Images of Nature, or The Nature of the Image: Canadian Artists at Work
Wednesday March 23, 19h
TIFF Bell Lightbox
Reitman Square, 350 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3X5

Spanning four decades of Canadian experimental cinema, this programme is comprised of work visually and viscerally engaged with the natural world. Made by artists from or living in Canada, these films employ an array of aesthetic strategies and image technologies to depict and comment on “nature” while simultaneously exploring the nature of the cinematic image. Some investigate the natural world with increasing intensity and proximity, others explore the animal and the animated with ironic distance. With passion, intensity and even some humour, these Canadian film artists offer us provocative visions of our planet while exhilarating us with their cinematic ingenuity.

Curated by Irina Leimbacher. Irina Leimbacher is a curator and scholar. Formerly Artistic Director of the San Francisco Cinematheque, she currently teaches in the Film Department at Keene State College, New Hampshire.

Programme:
- Light Magic (Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Canada 2001, 3 min., 16mm)
- View of the Falls from the Canadian Side (John Price, Canada 2006, 7 min., 35mm)
- Migration (David Rimmer, Canada 1969, 11 min., 16mm)
- Notes in Origin (Ellie Epp, Canada 1987, 17 min., 16mm)
- Plein Air (Richard Kerr, Canada 1991, 20 min. |16mm)
- Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daïchi Saïto, Canada 2009, 10 min., 35mm)
- Beauty Plus Pity (Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Canada 2009, 14 min., Video)

Please note that the screening date and time for Images of Nature, or The Nature of the Image: Canadian Artists at Work is incorrect in 180°, the TIFF Bell Lightbox programme guide.