Images Festival Newsletter >> March 4, 2010
1. 2010 IMAGES LAUNCHES WEB SITE, CATALOGUE & 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 >> Time and Essence: The Preserved Films of Coleen Fitzgibbon >> Thursday March 11
5. IMAGES CO-PRESENTATION WITH THE POWER PLANT >> Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men >> Saturday March 27
6. CALL FOR BILLETS FOR 2010 IMAGES
7. LIFT FILM AND DIGITAL WORKSHOPS
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1. 2010 IMAGES FESTIVAL WEB SITE, CATALOGUE LAUNCH and TICKET SALES
Mark your calendars!
Join us at the Gladstone Hotel for our Catalogue Launch Party!
Tuesday March 9 from 6PM
1214 Queen Street West
Festival calendar and detailed programming information for the 23rd annual Images Festival launches! 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 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
Join before March 20 and have the 2010 catalogue mailed to your home!
Your choice of three levels of membership can give you all the benefits you want and love. Transferable free vouchers for On Screen and Live Event tickets! Free entry at Pay What You Can events by showing your card! Our 2010 Preferred Box Office includes an even larger block of tickets for members!
In addition to all the amazing benefits of visiting Images Festival events for free, 2010 Images Festival Members are receiving more perks than ever! More Membership Draw prizes from 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 reasons to join, become a member today!
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4. IMAGES CO-PRESENTATION WITH CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
Time and Essence: The Preserved Films of Coleen Fitzgibbon
Thursday March 11, 7PM
Jackman Hall, AGO
317 Dundas Street West, McCaul Street Entrance
COLEEN FITZGIBBON IN PERSON!
At last, the rediscovered and preserved films of American experimental filmmaker Coleen Fitzgibbon are wending their way north of the border following a two-year string of successful screenings in the U.S. Thanks to the efforts of the artist, in conjunction with filmmaker and preservationist Sandra Gibson, this exceptional body of work is being rediscovered by a new generation and, fortunately for us, in near-pristine prints which showcase the vibrancy of the work's rigour and colour palette. Having studied with Owen Land and Stan Brakhage at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fitzgibbon belongs to the so-called second wave of Structuralist cinema. The films shown in this programme were all made within an intensive period from 1973-75 and demonstrate Fitzgibbon's meticulous, even mathematical approach to image dissolution and disintegration, a tenet in line with the Minimalism of the day. Found Film Flashes and Time (which was recently included in MoMA's "Looking at Music" exhibition) both use frame manipulation to rapturous effect. FM/TRCS is a molten work of abstraction that uses the subject of a woman's domestic activities to explore the textures of the medium, as well as the threshold of both imagery and perception. Building up and sundering away in a sculpture-like process, the film's abstract globules and buzzing soundtrack conspire in its entrancing mood. Internal Systems is a vast, yet minimalist study of the monochromatic frame, a sort of sublime systematic testing of film's internal logic, its emulsive permutations and light sensitivities. The programme concludes with a lovely tribute by her friend Saul Levine. --Andrea Picard, Cinematheque Ontario
Found Film Flashes (Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1973, USA, 3.25 min, 16mm)
FM/TRCS (Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1974, USA, 11 min, 16mm)
Time (Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1975, USA, 8 min, 16mm)
Internal Systems (Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1974/75, USA, 45 min, 16mm)
Note to Colleen (Saul Levine, 1974, USA, 5 min, 16mm)
This screening is co-presented by The International Experimental Media Congress, taking place April 7-11, 2010 and hosted by The Images Festival. For more information please visit http://www.experimentalcongress.org
Director Coleen Fitzgibbon will join us to introduce our presentation of these films. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A.
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5. IMAGES CO-PRESENTATION WITH THE POWER PLANT
Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men
Saturday March 27, 7PM
The Royal
608 College Street
Women Without Men expands the New-York based artist's widely acclaimed photography and video practice to the big screen. The film adapts Shahrnush Parsipur's 1990 novella of the same name and is set against the backdrop of the politically tumultuous early 1950s in Iran. Neshat creates a multifaceted narrative detailing the harrowing experiences of five Tehran women from all walks of life. The artist captures each woman's struggles for independence with a sumptuous and potent visual language while examining the 1953 British and American-backed coup, which supplanted Iran's democratically elected government with a monarchy. Women Without Men won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2009 Venice film festival.
