Presented with the support of Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) as a Community Partner
@ Images Festival
Monday April 18, 9PM
Jackman Hall
317 Dundas Street West
McCaul Street entrance
Pay What You Can
Guest curated by Amir George and Erin Christovale
FREE ARTIST TALK with the curators on Tuesday, April 19, 4PM at OCAD University (Mediatheque Room 284, 100 McCaul St)
Black Radical Imagination is an internationally touring program of short films stemmed from discussions around the boundaries historically given to people of color in cinema. The 4th program makes its world premiere at Images Festival and focuses on futurism, surrealism, and the magnificent through in cinema.
4 World Premiers!
Reifying Desire 5
Jacolby Satterwhite,
USA, 2013, Digital Video, 8 MIN
A queering of the artist’s mother\’s fantastical re-imaginings of culturally proscribed self-care products as well as art historical representations of black female sexuality, an alternative, utopian space for performance is generated and rendered into collective existence.
The Golden Chain
Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels
USA, 2015, Digital Video, 13 MIN
In the distance future, a Nigerian space station in a remote corner of the galaxy orbits an artificial pinpoint of matter so dense it cannot exist in our solar system. It is a recreation of the birth of the universe itself and overseen by Yetunde, sole crew member on the space station Eko.
Get the Bones from 88 Jones
Lauren Kelley
USA, 2007, Digital video, 7 MIN
An anti-love story, this stop motion animation looks at the disposable nature of intimate relationships. Scrutinizing the gestures that occur between an invisible librarian and a capricious peacock, the familiar predator and prey narrative is liquefied.
Ditch Plains
Loretta Fahrenholz
GERMANY, 2013, Digital Video, 29 MIN
Re-imagining an End of Days street party while freestyling an abstract narrative about the fatal coupling of subjects and systems under conditions of permanent crisis. Shot in the East New York section of Brooklyn around the time of Hurricane Sandy.