrigibility through form and/or content and challenges our notions of edgy, experimental practice. Sponsored by an anonymous donor, the recipient receives a $300 cash prize. Marian McMahon Award: Presented and sponsored by the Images Festival with generous support from Kodak Canada, this award is given to a woman filmmaker each year to honour strong work in autobiography, the complexity of “subject” and the spirit of late filmmaker and sociologist Marian McMahon. The recipient is invited to attend the Independent Imaging filmmaking retreat, held each June in Mount Forest, Ontario, and facilitated by Philip Hoffman. York University Award for Best Student Film: Presented and sponsored by York University’s Department of Film and Video, the recipient receives a $300 cash award generously donated by the Department of Film and Video, a Gulf Islands Film and Television School scholarship covering tuition for any one-week Media Intensive Program of their choice and $250 worth of Super 8 to video transfer services courtesy of Frame Discreet. The recipient is determined by audience vote. Vtape Award for Best Student Video: This longstanding award is presented by Vtape, Toronto’s video art distributor, and includes a $300 cash prize and $250 worth of Super 8 to video transfer services courtesy of Frame Discreet. The recipient is determined by audience vote. Ryerson University Award for Best Emerging Canadian Film/Videomaker from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA): Now in its second year, this award provides the recipient with a continuing education course (valued at $500) in the Chang School’s Film Studies program at Ryerson University.

Jury Arjon Dunnewind (born in Ommen, The Netherlands, 1967) studied at the Utrecht School of Arts. In 1988 he was co-founder of the first Impakt Festival. Since then, Impakt has grown to a full-size organization that organizes multiple events related to video art, with Dunnewind as the festival director and artistic director. Impakt aims to offer a platform for innovative and interdisciplinary audio-visual arts, both nationally and internationally. Apart from the Impakt Festival Arjon Dunnewind produced tv series about video art and experimental film and he worked as an adviser for the Dutch Film Fund, department Research & Development. He puts together programs for international museums, galleries and festivals, regularly gives guest lectures at universities and art academies and is an experienced member of juries at festivals and concourses. Kari McQueen graduated from ACAD in 1992, and completed her BFA in 1998. She has been active in the cultural sector as a visual and media artist, arts educator and programmer in the Southern Alberta region for over 16 years. She is currently Program & Outreach Coordinator at EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, and co-founder of the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) and Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society (M:ST). She also co-chaired the steering committee for Performance Creation Canada (PCC), Calgary (October 2008). Screenings include: the Calgary International Film Festival, Alberta Scene Albertaine (Ottawa), Prairie Tales Touring Program (Metro Cinema), WNDX (Winnipeg), The Glenbow (Calgary) and Red Deer & District Museums, Festival International du Film sur l’Art and Canada Council for the Arts’ Definitely Independent curated DVD Program. She recently completed Springboard’s interdisciplinary, dance based residency, Interrarium, at the Banff Centre and is currently working on a collaborative six part video and sound based project titled Tekhne. Dean Otto (Walker Art Center Film/Video Associate Curator) has been active in film and video programming for 22 years. Over the past 14 years at Walker he has programmed the 19-part Rainer Werner Fassbinder film series, managed the international tour of the series Magnetic North at 17 sites, and coordinated the residencies of Arthur Dong, Cheryl Dunye, Christian Marclay and Craig Baldwin. For the past three years he has co-curated the Expanding the Frame series at Walker and the last edition included new work by Bruce McClure and a visit by experimental filmmaker Pat O’Neill. He curates the Walker’s annual Queer Takes program after serving as the programmer for the Minneapolis/St. Paul LGBT Film Festival for several years for Minnesota Film Arts. He also served as president of the board of Midwest Media Artists’ Access Center in St. Paul during his two-year term. Otto is co-curator of the MNTV series on Twin Cities Public Television and co-directed the short Minnesota Mean with Marjie Thieman that premiered at the Flaming Film Festival in May 2001.

Welcome to the 2009 Images Festival! We are so excited to share a slice of well-researched and programmed contemporary media art with you! We invite you to discover vanguard developments from Canadian and international media artists at 24 venues throughout the Greater Toronto Area during the month of April. Media art is exploding in every direction. The infiltration of moving image culture into daily life via PDAs, public screens, galleries, not to mention inclusion in theatre and dance productions is enthralling. How are contemporary media artists working today? What are the conditions that nurture and sustain healthy media art ecology? How does technology continue to affect production and what are the burning issues affecting media artists today? These are some of the questions that we hope this festival continues to address through our programming, commitment to dialogue and audience engagement via artist talks and educational programming. The Images Festival is thrilled to be hosting the 2010 International Experimental Media Congress during next year’s festivities. We invite you to get involved by completing the brief survey at experimentalcongress.org and look forward to hosting you at this exciting 4-day intensive symposium where media artists, theorists, activists and programmers will engage in critical discussions with each other and the public. The theme “Print Generation” at this year’s Festival celebrates the abilities of young artists to celebrate and respond to the histories of avant-garde tradition and to encourage us to reflect on these histories. By doing so, they bring us closer to a clearer vision of what it means to be creating experimental media art in the 21st century. From Ben Coonley’s infiltration of YouTube [catch his videos on our website!] to Ming Wong’s re-enactment of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, these landmark approaches to media art defy categories and embrace a fluidity that highlights the central role of media artists in defining our past, present and future. I hope you will take advantage of our Pay What You Can pricing on our On Screen programs and note that the festival continues to prioritize presenting media art to new audiences — please take in our artist talks, gallery installations, live programming. Don’t forget to visit our Mediathèque, free and open to the public during the festival at the Gladstone Hotel, where you can watch works featured in the festival. Kindly contemplate becoming an Images member — each and every membership greatly contributes to our operations.

I’m often asked, “What’s the theme of the festival this year?” and my usual cheeky answer is “Showing good work.” And it’s true, sort of. In the year leading up to each festival, we survey a wide field of mediabased art and stitch together programs that we hope will push the boundaries, challenge our preconceived notions and showcase the best of the bunch. That’s the plan anyway. But to say there is no theme is a bit misleading; common ideas always appear as we go through piles of tapes and these unspoken and unintentional nuances become a throughline, pulling all of the various components at the festival together. This year, we’ve decided to foreground those undercurrents by “naming” the 22nd edition of the Images Festival “Print Generation.” This was inspired (in a round-about way) by the 1973 film of the same name by American structural filmmaker J.J. Murphy. In the film, Murphy took a one minute segment of 16mm footage and then printed and reprinted the shot 50 times until the image completely deteriorated. Ben Coonley, more recently, created an online video, J.J. & Murphy’s .flv Generation, using a 12 second clip pilfered from YouTube of a dog named J.J. chasing a dog named Murphy around in circles, re-encoding it 1000 times over. The results of this process are on view at www.imagesfestival.com starting April 2. By naming the festival in this way, we acknowledge the way in which the history of art and cinema has itself become a subject or framework for making new work. Contemporary artists are reengaging the canons of modernism and the avant-garde: from Althea Thauberger’s Chelsea Girls, subtly making a nod to Warhol’s film of the same name in its documentation of a 1970s social housing building in Victoria, to Rosa Barba’s installation Western Round Table 2027, which re-examines a Modernist meeting of the minds in the California desert. For every remake of a classic experimental film you might find in this year’s festival, you are sure to find several more that engage with an entirely different set of histories and ideas: from Wafaa Bilal’s cannibalization of über-nationlistic videogames in his installation at MoCCA, to Amy Bodman’s The Limits of What We Know, a documentary 15 years in the making about land and people’s relationship to it in Ethiopia. It is of course impossible to give a shoutout to everything you will encounter over the next 10 days in these 473 words, but therein lies some of the fun. Experiencing a festival like Images is in large part a process of discovery, of venturing into the great unknowns that these 194 artists have charted in their work. I’m looking forward to figuring out where this festival takes me this year and hope to see you at some stops along the way.

In case you are wondering why our audiences are restricted to those 18 years and older: we are forced by the Film Classification Act of the Ontario Film Review Board to adopt a blanket 18+ audience restriction as a result of our refusal to submit films and videos for ratings in advance. Images endeavours to expand our audiences and share artist film and video with audiences of all ages, but under this draconian Act we are forced to limit our audiences to 18+. Many thanks to our government funders, corporate sponsors, community partners, members and audiences. Last but not least: congratulations to all of the artists — thanks to all who have submitted their projects to us — you keep us inspired!

Pablo de Ocampo Artistic Director pablo@imagesfestival.com

We welcome your feedback, ideas and suggestions always. Bon festival!

Scott Miller Berry Executive Director scott@imagesfestival.com

The Canada Council for the Arts is proud to once again support The Images Festival – Canada’s largest annual event to celebrate independent and experimental film, video, installation, performance and new media. Media arts encourage dialogue around issues of race, culture, gender and sexuality. Their multiplicity challenges our definitions of art and the boundaries that separate artistic disciplines. Yet these same qualities mean that works by independent media artists are not likely to be “coming to a theatre near you.” As a result, The Images Festival plays an important role in providing access to the rich diversity of work being produced in Canada and internationally. Congratulations to everyone involved with the 22nd edition of The Images Festival – and enjoy.

Le Conseil des Arts du Canada est fier d’appuyer encore une fois l’Images Festival – le plus grand événement annuel célébrant le cinéma indépendant et expérimental, la vidéo, l’installation, la performance et les nouveaux médias au Canada. Le propre des arts médiatiques est d’encourager le dialogue sur des questions de race, de culture, de genre et de sexualité. Leurs multiples facettes, qui nous font remettre en question nos définitions de l’art et les frontières séparant les disciplines artistiques, signifient par contre qu’il est peu probable de voir les œuvres créées par les artistes des arts médiatiques indépendantes « dans un cinéma près de chez vous ». Par conséquent, l’Images Festival joue un rôle crucial dans l’accès du public à la riche diversité des œuvres produites au Canada et à l’étranger. Je félicite cordialement tous ceux et celles qui ont rendu possible cette 22e édition de l’Images Festival et souhaite beaucoup de plaisir à tous et à toutes.

Robert Sirman Director of the Canada Council for the Arts Le directeur du Conseil des Arts du Canada

Welcome to the 2009 Images Festival. Through their fascinating works, new media artists renew the arts by going beyond the boundaries of creative experimentation. The Images Festival gives independent Canadian media arts creators the opportunity to become known and to share new concepts with their peers. The Festival contributes to Canada’s artistic and cultural growth and promotes the professional advancement of artists with a promising career. On behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Government of Canada, I thank the Images Festival for showcasing the talent of our artists. Our Government is proud to support activities that promote the vitality of this country’s arts and culture.

Bienvenue au Images Festival 2009. Par leurs œuvres fascinantes, les artistes en nouveaux médias renouvellent les arts en dépassant les frontières de l’expérimentation créative. L’Images Festival donne aux créateurs indépendants canadiens en arts médiatiques l’occasion de se faire connaître et de partager avec leurs pairs de nouveaux concepts. Le festival contribue à l’expansion artistique et culturelle au Canada et favorise l’avancement professionnel d’artistes à la carrière prometteuse. Au nom du Premier ministre Stephen Harper et du gouvernement du Canada, je remercie le Images Festival de faire découvrir le talent de nos artistes. Notre gouvernement est fier d’appuyer des activités qui encouragent le dynamisme des arts et de la culture au pays.

The Honourable / L’honorable James Moore Minister of Canadian Heritage

The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is pleased to support the spirit of creative independence that has characterized the Images Festival for 22 years. Through its thoughtful and challenging programming the festival introduces its audiences to avant-garde media works from across the province and around the world. It inspires critical dialogue about contemporary media arts that includes the local arts community and extends beyond. The arts contribute significantly to the quality of life, the cultural identity, as well as the economic prosperity of Ontario’s communities. In 2007-2008, Ontario Arts Council funded 1,300 individual artists and 874 organizations in 252 communities across Ontario for a total of $40 million. Our congratulations to the Images Festival and continued success!

Telefilm Canada is a proud partner to the Images Festival because it offers a unique window to experience highly original Canadian films. As a federal cultural agency dedicated to developing and promoting the Canadian audiovisual industry, we are pleased to have provided support for many of the productions and talented Canadians being spotlighted at the Images Festival. Indeed, the Canadian imagination is continuing to strike a chord with international audiences. Our country’s creators have built a reputation for storytelling that, while distinctively Canadian, resonates with people of all backgrounds. We are also pleased to be associated with Images because it is a venue for the industry to come together to discuss today’s innovations and challenges, and to explore creative opportunities. Congratulations to the organizers, volunteers and community whose hard work has helped make the 2009 edition possible.

Le Conseil des arts de l’Ontario (CAO) est heureux d’appuyer l’esprit d’indépendance créative qui caractérise le festival Images depuis 22 ans. Par sa programmation judicieuse et stimulante, ce festival initie le public à des œuvres médiatiques avant-gardistes de toute la province et du monde entier. Le dialogue critique sur les arts médiatiques contemporains qu’il favorise englobe le milieu des arts local et se déploie bien au-delà. Les arts contribuent de façon significative à la qualité de vie, à l’identité culturelle et à la prospérité économique des collectivités ontariennes. En 2007-2008, le CAO a octroyé des subventions totalisant 40 millions de dollars à 1 300 artistes et 874 organismes répartis dans 252 collectivités de l’Ontario. Toutes nos félicitations au festival Images, et bonne continuation !

Martha Durdin Chair, Ontario Arts Council La présidente du Conseil des arts de l’Ontario

Téléfilm Canada est un fier partenaire d’Images qui offre une occasion unique de voir des films canadiens d’une grande originalité. En tant qu’organisme culturel voué au développement et à la promotion de l’industrie audiovisuelle du Canada, nous sommes heureux d’avoir apporté notre soutien à un grand nombre des productions et des talents canadiens à l’affiche d’Images. En effet, l’imagination créatrice des Canadiens continue de toucher des auditoires du monde entier. Nos créateurs ont acquis la réputation de savoir raconter des histoires qui, bien que distinctement canadiennes, interpellent des gens de toutes les origines. Nous sommes d’autant plus heureux d’être associés au Images qu’il constitue une tribune où les membres de l’industrie peuvent se rencontrer et discuter des innovations et des défis d’aujourd’hui tout en explorant les possibilités qui leur sont offertes sur les plans de la création. Félicitations aux organisateurs, aux bénévoles et aux membres de la communauté dont le bon travail a rendu cette édition possible.

S. Wayne Clarkson Executive Director, Telefilm Canada Directeur général, Téléfilm Canada

It is my privilege to extend greetings to the artists, organizers, staff and volunteers of the 2009 Images Festival on behalf of Toronto Arts Council.

For over two decades, the Images Festival has been a cutting-edge showcase for experimental and independent moving-image culture.

The 22nd edition of the Images Festival is sure to be marked by another year of innovative programming and engaging artist-audience dialogues. TAC salutes Images Festival’s mandate to ensure the visibility of independent and emerging artists working in film, video and the digital arts, as well in new media, multi-media and installation.

For 70 years, the National Film Board of Canada has shared your passion for innovative media, bringing groundbreaking works to all Canadians.

To its growing audiences, the Images Festival’s responsiveness to cultural forms outside of dominant media programming continues to provide a vital forum for challenging, critical engagement with contemporary media art. To artists and practitioners, Images creates space for professional development and opportunities for forging lasting international connections.

We’ve also created a new national Screening Room <NFB.ca>: an exciting new way to watch and share over 700 NFB productions online, enabling Canadians to connect with their country’s cinematic heritage as never before.

Here’s to another year of success!

Karen Tisch President Toronto Arts Council Board of Directors

To help celebrate this milestone, we’re presenting the NFB Award for the Best Canadian Film or Video Maker here at Images.

Enjoy the festival!

Depuis plus de vingt ans, le festival Images est une vitrine privilégiée pour promouvoir la culture du cinéma expérimental et indépendant. L’Office national du film du Canada nourrit lui aussi une passion pour les médias novateurs, comme en témoignent les œuvres audacieuses qu’il propose depuis 70 ans à l’ensemble de la population canadienne. Nous sommes donc heureux de rendre hommage à la créativité en décernant, dans le cadre du festival Images, le prix ONF de la meilleure réalisation canadienne – film ou vidéo. Toujours à l’avant-garde, l’ONF a d’ailleurs créé son Espace national de visionnage en ligne, <onf.ca>, lequel propose aux Canadiens et aux Canadiennes de regarder et de partager plus de 700 productions en ligne et de s’approprier ainsi le patrimoine audiovisuel de leur pays de façon nouvelle et captivante. Bon festival à tous et à toutes!

Tom Perlmutter Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada Commissaire du gouvernement à la cinématographie et président de l’Office national du film du Canada

2009 www.imagesfestival.com/ifpod iFpod is an ongoing experiment in disseminating Canadian video art through mobile devices, available to view or download on any screen! iFpod History Launched in 2007 and expanding each year, the iFpod project was started to provide an opportunity for the insatiable media junkie to watch or download remarkable video art projects which subvert the ubiquitous small screen with artists’ visions. In 2007 with the assistance of Vtape Distribution, we inaugurated the iFpod with 11 projects, five of which were early video art from the 1970s, conceptually sophisticated and strangely suited for the mobile screen; the other six contemporary projects brought form and content together to challenge our trust in the human subject. In 2008 we added a few projects from our festival including works by our Canadian Spotlight artist Nelson Henricks. Most of these videos can be found on YouTube and have traveled to thousands of sites around the world. As the interest in artists’ film and video continues to explode, traditional venues such as media arts festivals like Images are expanding programs to showcase work in this platform. Screenings are now also increasingly taking place in alternative theatrical spaces, galleries, microcinemas and in a variety of new media settings, with rapidly growing audiences in each who are developing a new vibrant culture around artists’ film and video. The iFpod download distribution of artists’ projects will work with these new forms of exhibition to rapidly develop this vibrant arm of alternative media art culture.

NEW For 2009! The Images Festival has partnered with Trinity Square Video and Bleecker Street Coop to run a series of free youth workshops to produce a new series of short videos for iFpod. Funded by the Canadian Art Foundation Youth Bursary and facilitated by Dara Gellman and Leslie Peters, the workshops aim to increase accessibility to video techniques and technologies while fostering a new generation of video artists. Participants learn about the process of video art making through the creation, exhibition and distribution of their own artworks. They develop their talents and learn new technical, conceptual and critical skills, while investigating the history of video art, its practitioners and its various manifestations as a contemporary art form. The resulting projects will be added to the iFpod player, offering the participants a unique opportunity to display their work. Please visit imagesfestival.com/ifpod to view and/or download these exciting new projects! Special thanks to the Canadian Art Foundation, Trinity Square Video, Dara Gellman and Leslie Peters, twig design and to Telefilm Canada for startup support.

Free Artist Talks FREE ARTIST TALKS (with the exception of the George Kuchar panel and screening) Talk to the Pie 1: Notes on Composing Friday April 3, 5 PM Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West Join the filmmakers and the composers from our opening night program for an open conversation on the process of collaborating across mediums.

Talk to the Pie 4: Louise Bourque Monday April 6, 3 PM Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West Join Canadian Spotlight Artist Louise Bourque for a conversation with Chris Gehman about her newest projects in relation to her ongoing film practice.

