The Images Festival is a yearly event devoted to

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and

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video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. V ...

, new media and media installation that takes place each spring in

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History

The Images festival was founded in 1987, originally conceived as an alternative to the

Toronto Festival of Festivals The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...

(now known as Toronto International Film Festival).About the Images Festival
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Kim Tomczak Kim Tomczak (born 1952) is a Canadian artist known for his work in performance art, photography and video art. Born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1952, he graduated from the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Desi ...

, Paulette Phillips, Ross Turnbull, Marc Glassman,

Annette Mangaard Annette Mangaard is a Danish/Canadian filmmaker, artist, writer, director, and producer, whose films and installations have been shown internationally at art galleries, cinematheques and film festivals. With a practice rooted in theatrical drama a ...

Richard Fung Richard Fung (born 1954) is a video artist, writer, public intellectual and theorist who currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and is openly gay. Fung was a professor at OCAD University. He earne ...

, and Janine Marchessault. Since 2005, Images has also presented international tours of Canadian media artists.

Festival

Images is the largest festival of experimental film and video in North America. Premieres held at the Images festival include: *

Matthew Barney Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...

's '' Cremaster'', * Clive Holden's '' Trains of Winnipeg'', * G. B. Jones's '' The Lollipop Generation'', *

Zacharias Kunuk Zacharias Kunuk (, born November 27, 1957) is a Canadian Inuk producer and director, most notable for his film '' Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.'' It is the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced entirely in Inuktitut with an all Indige ...

's '' Nunaqpa'', * Barbara Sternberg's ''Like a Dream that Vanishes'', * Andrew Norman Wilson's Sidewalk Stories Retrospectives of filmmakers such as

Harun Farocki Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. Early life and education Farocki was born as Harun El Usman FaroqhiMargalit Fox (3 August 2014)''New York Times''. in Neutitschein, which is n ...

, Nelson Henricks and Louise Bourque have also been featured. In 2011, the festival partnered with the

Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; ) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located on Dundas Street, Dundas Street West in the Grange Park (neighbourhood), Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, the museum complex takes up of phys ...

to present John Sasaki's ''Pine'' series.

References

External links

Images Festival website
Experimental film festivals Film festivals in Toronto Film festivals established in 1987 New media art festivals {{Toronto-stub