SAFE KEEPING: Vtape and the artists whose works live in our care

Leaky Gardens

Blue I

Blind Ambition

El Lado Quieto

Piecework

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG)

Film still showing a glitchy image of a person's face with harsh light and shadows on their face, on a dark background

A Woman Escapes

TIFF Lightbox 

Six people stand in a semicircle with a seventh person in the middle. They are surrounded by trees and grass with the sun setting behind them.

bringing to light what came from inside

Charles Street Video (CSV)

The Density of Dust

Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space

Distance Studies 

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

a dream, a mountain, a ruin

Innis Town Hall

What Colour is Goodbye

Women Minor Speculations

film still showing a floral super imposed abstract image on a black background 

Just Below My Loves / En Bas Mes Amours 

Laboratoire d'art  Le Labo Inc

Leakier Gardens

AiR: Alize Zorlutuna 

An Accumulation of Signs

For Business Nor Pleasure

AiR: Nour Bishouty

Leakier Gardens II

For All Things Spoken and Unwritten

Notes for a Guest Book

AiR: Eve Tagny

Parables for the Future Sun

scores for failed structures of the private

Together May We Find Plenty  

Open Call: Submissions for 2025 Festival

Parastoo Anoushahpour: Artist-in-Residence at Ace Hotel

A group of people sitting on bleachers viewing a rocket launch at night, while men stand on a wall above the group painting over the flags of countries. 

Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts 

Man, seen from the bust upwards, lit by warm sunlight gazing downwards, his right hand gently supporting his face. 

Pre-Opening: Man in Black

Café.jpg

thinking about forever 

Critical Distance Centre for Curators

OPENING NIGHT! La noche eterna (The Eternal Night) 

Opening Party: Ana Luisa at The Embassy

A lush green mountain side captured on a grey day, fog at the top of the mountain. There are red lush trees superimposed towards the bottom of the image. 

Measured by Some in Seasons

Landscape of mountains with aqua intertitles that read “[they tried] writing us into stillness into silence.” There is a black rectangle on the edge of the frame indicating a perforation from the film scan.

A Tyrant’s Fear of Songs

a city in pursuit

5 hand drawn fish speckled coloured purple, blue and red. They float against a black background with yellow spots placed throughout. 

A Little More Connected

A dark-skinned man gazes at the camera, his chin resting on his hands resting atop sandbags. He wears a short sleeved green shirt. Behind him is military equipment facing the background. There is a shoreline in the background and a hazy sun.

The Dream

dreamworlds

CodeNames II by Maryam Tafakory

Close-up of a person wearing a yellow chemise, their face slightly out of frame. They have their arms crossed over their chest. There are purple subtitles that read “understanding you.”

Physical Rehearsal - Our bodies’ identities through narratives

Black and white film still of a field, on the left a large sign that reads “Danger do not proceed without special authority”. There is a person in the foreground looking at a group of people wearing safety vests behind the sign.

Out of this World

Mercer Union

Free Artist Talk! fORUM: Danielle Dean

A large green field with two people standing in the foreground, their backs facing the viewer. A white train passes in the background. 

To look and to loiter: Shafāfiyyāh and A Thousand-Year Stage

Close-up of four red roses, one of which has all petals removed revealing its core. The background is green and lush. 

Viento del este (East Wind) 

Close-up of a roll of 35mm film, perforations on the edges, weaving maneuvered by a hair of hands through rollers.

The image is not going to speak for itself

Voyage of Jeanette

Group of people standing in front of a green screen participating in various activities; conversing, looking at a tv screen, laptop and sheets of paper. 

Post Growth Toolkit

A wide shot showing a person in the foreground wearing a mirror mask and a grey jumpsuit standing in a green landscape.

menaced hierarchies: an audio described screening of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s Oriana and Lananh Chu’s Creases of Time

Diana in front of a DJ booth lit in dim red light holding a 12" record. She wears a black tank top and headphones around her neck.

Closing Party: Automaticamore at Ace Hotel Evangeline

Composting the Shit with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Burial of This Order​

Gallery TPW

ultrablue* (cancelled)

Toronto Palestine Film Festival Co-Presentation: A Fidai Film 

Toronto Palestine Film Festival Co-Presentation: R21 Aka Restoring Solidarity

Svetlana Romanova: Voyage of Jeanette

Planet in Focus Co-Presentation: Knit's island

Feminist Archival Futures Co-Presentation: Fantasy/Memory/Media

Vtape

Reel Asian Film Festival Co-Presentation: COLLIDERS

Feminist Archival Futures Co-Presentation: Club Classics

This Could Be You: 15 Years of Zeesy Powers

A Smile Split by the Stars

Gallery 44

Opening Reception: Never One Thing Alone

Opening Party: ESCOBUTT

Never One Thing Alone

Long Time Here

nowhere close to halfway

Passage of the Spiral

One Image, Two Acts

4 Waters – Deep Implicancy 

Serpent Rain

Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum

Suneil Sanzgiri: An Impossible Address

A Thousand Landscapes

I didn’t hear the wind echo 

Student Mixer

Entangled for the First Time 

Graphic with white serif text in white that reads “Am I Am I not Am I I am you Am I not I am Am I I am In Whose Am I” which is displayed on top of a dark grey solid background. 

Performance: A Smile Split by the Stars

Conversation Curatoriale avec Le Comite Camelia / Curatorial Talk: The Camelia Committee (French Language)

Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims

A slightly out-of-focus shot of a pair of legs mid-air.

A Thousand Bodies

Door Prize

A person is seated in the backseat of a vehicle. Their attire consists of a white robe or jacket, paired with a delicate white birdcage veil that drapes over their hair and face. 

Filters

Upcoming Events

Past Lovers: An Images Festival Fundraiser

Past Events

Reel Asian Film Festival Co-Presentation: UNQUENCHABLE

Kunstnernes Hus Co-Presentation: A Thousand Bodies

Flash Sale! Images Festival's 38th Birthday Party Fundraiser

But this is the language we met in

Burial for a Hungry Ghost

LIFT Facility Tour (RSVP Required)

Talk & Tour: This Could Be You: 15 Years of Zeesy Powers

Closing Party: MANO & CineCycle

Conversation Curatoriale avec Le Comite Camelia / Curatorial Talk: The Camelia Committee (French Language)

Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims

A Thousand Bodies