Talk to the Pie 2: And Then There Were None Saturday April 4, 4 PM InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, 9 Ossington Avenue Artists Larissa Fassler and Richard Schütz will be joined by curator Stephanie Rogerson to discuss the deconstruction and reconstruction of public space in their exhibition And Then There Were None.

Talk to the Pie 5: Saving George Kuchar’s Generous Cinematic Corpus Wednesday April 8, 7 PM Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West Admission: $10 general/$8 students, seniors, members Jeff Lambert (National Film Preservation Foundation) is joined by Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive) and Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives) for a panel discussion on issues related to archiving and preserving experimental cinema, along with a screening dedicated to the recently restored films of George Kuchar.

Talk to the Pie 3: In the Room Sunday April 5, 4 PM The Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West Artists Sung Hwan Kim and dogr (aka David Michael DiGregorio) will discuss the performative impulses in their multi-disciplinary practices. Moderated by Helena Reckitt.

Talk to the Pie 6: 43 After 66 Friday April 10, 2 PM The Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West Althea Thauberger and Ian White will discuss the archival and intergenerational dialogues initiated by each of their projects at the festival.

Educational Programming Images is continuing our commitment to Educational Programming with a fresh set of programs for youth and adults, co-presented by loyal local partners. All events are FREE and open to the public (unless otherwise noted).

Adult Workshops at the National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada Toronto Mediatheque (150 John Street) For the fifth consecutive year the NFB Mediatheque is pleased to expose new audiences to their rich resources and diverse collection with a series of hands-on animation workshops for adults. In partnership with the 2009 Images Festival, the NFB presents: Take Two: Animation Remix Workshop for Adults Monday March 23, 6:30 – 9 PM Ages: 18+ Find inspiration in Oscar Peterson’s soundtrack from Norman McLaren’s award-winning experimental film Begone Dull Care and create your own interpretation! Using the tools and techniques pioneered by the legendary filmmaker, create your own short film by drawing, painting and scratching directly onto 35 mm film. How will your masterpiece measure up? Animate This! Grown-up Edition Tuesday March 24, 6:30 – 9 PM Ages: 18+ Craving to crash a kids workshop? Well, here’s your chance...Get your hands dirty with modelling clay and create your own stop-motion animated film! Using professional tools bring your ideas to life with the guidance of NFB facilitators. All films will debut in the NFB Cinema alongside a screening program highlighting new and award-winning stop-motion films from the NFB, including Sainte Barbe, The Necktie, and the Norman McLaren classic, A Chairy Tale. 24 Frames per Second Monday March 30, 6:30 – 9 PM Ages: 18+ Unleash your inner Norman McLaren! Using tools and techniques pioneered by the NFB, experiment with pixilation, painting on glass, drawing and scratching on film, and stop-motion to bring your ideas to the big screen. Move from station to station as your experimental masterpiece comes to life. Watch your films in the NFB Cinema along with a collection of films highlighting each technique, including A Chairy Tale, Pas de Deux, and Le Merle. All above NFB Workshops are FREE for Images Festival guests. These workshops are designed as an introduction to various animation techniques and are not professional filmmaking workshops. Please register in advance by e-mail: nfbmediathequeonf@nfb.ca or by phone at 416 973 7114. For more information about the NFB Mediatheque please visit www.nfb.ca/mediatheque

Gunilla Josephson

Trinity Square Video (401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376) Gunilla Josephson will be teaching a Master Class in Ecstasy and Despair Saturday, April 11, 1 – 3 PM $20 TSV members / $25 non-members Contact Trinity Square Video to sign up for the class: 416 593 1332 www.trinitysquarevideo.com

The Avant-Garde Remake with Ben Russell

An all inclusive production course with LIFT’s April artist-in-residence, Ben Russell. LIFT (1137 Dupont Street) Monday April 6, 6 – 10 PM Monday April 13, 6 – 10 PM Saturday April 18, 10 AM – 6 PM Monday April 27, 6 – 10 PM LIFT artist-in-residence Ben Russell will lead participants through revisiting and remaking pieces of avant-garde cinema history. The hands-on workshops will be technically and conceptually rigorous, exploring both skills and authorship topics.The magic of cinema, remade. $340 LIFT members / $380 non-members Enrollment is limited to 10 www.lift.on.ca

A Guided Walking Tour to the Images Festival’s Off Screen Projects in 401 Richmond

Saturday April 4, 2 PM and 3 PM Led by Terence Dick and Carol-Ann Ryan Meet at the Images Festival office, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 448

Performance Bus

Art Gallery of York University, Wednesday April 8, 6 – 9 PM Please join us on the free performance bus to The Communism of Forms exhibition at the AGYU. Departing at 6 PM from OCAD (100 McCaul Street) and returning at 9 PM. Special performance guest on the bus!

Blackwood Bus

Blackwood Gallery, Thursday April 9, 6 – 9 PM Please join us on the free bus to awashawave at Blackwood Gallery. Departing at 6 PM from the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West) and returning at 9 PM.

Student Programming and Mentorship

Youth Videomaking Workshop NEW! For 2009, the Images Festival has partnered with Trinity Square Video and Bleecker Street Co-op to run a series of free youth workshops to produce new short videos for iFpod. Funded by the Canadian Art Foundation Youth Bursary and facilitated by Dara Gellman and Leslie Peters, the workshops aim to increase accessibility to video techniques and technologies while fostering a new generation of young video artists. www.imagesfestival.com/ifpod S is for Student The Images Festival annual student On Screen program presents films and videos from local, Canadian and international art and film schools. A three-member student jury gains valuable experience curating and organizing the program. The screening is followed by a celebratory student party and presentation of the York University Award for Best Student Film and Vtape Award for Best Student Video. For full details see page 51. Outer and Inner Space NEW! For 2009, the Images Festival has developed an Off Screen exhibition featuring local and Canadian art students. Presented at XPACE Cultural Centre. For full details see page 85. These exhibitions complement our ongoing training and mentorship programs through Year-Round and Festival Internships.

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In the Room 3

Sung Hwan K im Friday, April 3 9:30 PM Saturday, Ap ril 4 9:30 PM

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Photo: Nina Ca Incorporating nell ele weaves in and ctronic music, performance out of a dream , dr own internal rh -like state of m awing, and both live and ythm and logic. pr em vase, fills it wi Here seeming ory and imagination, oper e-recorded video, In the Ro th rustles with th ping pong balls and milk, an ly simple actions take on m ating in a world that subscr om 3 e ibes to its are simultaneo wind from a body walking d stirs until the drawing dis agical qualities: a man draw pa ap s usly projected into the center st; a man draws faces with pears; a wall of coloured tis on a glass m su of a room; he I see a girl’s pr tells a strange arker and spit as his intimat e paper ofi story: e images ask her, and as le, and from far away, it loo all around her k her, “Where’d you get that ks like she is wearing a beau he from all of her ad; and when she’s sad sh tiara?” And I realize that it is tiful pearl tiara. So I go up to eyes, making herself very we e cries from one of her eyes not a tiara, but her eyes, all her and co , and when sh t. The visual, text e’s very sad sh nnected, ua e cries between Sung l and sonic storytelling th at form and stru Hwan Kim and dogr, whos makes up In the Room 3 gr e collaborative cture. practice moves ows out of an ongoing exch ange across disciplin Korean artist Su es to create its unique over a period ng Hwan Kim is currently based in New of four years, York. Previously during which developed in tim th , he lived and worked in the was awarded e Netherlands and has been e he was fellow at the Rijks Ne th ak award Hermes e 2nd prize of the prestigiou exhibited and performed at ademie. His In the Room therlands series was STEIM and W Korea Missuls s Prix de Rom itt ang (Hermes e e fo de r co With. In ntempo Korea Prize fo r Contempora rary Dutch artists and the 2007 he dogr (aka Da ry Art). Korean vi background in d Michael DiGregorio) wa Ba dogr is a perfo roque, choral gospel and s born in Boston in 1979 an rming musician d is ele Korean Wilds and compose ctro-acoustic music, as we now based in New York. an include Établis d Villages, is due for relea r who sings layered and sp ll as experimental 16mm fi With a se lm se at 2007; De Appe ment d’en face projects, Br on Sonig Records, German ial songs. His upcoming alb making, us org or http://wwl, Amsterdam, 2007; STEIM sel, 2009; Insa Art Space, y, April 2009. Recent perfo um, In rm Se , Am w.last.fm/mus ic/dogr or http sterdam, 2006; BAK, Utre oul, 2007; Gallery 27, Uiwangances ://www.myspa cht, 2006. Mor , Korea, Byungjun Kw ce e .c at om : http://www.do /dognap on gr. albums ranging started his musical care er collections, co from alternative rock to mini in early the 90s as a singe r/s ntemporary da m on al gw ho rit us er and e. He cr have been pres nc ented in many e, theatre plays and interdis eates music for records, sohas released seven international ve ciplinary even und tracks, fa ts shion nu . Re es ce . He lives and wo nt In the Room rks in Amsterda works and performances 3 is presente m. be on view at d in conjunct io Gallery TPW from April 7 n with Sung Hwan Kim’s to May 2. Se exhibition In e page 76. the Room w hich will

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Crossing Ove

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Joseph Workm an Theatre (100 1 Queen Street Admission: Pa West at Ossin y What You C gton) an

Fascinated by th Breathe his br e other, we want to crawl ea un which was pres th, taste his sperm, live his der his skin. To be just like him selection of wo ented as a part of the SHIFTlife. Crossing Over (Under Yo , feel like him and look lik e of new cultura rk focused more specifically Festival in Amsterdam and ur Skin) is a follow-up to Ne him. l and religious igh To on values are chan the ways in which immigr ronto earlier this year. That bours, ation, integratio ging Dutch so ciety. n and the posit ion

Your Blood is

as Red as Mine

Your Blood is Julika Rudeliuas Red as Mine The Netherlan s ds A white woman , 2004, video, 17 min where she talks spends some time in a bla ck community , and about the to people about the colou r of photos that sh they respond. e makes of th their skin, em. She asks They ask; she ; identity, the m responds, in an ea ‘white’. The ph ning of and the clichés arou investigation of oto sessions fo nd uses her phot rm the starting ‘black’ and o camera ‘regis camera to portray her mod point. Rudelius ters’ this partl els , and the film y staged, som sometimes fu etim nn rapher is crea y process, so that a portrait es uneasy, ted at the sam e time. This is of the photogcolour, and be ab fo and ideology. re long also about the perc out skin and One of the mod ep says that she els turns the iss tion of mankind se study. Photog es her, just as she sees th ue round: she em ra European men pher becomes model, as en , as an object of ta Esma Moukhta lity. —Netherlands Media voy of the white Art Institute, r

Borders test (v Thierry Geof ersion complet) fro Denmark, 2002 y Thierry Geoffro , video, 3 min y Cultural Exch indigenous Da (aka Colonel), interviews im anges ne Thierry Geof understood in s on the streets of Denmar migrants and froy his very imperfe k, making him De nmark, 2002, his projects pr self ct English. Th video, 5 min es complet), The ented here including Bord e interviews in all ers test (version Walraff Metho At t tänka tankar d, I want to loo Cultural Exchan man inte vill k like you and don’́t want to tänka (To thin social niceties ges manifest a directness ) k things you th . Joanna Ryte individuals resu The brief encounters he arra at dispenses with l ng lt in es ve be ry Sw tw fo een eden 2004, vid rthright vox po Geoffroy’s inter p ex ve It’s a journey ins eo, 24 min national televisi ntions were broadcasted changes. primetime on on. gets to know, ide a white Swedish woman fa black man. It’s lls in love with, has sex with ’s head while she The Romania a wa and ns (Live like th e ones on the ot ndering on the underworld splits with a a king) Heidrun Holz he of thoughts, feind r sid e of no ou t a journey in r political co Austria, 2002 , vid dark sides of hu our obscure thoughts thou rrectness. It’s Peter Plesa lef eo, 14 min gh m , t suppressed an anity – it’s a journey into ou neither in the Romania to Au Romania in 1990, walking d all str as a complex sublimated selves, with “s r collectively with his wife Au ia. Since 1991 he has lived the way from elf socio-historica there together relia in my gran to l construction ” understood ld in a diary form portraits two “w dfather’s hous . The storyline at e. an ell Th d int e is eg Ro ab is wo ra m ou te man’s racial anians t the ambig d” immigrants Their capitalist wi de voicing out a thoughts and desires for a uity of a white with their form sires and apolitical views th common aims. hig bla hly ck sensitive man. By er ar artist does no when they firs life in Romania and the dif e put in contrast t try to set us problem, such as racism, th t arrived in Au into a liberating rather expose e stria.—Heidrun ficulties they faced s ex ou pe rience. She Holzfeind barriers that hin r common fears and our The Walraff M co de ns r us from re tructed Gradually and Thierry Geof ethod boldly she reve aching towards each other. fro same time ab als to us that Denmark, 2002 y us we er s all and victims of , video, 4 min —Joanna Ryte our social prec are at the l onceptions. I want to look Att tän ka tankar man int e vill tänka (To Thierry Geof like you thi nk things you do fro n’́t want to) Denmark, 2002 y , video, 4 min

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et I Deeply Regr , 2 min Karø Goldt y, 2008, video rd now. Austria/German it’s so hard now, trying ha ng strong now. tti w, Trying hard no w, won’t be long now, ge fly... no fly, Getting strong flying high now, gonna fly, Gonna fly now, eth Cleopatra’s Te nt Egypt. Mika Kiburz mm, 17 min with the famed ruler of ancie l oral ra s USA, 2008, 16 ne ion ge ss d se an n’s ob vities An oral historia e letters, dental decay, ca ument to the great lov on a, this A montage of the cavity and erecting a m 13 Common Er disease. Filling upon the excavation in 81 nd Cleopatra. “A lete.” so text will be ob

1—9 Kempinski

Kempinski rkness. Neïl Beloufa enveloped in da s to video, 14 min village in Mali, be all France, 2007, tu t sm a en in sc ht re at nig by fluo we have We are outside acters emerge illuminated esent? “Today ar . Or is it the pr d a few satellites soon re A series of ch tu fu e th t an abou give testimony . We will launch space ships ion about the other at a space station to have much more inform communicate with t us , how we mus that will allow her stars.” Oh stations and ot the future!

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tion Theme The Presenta lture r the Moche cu Jim Traino nographies of mm, 14 min a USA, 2008, 16 er from various myths and ico Theme is a visual artifact, ern n Cobbled togeth Trainor’s The Presentatio Moche lived along the north best Jim e rhaps pe e ar d of early Peru, ory that has no words. Th an rate st th centuries narrative for a tween the second and nin work, as well as their elabo e is be d gold s, ther an lar ry ho tte sc t po coast of Peru os ed m rly accomplish cording to known for their grisly myths and rituals. Ac h of what is known of the ea of and sometimes Moche language, thus muc ey left behind. The goblet a th e r, no record of th n from the visual artifacts hooded priestess. A mothe aw a civilization is dr birds. A fanged man and ing blood. Humm encounter with the father. child. A sexual

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1–9 dies erased, Mary Billyou eo, 10 min gures. Their bo t background, USA, 2008, vid y footage of convulsing fi hif es ak ur hers: ainst a m Early 20th cent ited out. A medium shot ag in the frame, uniformed ot rs covered up, wh le variation. There are othe in the trouble. litt repeating with s, police, soldiers? Trouble rlie doctors, orde Adrift s drones over a Julika Rudeliu , 2007, video, 6 min echanical room eir ds The Netherlan bal chant or the hum of a m le are asleep, or at least th e tri e with th . The peop tim in om ro ay A song like a a sw in ly g to gent le waitin d? scene of peop Together their bodies seem state or forcibly hypnotize d. is eyes are close ey been gently lulled into th sound. Have th

Adrift

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Just Words 1991, 16mm, 10 Fissures 1999, 16mm,

min

3 min

Imprint 1997, 16mm, 14

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For our 22nd ed a little prayer (Hby Louise Bour ition, the Images Festival is E-L-P) twenty years, que. In her films that have br pleased to present this surv she often man ey screening of ou gh t he r int er ipulates the m however, her national recogn films pr at a little prayer premiere of he oduction is becoming incre eriality of film as a site for dia ition for the last asingly interdis r most recent ris tic 2009, 35mm, (H-E-L-P) re fl ec tio project, a little her process of ciplinary as ev n; 8 min ide pr reshaping the found image. ayer (H-E-L-P), which deplo nced by the world ys digital video into Impossible Tr ip By Michael Si s Back Home: The Film s of Louise Bo cinski urque Apart from the va rie d textures of ph or the saturate ysical de d aspect of Louis hues that result from tintin cay and worry on the filmst g or parti rip, or the e Bo ur que’s cinema, Bourque’s hous the iconic imag ally cameraless exposure, th fractured swaths of paint, e single most e to which sh space, with re es are complicated precise e return charac sp ly Bourque’s film ect to iconography of the because she places them s again and again, is the ho teristic domestic. Thes s usually involv at a juncture, or within a ble use. and tactile man e some form of e houses hove nd ipu about her work lations, so we never get “th found footage which is thenr at a dense twilight of repr ed, liminal es her childhood , and sometimes her brief en e house” as a straightforwar subjected to compositional entation. , excavating po d image. But we d credits, that processes etic resonanc es and unseen several of her key films wo know from statements rk with home This history an emotional valen mov d ces from Bour films, and it se its particulars are in no wa que’s personal ies from em y history. home would on s to me that knowing spec necessary for accessing Bo ifi keeps us on th ly serve to impoverish thes c details about the meanings urque’s work. These are no e t e The People in outside, and on that repres rich works. But more than evoked for Bourque by her esoteric th ch th psychological e House (1994) which spen entational cusp. After the ea is, that house, that façade, ildhood int always rly This is a zone erior—Bourque shuts us ouds a leisurely 22 minutes ex , rather Lynchian dramatic wh ploring the ho me as an arch work, call them forw ere we must not only acce t for the rest of her career th ar itectural and ken of individu d; we must also attend to ss our own visceral attachm us far. The “house” is now clo Bo al en gender codes longing. After all, the inside urque’s activation of a socia ts as the iconicity of the wo sed. ar (or decentered e learned and transmitted of that house is the domes l dialectic that speaks beyo rks tic (o ), nd the short circuited where desire is implanted r, hopefully, subverted), wh sphere, where historically in the individu ere power relat defined in some unfore al the later work ion se ps en s yc ar he wa e naturalized through the Fr y). Bu s never allow eudian family us inside Bour t aside from a few brief gli roman m que’s house. These are not pses of interior in 1999’s Fis ce (or Instead, the m films about “h sures, ajo ome.” (2000), Fissure rity of Bourque’s works— L’é s as a boundary, (1999), and most significant clat du mal / The Bleedin g ly personal histo both spatial and ideation, be Imprint (1997)—maintain th Heart of It (2005), Going Ba rie e ck memories of a s inevitably inform our reac tween the public and the pr exterior space of the private Home iva tio re collective child signposts, are hood, earlier re ns to Bourque’s works, ch te. The various ways in wh sidence also framed by arged as they ich our cording modes the inscription ar th , e e a wi so los th cia t th su l and e aff burb of Mortem (2002) gender. Throughout Bour historical legacies the films an promise, and other ge ective ne qu , wielded by Da we witness girls and wom e’s films, including her adm depict. Some are fairly broa rational en dd d, Fissures, for ex y. Bourque’s thicket of reph learning how to behave in irably incriminating Self Portr such as front of a cam ait Post the home mov ample, offers a perfect form otographed effects pulled era lens, parti fro cu ie’ al profilmic spac s subjects play with the cam correlative to the subtle ga m the jostled, off-track film larly one e st m era-eye. Fissu Z-axis, frameli (the domestic sphere of th res is a brief bu e of seduction and peek-a rip in e ne -b t but Bourque sp s, sprocket holes and all. amateur films) with film as riveting articulation and disar oo that sp In some respec tic elunks for signs ts Fissures reseace, its twisting movement ulation of and wonders ac mbles the wo right in her ow rk of Peter Tsch ross the n backyard. erkassky,

