Land Acknowledgement

Images Festival would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather and organize is the territory of the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Today, the meeting place of Toronto is home to many Indigenous peoples.

A territorial acknowledgement can demonstrate a coming to awareness, and provoke thought and re ection, all of which are essential in beginning to establish reciprocal relations. is acknowledgement should not function as closure, resignation, or acceptance of the structural conditions of settler colonialism that remain in e ect today. Images Festival will continue to ask what it means for us to keep open a spirit of sustained inquiry into the complexities of our context.

Vision

Images Festival is a leading presenter of independent lm and media culture in dialogue with contemporary art. We aspire to elevate conversations between artists, scholars, and the public about the politics of the moving image.

Mission

Images Festival is an artist-driven festival that expands traditional de nitions and understandings of media art by experimenting with a multiplicity of artistic forms.

We value artistic work that challenges norms, takes risks, and is rigorous in form and content. Our programs interrogate the conditions of contemporary moving image culture.

We provide a forum through which to develop critical engagement between Canadian and international artists, audiences, and institutions.

Code of Conduct

All community participants, including members and guests of members, event hosts, sponsors, presenters, exhibitors, and attendees, are expected to abide by Images Festival’s Code of Conduct and cooperate with organizers who enforce it. Images Festival insists that everyone who uses the spaces remains mindful of, and takes responsibility for, their speech and behaviour. We embrace respect and concern for the free expression of others, but we will not tolerate words or actions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist, classist, transphobic, cissexist, or ableist. Respecting physical and emotional boundaries, we do not accept oppressive behaviour, harassment, destructive behaviour, or exclusionary actions.