Program Details
Images Festival 2026, Toronto
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April 09-13, 2026
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Catalogue designed by Osman Bari, cover by Yuula Benivolski
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Trailers by Yuula Benivolski
Considering experimental moving images as a part of broader cultural, ecological, political, and spiritual systems, the theme Metabolizing Moving Images asks what the gut has to do with it. What does a moving image require of a body? Where might it linger within us? When we invite moving images into our sightlines, do we also invite them into our nervous system, our memory, our grief, our lineages, our dreams? Might they leak or seep beyond the body? And how do they circulate between media, bodies, and worlds? Do they generate energy? When do they nourish? Act as poison? What is their shelf life, half-life? Do they have an afterlife? And once they have entered a body, do they ever truly exit?
The films, videos, and performances that make up the 39th Edition of Images Festival address just how moving images are metabolized, and where the sites of that metabolization might be.
Jaclyn Quaresma 