The windowed like “the family, façade of the Bourque fam ily ” the films them “domesticity,” “the heartla home recurs as a barrier be nd se The large hous lves. As such, it’s possible ,” and the radical specificit tween a social understand ing of ideas y to e rather tradition is both anonymous and so read certain of Bourque’s with which each viewer co nf al, family-first own specificit ideologies it m mewhat imposing, implying ies back into th ronts especially her th ay well have fo the large family e films. even rhapsodic ick, gritty manipulations of st colour, surface ered in its suburban atom it contained and the iza front of the ho plane, which could speak , an tio d n. su Bo pe ur rimpo que’s films, to us procedure in th e and, through painterly alt her background as well. A sition, operate on a dram at fi er mottled coagulais film is to overlay colour fi ation, vivifies it, turns it int lm such as L’éclat du mal ta ic, at times eld o Laura Marks’s tion of blood reds and bruis s via optical printing, and a damaged body. Bourque’skes the alt cr primary the filmmaker itical category) is a fragile ed blues are the dominant hough her palette is quite va to en re density of L’écla counts a complex, troublin velope, practically an open nes. The skin of the film (to ried, a g dr borrow wo t du mal’s corp oreal memory eam conflating Christmas timund. Bourque’s sound mix, mix. in which e and a battleg Bourque’s treat ro un d, adds to the waged both on ment of the house, the hom e respect to expe the personal (female) body space, as a site of drama, an tra Bourque’s Ac rimental film history in Canada d the social body, all place uma, and a fragmentary ad st upbringing ha ian-Québecois background . While it would be far too ea her work in a unique positionruggle s sy , removed from had an impact on her imag Bourque herself has implied to make broad claims rega with er th rd of Michael Sn e dominant threads of En y. At any rate, Bourque’s vis that the religious environm ing gli ow en style of Arthur , the wry elegance of David sh Canadian avant-garde pr ceral, embodied visions are t of her Lip qu Beckett adapta sett or the hesitant cosm Rimmer, the conversationa oduction – the cerebral conc ite ologies of Jack l editing of Ph tio ilip Hoffman, th eptualism her lips-only po n Just Words (1991), one Ch am be rs . In ca e language play litical treatise Pierre Vallière n see the fairly direct influencearly efforts, such as Bourqu paranoid s is otherwise dispa somewhat foreign to Bour (1972), but at the same tim e of Joyce Wieland’s work, e’s Samuel pa e, qu fuses formalist rate artists as Vincent Gren e. Like certain other French even Wieland’s offbeat hu rticularly m ier the better-beh investigations with explicitly , Donigan Cumming, and Canadian experimentalists or and Sy aved Concep tual lineage in dramatic gestures, a full-thr lvie Laliberté come to mind (such Canadian art, oa can seem down ted Expressionism that, pla ), Bourque If any taxonom ced against y right jarring. question—tags might prove useful for unde to those who and labels are a critic’s brea rstanding what Bourque’s fi wa lm true cinematic tch or those who produce),d and butter but frequently s do (and of course, this is a “c while retaining o-production,” Bourque ha it may pertain to Bourque’s fool’s game and seldom us an open ef its concrete co int s heritage, has nnection to th been living and teaching in ersectional identity. At pres ul either be e distance may en affected by hybridity an image of home and the cir Boston for years, and so he ent a we d cu as raw material ll have provided the nece distance. On the one hand mstances of her Acadian r work, ss -Q , one of the mos . But even more than this, he ary remove which allowed the geographical as well as uébecois Bo te t r int ur wo qu er rk es e se tin to em g tre an s at her own sp mporal “tendency” (fo d most produc less tied a trend at r in favor of expli lack of a better word) has to tive tendencies in recent ex or scene, and more indica ial history cit pe and the Struct ly theatrical effects. This do with a general renunciat rimental film and video pr tive of is ac ur ion of austerity “certain tenden alists but taken them in fu a cinematic mode that has for its own sa tice. This nd int ke Jeanne Liotta cy” in many ways, connectin amentally different directio ernalized the lessons of Br , often , David Gatten, ns ak g occasionally ev and others wh her films to those of Phil So . Bourque’s work seems to hage en operatic re o have taken sh formal proced lomon, Lewis Klahr, Jennife are this alms. ures into emot r Bourque’s film ive, evocative Reeves, , and s are exacting the basis of m in their constru ys exemplifies th tery and presence, anxious ction, but unrelenting in their is better than Imprint, in som to vibrate before you like tu willingness to argue their façade is ther ca e e ning forks for the unconscio se on to the porch, again. It hovers and tremble ways Bourque’s simplest fi and a klatch of us lm s, we see a litt clearly in its sh girls huddled le girl on the rig but also, in my opinion, he . No film in ad r negative, subje ow. Bourque loops this pa a family pose just in front ht hand side of the screen finest. The of ru ss ct this space met s it to scratches and dust age, whites it out, prints it the house, not quite dwarfe nning up , ap d the paterfamilia horically “blind,” Oedipali and scrapes the emulsion ouin negative, sandwiches po by it but ze sit But the camer s), pans up, left, and around d. The shot, handheld by th t of the house’s windows, ive and rend a , e taker of this ends with a m circles back, down and to into the trees and sky, as home movie (p ering if edium close-u th p of two indist e right, into position once trying to avert his gaze from resumably from her hat. Th m inc loop, resulting en, cut. Bourque hole-punc t children, one clearly a gir ore, again and again. The sethis space. l in a kind of m icroscopic iris hes this and other scenes and the other most likely a quence and within the scen gir e. (Freud’s rem affixes them to other pass l judging es ark about child ren as “little de of the tectives”

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art of It regarding the pr Self Portrait Po record, althoug ivate world of adulthood com st Mortem seemed like whh it is only apparent in retro es to mind.) On the soundtra sp ck ite ec : th no t e th ise ch at -c fro th how, at’s m the projector structural film s.) ’s sound head what it is. (On first viewing ch-chow of a skipping , not unlike th , e materialist so this repetitive noise unds one find By the middle s in many of Imprint, Bo urque is optic sprocket holes all , and out of the bending and twisting in mucy printing the blurred imager fra y within the fram me altogether. Movemen h the same manner as Fissu of the original strip moving t within the im e. Figures and age is redoub res. Framelines slip, the im free of the and rounded sp ac e m er ge led or bla age into an indistinc only for it to re cks. Eventually, developer t set of compo halted by the filmstrip’s m goes in tu sp multitude of wa rn in numerous hand-tinted ots and thrashed yellow lea sitions in blueprint blues, ovement pu close proximity ys that a single set of imag configurations. By this point der obliterate the image co re whites es m , set of maneuve of these iterations will affec can be manipulated, reco Bourque is clearly examini pletely, nfi ng t or Owen Land rs well within the parameter the viewer’s apprehension gured, and re-presented, an the of . s of structural experiments, the image’s denotative cont d how the such as those But then, as th conducted by ents—a Ken Jacobs e “home” and “fa image is nearly broken ap ar an old record mily” are on the verge of to t by collaged fragmentatio n ta of of the image ha Enrico Caruso singing “A l disintegration, Bourque int and bulbous white areas, an Dr ro molten-alchem s become feverish and mor eam.” By this point in Impr duces a new, final elemen d the t. int e y work, as we But Imprint is ll as David Ga agitated, evoking Brakhage , Bourque’s work on the su We hear dif tte rfa Brakhage’s, giv ferent from all of these. Bo n’s environmental-distress ’s hand-painted films, Solom ce ur fi impastos and ing Imprint the raw feel of an que’s painting style is scra lmstrips such as What the on’s tc W ph “inside” it. Impr ysical accumulations are excavated artifact. Unlike Sohier and more weatherbea ater Said. perceived as ex ten than int is clearly a lomon’s cinewo of the object. And, unlike Ga rk of additive and subtract isting on the surface of the metallurgy, Bourque’s ive filmstrip, and elements that tte not somehow affect Imprint, n’s films, Bourque employs sculpture, not a wholesale ch left buried for an a period of tim d most of her other films direct images and maintains emical reconfiguration as well. (Self Po e, is an except explicitly enga control over th ge ion rtr repetition in th with the plangency of song .) Nevertheless, Imprint sh ait Post Mortem, which Bo e e ar the film’s inter viewer’s psyche, in order to , the density of recorded m es an urgency and a willin urque nal time. gnes emor attain a transpo rtive experienc y, and the unconscious gli s to tc e, an “elsewh And this, I think ere” or an outs h of ide to makers I’ve dis , sums up what is special an cu history, ground ssed above, Bourque ha d valuable about Bourque’s s moved throug ed herself in pr films as a whole way to somet hing new. Wat actices and traditions that h numerous strands of expe . Like the other filmonce seemed ching Imprint, now, with the co rimental film an inc Fis to attend to film ncrete materiality of the filmstr sures, or L’éclat du mal, we ompatible, and is now po d video int not imitation.” ’s own parameters best su ip and the film image. That is, are allowed to exist in the ing the here mmed up by But at the sam we can satisfy Er making, to en e nie the formalist inj and time, Bourqu Gehr: “film te She no longer r zones of emotive contem e’s films allow us to move awis a real thing and as a real unctions pla th insists that film she succumb s actively prev tion, metaphorical connec ay from the surface of their ing it is to tion, and yes, en split your cons the simple gratifications of t spectatorship that mov even narrative own es you to anot ciousness, togg desire. co her ling you back nventional, non-materialist and forth betw story-cinema. time or place, nor does Louise Bourqu Ins een where yo u are and wher tead, Bourque’s films Her films have e is an Acadian-Québecois e you might ha be ve been. Sundance, Ro en presented in forty coun filmmaker living in the Bost on tte London. US br rdam, Toronto, Tribeca, Sa tries in five continents. Scre area where she teaches cin enings at inter oadcasts includ n Francisco, Ke em a. national festiva Robert Flaherty e PBS and th rala, Sao Paolo ls exhibitions at Film Seminar and as part of e Sundance Channel. Bour , Hong Kong, Melbourne include Mount Saint Vi qu an th e’s work was d e 2006 Whitne nc Ontario, Toront o; and Hallwall ent University, Halifax; Mille y Biennial. She has also bepresented at the 50th nnium Film W s Contempora en featured in or ry ks so Arts Center, Bu hop, New York lo Michael Sici ffalo. ; Cinemathequ ns e film and video ki is a writer and teacher cu , which he ha rre ntly living in s a regular cont ributor numer taught at Syracuse Univers Houston, TX. His area of sp ous publicatio ity (Germany). ns including Ci , Binghamton University, an ecialty is experimental nema Scope (Canada), Cine d UC Berkeley. He is aste (USA) an Talk to the Pi d Cargo e Louise Bourqu 4 e will be joined her film practic e. See p. 24 fo by Chris Gehman for a conv Monday April r details. ersation on 6, 3 PM.

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Nature Morte i uple of Akram Zaatar , video, 11 min g takes of a co Lebanon, 2008 imarily consisting of two lon The elder of the two, . pr rkened room e, Mohammad Abu A quiet video working in a da nc men diligently r of the Lebanese Resista video All is Well On the be a former mem appeared in Zaatari’s 1997 es, while the younger siv Hammane (who e foreground making explo edle and thread. The th Border) sits in mending his jacket with a ne th Hammane exiting wi sits behind him ent actions of the men end cumentary nor fiction, do focused and int b on his shoulder. Neither tension between two m ent of silent ilitary the house, bo captures a mom t ambiguous m Zaatari’s video en, infusing this simple, ye ict in Lebanon. m nfl of co generations sistance and e history of re action with th

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O’er the Land an tm Deborah Stra m, 51 min , presents a m O’er the Land USA, 2008, 16 an’s epic new 16mm film, d national identity. Ever tm an ra s el William Deborah St vated threat e story of Colon militarism, ele meditation on scope, the film begins with th ed from his fighter plane ct its eje o, in 1959, expansive in out the Force pilot wh tes tossed ab Rankin, an Air d spent the next 45 minu finally making it back an re fo et rstorm be Stratman at 48,000 fe a fierce thunde t To Be Here, stratosphere by in her 2002 film In Order No questions through the s As se . ole. say that po to land alive n-narrative es make up the wh constructs a no a series of documents that and Revolutionary War of vil Ci and jumps to juxtaposition crash, the film , firefighter drills From Rankin’s high school football games ng to, nor harshly , ibi ts cr en an’s re-enactm Neither subs her lens, Stratm conventions. machine gun triotic NRA fervor in front of to project our view st pa pa e d th esent an criticizing ns, freedom, gaze on the pr atise on natio film focuses its future, an open-ended tre e forward into th terror and fear.

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1) % Black Film Film Noir (100 o Jorge Lorenz mm, 5 min, silent cks the light , 35 ue film that blo Mexico, 2007 ock is an opaq . For almost five minutes, st d un so tic 35mm magne from casting onto the screen er, in its absence on the th of the projector screen is eliminated. Or ra e e? the frame of th e frame border the audienc th screen, does Daughter) d (Descartes’ The Diamon ll ndering Emily Wardi m, 11 min embodied wa m UK, 2008, 16 escartes’ Daughter) is a dis ond protected by lasers; (D m The Diamond from a film including: a dia a homemade version in through scenes playing on a Nintendo Wii uld dress his subjects l images of a gir that Étienne-Jules Marey wo ic experiments; and log e of the costum ting Chromophotography; refracting light, the uc ystal cr a e lik gments r in when cond te Words shat up: sentence fra to jump Ready Maids. eling off of the text breaking trying gh ou th as re e voice skipping dispassionat amended, the are repeated, error. ing a programm

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The Limits of Amy Bodman What We Know Canada, 2008 , video, 94 min In 1993, Amy Bo to it. Over the dman took a small crew to co Zim 18 hours of 16 urse of nearly two months, babwe to make a film ab ou m returning to Ca m film and conducting int the four-person crew trave t the land and its people’s re erviews and fi led throughout lationship nada, Bodman eld the worked on the re film on and of cordings amounting to 40 country, shooting The end result ho f over the cour is se of the next urs of sound. Upon Drought and Th constructed around a serie 15 years. s of the country e Language of Trees—each of chapters—The Great Zim , th ba trees, or the he e making of clay pots, the of which explores issues bo bwe Monument, The Com posit th construction of than the accu arts of giraffes. The entire fi dams, as well concrete and ephemeral: th ion of lm m the natural an ulation of the whole. Throug , however, is less about th as the communication syst e history e d ems of environmenta the man made—The Limits h juxtapostion of all these ele particulars of each of these l critique. chapters of What We Kn ments—the tra ow is at once dit a documentary, ional and the modern, Though perhap a travelogue an d an period betwee s circumstantial by design, m n direction and ov her shooting in 1993 and uch of the power of Bodm its an er ’s film is develop completion in all resonance of from four year 2008, which ed through the work. Bo s state of relative of terrible drought and was dman visited Zimbabwe at has had a huge impact on the interim the shape, bo a pe time when the th in a period the land and th ace. As such, the Zimba bwe of the film of environmental and clim country was emerging is now framed e foliage alive and fertile, th ac ap tic pears, both rebirth as e people activ by the last de e and engage literally and metaphorically, well as in a ca strife fueled by d in their daylike sp conflicts in race de in the country’s history, to -d wh ay and battles ov ich has seen a lives. Yet this ring: er land owners ne w er a of Bodman’s sim ec hip. onomic and po footage ple litical and David Mac yet lyrical film is reminisc en Do t of ethnogra ugall, creatin conversation framing a shar g a filmic document that phic filmmakers such as Ro is both humble p and univers bert Gardner We Know stan al or an d specifics of th as documents: quiet portr analysis. The scenes and ch d generous to its subjects, Judith is time and pla aits of a peop ap with the te rs that make up le and their en ce as it is abou upon which th The Limits of vironment. It is ey subsist. It is t What guide. a film as much a film that loo a broader disconnect betw ks at tradition een civilization about the as a model fo r future develops and the ecosystems Amy Bodman ment, and his tory as a Institute, and was born in Detroit and mov in 1986 her firs ed City, the Montre t film, Tree Tale, to Toronto in 1980. She st of Life and Ot al Film Festival, the Videotro screened at the Independe udied film at Ryerson Polyt he n ec nt Fair of Young Fil r Tales from the Grimms sc Youth Festival and Cinemathe Film and Video Alliance in hnical re Qu Festival in Toro mmakers in Spain, the Hallw ened at the Vancouver Int que Ontario. Her next film Th ebec er alls Contempo nt rary Arts Centre national Film Festival, the Int e Duration the Athens Fil o, the Yorkton Short Film Fe m The Duration Festival in Ohio, the Emerso stival in Saskatchewan, th in Buffalo, the International ernational e St of of Colorado. Bo Life and Other Tales from th n Umbrella for the Arts, an Canadian Film Celebration orytellers’ d in Toronto. The Limth of these films are availab e Grimms was also on Stan the Gaslight Theatre in Mas Calgary, sachusetts. le th Br its of What W e Know is Am rough the Canadian Filmm akhage’s curriculum at the y Bodman’s fi University rst feature-len akers’ Distribution Centre (CFMDC), gth documen tary.

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Various Small Tuesday Apri l7 9 PM

Fires and Ice

Joseph Workm an Theatre (100 1 Queen Street Admission: Pa West at Ossin y What You C gton) an The formal div isi temporality of ons between film and phot th og of Peter Wollen ese films and videos, com raphy dissolve in the ing to light in th serialized imag ’s essay Fire and Ice. Here, e shadow th e, in the cinema. occupying a context depe e temporal image is a As Wollen note ndent upon its functions in tim s, this is just on appearance circulation of th e. The other occurs on this e way that an image page, in the cu e republished rrency and image.