This event is a joint benefit for The Images Festival and The Power Plant, who have collaborated on several successful projects over the years including Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's Zidane and Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9.
Images Festival Director Scott Miller Berry says "The Images Festival is thrilled to be working with The Power Plant and Mongrel Media to present the Toronto theatrical premiere of Women Without Men. We are honoured to again be working with Shirin Neshat and to have her in person to host a unique evening with her beautiful film."
The Images Festival and The Power Plant and extend thanks to Mongrel Media. Women Without Men opens theatrically in Toronto Friday April 2.
Women Without Men/Zanan bedoone mardan
(2009, Germany/Austria/France, 97 minutes, 35mm) 14A
With Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shabnam Tolouei, Orsi Toth, Bijan Daneshmand and Shahrnush Parsipur.
Written and Directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari.
Based on the novella by Shahrnush Parsipur.
For further information
Women Without Men trailer
Ticketing Information
$15 advance tickets, $18 at the door
Advance tickets available now at www.imagesfestival.com/store or in person at Queen Video (Cash, Credit or Debit, 412 Queen West), Soundscapes (Cash only, 572 College) and The Power Plant (cash only). Same-day tickets available at The Royal from 6:30 PM (cash only).
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6. THE ARTISTS ARE COMING! THE ARTISTS ARE COMING!
CALL FOR BILLETS
Don't miss your chance to cozy up with wonderful contributors to the 2010 Images Festival.
We're looking for people with gracious hosting skills-- those with a space to spare like a spare room, a futon or blow up mattress, an extra house key and a quickly-drawn map at just the right moment. We've got a whole line-up of creative, sweet, and wonderful guests on their way to Toronto...
Be a host, share your incredible warmth by opening your front door and help us make our 2010 guests feel welcome this year between April 1st and 10th. (Dates variable).
Your generosity means the world to us and even more to our guests. Nothing freshens your perspective on this city like an out-of-town guest!
Plus we've got some tickets, t-shirts, tote bags and assorted goodies for our hosting friends.
Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you.
Please drop Carly a line to let us know if you're able to host!
print.traffic at imagesfestival.com
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7. Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
MARCH 2010 FILM AND DIGITAL WORKSHOPS
LIFT is Canada's foremost artist-run centre for independent filmmakers. We have over 45 workshops this season on Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and HD filmmaking. Winter 2010 special focus: 8mm and 35mm
Winter Season Registration continues at our new facility located at 1137 Dupont Street
(at Gladstone Avenue), Toronto ON
MARCH WORKSHOPS INCLUDE: Intro to the 35mm Animation Stand, Music Composition with Bob Wiseman, Film and Video Installation Design, Documentary Field Production, Black and White Still Photography and Darkroom Processing, The Bolex 16mm Camera, HD Production with the EX1, Intro to DVD Studio Pro 4 ... and many more!
DATE CHANGE: Regular 8mm Film Festival with JOHN KNELLER – Now starts Sunday, March 21st
Register Early, Space is limited! View the complete workshop schedule online at
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THE IMAGES FESTIVAL
448-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8 CANADA
+1 (416) 971 8405 telephone
+1 (416) 971 7412 facsimile
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 support from the following public sector supporters:
The Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Arts Council, Telefilm Canada, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, the Hal Jackman Foundation, the Ontario Ministry of Culture, the National Film Board of Canada, the Goethe-Institut Toronto, the Embassy of the Netherlands, the Mondriaan Foundation and the Consulat Général de France à Toronto.
Special thanks to our 2010 corporate partners:
VIA Rail Canada, EYE WEEKLY, The Globe and Mail, Steam Whistle Brewing, Xtra! Magazine, The Gladstone Hotel, the Super 8 Hotel Downtown Toronto, Westbury National Show Systems, AutoShare, Deluxe, Toronto Film and Television Office, DHL Canada, Kodak Canada, CIUT FM, Pelee Island Winery, Exclusive Film and Video, Beehive Design, Twig Design, The Lakeview and Bar One.
Thank you to our Community, Gallery and hospitality partners, our dedicated volunteers and enthusiastic membership!
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