Critical Writing Index

The Festival That Rocks: Toronto's Images Festival of Independent Film and Video Revels in the Truly Alternative

by Barbara Mainguy

The Independent, July 1997, pp. 18, 19

Barbara Mainguy speaks to festival director Deirdre Louge about how the Tenth annual Images Festival has risked a "fundamental shift in vision" programming risk-taking and experimental video and film that acts "like a war cry of independents." Highlights of the festival include Steve Reinke's award winning Everybody Loves Nothing and a 40 hour screening of Bruce Elder's The Book of the Dead.

ITEM 1997.122 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Hardwood Process – David Gatten

Straighten Up – Susan Terrill

The Book of the Dead – Bruce Elder

Slave 13 – Koh Yamamoto

October 25th & 26th – Kika Thorne

Everybody Loves Nothing – Steve Reinke

Snake Feed – Deborah Granick

Lost Book Found – Jem Cohen

Tiny Bubbles – Bo Myers

Under the Skin Game – Diane Nerwin

Chronic – Jennifer Reeves

The Front Seat – Barbara Mainguy