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Thursday Ap ril 9 11 PM

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07, Super 8, 8 min 1997A (Arrival ) Steve Polta USA, 1997, Su per 8, 10 min Mylar Balloon Jason Halprin Rip Off USA, 2007, Su per 8, 3 min Light Speed Karen Johann USA, 2007, Su esen per 8, 6 min

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Mylar Balloon On a descriptiv Rip Off station, momene level these films are unam big ts uo in us an apartment. resonate throug To stop there, —documents of movers, a however, is to train entering format of Supe h each of these films. It is an underg ignore th ap r 8, transform unassuming th ing the smalles propriate that these films ex e expressive undercurrents round at its obituary t of frames int that ist so lely and singu creates beautifu o the richest of has long ago lar ly on the intim been written, experiences. Th l clouds. ate but these six is is a form filmmakers sh ow that even at so Most of these evaporation filmmakers star home-movie fo t from the com through her bli rmat. In Light Speed, Karen monplace, the everyday, re co nds and the pa Jo of a passagew rallel patterns hannesen creates an extre gnizing the medium’s histo ay ry Full of Dust find and the chain-link fence she finds in her immediate mely kinetic film from the lig as a vic of ht coming dust and light s him capturing the detaile her yard. Steve Polta’s ap inity—her fire escape, the pr d , while 1997A br (Arrival) succinc moments of a home, foregr oach is more contemplativ ick wall Takehiro Naka e. m ou glass apple, th ura also abstracts his surro tly draws out a beautiful ab nding the passage of shad A House straction from e kind that inn undings in So ows, his apocalyptical m ocuously sits nightmare. on a family co e Days Ago (Kajitu) by shoo morning commute. ffee table, disto ting through a rting his neigh Philippe Cote borhood into crystal ’s an roughly translat film is anything but common Mount Blanc. es as the clouds in the fissur place, harnessing instead th Through beau tifully graphic es of the earth, and it finds e energies of high altitudes. furious cloud co pa him traveling up Its Mylar Balloon tterns that circulate around mpositions and a stunning the French Al title Ri us the irony of his p Off watches more sedate the glaciers and peaks of th e of time lapse, he reveals ps to em th title and of his air currents, th muse. is time man-m ountain range. Jason Halpr e ade, in a subt in’s François Boué le fi lm th at belies both ’s Aufhebung, wh document of New York m ov philosophical ich is another clue to the te ers lifting large crates up a cir ns st carrying forth cles it also translates into su ion in these films. The title airwell is given the German a lite so precariously tradition. Perhaps this is th blation—superseding, putti rally means up-lifting, but title e ng an end to, in but simultaneo preserves a fu balanced—each projection process at work in these fi ne ture. us is a small act of destruction ly wrought films, made in a ly , but also an ac m t that brings fo edium rth and

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Hanne Mugaa

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How is the int er participation, net changing our perceptio th n self-regulating e internet presents an idios of art? In its indiscriminate yn ca m reinterpretation echanisms of the internet cratic account of art since taloguing and non-hegem make artworks onic 19 by its users. and art world 60. The democratic and information ea Hosted by Plea sily accessible for informal multim sure Dome and the Images Festival, Art Si edia lecture pr discourse on es nc en e 1960 (Acc ted by Hann co normally gove ntemporary art that is unfo e Mugaas and Cory Arcangording to the Internet) is an rn ldi users,” states the systematization of art ng on the world wide web. el that examines the alterna ar te M museum is re ugaas. The academic discip e dismantled by the search “The control systems that jec are overwhelm ted by internet users post line of art history is bypass algorithms and whims of ho ing on art. Ce ed rtainly institutioned and the curatorial rigour me results when th by the sheer quantity of of po s irrelevant and is level of discourse is lost? sts by users who ignore th have their websites, but th the elitist notions? eir ey Are the long es tablished theo methodologies. What are th ries of art mer Gathering toge ely fusty conc e eits; th and how they er art images, video and au ar ideas has resu e contextualized by its user dio, Mugaas and Arcangel surv lted in a variety s. of contiguities, They offer their view on ho ey the internet’s art collect w this open so ion conflations an Cory Arcang urcing of art an s d co llisions. el d Check out an is an internationally renown d try out his re programming ed digital hacker known fo r his works at www. beigerecords.c conceptual art projects. Hanne Mugaa om/cory/tags /artwork/. View her colle s is a curator of art ephem er ction of audio visual posting a as well as a thought prov s at http://hann oking art and culture pundit. e-mugaas.com /artblog/.

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Lemieux and

Ben Russell

Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West at Admission: $1 Dovercourt) 0 general/$8 st udents, senior s, members

A double bill of Lemieux. Russ cinema beyond the screen fe ell Gods, which re (who is currently the Visit aturing 16mm projection pe ing performance visits a clip from his own film Artist in Residence at LIF rformances by Ben Russell ble T) an various physica nds the loops from the film Daumë as the basis for a do will present The Black and d Karl W abstracted field l interventions between len with a soundtrack compose uble-projection performance hite s and screen of bodily expe to “interrogate d with hand-built synths as . The rience.” the possibility we of representatio ll as Over the past se n via the performances veral years Montréal-base d th or four project at redefine the classical av Lemieux has been creating ion an ranging from old s at a time Lemieux build t-garde tropes of hand-m a body of multi-projector 16 s an m drawing on, sc westerns to educational fi loops from a library of foun ipulated film. Often working m film d lm ra burn and disint tching, and cutting into th s. Lemieux pushes these footage, stitching together with three cellu e em imagery egrate in the lig collaborating ht. Memory Da ulsion as he slows the loo loid loops to their physica wi loops and ele th Christof Migone, Jonath ta Register is a new perfo ps into trance-like flickers l limits: ctronics. an Parant and that rmance in wh ich David Bryant who will be pla Lemieux will be ying reel to re Ben Russell el tape is screened in sp an itinerant photographer, cu ac Company build es ranging from 14th cent rator and experimental film ur /v storefronts an ings, police station basemen y Belgian monasteries to 17 ideomaker whose works ha d the Sundan ce Film Festiva ts to outdoor punk squats th century East Indian Trad ve , l to the Museu Japanese cinem ing m of Modern Karl Lemieux atheques to Pa Art. risian (1998), KI (200 studied cinema at Concordia 1), Motion of Lig University and (2008). He is ha ht s (2 cr 00 ea 4) te , W d a se and screening co-founder of Double Nega estern Sunburn (2007), Tras veral short films including tive, a film colle h Th of experimenta ctive based in and no star! (2008) and Pa e Bridge l film. ss Montréal focu David Bryant sed on the prod age is uction You! Black Em a founding member and a pe atmosphere, so ror and Set Fire To Flames driving creative force behin d . studio in Griffi und landscapes and unorth It was in the latter group th Montréal musical collective odox recording ntown, Montre s at al. techniques. Cu Bryant developed his obse Godspeed rrently, Bryant ss Christof Mig runs The Pines ion with one is a multidi recording bodies, perform sciplinary artis t retrospective ance, intimacy, complicity and writer. His work and re on his work ac an se companied by d endurance. In 2006, the arch delves into language, Ga a catalogue an vo Jonathan Pa d a DVD entitled lerie de l’UQAM presented ice, rant has work a Christof Migo ed with Montré Flames (Alien8 ne Tro u. al the collective recordings) and Feux Thérès music collective Fly Pan Am Just’Au Crane e (Constellation (Constellation with Montréal (w musical collect ith Alexandre St-Onge) an records). He also works as records), Set Fire to d ives Kantnaga no and Meurtr Pac Pac (with Simon Brow a radical performer with n). He is now e. working

CURSE!

Saturday Ap ril 11 1:30 PM

Joseph Workm an Theatre (100 1 Queen Street Admission: Pa West at Ossin y What You C gton) an In 2008, The Im year-long resid ages Festival and Charles St en were submitted cies to five mid-career an reet Video teamed up to of d fe the awards ce in the spring of 2008 and established artists. Propos r wi als re “curse”, the wi mony of the 2008 Images nners were announced at Fest nning artists we this in any wa re left to prod ival. Given the theme of y results, which they saw fit. One year on, weuce a work that interpreted range from Ar gentinean altar are presented with the s to Greek myth ology.

Altars

Altars Guillermina Bu Canada, 2009 zio , In Argentina it video, 6 min is devoted to pe not unusual to come acro ss op accidents or so le who have tragically died popular altars roads you will cial injustices. If you travel because of alo en streets of Buen counter a Gauchito Gil alt ng Argentinean ar, others. Consta os Aires is an altar from Crog and in the nt interventions int ly in flux, these altars act magnon, among as ephemeral o public spac e. Curse Cures Lesley Loksi Ch Canada, 2009 an , The arrival of video, 10 min a factory. This st new worker causes change s in ory is a reflectio n on labour an a blue jeans d transparenc y. The Professo r and the Blin Penny McCan d Girl Canada, 2009 n , video, 7 min A young soldi er War I finds him newly returned from the ba ttl self adrift and and unable to alone, traumat efields of World sp ized by the wa Professor and eak. A chance encounter r wi his his power of sp companion, a young Blind th a strange eech and with Girl, restores it, his hope fo r the future.

Curse Cures

Believing Mak Steev Morga es it So n Canada, 2009 , Do you feel cu video, 2 min rs Aside from the ed? Research indicates yo u and co-worke day-to-day curses of your sp probably are. rs fatwas, papal there are the institutional cu ouse, neighbors bu Apocalypse. BA lls and of course the bigge rses, such as st of curses using NISHIT! provides instant re one of all, the lie technology. Ge a unique blend of ancient an f from all manner t yours now! d post-moder n Ariadne’s Th re Sarah Sham ad as Canada, 2009 h , This experimen video, 12 min myth wherein tal short film takes its name Ar fro to kill the Mino iadne falls in love with Thes m the Greek ta eus who seek gives Theseus ur in Daedalus’ labyrinth. s Cl a way out of the ball of red thread so that ever Ariadne he may find his labyrinth after the artist/filmm killing the Mino ak is each person er is as convoluted as the taur. The path of ’s life trajectory. lab to another, the From one arch yrinth itself, as itectural maz weaves in and red thread leads the viewer on a journey th e ou intrusive presen t of a dream like state an d an occasiona at t reality. lly

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John Smith

Saturday Ap ril 11 3 PM

Joseph Workm an Theatre (100 1 Queen Street Admission: Pa West at Ossin y What You C gton) an

Hotel Diaries John Smith United Kingdo m, 20

01-2007, video , 82 min Made over six years in the ho connect Smith tels of six diffe ’s re upon elements personal experience to th nt countries, Hotel Diaries e is architecture, fu of chance and coincidence, ongoing conflicts in the Midd a series of video recording rn s linked to majo ishing and decoration becothe hotel room is employed le East. In these works, wh that r world events as ich me the means . by which the a “found” film set, where th play filmmaker’s sm e Comprised of all adventures se are which Smith lau ven short chapters, each wo In these extem nches into a sharp and witty rk is a single take lasting be poraneous ad tw monologue m observations dr eandering thro een five and fifteen minute es se s, Smith in which leads to the most critical of situatio finds a way to make the m ugh a series of free associa s, during ns un rier wall that lur the border crossing in Gaza : a triangular-shaped choc dane significant and forms tions. olate ; in ob ks just outside his window an a hotel room in Bethlehem bar leads to the pyramids lique , his gaze is div d the mysterio in Egypt, Smith’s videos us ide ris d be e and fall of th ar e ceiling tiles in tween the barthat unpacks an e the most subtle of works, his room. ne stake out a po issue from the side or botto ver approaching an idea dir sit m time of war. Ini ion for the viewer at the bo , rather than the top. Throug ectly, but instead developing rd tia an Blair and Bush ted in 2001 and completed er of the conflicts in Palestin h his comedic strategies, Sm analysis e, Ira in regimes, captur ith ing snippets of 2007, Hotel Diaries stands as q and the general global cli ’s works m news and even a John Smith wa ts through Sm record of the War on Terro ate at a r and the ith’s insightful ga he became inv s born in London in 1952 ze . an olved in the ac Materialist ide tivities of the Lod studied film at the Royal as College of Art. power of narra that dominated British artis ndon Filmmakers’ Co-op. Af tiv Strongly influe ter graduating in 1977 reality, playfully e and the spoken word, he ts’ filmmaking at that time, nced by the St bu ructural ex ha t plo als s de o ring and expo film, video and sing the langu veloped a body of work wh fascinated by the immersiv age of cinema. e ich reworks an the world and installation works that have Since 19 d transfo be aw He teaches pa arded major prizes at man en shown in cinemas, art 72 John Smith has made ov rms ga rt-time at the y er lle int fo rie er rty s and on national fi University of Ea st London wh lm festivals. John Smith livestelevision throughout ere he is Profes sor of Fine Art. and works in London.

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Quiero Ver Adele Horne eo, 6 min ve Desert on in the Moja USA, 2008, vid le gather near Lopez Cany of cameras towards es op inting all typ ages they Crowds of pe each month, po ations in the im th the on the 13th of pare the abstract light form s bo re plo ex t en m the sun to co Horne’s document of the ev c rituals and spiritual bli . have captured ological means of these pu material and ide s. transformation Revival es in Heidi Phillips 16mm, 8 min rious thrift stor , Canada, 2009 per 8 originals found in va ces of barren en Su Composed of s’ film brings together sequ g helicopters to rin Montréal, Philliptstretched hands and hove d rescue. an landscapes, ou e a sense of isolation, risk hauntingly evok

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Kalendar Naomi Uman mm, 10 min an made while USA, 2008, 16 of six recent works by Um recent years. e in on ral Ukraine Kalendar is village in cent h the months living in a small itative her film cycles throug of the seasons ls ed Silent and m menting the timeless ritua early 20th e of a year, docu e Uman’s family lived in th er in the area wh fleeing to the west. century before

Path an in Elvira Finnig video, 3 min e, constructed , Canada, 2007 Hampton Court Palace maz maze in the world, ing e th ist of ex s e ou ag fam Foot itoba’s aps the most found in Man d to limit 1689 and perh th Anishinabe petroforms ne sig de e es ar wi is contrasted . The structure of the hedg nged in patterns of ra Whiteshell area of the Canadian Shield, ar to inspire teaching s sight; the rock and humans, were created wisdom of colonizing e turtles, snakes re, Finnigan interrogates th and healing. Hed culture. versus colonize

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CLOSING NIG HT GALA! Live Images 7

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Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West at Admission: $1 Dovercourt) 5 general/$12 students, seni ors, members

Dreaming of

Lucid Living. Ph This year’s Im oto courtesy of Holly Andres ag Angeles-based es Closing Night Extravaga nz co a lle fe ct at ive Cloud Eye ures a double both of these Contro bill with groups repres ent a fresh, ne l. Combining pop music, liv Toronto’s Ammo Factory an e w take on mult Opening the sh imedia perform performance and video projed the Los ance. ctions, Smith and writt ow is Ammo Factory’s new work The Voice on reality as hisen by Liz Peterson, the pie Ov er . Starring ce along his rout life begins to echo the even tells the story of a strugglin Alex Lukashevsky, directe ine paths until d he becomes trats of a film that he is hired to g musician who starts to los by Matt e nsfixed with a ov The Voice Over singing strang er-dub. He walks through his grip er. the city and Miwa Mat will be followed by two wo rk re themes of tech yek’s solo piece Dreaming s from Cloud Eye Control (F of Lu ina nology, time, sp scientific exca ace and the hu cid Living. These interdis l Space and Subterranean va aerobics work tion and futuristic dream su man body through fantas ciplinary performances each Heart) out dance party tical cking machines ex ! . Come for the tales of interstellar advent plore ure, performances, stay for the int eractive Ammo Factor y work that chall is an experimental theatre en collective base pieces to explo ges the boundaries and th d in Toronto. Si e voices that th re issues of censorship in ar cultural placement of theatre nce 2004 they have been reaten capitali t, th e cr im inalization of se . Using both narrative and creating st power struct performances, nonxuali ur melodrama ins from a biographical work on es, Ammo Factory has prov ty, and the disenfranchisem narrative pired by recent ent of en to create tru 1920s lesbian collective has pla re ly se un yw ar iqu rig ch ht Mercedes de e multi-media on String Theo begun to bridg ry. Often pres Ac e its own relat os ta to a scien entin ionship betwee n the media ar g performances in gallerie tific Cloud Eye Co ts and theatre s, nt communities in the Anna Oxyge rol is a Los Angeles-based n Toronto. m their work fuse and Chi-wang Yang. Integ ulti-disciplinary performance s ra been presente screen and stage to create ting animation, experimen collective comprised of Miw d ta a Platform Inter both nationally and internatio inventive hybrids of animat l theatre, pop music and pu Matreyek, national Anim ion and perform ppetry, nally. Recent sh ation Festival an ow ce ing . Th s inc eir wo lud and the TBA Fe stival at the Po e the REDCAT NOW Festiva rk has l, 2007 rtland Institute for Contempo rary Art. Stick around af te r the perform Ceremony an d Closing Ni ance for the Awards ght Party!

Sung Hwan Kim, Installation View, Photo: Mieke van de Voort

Projects Red Bull 381 ite 200 reet West, Su 381 Queen St 14 April 9 – May 6 – 9 PM sday, April 9, ur Th ng ni Ope ects.com redbull381proj

(AGYU) York University Art Gallery of st Building et, Accolade Ea re St le ee K 4700 416 736 5169 yorku.ca/agyu There.org theAGYUisOut

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Daniel Borins Elodie Pong

os d of Music Vide ism of Forms Oliva (Brazil) an The Commun e + Time – The Strategy ada), Fernando an (C r ille M ag rl anada), Ea Sound + Im n e Chhangur (C

eli Group Exhibitio olas Brown (Canada), Em n whose ch olving exhibitio Curated by Ni e (Brazil) os is a fluid, ev ect a Toronto context. de Vi ic us nd M ze fl of re Marcelo Re issioned for – The Strategy nsidered and updated to co Image + Time ecifically comm rms: Sound + o Paulo, 2006) has been re added, and new pieces sp York University (AGYU) Fo of ism un elho, Sã t, others Gallery of The Comm ation n (Galeria Verm rks dropped ou nues—the Art the transform first presentatio been edited, with some wo en divided between two ve es Festival. In considering iginal spirit but also s ag or be ha s Im n’s of n itself ha exhibitio this year’s The playlist r “communism of evoking the n. The exhibitio ated itself into this presentatio 1 Projects—and has insinu e curators were conscious emselves—to create anothe After Party, and a th e, th 38 r, s ub ll he rk yT of the wo play II, M ce to anot and Red Bu in artists’ the strategies n from one pla Replay I and Re rious themes of the exhibitio gies for presentation akin to s—Black Album, Flipside, nctions as an archive of va the genre to form new m te fu to ra ra e s— st seven prog es with of finding astro focu ific referenc YU, a series of ic collective assume vivid ns that diverge from spec d within the venues continu an with forms.” At AG Germ tallatio nomad een an e rn ins th tw ea es be (L by ur nt rk at up fe hKa wo s n as ct 1 Proje e. The m it Petra Vo program of rpoint ile Red Bull 38 image and tim a filmic counte rne Deutsch m music video, wh e interplay between sound, Festival of Ming Wong’s Le AGYU, not only provides the viewers’ to n sio at th n en es of ag itio e exhib by the Im reiterations s another dim een visual artist Patrick the centre of th programmed t also provide betw an intervention ). Wong’s installation, now in the music video genre, bu collaboration ed ion iss in nt m m Ka ing co rk y wo wl ts ne tis a Petra Von ar es by ition includ taken up to the themes e exhibition itself. The exhib asy) for the AGYU Vitrines. hibition that th nt prehensive ex experience of ician Owen Pallett (Final Fa deos is a com . By centreing on an Vi ic us M us m of d Borjal an – The Strategy parameters of music video video’s privileged position, Image + Time e ic rms: Sound + , critiquing or expanding th e exhibition considers mus to addressing Fo of ism un m ing s. In addition t with memory, , th nc ts re en fe es The Com re , pr by at umer societie rm ed ac ns fo nc nt co ue eo co nt o infl vid t rre int ic ar cu us r the m m of ou nts: on coming considers the possibilities hyper-capitalis ses how music videos, up eir three primary compone r in investigation of er and consequence of the the viewe through th rms addres g g Fo gin nin of ga ea uc m en ism od d by pr un ings at once w form an e Comm es multiple read , take on a ne tical milieu, Th the socio-poli ectators’ emotional states “communism of forms” evinc sp is d th . , an es eo usic vid nostalgia ible scen of such art, and time. In m ndry stories behind the vis national survey sound, image rough an inter ven programs at AGYU — ic tructing su th ns eo co re vid of ic s us a proces ally analyzes m Who Misses Much. The se reflecting not only the mus rms pluralistic s munism of Fo 1986 piece, I’m Not the Girl cover a range of tendencie background of the artists m Co e Th ly, l s— ina and According otti Rist’s sem ns at Red Bull 381 Project also the diverse approach pil Pi th wi g llatio beginnin gs but by related insta ls and meanin expanded upon’s bricolage of variant visua m dig ra video pa

its ideological n apitalism and ties to hyper-c tion. Laura Belém’s and Iai ’s eo vid ic us m -fire func gantes, critique music video’s consumerist ng down traditionally rapid Ele r pe Su s nd as Lo and slowi e works, such of content beyoeo formats by, for instance, e simultaneous narcissism edium. included. Som ile others provide a range music vid uence of th the video m ed in infl e sh wh ely th bli s, siv ta rs ct es clu ide du s cons alter by-pro ilton’s d not ex Pollard’s work David Blandy’s, tion-based an ile Anitra Ham Forsyth & Jane iting. Recent work, such as ojects, the work is installa the music video genre wh functions, such as Pr ’s of 1 ed eo ts 38 eo en vid ll m ic vid Bu Red music of mus rmal ele e-inspired of YouTube. At ludes some fo es. Some shared aspects Weekend Leisure’s karaok ship egalitarianism ike Hansen’s new work inc ag on as im ati rel ch t no su ac th , M other models rk offers an abstr l audio track wi Toronto artist only a musica ate its visual language with mages. Consequently, this wo d to raise open-ended s ide ov pr rk de nfl ho eo rs co new wo , which is inten at a music vid ng, while othe to music video erning how one defines wh ction and when illustrating a so fun questions conc ated from its consumerist culture to the r er is when it is lib paradigm has permeated ou ar. cle the music video undaries may indeed be un point that its bo

