TORONTO - The Images Festival is pleased make the
first official announcement about this year's 25th anniversary
festival by announcing their Closing Night Gala. The evening features
the Canadian premiere screening of The Sounds of Science
alongside an original soundtrack composed and performed live by Yo La
Tengo. These classic vintage science films will be presented in gorgeous
35mm archival prints. Tickets are $25 advance ($30 door) and are available now
online at the Images Festival online store. Additional tickets
will be available as of Wednesday at Rotate
This and Soundscapes.
The Images Festival's 25th anniversary
edition festival begins on April 12, 2012 in downtown Toronto. The Closing
Night Gala will be held at Toronto Undergound Cinema (186 Spadina
Avenue) on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Full festival programming will be
unveiled March 22 at a press conference event.
A day in the life of the sea urchin. Jellyfish and
seahorses giving birth. The love life of the octopus. These are the scenarios
we encounter in the films of Jean Painlevé (1902-89), the legendary
French avant-garde filmmaker who - long before Jacques Cousteau - became
obsessed with life under the sea. Famously declaring "science is
fiction," Painlevé courted controversy in the 1920s and '30s by
unabashedly anthropomorphizing his aquatic subjects in his scientific-poetic
cinema.
In 2001, the San Francisco Film Festival presented
a series of Painlevé's classic films, with a live score commissioned by
American indie-pop icons, Yo La Tengo. An instrumental departure from the
trio's usual sound, The Sounds of Science explores ambient post-rock
territory reminiscent of Tortoise and the Chicago scene - with occasional
forays into funked-up free-jazz - that beautifully transport the viewer and
listener into the alien world beneath the waves.
Opening the evening will be a performance by
Toronto-based soul-pop singer/songwriter and film curator, Chris
Cummings a.k.a. Mantler, and The tide goes, in the tide goes out
by Larissa Fan, a hand-processed black and white ode to the secret world of
moon jellyfish (aurelia aurita).
Images Festival Closing Gala (25th
anniversary festival)
Saturday April 21, 2012 8 p.m.
Canadian Premiere -
The Sounds of Science w/live soundtrack by Yo
La Tengo
Toronto Underground
Cinema (186 Spadina Avenue)
Films by Jean
Painlevé, France, 1929-65, 35mm
With special guest,
Mantler + film by Larissa Fan
Tickets: $25 adv
@Rotate This/Soundscapes and www.imagesfestival.com
$30/door,
$15/members/students/seniors
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