9 Player

David Howlett

Autoritratto

Federica Foglia

Expatriate Dreamer

Yihao Zheng

Орбита (Orbita)

Udval Altangerel

from here

Programmed by Roxanne Fernandes

May 20–June 2, 2021

View the program at www.vucavu.com

Monday, May 24, 2021 | 6:00PM–7:00PM

View the Live-Stream at www.imagesfestival.com

This program will be followed by a Q&A.

In this selection of student works, the idea of new futures through imaginative narratives and archival ruminations are explored. Dabbling in science fiction and dream states but remaining grounded in the playful possibilities of the “now,” these films ask us to consider what we know about ourselves and to renegotiate what that means. 

Built as a fictional chronology, the program’s opening introduces us to a world reflected through expansive interpretations of the past and futures beyond us. Here, we are confronted with the idea of home and the necessary acts of moving, changing, and dreaming that accompany it. The place that was and is ever-changing. 

Ensuing, from here presents notions of (im)migration—building it up through a lens of futurity—and questions how we process, commit to, and abandon feelings of personal and national identity. In an effort to find this idea of a home on the Earth we know, within the post-Anthropocene or beyond the confounds of time and space, we must also ask: What do we sacrifice and who do we become in order to achieve home, security, and love?

Curated by
David Howlett, Federica Foglia, Yihao Zheng, Udval Altangerel, Zuhaitz Silva García, Blanca Martín Secades, Jaime Sánchez Camacho, Pedro Muñoz-Calero Franco, Noncedo Khumalo
Date / Time
May 20, 2021–
June 2, 2021
6:00PM – 7:30PM EDT

(ARTISTS)

David Howlett, Federica Foglia, Yihao Zheng, Udval Altangerel
Presented With:

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.