Trailer by Yuula Benivolski

Every year, Images Festival commissions an artist to create a trailer for the festival, which is screened prior to all in-cinema programs. The 39th edition trailer was created by artist and filmmaker Yuula Benivolski.

Yuula Benivolski (b. 1980, Moscow) is an artist and filmmaker working with 16mm film, video, photography and projection. She constructs auto-fictional narratives through forensic explorations of landscapes and their corresponding archives, to examine how major historical events are remembered and portrayed by those who witnessed them.

Most recently, her work has been shown at e-flux Screening Room (2023), San Francisco Cinematheque (2024), DOXA Documentary Film Festival (2025), Millennium Film Workshop (2025), DIFFUSION Film Festival (2025), and the Barbican Centre (2026). She is currently completing her first feature, titled The Black Box is Orange.

Every year, Images Festival commissions an artist to create a trailer for the festival, which is screened prior to all in-cinema programs. The 39th edition trailer was created by artist and filmmaker Yuula Benivolski.

Yuula Benivolski (b. 1980, Moscow) is an artist and filmmaker working with 16mm film, video, photography and projection. She constructs auto-fictional narratives through forensic explorations of landscapes and their corresponding archives, to examine how major historical events are remembered and portrayed by those who witnessed them.

Most recently, her work has been shown at e-flux Screening Room (2023), San Francisco Cinematheque (2024), DOXA Documentary Film Festival (2025), Millennium Film Workshop (2025), DIFFUSION Film Festival (2025), and the Barbican Centre (2026). She is currently completing her first feature, titled The Black Box is Orange.

Every year, Images Festival commissions an artist to create a trailer for the festival, which is screened prior to all in-cinema programs. The 39th edition trailer was created by artist and filmmaker Yuula Benivolski.

Yuula Benivolski (b. 1980, Moscow) is an artist and filmmaker working with 16mm film, video, photography and projection. She constructs auto-fictional narratives through forensic explorations of landscapes and their corresponding archives, to examine how major historical events are remembered and portrayed by those who witnessed them.

Most recently, her work has been shown at e-flux Screening Room (2023), San Francisco Cinematheque (2024), DOXA Documentary Film Festival (2025), Millennium Film Workshop (2025), DIFFUSION Film Festival (2025), and the Barbican Centre (2026). She is currently completing her first feature, titled The Black Box is Orange.

Every year, Images Festival commissions an artist to create a trailer for the festival, which is screened prior to all in-cinema programs. The 39th edition trailer was created by artist and filmmaker Yuula Benivolski.

Yuula Benivolski (b. 1980, Moscow) is an artist and filmmaker working with 16mm film, video, photography and projection. She constructs auto-fictional narratives through forensic explorations of landscapes and their corresponding archives, to examine how major historical events are remembered and portrayed by those who witnessed them.

Most recently, her work has been shown at e-flux Screening Room (2023), San Francisco Cinematheque (2024), DOXA Documentary Film Festival (2025), Millennium Film Workshop (2025), DIFFUSION Film Festival (2025), and the Barbican Centre (2026). She is currently completing her first feature, titled The Black Box is Orange.

Every year, Images Festival commissions an artist to create a trailer for the festival, which is screened prior to all in-cinema programs. The 39th edition trailer was created by artist and filmmaker Yuula Benivolski.

Yuula Benivolski (b. 1980, Moscow) is an artist and filmmaker working with 16mm film, video, photography and projection. She constructs auto-fictional narratives through forensic explorations of landscapes and their corresponding archives, to examine how major historical events are remembered and portrayed by those who witnessed them.

Most recently, her work has been shown at e-flux Screening Room (2023), San Francisco Cinematheque (2024), DOXA Documentary Film Festival (2025), Millennium Film Workshop (2025), DIFFUSION Film Festival (2025), and the Barbican Centre (2026). She is currently completing her first feature, titled The Black Box is Orange.

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Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.