Images Festival Newsletter >> February 18, 2010
1. 2010 IMAGES WEB SITE LAUNCH & TICKET SALES >> Tuesday March 9
2. 2010 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS >> Orientation & Sign-up >> Thursday March 11
3. 2010 IMAGES MEMBERSHIPS >> Join online today!
4. IMAGES CO-PRESENTATION WITH CINEMATHEQUE >> Yvonne Rainer's A Film About a Woman Who... >> Thursday February 25
5. CARBON COMPUTING SPECIAL OFFER FOR IMAGES FESTIVAL NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS!
6. 2010 INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA CONGRESS >>> Schedule online now
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1. 2010 IMAGES FESTIVAL WEB SITE LAUNCH and TICKET SALES
Mark your calendars!
Festival calendar and detailed programming information for the 23rd annual Images Festival launches Tuesday March 9! www.imagesfestival.com
Advance tickets will be available starting March 10 through our online store. (Visa, MasterCard, American Express or PayPal account) No service charges! Advance tickets for selected events will also be available at Soundscapes and Queen Video starting March 15.
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2. 2010 IMAGES FESTIVAL CALL FOR FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS
Volunteer Orientation Session & Sign-up: Thursday March 11, 6PM
The 23rd annual Images Festival takes place in Toronto from April 1-10, 2010. Like many non-profit organizations, we depend on the support of volunteers. As well as being fun, volunteering can provide you with valuable experience and an opportunity to meet key people in the arts. We are looking for volunteers to help this spring in the following areas:
- Administrative, promotional and development tasks in the office before and during the festival
- Box Office and merchandise sales
- Ushers and ticket takers for screenings and live events
- Distributing posters and catalogues downtown
- Assisting artists with installing and de-installing gallery shows (throughout March and April)
- Decorating, bartending and hosting for parties and receptions
- And more...
Please let us know your special skills!!
As an Images Festival volunteer you will be rewarded with a festival t-shirt plus free access to festival events (screenings, installations, live events, workshops and parties). It is a great opportunity to be involved with a vibrant art scene, see a film festival operate from the inside and help out a dynamic organization.
A Volunteer Orientation Session & Sign-Up will take place March 11, 6PM at VTape, Suite 452, 401 Richmond Street West (just east of Spadina Ave, 1 block south of Queen Street West).
For more information about volunteering, please contact Amy at volunteer @ imagesfestival.com
or fill out the contact form at www.imagesfestival.com
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3. 2010 IMAGES FESTIVAL MEMBERSHIP
In addition to all the amazing benefits of visiting Images Festival events for free, 2010 Images Festival Members are receiving more perks than ever!
We have confirmed more Membership Draw prizes generous sponsors including: Balfour Books, Body Blitz, E1 Entertainment, Fuse Magazine, Harbord House, Hot Docs, imagineNATIVE, Inside Out, LIFT, Moksha Yoga Downtown, Reel Asian, Soundscapes, Steam Whistle Brewing, The Bike Joint, The Music Gallery, This Magazine and YYZ.
And of course, you'll be generously supporting the 23rd Images Festival.
With so many great reason to join, become a member today!
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4. IMAGES CO-PRESENTATION WITH CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
YVONNE RAINER'S A Film About a Woman Who...
Thursday February 25, 9 PM
Jackman Hall, AGO
317 Dundas Street West, McCaul Street Entrance
Film About A Woman Who... (Yvonne Rainer, 1974, 16mm, 105 minutes, USA)
Rated 14A
"Martha Graham and Jean-Luc Godard were as responsible for my leaving the circus as anybody."
--Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer is one of the most significant artists in dance and film of the last fifty years. Having begun her career in the sixties with the late, great Merce Cunningham, Rainer co-founded the innovative Judson Dance Theater that became a nexus of the New York avant-garde and turned to filmmaking in 1972, when both practices became intertwined in a raw, radical way. Equally influenced by the European modernists, Rainer's film work, while displaying bold reworkings of the time's de rigeur film theory (e.g. Apparatus theory), sought above all to defy narrative and spectatorial expectations. Her interest in language play is a salient motif in her filmmaking, especially in her landmark A Film About a Woman Who... which Rainer has referred to as "pre-political." A key text of feminist and avant-garde cinema, the film is a brash meditation on the ambivalence and ineptitude of human communication (and the omnipresence of seduction), using soap operatic clichés while relating a woman's swelling sexual dissatisfaction, which harbours something scary and explosive. Shot in gleaming black and white by Babette Mangolte (Jeanne Dielman, Routine Pleasures), the film's hall of mirrors composition seems to riff off The Rolling Stones' song No Expectations, used here to playful and literal effect.
--Andréa Picard, Cinematheque Ontario
This screening is cross-listed with Cinematheque Ontario's The Way of the Termite series, and is co-presented by The International Experimental Media Congress, taking place April 7-11, 2010 and hosted by The Images Festival. Yvonne Rainer will be presenting the opening keynote talk for the Experimental Media Congress on Wednesday April 7 at 7 PM at the Ontario College of Art & Design. This talk is ticketed and open to the public and will be moderated by John Greyson. For more information please visit www.experimentalcongress.org
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6. 2010 INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA CONGRESS >>
Schedule posted online now!
The first Congress since the storied 1989 Toronto Experimental Film Congress, this gathering will promote ongoing international conversations and provide platforms for creative discussions about the burning issues related to experimental media production, exhibition, dissemination, criticism, pedagogy and reception. Including panels, roundtables, dialogues, international field reports and open forums, the Congress will bring together film, video and new media artists, theorists, archivists and curators from around the world for an intense four days of discussions.
The 2010 International Experimental Media Congress will run April 7-11, 2010 over the last four days of the 23rd Images Festival (April 1-10, 2010) and will take place at the Ontario College of Art and Design (100 McCaul Street) and York University (4700 Keele Street) in Toronto.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION including participants, full schedule, themes, and hotel partners is now available on the Congress website:
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23rd Edition! >>>> 1-10 April 2010 >>>>
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International Experimental Media Congress >>>> 7-11 April 2010
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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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