IMAGES FESTIVAL - Toronto

FRENCH SPEAKING ARTISTS SHOWCASED AT

THE 21st ANNUAL IMAGES FESTIVAL
Toronto’s 2nd Oldest Film Festival
April 3 – 13, 2008
http://www.imagesfestival.com

Most likely present:

KARL LEMIEUX
International Shorts Program II
Screening: Western Sunburn (Montréal, 2007)
Saturday, April 5: 9:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Joseph Workman Theatre

Working from looped rolls of found footage, Montréal-based Lemieux re-imagines and reframes iconographic figures from an old western with painting, scratching, cutting and burning.

ALEXANDRE LAROSE
NO CUTS. NO SPLICES. a selection from the One Take Super 8 Event
Screening: Artifices (Montréal, 2007)
Friday April 11, 11:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom

Artifices is a visual research that studies the kinetic potential of light. In this super8 experiment, I attempted to disintegrate static and dynamic light sources into flux.

Alexandre Larose is a Canadian filmmaker originating from Québec City. Larose began practicing cinema while graduating from engineering school in 2001. He went on studying experimental film at Concordia University from 2003 to 2006. His work explores, through extensive formal treatment of the film medium, fear and anxiety that stems from the search for identity.

NELSON HENRICKS
Canadian Artist Spotlight
Friday April 4: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Joseph Workman Theatre

Nelson Henricks’ prolific body of work, spanning from the 80’s, carefully explores the poetics of words, visuals and sound. He creates seamlessly crafted narratives that play with language and the frame of film while inhabiting a distinct sense of self-reflexivity. He has described his work as “a cross between rock video and poetry,” which rings true to his refined aesthetic. Henricks thoughtfully weaves text, light, music, exquisite videography and precise editing that reflects his truly unique and solidly grounded visual and aural aesthetic.

BETTINA HOFFMANN:
Décalage (Montréal, 2006-2007)
Curated by Scott McLeod
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art March 13 - April 19
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 124

Hoffmann’s most recent video installation, Décalage (2007), builds upon the territory explored in her earlier works. But now, she liberates the camera from its track and frees it to roam over the surface of its subjects, namely, two couples lounging in bed and two women standing over a third woman who lies prostrate on the floor. The complexity of this approach is intensified by a doubling of the image; each scene is simultaneously presented in two slightly different views. In this, as well as her other works, narrative elements are employed in order to arouse curiosity, but, as in the case of a single photographic image, this curiosity ultimately cannot be satisfied. Hoffmann plays upon the viewer’s innate sense of longing and fascination by instilling “a sense of waiting and expectancy.” But as the viewer waits and watches, (s)he gains knowledge not of the subject but of the unyielding nature of its surface. And then, with this revelation, the image is gone.

The Images Festival is Toronto’s 2nd oldest film festival and Canada’s largest annual event devoted exclusively to independent and experimental film, video, installation, live performance and new media. The 21st edition of the festival runs April 3rd – 13th, in Toronto, Canada.

The Images Festival is made possible thanks to generous operating support from the following public funders: The Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Arts Council, Telefilm Canada and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

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