Action Replay: Closing Night Screenings Performances

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Closing Night brings together a variety of LIVE acts at Workman Arts 651 Dufferin Street, including a scoring of several seminal Joyce Wieland 16mm classics by Montral-based band 10,000 Horses Alexis O’Hara and Stephen Lawson, as well as a special screening of Erik Van Lieshout’s Basement an ode to the cats living below St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum. Walter Scott brings to life his fictional character Wendy, whose dreams of contemporary art stardom are perpetually derailed and Stephanie Comilang re-imagines iconic music videos in Karaoke Karaoke with some very special guests. Stick around afterwards for an epic Images dance party!

Performances include:

Basement

Erik Van Lieshout

NETHERLANDS, 2014, DIGITAL VIDEO, 17 MIN

With wit and persistence Erik van Lieshout reflects on the social- political aspects of museum life and Russian history via the cats who inhabit the basement of St. Peters- burgs storied Hermitage Museum. The resident felines are heirs to a line of cats dating back to the reign of Empress Elizabeth who intro- duced them to museum to control the rodent population. After some ups and downs none survived the siege of Leningrad in World War II the cats are now cared for by museum staff. Basement is the video centre-piece of an installation focused on the animals and those that care for them.

Karaoke Karaoke

Stephanie Comilang special guests

Speaking to the current zeitgeist of YouTube, the freedom of reproduction, pop culture and the mixing together of different forms such as film, video and live performance, Toronto/ Berlin-based Stephanie Comilang, in collaboration with special guest performers, will be re-creating some of her favourite music videos from her formative years. Part live musical performance, part music video direction, Karaoke Karaoke is botha mimic and an ode to the songs and videos that we love.

Wendy Live!

Walter Scott and guests

Everyones favourite art world neurotic Wendy comes to life in this one-time performance by creator Walter Scott. Featuring a cast of English, Japanese and Mohawk- speaking characters with accompa- nying narration animating this limited edition Wendy series, this will be its sneak preview beforeits 2016 North American English- language release.

Joyce Wieland 10,000 Horses

A special new composition created specifically for the Images Festival and co-presented by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre CFMDC. A new live score by 10,000 Horses will accompany the screening of several Joyce Wieland classic films.

Water Sark

CANADA, 1965, 16MM, 13 MIN

Choosing the womens place in the kitchen along with items that were at time traditionally associated with womanhood to make an experimental work of art.

Solidarity

CANADA, 1973, 16MM, 11 MIN

Casting her gaze downward, we identify the masses through their footwear: the childrens feet, the high heels, the loafers, the steady shuffle, all walking together on the soft grass more like the terrain of a county fair or picnic than protest.

Rat Life and Diet in North America

CANADA, 1968, 16MM, 16 MIN

Wieland casts the domestic cat in the role of the powerful captor and the rats as prisoners. Wieland was the grand master of the cat video.

Co-presented with Wavelengths and Canadian Film Distribution Centre CFMDC

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