, Bad Beuys List of Artists vivid astro focus, Bani Abidi vid Blandy, Da e AGYU: assum Márcio Banfi, Laura Belém, os Super (L Entertainment, ll.Miletic, Miguel Calderón Marcelle, Bu Daniel Borins, on, Marilá Dardot & Cinthia rsyth & Jane co a Ferro, Iain Fo Graham, Elegantes), Co bio Faria, Chelp dney Dennis Day, Fa que Gonzalez-Foerster, Ro Kaoru Katayama, Pollard, Domini ike Hansen, The Histrionics, Peaches, Elodie , Maki Guerzi, M Laibach, Rodrigo Matheus chardson, a, Ri i, Yuki Kawamur und, Sara Ramo, Tasman yo, Corine Stüb Pong, Stuart Poorgio Ronna & Matias Agua Gi Pipilotti Rist, van der Werve Tetine, Guido + Owen Pallett Patrick Borjal AGYU Vitrines: ong ntion: Ming W AGYU Interve ng Wo ng Mi heus, , Rodrigo Mat n, Mike Hansen ilto m Ha a itr An ady Cranfield, . ifer Marman, Br Borins & Jenn Soares, Weekend Leisure l nie Da s: ct Toronto. ka Proje tor residing in Red Bull 381 s, Andrew J. Paterson, Vales ependent cura ind ale d or an M , r ne itic cr ag d artist. a W dent curator an ll 381 Projects, ity, an indepen rs rator of Red Bu cu ive e Un th rk is Yo n e Art Gallery of Nicholas Brow /Curator of Th sistant Director As e th is ur ng ing in Toronto. Emelie Chha arts writer resid nt curator and de en ep ind Paulo. an Image in São Earl Miller is of Sound and m eu us M e th at a is a curator São Paulo. Fernando Oliv tor residing in ependent cura ind an is e nd Marcelo Reze Von Kant)

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mmer Berlin in the su iner r his move to Ra fo by ion at 2) ar 97 (1 ep pr nt 07 in Singapore, 20 sion exercise of Petra von Ka rstensen goes through cultural immer rman film, The Bitter Tears tress Margit Ca t only is educating rk as a sort of Ge ac wo ite an is ur th rm vo d Ge fa te ea ich his Ming Wong cr himself in the title role of s the climactic scene in wh German dialogue, Wong noneed to articulate his e ing of 2007. Cast der, Wong carefully re-enact n. In learning and acting th self for the words he may tio him Werner Fassbin erate emotional disintegra , but potentially preparing re sp a hysterical de rnerstone of German cultu single, gay ethnic minority. and , co s of language himself with a oving to Berlin as an aging rmative veneer ien in Berlin, The rfo pe e th s m re an own emotions s practice explo rie and Künstlerhaus Beth ll be representing Singapore. Hi wi s in Berlin and exhibited his work at MKgale Media among others. He rk wo d an es & Ming Wong liv the moving image. He has le and ZKM Center for Art h na identity throug London, the Jakarta Bien of Ontario in ennale. , the Province British Library cil for the Arts 53rd Venice Bi e un th Co at da ar na ye iversity, The Ca nto Arts Council. Singapore this ro ted by York Un rsity is suppor ty of Toronto through the To ive Un rk Yo of Ci The Art Gallery tario Arts Council, and the through the On s unism of Form to The Comm Bus Performance the free performance bus Wednesday April 8 from on on Please join us AGYU. Departing at 6 PM e exhibition at th rning at 9 PM. tu OCAD and re

A Space Galle ry 401 Richmon d Street West, Suite 110 416 979 9633 aspacegallery .org

March 20 – A pril 18 Off Screen La unch: Saturday April 4, 2 – 5 PM Tuesday – Frid ay 11 AM – 6 PM, Saturday Sunday April 5, 12 – 5 PM 12 — 5 PM

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Khiam 2000 – — 2008 2007 Joana Hadjith om generation that as and Khalil Joreige have and archives an grew up in Lebanon during been working as filmmaker s th brings together d the traumatic and destru e civil wars of 1975 to 19 and photographers since th 90 ctive elements e four video-bas of recent Leba , their work is rooted in an 90s. As part of the ed works repr inv ne esenting their The centrepiece diverse approa se history. This exhibition, estigation of images their first in Ca ch to image m camp of the sa of the exhibition is their newe nada, aking. me name oper st video Khiam minute video at 20 ed 00 by – 2007 (2008) the South Leba from 2000 alo , which focuse non Army. This ngside a “rem go back to int s on the doub ak er off limits and no view the same six former pr e” of the work shot in 2007 le channel installation situa notorious detention (fo iso tes their or pic llo ne wi tu rs ng the July W res existed of of th e museum by He ca m p. ar it. Followi At the tim of 2006) in wh iginal 52zb ich the artists the impossibility ollah and then destroyed ng the Israeli withdrawal, th e of the original video, th e cam again e ca of representatio n, interviewing in the war in 2006. Through mp was dismantled and m p was completely em th th es or es ial e former priso e Accompanying ners about their recordings, Khiam 2000 – ized as a 2007 conside history with th With You (200 this piece are three addition rs e former instit 1 – 2008). Dist al video works, ution. on five different racted Bullets Distracted Bu is lle oc a ts ca sin (2 sio gle 005), Lasting ns (from the Fe channel video ablaze with th Images ast of that e Joreige’s uncle explosion of fireworks and the Cross to the re-electio presents five panoramic vie (2003) and Always n of Emile Laho gun shots. La ws , who was kid sting oped was noth na ud), the video of Beirut. Shot ing more than pped during the civil war. Th Images consists of a sin shows the nig oddly sentimen gle ht sky fogged white e Su fi lm pe was unpr r 8 reel im tal slogans us ed in the post ages, from which little can ocessed for 15 years, an shot in the 80s by d er campaign lea be wh dis en ce fi nally de rned. La Born in Beirut ding up to Be in irut’s parliamen stly, Always With You depicvelfiction films, do 1969, Joana Hadjithom tary elections ts the as and Khalil cumentaries an in 20 00 . Joreige are ar kept secret— and also on th d photographic installatio tis ts an d filmmakers wo ns. Their work eir status in th at a large num rking co e fo be Ramad (Ashes r of film festivals as well as area of the world to which cuses on latency and the an llaboratively on th ) was selected ecdotal—i.e., ey in nu be m lon er g. Their docum ous art centre Festival artist the thing fo r th e Cé s and internatio en sar Awards in Ra nal museums. taries have been shown France. Their Hadjithomas an bih Mroué and Catherine most recent fe In 2005 their fi Deneuve) scre d Joreige live atur ction ened at the To in Paris and Be ronto Internatio e Je Veux Voir (starring Imag film irut. nal Film Festiva es l in 2008.

allery Blackwood G ississauga Road North, M ga au ss si is M 3359 905 828 3789 lery.ca blackwoodgal

31 April 8 – May April 9, 6 – 9 PM tion: Thursday ep PM, ec R ng ni Ope , Sunday 1 – 4 11 AM – 5 PM ay id Fr – y da Mon ed Saturday clos

Stolen Waters

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being our desire is a Alas! it is the extension . at the object of We imagine th us, enclosed within a body e that it has occupied re tim laid down befo all the points of space and pretations of and literal inter of that being to . —Marcel Proust ating figurative study on Proust, Beckett tig es inv py n cu itio oc hib and will t is active, but gst many. In his , is a group ex le that slips by d shifts of being one amon e spirit, a descent. The artis is exhibition tit e tiv ra ite all ions an ion of th with the eddy.” Th awashawave, the resulting perceptual tens tory, immersive, a contract awn in to the core of the wave will epitomize dr va d ha inundation an only fertile research is exca cumferential phenomena, inherent in the eddy. awas from the fixed to cir e ity s, stated that “th king from the nullity of extra t to pay attention to the fluid e single image to the serie being flooded, th ncept of co e th negatively, shrin tegorical declaration and op n, examining the shift from of ts ce scope (Landry), rious fa ca into a praxino eaker wire and will resist such llow in the mud of perceptio dense mass. Examining va achine turned sp m ite a ing wa wh sh to d of wa t int an a r, ou able po made the blu s: from logy and from a discern ramic objects series of work digital techno the unmoored, ll present a heterogeneous nals (Snow), to delicate ce anner-camera that fuses “sonic” images ite wh sc sig wi d ilt an ve bu dio era ck wa m e a ho twav nse bla portraits awasha of abject selfrk utilizing shor es produced by nverted into de to an audio wo of washing (Kim), to imag hegyi), to audio tracks co stadium (Hirsch), to a series os ds y diffusing soun otographic techniques (Kor ing the “wave” in an empt do 19th century ph eo projection of someone ec, namely at roughout Québ (Wood), to a vid (Fortier). p exhibitions th ou x gr wa d in an lo ed render a number of so d l’Œil de Poisson. an participated in hibitions in s Fortier has eNéo7, la chambre blanche ui Lo t tis ar al t erous group ex Ax k, Montré ar Cl d, Su cipated in num ris, and at the Vancouver Ar rti ein Pl pa s 2, ha 31 d Ban ie , Pa da de na Galer le Ca vil la ss ro de ns ac erne d solo exhibitio ns at the Musée d’Art Mod h has presente tina Antonia Hirs and Asia, including exhibitio Professor Chris da r. K Saar under HB Europe, Cana es and works in Vancouve e th at ion sit liv n and compo Gallery. Hirsh und installatio and Kim studied so X Seoul. p Su gun Yo across Canada d SF artist has exhibited He Seoul-based rticipated in Sonambiente an n. tio lla ta d ins print media an medium. Kubisch. He pa photography, res egyi works in y different traditions of the sh ro Ko ld , audio sculptu Arno man th automation extensively in wi Toronto artist otographic work explores ns tio lla ta ins ed ph performances, has exhibited and perform the USA. His signs original e ane Landry de ly based in Québec City, sh Di t, tis ar ry iplina rrent , As a multidisc alifies as “mouvelles”. Cu nt living artists e qu ralia. ’s most importa st da and works sh Au na d Ca an of pe e on Euro tor. hael Snow is Canada, USA, filmmaker, Mic t, composer, writer and sculp phy. experimental tis an ar l as ua ed vis , im rary Photogra an ici accla m of Contempo Internationally a highly accomplished mus eu us M n dia as and the Cana rio. distinguished llery of Ontario Onta rk at The Art Galives and works in London, wo r he n ow sh ly s nt ha rre d cu oo d W an 62 Kelly in Toronto in 19 She was born

rary Diaz Contempo et re St 100 Niagara 416 361 2972 rary.ca diazcontempo

The Hunting andes Brendan Fern

9 April 2 – May ril 4, 2 – 5 PM ch: Saturday Ap un La en Off Scre – 6 PM turday 11 AM Tuesday – Sa PM 4 12 — Sunday April 5,

A looped video y The Hunting. or his installation sibling’s monarchy. The st ts en es pr s l their own to dan Fernande attempt to take over her kil en s Br re tu ry, ra ea cr po ld ese wi a sister’s az Contem a monarch—th the narrative of exhibition at Di For his debut eously on two screens tells e dictatorship is governed by er an ult wh cieties, played sim a lone masked from hyena so l at night and about. Clues takes inspiration power in their packs. eating their kil is y as or en st hy is in th th ga wi at d pe wh obtain an snowy landsca tigates a questioning into inevitably, to the destruction d an k ar st a yal and, ty, and ins footage of posing video the work suggests a hybridi for power, leading to a betra Through juxta desire ’s” isolation, ne in “o ing of er le nd ta o tells a figure wa stools, a narrator, wh of three prayer are provided by . emorial made mixed with the delicate /m ar alt ity an un th m s us of a com in the space wi light of the TV hyenas direct further created code. The white pulsating thartic and sinister calls of is atic setting is se of awareness ” ca or igm e ge M th en sa in d es nd S an m ou l Oe gr na Ser fi ck a. An aust itors that pulse emergency call. In the ba act and treat their own. A ey now. Tha endin is near on m TV d an animals s out an candles in yer we e candles send ys in which these “primitive” of Pidgin English, reads “F flickering of th em to fuel in a form d the wa an en itt eo wr , vid xt e namics that se te th al back to d the power dy to act in ways that are the nonsensic an y ll— on wa m a ge on he d d us tion inscribe times to ques s of human nature that lea nt ge in uncertain s out a messa . It alludes to the undercurre nd se ing nt rife The Hu rld’s societal st as. nt much of the wo t so different to wild hyen the Independe no d an e He completed ity of Western inhuman in the 1990s. rs da ive na Un Ca e to Th m des immigrated earned his MFA (2005) fro Council and endan Fernan and e Ontario Arts ian heritage, Br m of American Art (2007) grants from th s exhibited internationally, e Ind lud of a inc ny es Ke lad Museu . He ha York . Acco Born in of the Whitney ad and Tobago Western New rsity in Canada Study Program BFA (2002) from York Unive national Residency in Trinid hou, China (2008) and the Lower Manhattan er gz e Int an his Th e d Gu in th an l, er Triennia Ontario including rticipated at Aljira: A Cent cil for the Arts ird Guangzhou (2007). Fernandes has pa s, Emerge 10 m te ra ua og Canada Coun ns to participate in The Th NY ad pr gr lo, 9) e ffa 00 th NY, in ry in Bu ency (2 tio including invita The Albright-Knox Art Galle 8) and Swing Space Resid at The School of Visual Arts, and The New Work h 00 Biennial throug ’s Work Space Residency (2 d was an Artist in Residence ogram at the Bronx Museum cil Cultural Coun ry Art, Newark, NJ (2008), an will participate in the AIM Pr rk. Yo he ra for Contempo puter arts (2008). In 2009 ronto and New is based in To m program for co rvestwork, NY. Currently he Residency at Ha

Canada, 2009

Gallery 44 401 Richmon d Street West, Suite 120 416 979 3941 gallery44.org

Finder Jan Peacock

March 6 – Apr il 11 Opening Recep tion: Friday M arch 6, 6 – 9 PM Off Screen La unch: Saturday Ap ril 4, 2 – 5 PM Tuesday – Sa turday 11 AM – 5 PM

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April 7 – May 2 Special Openi ng Performan ces Friday and April 3 and 4, Saturday 9:30 PM Tuesday – Sa turday 12 – 5 PM

In the Room Sung Hwan Ki Korea/USA, 20 m 06–2009 A prominent th read of the 20 performance 09 Images Fe ar st each form. W t and how these interdiscip ival is the blurring of bounda ithin this framew linary practices rie There, looking manifest them s between the worlds of m or k, Images is at the relation ship between partnering with Gallery TP selves in the different exhib edia, visual, and Room, manife W itio liv st as an exhibitio ing first as a live performan eness and images. Togeth and their year-long event se n spaces that border er we are thrill ce n developed ou ed to present ries, You Had to Be t of the visual in collaboration with David Su and narrative Created while components of Michael DiGregorio and By ng Hwan Kim’s In the ungjun Kwon, in the performan series is rooted residence in Amsterdam an and then ce. performances. in a multi-disciplinary proc d produced in part for his pa es In s rti we ad cip dit aving together ation in the Pr ion to a series performance, ix de Rom video, m of wall th (2007). The vid e exhibition installation feat drawings, paper sculpture usic, drawing, as well as liv e, Kim’s In the Room s and staging e and pre-reco ures two video eos mimic man ele performance rded y wo m of en rk th s: ts that we e proces Dog Vi wh feed of his bo ich employs a video camer ses present in the live presen deo (2006) and From the Co re created for the dy with the typ tation including a behind a ple m m an ding Heights... e of “live anim the minutiae of xiglass screen Kim’s unique fo at . elliptical narra day-to-day life (which may ion” often associated with This lo-tech setup allows Ki rm of projection tives presente the use of an or may not be m to lay er vid ov d in this work operate at the anchored in Kim’s own expe erhead projector. Drawn froeo borderline of th riences), the fa Korean artist Su m e nt ng im as ag tic Hw ined and the ac stories and an Kim is curre period of four tual. ntly based in Ne years, during w York. Previou which time he and performed sly wa contemporary at STEIM and Witte de With s fellow at the Rijksakadem , he lived and worked in th e Ne Dutch artists an . In 2007 he wa ie. d the Korean s awarded the His series In the Room ha therlands over a award Hermes s been exhibite 2n d Korea Missuls d prize of the prestigious Prix de ang (Hermes Ko re a Prize for Cont Rome for Live Images 3 emporary Art). In the Room 3 Sung Hwan Ki Talk to the Pi m and dogr (D e Friday April 3 avid Michael Di Sung Hwan Ki 3 an m See p. 36 for d Saturday April 4, 9:30 PM Gregorio) with Helena Re and dogr in conversation details. Sunday April 5, ckitt. See p. 24 for 4 PM details.

