NORTHERN VISIONS INDEPENDENT VIDEO AND FILM ASSOCIATION
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Mission Statement
mages Festival is an artist driven festival that expands traditional definitions and understandings of media art by experimenting with a multiplicity of artistic forms. We value artistic work that challenges norms, takes risks, and is rigorous in form and content. Our programs interrogate the conditions of contemporary moving image culture. We provide a forum to develop critical engagement between Canadian and international artists, audiences, and institutions.
About This Cause
Images Festival is one of the most enduring and respected platforms in the world for the exhibition and discourse of independent film and media art. Created in 1987 as an alternative to the only other Toronto film festival at the time, Images has spent the last 32 years presenting media works that are challenging in their form and content. Images showcases the intersection of emerging and established practices and invites open critical dialogue in the film and media arts community around the political herstories of moving image production, distribution, exhibition, and representation. The festival includes screenings, exhibitions, performances, events, and educational initiatives, and is attended annually by more than 30,000 people. WHAT WE DO ON Screen: In-cinema presentations of the best in single-channel media art from around the world OFF Screen: Dynamic, engaging gallery installations by world-class emerging and established artists LIVE: Captivating performances, insightful keynote lectures, and convivial parties EDUCATION: Images Festival Research Forum, seminars, workshops and artists talks that explore and elucidate the deeper meanings and broader implications of our programming YEAR ROUND: Touring programmes, special projects, and meaningful co-presentations with like-minded organizations across Ontario, Canada and internationally. WHAT WE VALUE Artistic Integrity: Images is an artist driven organization that champions the work of independent artists. We provide artists with a supportive forum in which to present their work and make professional connections with the media arts community. Community Building: Images collaborates with a diverse range of organizations, locally, across Canada and abroad, and we prioritize building relationships with organizations and communities that respect our values and share our vision. Diverse: Images aims to produce a festival that has an inclusive scope and is reflective of our diverse communities. We define the dimensions of “diversity” broadly to respect age, class, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, geography, indigeneity, people with disabilities, professional context, race, religion, sexuality, sexual orientation, and statehood. Professional: Images endeavours to be professional, transparent, and accountable in our management and decision-making. We operate with integrity in our dealings. We pay fees to all artists, curators, and researchers fees in accordance with fee schedules annually updated by CARFAC and IMAA. Respectful: Respecting physical and emotional boundaries, we do not accept oppressive behaviour, harassment, destructive or exclusionary actions. Images Festival insists that everyone who uses the spaces remains mindful of, and takes responsibility for, their speech and behaviour. We embrace respect and concern for the free expression of others, but will not tolerate words or actions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist, classist, transphobic, cissexist, or ableist. Socially and Politically Responsive: Images is responsive to the current political climate, and we encourage our staff, audiences and artists to engage in complex conversations.