The Images Festival presents a special double feature!
Deliver by Jennifer Montgomery (Canadian Premiere!)
Deliverance by John Boorman (35mm archival print!)
One night only!
Thursday December 3, 2009, 7 & 9 PM
Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto
2 Sussex Avenue (St. George Station)
Advance tickets: 10$, 15$ for both // Day of tickets: 12$, 20$ for both
Deliver by Jennifer Montgomery takes John Boorman’s classic 1972 film Deliverance and remakes it with an all-female cast. Shooting in the Catskills of New York rather than Appalachian Georgia, the film includes experimental filmmakers and academics (Peggy Ahwesh, Jacqueline Goss, Meredith Root, Dani Levanthal, Su Friedrich and Montgomery herself) playing mirages of themselves—urban artists looking to unplug in the unspoiled wilderness. Montgomery follows John Boorman's original movie and James Dickey's original book closely, as the gender inversion complicates hegemonic notions of nature, power and sexual violence, all on a stretch of river coincidentally called The Beaverkill.
For Deliver’s Canadian premiere, the Images Festival is presenting Montgomery’s film in a special double feature with Boorman’s original screening from a rare 35mm archival print!
7 PM: Deliver (Jennifer Montgomery, 2008, HD video, 98 minutes)
9 PM: Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972, 35mm Cinemascope, 110 minutes)
Advance tickets available NOW at the following locations:
Online at http://www.imagesfestival.com/store (PayPal or credit cards NO service charges!)
Queen Video, 480 Bloor Street West, east of Bathurst (Cash, Credit, Debit)
Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord @ Spadina (Cash, Credit, Debit)
Jennifer Montgomery's films include Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006), Along the Highway (2005), Threads of Belonging (2004), Transitional Objects (2000), Troika (1998), Art For Teachers of Children (1995), I, a Lamb (1992), Age 12: Love With a Little L (1990), and Home Avenue (1989). These films range from experimental essays to experimental features and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films, Women Make Movies and Video Data Bank.
Montgomery's works have shown at many international festivals, as well as venues including the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Film Forum (NYC), the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), the ICA (London), the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), and the Whitney Museum (NYC). She has been the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mary Nohl Established Artist Fellowship, the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and Art Matters. She was twice nominated for the IFPÂ’s Independent Spirit Award.
She lives in Chicago and is an Assistant Professor in the Moving Image area at University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Art & Design.
"Like a generation of viewers, I was profoundly affected by Deliverance. But I have always been troubled by the hegemonic structures of gender proposed by Boorman and Dickey. Hence, my version is played by women: myself, Peggy Ahwesh, Jackie Goss, Su Friedrich, and Meredith Root, all experimental filmmakers who work as academics. While faithful to our respective male characters, we also play ourselves. Provocative questions arise through these filters of similarity and difference. My film's title, Deliver, refers to the re-birthing experience of surviving extreme physical challenges, the product-obsessed nature of the film industry, and, of course, the fact that it is only women who can, biologically, truly deliver. The lines between bathos and pathos become dangerously blurred. It is the aim of this film to pose critical questions about the gendering of nature, homosocial sexual violence, and the act of filmmaking itself." - J.M.
The Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen. From Super-8 and hand-tinted celluloid to the latest video art, Images has presented thousands of films and media based projects since 1988. Images is committed to an expanded concept of film and video practice: alongside film and video screenings, the festival presents groundbreaking live performances, media art installations in galleries across the GTA and new media projects by many renowned Canadian and international artists. We go out of our way and over the edge to provide Toronto with an annual extravaganza of image making. Attended by more than 30,000 people each year, Toronto's 2nd oldest film festival is a critical forum for the independent media arts in Canada and around the world and provides artists with a supportive and professional forum in which to present their projects.
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