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cape er it is a lands space. Wheth s depicting c bli pu of es rm h sit epha eryday throug ctures of tunnels and platfo Curated by St ru explore the ev ssler’s works or labyrinth st . Fa at se sa r ris ge La en d ity pass tz an a Richard Schü across the glass from a car of uncertainty with commun ed wide across e dscape project ban European seen streaking s, their works invoke a sens lan a es m co r window be banality of ur subway station hütz uses the shot from a ca ony of sound. channel video pulses, tinks and beeps. Sc as tools to create a cacoph gle sin s tz’ hü Sc of ion , ct 5) ion t. tru 00 sit gs (2 ns po an ip co m d Tr of co an es se dio Blind , fences and sit tremendous ea nied with an au in wall accompa rolling hills, telephone poles sound straddles between bway stations d of th e wi nc pe na ca so ds versions of su d dis lan Kotti (2008) an ler’s miniature landscape an , ss g 6) lin Fa 00 ve of (2 ra z s lat un es e rp illn Th ntrast to the st like sea-creatures. Alexande suggest the histories and o r s is in sharp co e from m Schütz build tures sprawl across the floo ranean transportation but alsded by socialist architectur r Tor tu en om m e se Th er ulp un us bt sc rro ttb su nt su Ko of ca is d e pli tiv an ion r ta at ’s re Berlin. Fassler (2005) are not only represen Alexanderplatz subway st re-generative. Hallesches To made and continue of r rs d e To tte an sit s d e ua he re Th sq . sc ve d lle se rlin an Ha as ts, immigrants st and West Be munal space contrasts of Ea Berlin, and exemplifies com the former West where artis of st ea Ea ar s wa an at g, er wh ntral to Kreuzb m. Rather the stations are ce mes. ial egalitarianis ggesting spat rongly when staring out the ho su eir th by e ty ak ali m rti to pa st fort us with im lpable seclusion, felt most does not com e Were None is relational to an almost pa blic transit. er Th en Th d A in s An mpleted her M of these work h a maze of pu rmany. She co e has lived and consciousness ing car or hoofing it throug Ge , rlin Be in d Sh ov se . window of a m n visual artist ba Concordia University in 1999 e for art + architectural r) is a Canadia at RAM–initiativ orld 75 in Vancouve London in 2003 and BFA OG 19 PR , in or n or sid (b es r Iran (2008); W M nial of Tehran, Oldenburg, Larissa Fassle miths College, University of ns include: Le Chamois de en Bi ing am Ro lds t, l Fine Arts at Go since 1999. Recent exhibitio Jealousy—1st Internationa -Ruß-Haus für Medienkuns ; The 21. Kasseler n 7) ith worked in Berlin rlin, Germany (2008); Urba ina (2008); Video Visions, Ed zberg/Bethanien, Berlin (200 (2003). d Be , collaborations day Art Museum, Beijing, Ch Kunstform, Kunstraum KreuGallery of Art, Limerick, Irelan als To ty n s, Ci he te ick ge inu er M en e Lim ier , az ies of On 03 the art academ 8); WALK! – Sp ; and ev+a 20 Germany (200 - & Videofest, Kassel (2004) tor in Berlin. At Since 1987 he has ra cu d an t tis ar Dokumentarfilm He lives as an ental film and media theory. visual installation, dio kfurt, Germany. rim in 1965 in Fran arts (MA), philosophy, expe for his work in the field of au rn bo s wa tz ts Richard Schü and Berlin he studied fine d diverse gran rlin. ive ce re d an lly rson Kassel, London any exhibitions internationa the project gallery montanabe m ed media. Roge participated in raphy. In 2007 he co-curated raphy and relat l of New Media and og ot ph in rk Yo na w Jour film and photog be speaking Visual Arts in Ne , most recently AfterImage the School of siums, and will s an MFA from ral magazines and art journalsmmunity events and sympo Italy. Currently, Rogerson ha on rs ge iversities, co ly in Venice, Stephanie Ro ributing arts writer to seve nference in Ju s at several un nt has been a co s participated in conference y at The Arts and Society co ha ph tern Ontario. Criticism. She entation and early photogra iversity of Wes on queer repres D in Visual Studies at the Un Were None is pursuing a Ph the d Then There the Pie 2: An d Richard Schütz discuss th to lk Ta rissa Fassler annstruction of public space wi InterAccess! La at ts tis rty Ar pa a r fo and reco Please join us deconstruction 10 PM – 1 AM nie Rogerson. Friday April 3, curator Stepha 4 PM 4, Saturday April tails. for de 24 p. e s Se es cc at InterA ents ival Lounge Images Fest nge following our evening ev lou e th rs for a drink oe Head to l-g iva st fe fellow and meet your 1 AM ril 7, 10 PM – and a chat! – Tuesday Ap Sunday April 5

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March 6 – Apr il 18 Opening Recep tion: Friday M arch 6, 7 — 10 Tuesday – Sa PM turday 11 AM – 6 PM Sunday April 5, 11 AM — 6 PM

Magnetic reso Pedro Paiva nance on abissologic experiments & Portugal, 2006 João Maria Gusmão –2008 Described as “p wonders of ps oetic philosophical fiction,” eu Jo archaeological do-scientific inquiry, offerin ão Maria Gusmão and Pe dr g an odd alche dig. mical compouno Paiva’s 16mm film installa tio d that is equa While alchemy l parts silent cin ns delight in the ema, land art arcane science may conjure lofty philosoph and ica are set forth by , while wholehearted, is defi l aims and obscure symbo nit lic th ely e te ar xts, Gusmão inflected by a tists, who, wh Following the alc and Paiva’s 21st centur ile flirting wi and reconstitut hemist’s motto of “Solve et th narrative, ultimately esch y mistrust of disciplinary au proximity to that Coagula,” or se ew cohesion in ion of matter. th rocks, who by Su pa favour of absu ority. Few claims the arduous ex ch is the case in Hydraulic rate and coagulate, their fi lms directly de rdity and unsteadiness. s of Solids, a ercise of swall lve int portr owing these so Sucking on st lids, effectively ait of a man seated at a din o the breakdown on transmutes th ner table chew Figures in Gusm e is also an old cowboy tri em ing to liquid. ck land artists lik ão and Paiva’s vignettes fre for desert survival, a way e Robert Smith to qu qu en en tly inhabit empt ch thirst in the protagonists ar son, who chos y terrains absenc e e universe inhab decidedly goofy rather than the desert as a prime work evocative of the photo-co e of a water source. nceptual prac ited by the title sit ru e gg in ed. Their abys th e lat tices of inert tree sect e ch 19 ar 60 ac s is a pla s. Yet Gu ter of Th ion impulse that dr s, lent anima by invisible st e Log Enchanter, who conjuce for slapstick play and low smão and Paiva’s ring, recall the ives attendance -te re s ch tre magic, a e stumps into invitation to na ba a levitatin ïve wondermen at a flea circus, we willingly d props of spirit photogra phy. But, infec g ballet. These t. collaborate in te th d e by fi lmmakers’ ho All of the films ax, compelled the same ar by their of the visual. Ul e silent, yet the personae of te tim n an at im ely atedly gesture , these demon as devoted pa , comica strations ta The artists borro physicians, parodying scien produce enigma rather th lly attempting to convey som an proof, reve e for their charac w freely from archaeology, getific methods in accordance aling Gusmão spoken explication and Paiva’s tru fanciful departuters. Yet, these would-be kn ology and ethnography to ge with Alfred Jarry’s verve for e status im ow interaction of res from logic. The Glaciolog ledge bearers always co nerate behavioural codes an aginary solutions. m mud and ice, d e ist m up od is es sh jus ort, relieved of of address t such a person he appears ea of equipment, any au . Occu rn th humans faced e observation of matter, th est in his search, replicating pied by a detailed demon thority by their e union of ide st with rock, ice, th ra e tio 16 n th involving centur as are singular an m d unclassifiab olten metal and landscape . In this mirror world, there y alchemist’s basic toils: th the le. — Sarah Ro are no machin e testing ; gravity, shad es ow ba , on yo an ly d Sh to movement co eridan João Maria Gu nspiring to mak ol-yielding sm ão and Pe e events that collaboratively since 2001. Th dro Paiva met in the late 19 ey will represen 90 t Portugal this s as fellow art students in Lis year at the 53 rd Venice Bien bon and have been working nale.

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April 3 – Apr il 12 Opening Recep tion Friday Ap ril 3, 7 — 10 PM Tuesday – Su nday 11 AM – 6 PM

Virtual Jihadi Welcome to th Wafaa Bilal (Ir e Terrordome aq/USA), Juba The Thrill of Co l Brown (Can mbat ada) and Mar I’ve got so muc k Essen (USA ) h trouble on m y mind... From the war on terror and the war in Iraq Bilal, Jubal Br ow to ideas from ac n and Mark Essen operat more abstract representa e on the fringe tions of militar ross pop cultu ism and powe s of mashing re. up, deconstru r, cting and reco the works of Wafaa As the momen nstructing imag tum of the Iraq es and game designe W ar in the US r Hussein. This published Quest for Saddam began to blur the lines of en game was qu , te rtainment, mar ickly appropria a first-person shooter-styl hunter and th keting and pr e ga e te recently recruit hunted. In Virtual Jihadi, W d by Al Qaeda as The Nigh me that puts the player on opaganda, a US afaa Bilal rewo t of Bush Capt ed by Al Qaed th rks the narrativ use of stereotyp uring to revers e hunt for Saddam a to join the hu e yet again, ca e the roles of nt. This fully pla es and propag the st anda on both ya ing himself as sides of the wa ble hacked version of the a suicide bom Using a more game further be r on terror. indirect engage br eaks down th r, m mechanics an e d aesthetics of ent with the culture of terro r and war, the forms, Essen’s gaming. Distille ga a challenge wi games recall the formalist an d to their most basic elem mes of Mark Essen break op en th of two-dimensio stripped down militaristic d structural sentiments of av ts and set amidst flat, low-reen the conventional m planes.” Or as nal obstacles and mechaniz issions aboard a helicopte ant-garde cinema. The Thrill solution colour r, vertically an Essen describ of Combat pr ed foe. In Scra d combative go als become ex es in another statement ab p Collector the mission is horizontally scrolling throug esents out the game, h a maze to “collect scra panded in a su “S p, rrealist advent Jubal Brown pr ure within the crap Collector is about mak build planes, shoot m ing es ilit ary industrial co money.” The Avery. Brown’s ents three video installatio mplex. ns directionless enprojects aim to challenge th , accompanied by a serie s of sculpture e limits of spec ergy; a tragic s and beautiful collision of de tatorship, often manifesting made in collaboration with Jo spair and longin Iraqi-born artis as an amoral barrage of mind sh t Wafaa Bilal g. as at the Mus less eum of Contemhas exhibited worldwide inc luding in Bagh He has traveled porary Photog da ra an d, ph d lectured the Nether y in Chica peaceful confl ict resolution. extensively to inform audie go, the Milwaukee Art Mus lands, Thailand and Croatia nc La eu Bilal’s life and , his project Do st year, City Lights publish es of the situation of the Ira m and various other US ga as well mestic Tension ed Shoot an Ira qi lle . qi: Life, Art an people, and the importanc ries. Jubal Brown d Resistance e Under the Gu of is n, about Europe and No a video maker, multi-med ia rth ar tis Am t, organizer an erica. Past proje System Cultu d writer cts inc ral Centre, FA MEFAME, FAM lude The Cult of PO-PO, based in Toronto. He has sh To EFAME’s Vide ow odrome Serie ronto’s legendary Wastelan n extensively in Mark Essen s, Unknown Un is d known and Th event series, Art His games ha a game artist. He recently re ve e Land of the Lost. schemes, mas been shown at music venu ceived a BA from Bard Co lle oc a flying stick th histic difficulty and nonsen es and art festivals around ge in New York and current th ly at changes co sic e liv wo al es humor. He rld and are in Los An DOOMLASER. lour as well as a collaborative is currently in production on known for their odd contro geles. l game involving an independe nt XBOX title ab mechasexual motorcyclists with the collect out ive SPECIAL EV ENT Videodrome Saturday April 4, 8 PM Videodrome is a screening as pa one-night extravaganza of producers with rty. The event features a pr contemporary vanguard cu ltu og a/v mash-up, a strong audio-visual link, ex ram of video work from pr re, an exercise in video vis ominent local and internatio Bad Credit, Infi ual music with an emphas perimental video works wh na ich is nit Tzii (v-atak), No y Dose, Istvan Kantor, Ju on aggression and intensit function as dance music, l bal Brown, Rk y. Features wo hista (v-atak), o (v-atak), Ryan rks by: Nwodtlem, Ou ananiche and St Pete O’Hearn. ec, Skeeter, Smearballs,

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The Canadian Art Foundation is a charitable organization that fosters and supports the visual arts in Canada. The foundation celebrates artists and their creativity with a nationwide educational program of events, lectures, competitions, publications and other initiatives.

Charles Street Video 65 Bellwoods Avenue Toronto ON M6J 3N4 (T) 416 603 6564 (F) 416 603 6567 (E) csv@charesstreetvideo.com www.charlesstreetvideo.com

Continuum Contemporary Music 300 Bloor Street West Toronto ON M5S 1W3 (T) 416 924 4945 (E) josh@continuummusic.org www.continuummusic.org Continuum Contemporary Music presents the work of emerging Canadian composers alongside works by established national and international composers in its concert series, at festivals, on tour, over the air waves and through recordings. Formed in 1985, Continuum has commissioned and premiered over 100 new works from emerging and established Canadian composers and is active in developing new audiences, promoting art in the community, and developing the next generation of composers through public art projects, workshops across Canada and Europe, and through its Biennial International Call for Scores.

FADO Performance Art Centre 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 448 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416 822 3219 (E) info@performanceart.ca www.performanceart.ca Founded in 1993, FADO was established to provide a stable, knowledgeable and supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art works created by Canadian and international performance artists. FADO is the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. FADO’s activities include presenting performances, artist talks, festivals, residencies, exchanges and workshops, as well as publishing in a variety of formats, including video and for the web.

The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre 126 James Street North Hamilton ON L8R 2K7 (T) 905 577 9191 (E) info@hamiltonmediaarts.org wwww.hamiltonmediaarts.org An artist-driven resource centre dedicated to the production and promotion of diverse forms of independent film, video and time-based media arts – access to facilities, equipment, peer resources, and educational initiatives. The Factory encourages the development and appreciation of these art forms through an ongoing programme of screenings and events including the monthly Factory Works Screening Series.

Frame Discreet 8mm.16mm.transfer.studio (T) 416 803 1101 (E) one_lovell@yahoo.ca www.framediscreet.com Razor sharp frame accurate transfers of 8mm & 16mm. We offer scene by scene and supervised transfers, working with you to reveal the beautiful texture of film.

Fuse Magazine 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 454 Toronto ON M5V 3A8j (T) 416.340.8026 (E) content@fusemagazine.org www.fusemagazine.org Fuse is a community of visual and performing artists, educators, community workers, writers, activists, organizers, policy makers, social thinkers, curators and other movers and shakers. Together we produce a quarterly publication that is focused on the intersections of art, media and politics.

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416 979 3941 (F) 416 979 1695 (E) info@gallery44.org www.gallery44.org Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to the advancement of photographic art. Founded in 1979 to establish a creative, supportive environment in which photography could flourish, today our centre consists of a gallery, resource centre, darkroom and production facilities. We offer workshops, equipment rental, and serve a membership of artists and photo enthusiasts. Our goal is to contribute to the dialogue on contemporary Canadian photographic art practice and to foster its support, understanding and appreciation.

Gallery TPW 56 Ossington Avenue Toronto ON M6J 2Y7 (T) 416 645 1066 (F) 416 645 1681 (E) info@gallerytpw.ca www.gallerytpw.ca Gallery TPW addresses the vital role that images play in contemporary culture and explores the exchange between photography, new technologies and time-based media. For over 30 years Gallery TPW has played a significant role in facilitating critical discussion, supporting professional artists and developing audiences through its gallery exhibitions, screenings, online programming, publications and public events.

The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen Street West Toronto ON M6J 1J6 (T) 416 531 4635 www.gladstonehotel.com “The Gladstone offers immediate immersion into Toronto’s art scene.” —New York Times, 23.07.06. The Gladstone Hotel is a unique urban hotel featuring 37 artist-designed hotel rooms and suites, a lively bar showcasing local musicians and Toronto’s favourite karaoke, plus a cafe serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with a focus on local, organic and fair trade ingredients. The Gladstone also offers shortterm artist studios, exhibition spaces, event and conference venues in the heart of the city’s art and design district.

Goethe-Institut Toronto 100 University Avenue North Tower Suite 201 Toronto ON M5J 1V8 (T) 416 593 5257 (F) 416 593 5145 (E) arts@toronto.goethe.org www.goethe.de/toronto The Goethe-Institut Toronto, presenter of the latest arts & ideas from Germany, offers a wide range of contemporary arts programming, creating a vibrant dialogue between our partners in Germany and Canada. We also have professional German language courses both in Canada and Germany. In 2009, the Goethe-Institut Toronto will relaunch its completely renovated downtown location.

Gulf Islands Film & Television School S.43 C.12 Galiano Island British Columbia V0N 1P0 (T) 1 800 813 9993 GIFTS is more than a school — we are a film, video & animation production hub. Located on beautiful Galiano Island, BC, we offer intensive live-in workshops and programs throughout the year for both teens and adults. Under the close mentorship of award-winning media professionals, our students are immersed in all aspects of the production process. Every student comes away from the program with a well-rounded set of creative skills and an original video to add to their portfolio. Our mission is to give students the means to fulfill their vision and talent, then sit back and watch as they astound us.

Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West Toronto, ON M5J 2G8 T 416-973-4000 E info@harbourfrontcentre.com

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Harbourfront Centre/Visual Arts at York Quay Centre Visual Arts at York Quay Centre is made up of 11 exhibition spaces which are both traditional and unique. These venues are located within and outside York Quay Centre proper and range in focus from the main gallery established for group exhibitions that is 1,400 feet square, to the recently added architecture space to individual project vitrines. The year-round exhibition schedule emphasizes new work by contemporary local and international artists in craft, design, new media, architecture, photography and site specific projects. Exhibitions change five times a year in all of the venues except in the case of special initiatives. For more information on our current exhibitions, visit harbourfrontcentre.com/visualarts.

Harbourfront Centre/World Stage www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage is dedicated to providing audiences with unrivalled works of international and national theatre, dance, music and multidisciplinary performance from the globe’s leading artists. These are productions that challenge, enlighten and push boundaries. Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage is proud to collaborate with cutting-edge multidisciplinary partners like the Images Festival. This partnership provides both Harbourfront Centre and Images the platform to showcase aritsts working in various performance styles to new audiences. For more information about World Stage, visit harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 110 Spadina Avenue, Suite 333 Toronto ON M5V 2K4 (T) 416 203 2155 (F) 416 203 0446 (E) info@hotdocs.ca www.hotdocs.ca

Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) 1137 Dupont Street Toronto ON M6H 2A3 (T) 416 588 6444 (F) 416 588 7017 (E) office@lift.on.ca www.lift.on.ca

Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market, will present its 16th annual edition from April 30 to May 10, 2009. An outstanding selection of 150+ documentaries from Canada and around the world will be presented to Toronto audiences and international delegates. Hot Docs will also mount a full roster of professional development and market events for documentary practitioners, including the renowned Toronto Documentary Forum, running May 6 & 7, 2009.

LIFT is a non-profit charitable organization that provides Toronto’s vibrant arts community with affordable access to film equipment, professional and creative development workshops, film screenings and much, much more. Whether you’re an auteur or an absolute beginner, if you’re interested in making a film, we can help you.

