“One of the most important new voices in both queer and avant-garde cinema, Haddad’s work can alternate between languid and truly abrasive rhythms, often inhabiting a POV that feels truly dangerous in a filmmaking landscape for young directors so encouraging of “niceness”.” – Ethan Vestby, Bleeding Edge
Chris Kennedy is visiting Paris, and we are honored to welcome him to Etna for a special evening in his presence. An independent filmmaker, film programmer, and writer based in Toronto, he is the Executive Director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). His experimental short films have screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide and have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Canadian Film Institute, the Los Angeles Film Forum, the Nam June Paik Art Center, the Semana del Film Experimental de La Plata, and the Pacific Film Archive.
Summer has arrived at Ubuyama-mura. The cuckoo’s cry can be heard reverberating across the landscape of this mountain village. Masae travels from house to house gathering summer songs. She seems to be looking for something.
Dates:
Friday, June 27, 2025 (All day) to Sunday, June 29, 2025 (All day)
In our second program focusing on Gene Youngblood’s 1970 book Expanded Cinema, Lightstruck will focus on artists who – through their visionary use of incredible machines both homemade and hi-tech – produced works that sought to extend and externalize human consciousness in a cinematic form uniting mind, heart, spirit, and soul.
The Innerview + ScreenTalk & Book Launch Event with archivist Ross Lipman and film scholar Elena Gorfinkel Thu 3 Jul 2025, 18:20, Barbican Cinema 3
A newly restored screening of Richard Beymer’s trippy 1960s lost film, followed by a ScreenTalk and book launch event for Ross Lipman's latest work: The Archival Impermanence Project.
BETWEEN US - INTIMACY AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY CHRISTIAN FLEMM Friday, June 27, 2025, at 8:00 PM at Espace En Cours, 56 rue de la Réunion, Paris 20th arrondissement Buzenval, Avron, A. Dumas metro station
Christian Flemm is invited to Espace en Cours to present his first and latest 16mm films alongside film works intertwined with his practice as a teacher and film restorer.
Join us for Images Festival's 38th Birthday Party!
Thursday, June 26th 7-10pm | Space Unltd, 1213 Bathurst St, Toronto | $5-$15 ENTRY
This year, we invited 20 artists & filmmakers to create 3 original polaroids to sell at our birthday party! 100% of all sales will support our programs and operations! Don't miss your chance to catch these super affordable original works at only $120 per polaroid!
Microscope is very pleased to present a screening of works by New York-based video-maker, curator and writer Kathy Brew. The event, both in person and online, features six of Brew’s videos made between 1990 and 2018, concluding with a Q&A with the artist.
The 61st edition of the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro, Italy, will feature the screening-performance of Trois couches ne suffisent pas (Additive Trichromy for 3 Projectors) by Guy Fihman (1977–1979, 50'), on June 21 at 3:30 p.m.
