A Toronto premiere
We are proud to show two of Pierre Huyghe’s films in conjunction with the presentation of his sculpture Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) during the Luminato Festival. Untilled will be on view for the first time since its acquisition by the AGO from June 10 to 26 at the Hearn Generating Station.
Recorded: Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Marvin Gelber Print & Drawing Study Centre
79 minutes,
black-and-white and colour, sound, 16mm.
Presented by Bruce Elder
"The Hart of London (1970) extends Chambers concerns with light, time, perception and the relation of the visible to Vision. It is a sprawling work that conjoins the public and the personal, history and memory, man and nature, self and other." - R. Bruce Elder.
To those familiar with Ben Rivers' work, the opening shot of Two Years at Sea – the back of a long-haired man with a backpack trudging through a grainy widescreen winter landscape – comes as no surprise, and indeed we soon recognize the man and his environs from Rivers' 2006 film This is My Land.
Calling attention to systems through which we construct our sense of geospatial and spectatorial positioning, works in this program navigate considerations of the experience and representation of space.
Jackie Goss
From surveillance videos, to a photojournalist’s personal archive, the works in this program use collections of images to examine the process of looking. Implicit in this process is the question of where truth lies in an image, a question that is fraught with the complexities of memory, the position of the artist, their subject and the viewer.
To celebrate 25 years of Images programming, we're looking back to the last weekend of June 1988. For four nights, the festival took over the Factory theatre and presented four programs with 51 films and videos by artists from across Canada. To help explore the origins of the Images Festival, we've invited founding board members and programmers to select and talk about the work from the first festival that had the most impact for them.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in athletes (and others) with a history of repetitive brain trauma. The condition has been known to affect boxers since the 1920s and since then has been diagnosed in football players and other individuals who are subject to frequent concussions. The resulting degeneration of the brain tissues can eventually cause memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and eventually, progressive dementia.