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 349 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416 585 2333 (F) 416 585 2313 (E) info@imagineNATIVE.org www.imagineNATIVE.org The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media. Please join us for the 10th annual festival, October 14-18 2009, in Toronto.

Inside Out 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 219 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416.977.6847 (F) 416.977.8025 (E) inside@insideout.ca www.insideout.ca Inside Out, the presenter of the annual Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, is currently in its nineteenth fabulous year – Festival dates are May 14 to 24, 2009. Over the past decade, we have grown by leaps and bounds. Currently, our festival caters to audiences of more than 30,000, is the third largest film festival in Toronto and is one of the city’s most anticipated queer cultural events. We are committed to the promotion and exhibition of Canadian and international LGBT artists and their works, while encouraging the production of new work. We are dedicated to nurturing and supporting new and established artists through a variety of initiatives such as the Queer Youth Digital Video Project and Mark S. Bonham Scholarship for Queer Studies in Film. As well, we provide opportunities for our community to come together, foster discussion and encourage co-operative partnerships.

Media City Film Festival 309 Chatham Street West Windsor, ON N9A 5M8 (T) 519 973 9368 (E) mediacity@houseoftoast.ca www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity MEDIA CITY is an international festival of experimental film and video art presented in Windsor, Ontario since 1994. Each year Media City screens approximately fifty new films and videos in all gauges and formats in its international programs. The festival also presents retrospective screenings and discussions with featured artists, and exhibits installations in the Art Gallery of Windsor and other venues in Windsor and Detroit.

Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art 1286 Bloor Street West Toronto ON M6H 1N9 (T) 416.536.1519 (F) 416.536.2955 (E) info@mercerunion.org www.mercerunion.org Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art is an artist-run centre dedicated to the existence of contemporary art. We provide a forum for the production and exhibition of Canadian and international conceptually and aesthetically engaging art and related cultural practices. We pursue our primary concerns through critical activities that include exhibitions, lectures, screenings, performances, publications, events and special projects.

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) 952 Queen Street West Toronto ON M6J 1G8 (T) 416 395 0067 (F) 416 395 7598 (E) info@mocca.ca www.mocca.ca

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre 9 Ossington Avenue Toronto ON M6J 2Y8 (T) 416 599 7206 (F) 416 599 7015 (E) help.me@interaccess.org www.interaccess.org InterAccess provides artists and the general public with opportunities to explore the intersection of culture and technology through the creation, exhibition and critique of electronic art forms and new communications media.

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) was founded in 1999 with a mandate to exhibit, research, collect and promote innovative art by Canadian artists whose works engage and reflect the relevant stories of our times. MOCCA currently exists as a not-for-profit, arms-length agency of the City of Toronto’s Culture Division. MOCCA’s exhibition program reflects a dynamic yet balanced approach to presenting the wide range of ideas and media being explored by established artists at advanced stages of practice, and emerging artists who have demonstrated strong promise and exceptional commitment. In addition, MOCCA includes work by non-Canadian artists in group exhibitions, thereby creating a global context for the Canadian cultural voice.

Performance Creation Canada (Blog) pcctoronto.wordpress.com Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest Filmladen Kassel e.V Goethestrasse 31 Kassel Germany 34119 (E) dokfest@filmladen.de www.filmladen.de/dokfest The Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest began as a pure documentary film festival in the 1980s but has since extended its frame to include media installations, MONITORING, and the seminar interfiction, a place for lectures and debates about the internet. In 2008 the festival presented 279 films and videos as well as 17 media installations, and was attended by more than 9,000 spectators. The 26th festival takes place November 10-15, 2009. Deadline for entries: July 21st.

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Performance Creation Canada (PCC) is a nationwide network dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance creation in Canada, and the ecology in which it flourishes. The meeting is aimed at creating a discussion between artists in dance, theatre, music, film, and visual arts who are interested in the well being of Canadian performance creation. The conference is designed to open conversation, and open minds. The 11th edition of PCC is being presented in conjunction with the Images Festival and will be taking April 2 to 5, 2009.

Pleasure Dome 195 Rushton Rd. Toronto ON M6G 3J2 (T) 416 656 5577 (E) pdome@ican.net www.pdome.org

Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 309 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416 703 9333 (F) 416 703 9986 (E) info@reelasian.com www.reelasian.com

Pleasure Dome is dedicated to the year-round presentation of experimental film and video by artists. Programming since 1989, Pleasure Dome exhibits local, national and international artists, especially those who make shorter-length and small-format work, as well as non-traditional events that mix film and video with other media such as performance and installation. Pleasure Dome also publishes texts on media art including the recent anthology Cinematic Folds: the furling and unfurling of images.

Canada’s premier pan-Asian international film festival, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival takes place annually, showcasing independent Asian film and video from Canada, the U.S. and around the world. The 13th annual edition of Reel Asian will take place November 11-15, 2009. Our Call for Submissions is now open! The early deadline is Friday, May 15, 2009 - full guidelines and application forms are available for download from our website at www.reelasian.com. ,

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre 231 Queens Quay West Toronto ON M5J 2G8 (T) 416 973 4949 (F) 416 973 4933 (E) thepowerplant@harbourfrontcentre.com www.thepowerplant.org The Power Plant is Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to the art of our time. A prominent, non-collecting exhibition facility located in Toronto, it features new work by today’s best artists and is an integral part of Harbourfront Centre. The Power Plant celebrates the diverse conditions of evolving visual-art practice through exhibitions, publications, lectures and public programs.

Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 124 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416 591 0357 (E) info@prefix.ca www.prefix.ca Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is a public art gallery and arts publishing house that fosters the appreciation and understanding of contemporary photographic, media, and digital arts. As the only venue of its type in Canada, Prefix increases the visibility of Canadian artists and supports Canadian writers, curators, and critics, while also bringing a diverse body of international work to Canadian audiences through exhibitions, publications, and community-partnered activities. In 2008, Prefix released its first book, Milk and Melancholy by Kenneth Hayes, in partnership with the MIT Press.

Ryerson University’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education (Film Studies) The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street Toronto ON M5B 2K3 (T) 416 979 5035 (E) ce@ryerson.ca www.ryerson.ca/ce The Chang School’s Film Studies program provides you with a basic grounding in the principles, contemporary theories, and techniques of the motion picture medium. Courses range from introductory filmmaking to specialized topics such as screen writing; cinematography and lighting workshops; directing screen performance; production design; and sound design. Our Film Studies program is an excellent starting point for people who want to pursue a career in the film industry or satisfy their curiosity about film and film production.

Toronto Animated Image Society 60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 102 Toronto, ON M6K 1X9 (T) 416-533-7889 (E) tais@bellnet.ca www.tais.ca The Toronto Animated Image Society is a not-for-profit, artist-run organization that explores and promotes the art of animation and supports animators as artists. Over the past 20 years, TAIS has encouraged the exchange of information, facilities, ideas and aesthetics within Toronto’s animation community through events, screenings, workshops, and art exhibitions. TAIS also provides affordable access to a specialized animation studio

Trinity Square Video 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416 593 1332 www.trinitysquarevideo.com TSV is an amazing artist-run centre that provides independent artists and community organizations with video production and postproduction support and services at accessible rates. In existence since 1971, TSV provides an extensive range of services and initiatives for the creation, training and understanding of media art. These include workshops, an annual artist-in-residency, themed commission programs, artist talks, internships, member production grants and festival and community sponsorships. The TSV Gallery features brilliant exhibitions and dazzling screenings of innovative video art by notable local, national and international artists.

Vtape 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416 351 1317 (F) 416 351 1509 (E) info@vtape.org www.vtape.org Founded in 1980, Vtape is an international distribution, exhibition and resource centre with an emphasis on the contemporary media arts. Vtape represents over 900 artists and carries over 4,000 titles. In-office facilities include study carrels for viewing and an extensive library of print materials available to the general public. Vtape also provides exhibition support and equipment rentals to galleries, curators and individual artists. Vtape has developed the bi-lingual educational website “Video art in Canada” and maintains an active commitment to the preservation and restoration of all formats of early video art.

Wavelength Music Arts Projects www.wavelengthtoronto.com Wavelength is a forum for the Toronto underground musical and artistic community to reach a broader audience through a weekly pay-what-you-can live music series, special presentations and blog. Started in 2000, Wavelength continues to be driven by a social conscience, promoting inclusivity, equality, civic and environmental responsibility, with the aim of encouraging connections between diverse and currently isolated communities.

WARC Gallery - Women’s Art Resource Centre 401 Richmond Street West Suite 122 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416 977 0097 (F) 416 977-7425 (E) warc@warc.net www.warc.net WARC is a not-for-profit, artist-run centre dedicated to the advancement of contemporary Canadian women artists. Activities include the WARC Gallery, curatorial research library, professional development workshops, educational resources, symposia & conferences, and special projects. Charitable # 131083271RR0001

Winnipeg Film Group 100 Arthur Street, Suite 304 Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3 (T) 204 925 3452 (F) 204 942 6799 winnipegfilmgroup.com The Winnipeg Film Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the art of cinema. We have served as a resource for Manitoba film and video artists for 35 years, providing access to affordable training, mentorship, production and post production equipment and facilities through our Training and Production department, local, national and international programming through our Cinematheque, as well as local, national and international distribution assistance for Canadian independent film and video artists through our Distribution department.

WORKMAN ARTS / RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS 1001 Queen Street West Toronto ON, Canada M6J 1H4 (T) 416 583 4339 F. 416 583 4354 www.rendezvouswithmadness.com The Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival has been exploring madness at the movies since 1993. Through screenings and post-show panel discussions, we strive to bring our audience fabulous Canadian and international films, encourage discussion and battle stigma. The 17th annual Festival will take place in Toronto this November 5-14, 2009.

XPACE Cultural Centre 58 Ossington Avenue Toronto ON (T) 416 849 2864 (E) derek@xpace.info www.xpace.info XPACE Cultural Centre is a non-profit organization dedicated to emerging art and design. Our goal is to bridge students with their established counterparts through experimental programming that cultivates public dialogue. This allows for a dynamic art space that questions and re-evaluates the cultural and artistic expectations of visual language. XPACE is a membership-driven organization supported by the OCAD Student Union.

YYZ 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140 (T) 416 598 4546 (F) 416 598 2282 (E) yyz@yyzartistsoutlet.org www.yyzartistsoutlet.org YYZ is a vibrant artist-run forum for the presentation of local, national and international contemporary artist-initiated exhibitions in all media, publications on topics in contemporary art, culture and society and activities that bring artists and audiences into contact with each other in engaging ways.

Wynick/Tuck Gallery 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 128 Toronto ON M5V 3A8 (T) 416 504 8716 (F) 416 504 8699 (E) wtg@wynicktuckgallery.ca www.wynicktuckgallery.ca

York University â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Department of Film 222 Centre for Film and Theatre 4700 Keele Street Toronto ON M3J 1P3 (T) 416 736 5149 (F) 416 736 5710 (E) film@yorku.ca www.yorku.ca/finearts/film

Founded in 1968 as a downtown storefront/warehouse, Wynick/Tuck Gallery features multi media, progressive contemporary art by emerging, mid-career and senior artists. Wynick/Tuck is committed to pushing the boundaries and blurring the lines.

York Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Film offers undergraduate and graduate programs leading to BA, BFA, MA, MFA and PhD degrees, taught in state-of-the-art facilities by award-winning filmmakers and scholars. Programs include hands-on professional training in film and digital production (cinematography, editing, sound, directing and producing for fiction, documentary and alternative projects); screenwriting (story editing, scene writing, feature scripts, writing for television); and in-depth academic studies in cinema and media history, theory and criticism with a special focus on Canadian, international, documentary and alternative film.

ARTIST INDEX Abidi, Bani p. 70–71 Aguayo, Matias p. 70–71 Ammo Factory p. 65 Arcangel, Cory p. 56 Arnold, Martin p. 33 Aschberg, Frank p. 51 assume vivid astro focus p. 70–71 Ayres, Richard p. 33 Bad Beuys Entertainment p. 70–71 Banfi, Márcio p. 70–71 Barba, Rosa p. 86–87 Barber, Stephanie p. 49 Battle, Christina p. 33 Belém, Laura p. 70–71 Bell-Smith, Michael p. 60 Beloufa, Neïl p. 40 Bilal, Wafaa p. 79 Billyou, Mary p. 40 Blandy, David p. 70–71 Bodman, Amy p. 47 Boisseau, Sylvie p. 82 Bonnetta, Josh p. 86–87 Borins, Daniel p. 70–71 Borjal, Patrick p. 70–71 Boué, Francois p. 55 Bourque, Louise p. 41–43 Bowen, Deanna p. 83 Braga, Cristina p. 51 Brinkman, Mat p. 60 Brown, Jubal p. 79 Brown, Warren p. 86–87 Bryant, David p. 61 Bull.Miletic p. 70–71 Buzio, Guillermina p. 62 Calderón, Miguel (Los Super Elegantes) p. 70–71 Campbell, Duncan p. 49 Chan, Lesley Loksi p. 62 Christie, Amanda Dawn p. 64 Ciocci, Jacob p. 60 Cloud Eye Control p. 65 Cocoon p. 70–71 Cohene, Aleesa p. 88 Continuum Ensemble p. 33 Coonley, Ben p. 37, 89 Cote, Philippe p. 55 Cranfield, Brady p. 70–71 Crockard, Liam p. 85 Dardot, Marilá p. 70–71 Day, Dennis p. 70–71

Dezfoulian, Pouyan Jafarizadeh p. 51 Diaz, Lav p. 32 dogr (aka David Michael DiGregorio) p. 36 Duran, Francisca p. 49 Essen, Mark p. 79 Eyres, Erica p. 53 Faria, Fabio p. 70–71 Farocki, Harun p. 80 Fassler, Larissa p. 77 Fernandes, Brendan p. 74 Ferro, Chelpa p. 70–71 Finnigan, Elvira p. 64 Forsyth, Iain p. 70–71 Fortier, Louis p. 73 Frenkel, Vera p. 33 Fritzgerald Craig, James p. 53 Geoffroy, Thierry p. 38 Goddard, Adam p. 86–87 Goldstein, Malcolm p. 33 Goldt, Karø p. 40 Gonzalez-Foerster, Dominique p. 70–71 Graham, Rodney p. 70–71 Granat, Amy p. 86–87 Gronsdahl, Troy p. 64 Guerzi, Maki p. 70–71 Gusmão, João Maria p. 78 Hadjithomas, Joana p. 72 Halprin, Jason p. 55 Hamilton, Anitra p. 70–71 Hansen, Mike p. 70–71 Harley, Brad p. 86–87 Hartman, Loren p. 53 Heitzler, Drew p. 86–87 Hickox, April p. 86–87 Hirsch, Antonia p. 73 Histrionics, The p. 70–71 Holden, Clive p. 33 Holzfeind, Heidrun p. 38 Hommer, Joerg p. 51 Horne, Adele p. 64 Husain, Oliver p. 46 Ishida, Takashi p. 84 Jenkins, Patrick p. 86–87 Johannesen, Karen p. 55 Joreige, Khalil p. 72 Josephson, Gunilla p. 81 Katayama, Kaoru p. 70–71 Kawamura, Yuki p. 70–71 Kibbins, Gary p. 53 Kiburz, Mika p. 40

Kim, Sung Hwan p. 36, 76 Kim, Young-Sup p. 73 Koroshegyi, Arnold p. 73 Kuchar, George p. 50 Kwon, Byungjun p. 36 Lachajczyk, Joe p. 51 Laibach p. 70–71 Landry, Diane p. 73 Lane, Penny p. 53 Laric, Oliver p. 60 Latimer, Christine Lucy p. 46 Leinkauf, Mischa p. 51 Lemieux, Karl p. 61 Lorenzo, Jorge p. 46 Maddin, Guy p. 33 Marcelle, Cinthia p. 70–71 Marman, Jennifer p. 70–71 Marro, Xander p. 60 Mateik, Tara p. 60 Matheus, Rodrigo p. 70–71 Mazinani, Mani p. 51 McAlpine, Elizabeth p. 86–87 McCann, Penny p. 62 McIntyre, Daniel p. 51 Migone, Christof p. 61 Miller, Peter p. 49 Morales, Wagner p. 70–71 Morgan, Steev p. 62 Mroué, Rabih p. 34 Mugaas, Hanne p. 56 Murata, Takeshi p. 60 Nakamura, Takehiro p. 55 Noguchi, Louise p. 88 Olson, Marisa p. 60 Paiva, Pedro p. 78 Pak, June p. 88 Pallett, Owen p. 70–71 Parant, Jonathan p. 61 Paterson, Andrew J. p. 46, 70–71 Peaches p. 70–71 Peacock, Jan p. 75 Pellegrino, Mark p. 85 Phillips, Heidi p. 64 Pollard, Jane p. 70–71 Polta, Steve p. 55 Pong, Elodie p. 70–71 Pound, Stuart p. 70–71 Price, Seth p. 60 Ramo, Sara p. 70–71 Read, Tanya p. 86–87 Reinke, Steve p. 46

Richardson, Tasman p. 60, 70–71 Rist, Pipilotti p. 70–71 Robinson, Michael p. 60 Ronna, Giorgio p. 70–71 Rooney, Megan p. 85 Rousseau, Chantal p. 86–87 Rudelius, Julika p. 38, 40 Russell, Ben p. 60, 61 Rye, Lyla p. 86–87 Rytel, Joanna p. 38 Sacks, Rick p. 33 Saïto, Daïchi p. 33 Schütz, Richard p. 77 Schwartz, Jonathan p. 64 Scriver, Seth p. 86–87 Shamash, Sarah p. 62 Silva, Fern p. 51 SiMalaya Alcampo, Jo p. 85 Smith, Ariel p. 53 Smith, John p. 63 Smith, Michelle p. 64 Snow, Michael p. 73 Soares, Valeska p. 70–71 Spengler, Isabell p. 46 Stewart, Alexander p. 49 Stratman, Deborah p. 45 Stübi, Corine p. 70–71 Supnet, Leslie p. 60 Tatham, Zak p. 53 Tetine p. 70–71 Thauberger, Althea p. 52 Tinmouth, Brad p. 85 Trainor, Jim p. 40 Uman, Naomi p. 64 van der Made, Judith p. 53 van der Werve, Guido p. 70–71 van Dillen, Oscar p. 33 Wardill, Emily p. 46 Watson, Gabriel p. 51 Weekend Leisure p. 70–71 Westermeyer, Frank p. 82 Wheele, Ben p. 49 White, Ian p. 52 Williamson, Matthew p. 85 Wong, Ming p. 70–71 Wood, Kelly p. 73 Yücel, Altan p. 51 Zaatari, Akram p. 45

