Metro Cinema Society: Images Across Canada: 25th Anniversary Tour

Images Across Canada: 25th Anniversary Tour

Established in 1987, the Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen. Images has presented thousands of vanguard media-based projects in its 24-year history and is committed to an expanded concept of film and video practice. Images provides audiences with an annual extravaganza of contemporary moving image culture.

Radical Recess: Avant-Garde Films for Children!

Director: Various

Canada, 35 min, 16mm

Aug 6 (2012) @ 2pm

Inspired by the Courtisane Festival's Baby Matinee, _Radical Recess_ attempts to engage children with experimental film and contemporary art, demonstrating that they can have even more radical tastes than their parents! Playful, colourful and lyrical, the films provide a feast... view more

Images Across Canada: A Letter to the Living

Director: Various

Canada, 66 min, Digital & 16mm

Aug 7 (2012) @ 7pm

Reflections on states of being and ending. Working with the real, the imagined and the remembered, the artists in this program address death in both literal and figurative ways. Films by: Elisabeth Smolarz, Evan Meaney, Travis Shilling, JB Mabe, Robert Schaller,... view more