Hopeful & exciting news in times of dark cinemas: The 33rd Images Festival is happening --live, free & online-- including our joint program with Berlin video essayist Kevin B. Lee as a guest of the Goethe-Institut.
The Images Festival team has spent the past month adapting their programming to the ever-changing conditions of the social and economic crisis that we are collectively facing. From April 16-22, all Images On Screen presentations—along with selections from their planned Off Screen, Live, and Education programs—will be available to stream live, free of charge, at www.imagesfestival.com, where you can find the full digital festival catalogue and program.
Following his tenure as the first artist-in-residence of the newly formed Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin, filmmaker Kevin B. Lee produced a series of video essays on Farocki for the Goethe-Institut. Watch Kevin B. Lee's shorts program The Counter-Image, putting his new work alongside three of Farocki's, on 20 April at 5pm as a live stream. Kevin will zoom in for a Q&A from Germany.
If you want to prepare, here is his "What I Did at the Harun Farocki Residency" video:
2020 marks the 33rd anniversary of Images -- and the first (and hopefully last!) entirely digital festival. It will also be the first time Images presented without the strictures of the (now defunct) Ontario Film Review Board. This year, the festival can officially invite people of all ages to enjoy screenings.
"We’ll miss the flicker of 16mm film running through the projectors at Innis Town Hall. We’ll miss hosting our local and visiting artists, scholars, curators, DJs, and speakers. We’ll miss our parties, our artists’ brunch, and all other chances to see one another. Most of all, we’ll miss gathering with our audiences and community, coming together to share, marvel at, and grapple with the incredible works being presented across our programs. We’d like to thank our public funders, sponsors, donors, and especially our presenting and community partners, for all of their support and guidance through these unsettling times," said Images Festival executive director Samuel La France.
image from Lee's "Harun Farocki: Lexicon" in this program
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Hopeful & exciting news in times of dark cinemas: The 33rd Images Festival is happening --live, free & online-- including our joint program with Berlin video essayist Kevin B. Lee as a guest of the Goethe-Institut.