DISTRIBUTORS & GALLERIES Agência da Curta Metragem Apartado 214 4481-911 Vila do Conde, Portugal T: +351 252 646683 E: agencia@curtas.pt www.curtasmetragens.pt/agencia/en/ Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Avenue New York, NY 10003 USA T: 212 505 5181 E: robert@anthologyfilmarchives.org www.anthologyfilmarchives.org Arsenal Potsdamer Straße 2 D-10785 Berlin, Germany T: +49 30 26955 100 E: mail@arsenal-berlin.de www.arsenal-berlin.de/arsenal Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) 1040 Moss Street Victoria, BC V8V 4P1 Canada T: 250 384 4101 E: stopfer@aggv.bc.ca www.aggv.bc.ca Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele Street Toronto ON M3J 1P3 Canada T: 416 736 5169 E: agyu@yorku.ca www.yorku.ca/agyu Blackwood Gallery University of Toronto Mississauga 3359 Mississauga Road North Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 Canada T: 905 828 3789 E: j.zalucky@utoronto.ca www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 119 Toronto, ON M5V 3A8 Canada T: 416 588 0725 E: bookings@cfmdc.org www.cfmdc.org

Galerie Eva Presenhuber Limmatstraße 270 P.O. Box 1517 CH – 8031 Zurich Switzerland T: +41 43 444 7050 E: info@presenhuber.com www.presenhuber.com

Canyon Cinema 145 Ninth Street, Suite 260 San Francisco, CA 94103 USA T: 415 626 2255 lauren@canyoncinema.com www.canyoncinema.com

Groupe Intervention Vidéo 4001 Rue Berri Montreal, QC H2L 4H2 Canada T: 514 271 5506 E: info@givideo.org www.givideo.org

carlier I gebauer Markgrafenstraße 67 D-10969 Berlin, Germany T: +49 30 2400 863-0 E: mail@carliergebauer.com www.carliergebauer.com

Harvard Film Archive Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 24 Quincy Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 USA T: 617 495 4700 hcl.harvard.edu/hfa

Diaz Contemporary 100 Niagara Street Toronto, ON M5V 1C5 Canada T: 416 361 2972 E: bianca@diazcontemporary.ca www.diazcontemporary.ca Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 USA T: 212 337 0680 E: info@eai.org www.eai.org Galeria Graça Brandão Rua Miguel Bombarda, 552 4050-382 Porto, Portugal T: +351 223 403 803 E: galeriagbrandao@mail.telepac.pt www.galeriagracabrandao.com

Laura Bartlett Gallery 10 Northington Street London WC1N 2JG United Kingdom T: +44 20 7404 9251 E: mail@laurabartlettgallery.com www.laurabartlettgallery.com Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery Concordia University 1400 Blvd. de Maisonneuve West, LB-165 Montréal QC H3G 1M8 Canada T: 514 848 2424 ext. 4750 E: ellengal@alcor.concordia.ca www.ellengallery.concordia.ca LUX Shacklewell Studios 18 Shacklewell Lane London E8 2EZ United Kingdom T: +44 20 7503 3980 E: mike.sperlinger@lux.org.uk www.lux.org.uk

Netherlands Media Art Institute Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV Amsterdam, The Netherlands T: +31 20 6237101 E: info@nimk.nl www.nimk.nl Sine Olivia Pilipinas Unit 307, Alicante Towers Marquinton Residences, Sto. Nino Marikina City, Philippines T: +63 919 5256730 lavrente@yahoo.com Video Pool 300 – 100 Arthur Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3 Canada T: 204 949 9134 E: vpadmin@videopool.org www.videopool.org Vtape 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452 Toronto, ON M5V 3A8 Canada T: 416 351 1317 E: info@vtape.org www.vtape.org Winnipeg Film Group 304 – 100 Arthur Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3 Canada T: 204 925 3456 E: info@winnipegfilmgroup.com www.winnipegfilmgroup.com

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TITLE INDEX 01/06, p. 60 Mat Brinkman and Xander Marro missxander@hotmail.com

Bernadette, p. 49 Duncan Campbell LUX

Counter-Music, p. 80 Harun Farocki Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery

Hallesches Tor, p. 77 Larissa Fassler larissa@paperaeroplane.com

12 x 26, p. 46 Andrew J. Paterson Vtape

Binary Sound Systems, p. 73 Kelly Wood Blackwood Gallery

Cultural Exchanges, p. 38 Thierry Geoffroy info@impakt.nl

Holy Smokes!, p. 53 Loren Hartman crazyspace@sbcglobal.net

1–9, p. 40 Mary Billyou marybillyou@yahoo.com

Black and White Gods, The, p. 61 Ben Russell br@dimeshow.com

Curse Cures, p. 62 Lesley Loksi Chan lesley.loksi@gmail.com

Hotel Diaries, p. 63 John Smith LUX

1997A (Arrival), p. 55 Steve Polta stevepolta@yahoo.com

Black and White Trypps Number Three, p. 60 Ben Russell br@dimeshow.com

Des nuages aux fêlures de la terre, p. 55 Philippe Cote phcote14@yahoo.fr

How To Lose Consciousnes, p. 53 Gary Kibbins Vtape

Diamond (Descartes’ Daughter), The, p. 46 Emily Wardill LUX

Hunting, The, p. 74 Brendan Fernandes Diaz Contemporary

dino, p. 53 Judith van der Made barleyqueen@antenna.nl

Hydraulics of Solids, p. 78 Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão Galeria Graça Brandão

Distracted Bullets, p. 72 Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige info@abboutproductions.com

I, An Actress, p. 50 George Kuchar Canyon Cinema

Don’t Worry Be Happy (stressful mix), p. 60 Jacob Ciocci jacob_ciocci@yahoo.com

I Deeply Regret, p. 40 Karø Goldt Arsenal

Dreaming of Lucid Living, p. 65 Cloud Eye Control www.cloudeyecontrol.com

I Love (St.) Louis, p. 51 Joe Lachajczyk joseph-lachjczyk@uiowa.edu

Dubbing, p. 80 Harun Farocki Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery

I want to look like you, p. 38 Thierry Geoffroy info@impakt.nl

2 Cameras @ Sea, p. 33 Clive Holden and Oscar van Dillen CFMDC A House Full of Dust, p. 55 Steve Polta stevepolta@yahoo.com a little prayer (H-E-L-P), p. 41 – 43 Louise Bourque CFMDC Account, p. 75 Jan Peacock jpeacock@nscad.ca Adrift, p. 40 Julika Rudelius Netherlands Media Art Institute

Blind Trip, p. 77 Richard Schütz rik@richardschuetz.de Borders Test (version complet), p. 38 Thierry Geoffroy info@impakt.nl Boy/Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein’s “Narrative of a Child Analysis”, p. 46 Steve Reinke Vtape Buried Traces, p. 64 Michelle Smith Groupe Intervention Vidéo

Alexanderplatz, p. 77 Larissa Fassler larissa@paperaeroplane.com

Chapters 1–12 of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet Synced and Played Simultaneously, p. 60 Michael Bell-Smith Electronic Arts Intermix

Altars, p. 62 Guillermina Buzio guillebuzio@gmail.com

Chelsea Girls, p. 52 Althea Thauberger Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

E.V.E. Absolute Matrix, p. 81 Gunilla Josephson gunilla@sympatico.ca

Ibiza: a reading for “The Flicker”, p. 52 Ian White ianwhite.email@googlemail.com

Always With You, p. 72 Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige info@abboutproductions.com

Child, p. 51 Altan Yücel altanyucel@yahoo.com

Film Noir (100% Black Film 1), p. 46 Jorge Lorenzo jorgelorenzo@hotmail.com

Imprint, p. 41 – 43 Louise Bourque CFMDC

And We All Shine On, p. 60 Michael Robinson michaelblayneyrobinson@hotmail.com

Chinese is a Plus, p. 82 Sylvie Boisseau and Frank Westermeyer info@filmerei.de

Final Space, p. 65 Cloud Eye Control www.cloudeyecontrol.com

In Between, p. 51 Mischa Leinkauf info@stopmakingsense.de

Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot, The, p. 60 Leslie Supnet leslie.supnet@gmail.com

Cinematic (The Log Enchanter) p. 78 Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão Galeria Graça Brandão

Finder, p. 75 Jan Peacock jpeacock@nscad.ca

In The Room, p. 76 Sung Hwan Kim shkimpado@gmail.com

Cleopatra’s Teeth, p. 40 Mika Kiburz mikeeblers@gmail.com

Fissures, p. 41 – 43 Louise Bourque CFMDC

In the Room 3, p. 36 Sung Hwan Kim, dogr and Byungjun Kwon shkimpado@gmail.com

Close Encounter, p. 53 Zak Tatham zak.tatham@gmail.com

Frame to Frame, p. 86–87 Josh Bonnetta, Warren Brown & Adam Goddard, Brad Harley, April Hickox, Patrick Jenkins, Tanya Read, Chantal Rousseau, Seth Scriver pmacaulay@harbourfrontcentre.com

Interface, p. 80 Harun Farocki Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery

Annual Report, p. 51 Cristina Braga Agência da Curta Metragem Ariadne’s Thread, p. 62 Sarah Shamash opticlicks@hotmail.com Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet), p. 56 Hanne Mugaas & Cory Arcangel hanne.mugaas@gmail.com Att tänka tankar man inte vill tänka, p. 38 Joanna Rytel Netherlands Media Art Institute Aufhebung, p. 55 François Boué fmarburg@thing.net

Co-existence_Cable Porcelain & Sound, p. 73 Young-Sup Kim Blackwood Gallery Colombo’s Column, p. 78 Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão Galeria Graça Brandão Commercials, p. 53 Erica Eyres Winnipeg Film Group

Behind the Shadows, p. 33 Christina Battle and Martin Arnold CFMDC

Communism of Forms: Sound + Image + Time – The Strategy of Music Videos, The, p. 70–71 Art Gallery of York University

Believing Makes it So, p. 62 Steev Morgan steev@steev.ca

Correspondence, p. 85 Megan Rooney meganrooney26@yahoo.com

Fulcro, p. 78 Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão Galeria Graça Brandão Game, The, p. 60 Tasman Richardson Vtape generosity of mechanics (is not well documented), the, p. 64 Troy Gronsdahl troy@troygronsdahl.com Glorious, p. 33 Guy Maddin and Richard Ayres lindsay@buffalogalpictures.com Going Back Home, p. 41 – 43 Louise Bourque CFMDC

Inversion, Transcription, Evening Track and Attractor, The, p. 49 Stephanie Barber barber.s.barber@gmail.com It only hurts when I cry, p. 51 Daniel McIntyre daniel.mark.mcintyre@gmail.com J.J. & Murphy’s .flv Generation, p. 89 Ben Coonley benjamin_coonley@yahoo.com Jours en fleurs, p. 41 – 43 Louise Bourque CFMDC (Just Beyond the screen) the universe—as we know it—is ending, p. 46 Christine Lucy Latimer christinelucylatimer@gmail.com

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TITLE INDEX Just Words, p. 41 – 43 Louise Bourque CFMDC

Mount Shasta, p. 46 Oliver Husain Arsenal

Kalendar, p. 64 Naomi Uman naomiuman@yahoo.com

Mylar Balloon Rip Off, p. 55 Jason Halprin jihalprin@yahoo.com

Kempinski, p. 40 Neïl Beloufa Netherlands Media Art Institute

Nature Morte, p. 45 Akram Zaatari Vtape

Khiam 2000 – 2007, p. 72 Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige info@abboutproductions.com

Night of the Bomb, p. 50 George Kuchar Anthology Film Archive

Kotti, p. 77 Larissa Fassler larissa@paperaeroplane.com

NJS Map, p. 60 Seth Price Electronic Arts Intermix

Lasting Images, p. 72 Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige info@abboutproductions.com

NKS OT EAD, p. 85 Liam Crockard lcrockard@gmail.com

L’éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It, p. 41 – 43 Louise Bourque CFMDC

Nothing is Over Nothing, p. 64 Jonathan Schwartz jonathan_schwartz@emerson.edu

Lerne Deutsch mit Petra Von Kant (Learn German with Petra Von Kant), p. 70 - 71 Ming Wong mingwong@berlin.com Le Sénat, p. 73 Louis Fortier Blackwood Gallery LIGHT READING: california sunset, p. 86–87 Elizabeth McAlpine Laura Bartlett Gallery Light Speed, p. 55 Karen Johannesen johannesenkaren@hotmail.com

Nu hander det igen: They Will Never Catch Us, p. 51 Frank Aschberg and Gabriel Watson gabriel@gabrielwatson.se Obama Night, p. 85 Brad Tinmouth bradtinmouth@hotmail.com O’er the Land, p. 45 Deborah Stratman delta@pythagorasfilm.com On the Logic of Dubious Historical Accounts, 1969-1972, p. 49 Peter Miller and Alexander Stewart info@petermiller.info

Limits of What We Know, The, p. 47 Amy Bodman amybodmanproductions@rogers.com

ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive, p. 33 Vera Frenkel and Rick Sacks Vtape

Magnetic Shadow, The, p. 78 Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão Galeria Graça Brandão

Paalaala / Remembrance, p. 85 Jo SiMalaya Alcampo simalaya@rogers.com

Make Me Stop Smoking, p. 34 Rabih Mroué rabihm@hotmail.com

Path, p. 64 Elvira Finnigan Video Pool

Melancholia, p. 32 Lav Diaz Sine Olivia Pilipinas

Performed Listening: H, p. 60 Marisa Olson mo@marisaolson.com

Memory Data Register, p. 61 Bryant / Migone / Parant / Lemieux karl_lemieux@hotmail.com

Pitch, The, p. 46 Isabell Spengler Arsenal

Men Seeking Women, p. 53 Penny Lane lennypane@gmail.com

Presentation Theme, The, p. 40 Jim Trainor jtrain@saic.edu

Message The, p. 60 Oliver Laric mail@oliverlaric.com

Professor and the Blind Girl, The, p. 62 Penny McCann penelope@cyberus.ca

Meteoritics, p. 78 Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão Galeria Graça Brandão

PYT (Pretty Young Thing), p. 60 Tara Mateik info@taramateik.com

Morning Will Come, p. 51 Pouyan Jafarizadeh Dezfoulian poojafari@yahoo.ca

Quiero Ver, p. 64 Adele Horne tailenders@gmail.com

Motel Capri, p. 50 George Kuchar Harvard Film Archives

Red Carpet, The, p. 51 Joerg Hommer mail@joerghommer.de

Remapping the Apparatus: Cinematographic Specificity and Hybrid Media, p. 37 Ben Coonley benjamin_coonley@yahoo.com Retrato Oficial (Official Portrait), p. 49 Francisca Duran CFMDC Revival, p. 64 Heidi Phillips Winnipeg Film Group Romanians (Live like a King), The, p. 38 Heidrun Holzfeind heidrun@thing.net Rupture, p. 73 Arnold Koroshegyi Blackwood Gallery Scrap Collector, p. 79 Mark Essen messhof@gmail.com Self Portrait Post Mortem, p. 41 – 43 Louise Bourque CFMDC Seven Video Responses to Constant Dullart’s “YouTube as Subject”, p. 89 Ben Coonley benjamin_coonley@yahoo.com Shadow Man, The, p. 78 Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão Galeria Graça Brandão Shadow on the Prairie, p. 83 Deanna Bowen d.bowen@sympatico.ca Some Days Ago (Kajitu), p. 55 Takehiro Nakamura nkmr_tkhr@hotmail.com Someone Else’s Girlfriend, p. 53 James Fritzgerald Craig Video Pool Something Better, p. 88 Aleesa Cohene Vtape Somewhere, p. 88 June Pak and Louise Noguchi louisenoguchi@hotmail.com Spinners, p. 51 Fern Silva fern451@hotmail.com Stolen Waters, p. 73 Diane Landry Blackwood Gallery Subterranean Heart, p. 65 Cloud Eye Control www.cloudeyecontrol.com

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, p. 53 Ariel Smith Vtape Topsy-Turvy, p. 86–87 Lyla Rye lylarye@sympatico.ca Toronto-EMAKI, p. 84 Takashi Ishida takashiishida2@yahoo.co.jp Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis, p. 33 Daïchi Saïto and Malcolm Goldstein daichi_saito@yahoo.com T.S.O.Y.W., p. 86–87 Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler Galerie Eva Presenhuber Two Radio Solos, p. 73 Michael Snow Blackwood Gallery Untitled, p. 85 Matthew Williamson matt@matthew-williamson.com Untitled (Pink Dot), p. 60 Takeshi Murata Electronic Arts Intermix v = d/t, p. 64 Amanda Dawn Christie CFMDC Verbal Burglary, p. 51 Mani Mazinani mani@freemarketrecords.com Videodrome, p. 79 Jubal Brown jubalbrown@yahoo.ca VideoSPACE: The Psyche-Out Chronicles, p. 85 Mark Pellegrino markp7@gmail.com Virtual Jihadi, p. 79 Wafaa Bilal w.wafaa@gmail.com Voice Over, The, p. 65 Ammo Factory nidoverde@gmail.com Vox Pop, p. 73 Antonia Hirsch Blackwood Gallery Walraff Method, The, p. 38 Thierry Geoffroy info@impakt.nl Western Round Table 2027, p. 86–87 Rosa Barba carlier I gebauer

there, there, p. 75 Jan Peacock jpeacock@nscad.ca

Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, p. 80 Harun Farocki Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery

Those Crazy Insides, p. 51 Ben Wheele bunnyfilms@hotmail.com

Your Blood is as Red as Mine, p. 38 Julika Rudelius Netherlands Media Art Institute

Thrill of Combat, The, p. 79 Mark Essen messhof@gmail.com

Ze Turra, p. 78 Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão Galeria Graça Brandão

Throw, p. 78 Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão Galeria Graça Brandão

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Faucet Media Arts Centre / Struts Gallery p. 57 Fearless Films p. 39 Film Comment Magazine p. 66 Filip Contemporary Art Magazine p. 108 The Film Buff p. 27 Frame Discreet Film Transfers p. 99 Fuse Magazine p. 104 Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography p. 57 Gladstone Hotel p. 22 The Globe and Mail p. 16 Gulf Island Film & Television School (GIFTS) p. 92 Imaginative p. 106 Inside Out p. 91 InterAcess Electronic Media Arts Centre p. 57 International Experimental Media Congress 2010 p. 110 Island Media Arts Co-op (IMAC) p. 29 Justina M. Barnicke Gallery p. 26 Kasseler Dokfest p. 111 Koffler Gallery p. 67 Lakeview, The p. 93 Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture p. 35 Maisonneuve p. 100 Media City p. 111 Media Net p. 59 Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University p. 35 Music Works p. 98 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) p. 58 New Brunswick Film Co-op p. 104 Niagara Artists’ Centre (NAC) p. 104 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) p. 15 Ontario Arts Council (OAC) p. 30 Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) p. 12 Pages Books & Magazines p. 67

Pleasure Dome Film and Video p. 67 POV Magazine p. 101 Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art p. 102 Reel Asian International Film Festival p. 104 Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival p. 93 Rivoli / Queen Mother p. 108 Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative p. 101 Saw Gallery p. 14 Shameless Magazine p. 92 Sheridan College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning – inside front cover Slate p. 90 Steamwhistle p. 2 Super 8 Hotel p. 54 This Magazine p. 109 Tom Thomson Art Gallery p. 67 Gallery TPW p. 39 Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) p. 26 Toronto Film and Television Office (TFTVO) p. 27 Trinity Square Video p. 57, 59 Twig Creative Design / Web Development p. 101 VIA Rail Canada – inside back cover Video Pool Media Arts Centre p. 99 Vtape p. 10 Westbury National Show Systems Ltd. p. 58 Winnipeg Film Group p. 106 Wynick/Tuck Gallery p. 99 Xtra! p. 10 York University Department of Film p. 68

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