Images Festival | we felt our cells tumble, cluster, and creep

In dialogue with her most recent film, The world was always full of us, Anouk Vervier presents a new performance work. Anouk explores issues of the exhaustion of female and non-binary bodies, and aims to prefigure possible practices of care, kinship, and resistance.

Anouk Vervier performing we felt our cells tumble, cluster, and creep as a part of the 2026 Images Festival.

This program is presented with our Partner Le Labo.

Please note that latecomers will not be permitted.

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.

we felt our cells tumble, cluster, and creep

we felt our cells tumble, cluster, and creep

we felt our cells tumble, cluster, and creep

we felt our cells tumble, cluster, and creep

we felt our cells tumble, cluster, and creep

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