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FESTIVAL’S WAVELENGTHS PROGRAMME CELEBRATES INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION IN FILM AND VIDEO WITH A LINEUP OF ART WORLD NOTABLES, MASTER FILMMAKERS AND EMERGING LOCAL ARTISTS

Including works by Tacita Dean, Rose Lowder, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, James Benning, Nathaniel Dorsky, Mark Lewis and Ben Rivers

Toronto – Wavelengths, the Toronto International Film Festival®’s curated presentation of the best in international avant-garde film and video, presents five programmes featuring works from seminal figures from the art world including Mark Lewis, Ben Rivers and Tacita Dean, whose Edwin Parker will screen exclusively at the Festival in honour of the late Cy Twombly. The lineup features works by master filmmakers, including Rose Lowder, James Benning, Nathaniel Dorsky and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Canada’s own Joyce Wieland and a strong local showing of burgeoning talent offer a distinctly Toronto perspective, with works by Chris Kennedy, John Price, Blake Williams and Joshua Bonnetta, and a co-presentation with Toronto’s longstanding Wavelength music series. Finally, Wavelengths meets Wavelength!

“The works in this year’s Wavelengths programme are as timely as ever and point to the present as a crucial time of transition. While the death knell for film has been sounding for ages, its obsolescence can no longer be ignored by film artists whose preferred media (16mm, Kodachrome) are disappearing and no longer available to them,” says TIFF Curator Andréa Picard. “As such, there’s a distinctly elegiac tone to this year’s programme, but the laments are matched by a sense of celebration, renewal and regeneration. The lineup includes documentaries, thrilling abstractions, lyrical travelogues and a collaborative projector and sound performance, all of which emphasize film and video’s vast, expressive artistic potential.”

The Wavelengths lineup runs from September 9 through 11. The Wavelengths Package is now on sale and includes one ticket to each of the five screenings for $45 and $38 for students/seniors (not including taxes and fees).

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