TIFF’s Wavelengths section is a curated presentation of artist-made film and video from around the world. The term “artist-made” is increasingly replacing the more slippery and elusive idiom “avant-garde” and the somewhat aloof-sounding “experimental”. They’re just labels, equally expendable, elastic and appropriated at will. Unlike some of my international colleagues, I actually like the terms, but recognize nonetheless that what counts is the ethos: the mode of expression, the personal means of production, the risk-taking.
This year’s Wavelengths demonstrates a remarkable surge in filmmaking, longform and on celluloid, with...(more...)
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