Land Acknowledgment Vision, & Code of Conduct

Images Festival Would like to Acknowledge

The land on which we gather and organize is the territory of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Today, the meeting place of Tkarón:to is home to many Indigenous people.

A territorial acknowledgement demonstrates a coming to awareness, and can provoke thought and reflection, all of which are essential in beginning to establish reciprocal relations. This acknowledgement should not function as closure, resignation, or acceptance of the structural conditions of settler colonialism that remain in effect today. Images Festival will continue to ask what it means for us to maintain a spirit of sustained inquiry into the complexities of our situation.

Vision

Images Festival is a leading presenter of independent film and media culture in dialogue with contemporary art. We aspire to elevate conversations between artists, scholars, and the public about the politics of the moving image.

Code of Conduct

All community participants, including members and guests of members, event hosts, sponsors, presenters, exhibitors, and attendees, are expected to abide by Images Festival’s Code of Conduct and cooperate with organizers who enforce it. Images Festival insists that everyone who uses the spaces remains mindful of, and takes responsibility for, their speech and behaviour. We embrace respect and concern for the free expression of others, but we will not tolerate words or actions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist, classist, transphobic, cissexist, or ableist. Respecting physical and emotional boundaries, we do not accept oppressive behaviour, harassment, destructive behaviour, or exclusionary actions.

Mission

Images Festival is an artist-driven festival that expands traditional definitions and understand ings of media art by experimenting with a multi plicity of artistic forms.

We value artistic work that challenges norms, takes risks, and is rigorous in form and content. Our programs interrogate the conditions of con temporary moving image culture.

We provide a forum through which to develop critical engagement between Canadian and international artists, audiences, and institutions.

Festival is an artist-driven festival that expands traditional definitions and understandings of media art by experimenting with a multi-

We value artistic work that challenges norms, takes risks, and is rigorous in form and content. Our programs interrogate the conditions of contemporary moving image culture.

We provide a forum through which to develop critical engagement between Canadian and international artists, audiences, and institutions.