Nour Bishouty, 2023 Images Festival trailer, digital video, 2023 (Video still courtesy of the artist)
Toronto's Images Festival, a platform for independent film and media art, has announced its program lineup.
The festival, which runs from April 13 to April 26, opens with the world premiere of Wonwoo Kim's film, So To Speak, Light, which explores themes of light, photography and family resemblance.
The festival includes Piecework, an exhibition of textiles by artists Alice Olsen Williams, Alicia Barbeiri, Colleen Heslin, Hangama Amiri, Jagdeep Raina, Jeremy Laing, Joyce Wieland, Judith Tinkl, Moraa Stump and Preston Pavlis. It opens April 1 at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in nearby Oshawa.
Meanwhile, bringing to light what came from inside, a joint exhibition by Sheri Osden Nault and Samay Arcentales Cajas that explores the circular nature of time, can be seen at Charles Street Video beginning April 13.
Starting April 22, the Franz Kaka Gallery will present Ayam Yaldo, whose multidisciplinary work explores the formation of identity and subjectivity in relation to larger historical narratives.
This year's program, which includes some 115 artists, 100 films and six multidisciplinary exhibitions, is guest-curated by Emma Steen, Helen Lee, Nasrin Himada, Nora Rosenthal, Sarah Edo, Samay Arcentales Cajas, Tyisha Murphy, Yasmin Nurming-Por and Jaclyn Quaresma.
Source: Images Festival