Engaging its 6th edition of the IMAGE+NATION, this festival organizes some nice video projections and a photo exposition. All of this in 4 different places:

• Imperial Center
  1432 de Bleury (place des arts metro)

• Goethe-Institut cinema
  418 Sherbrooke E  (sherbrooke metro)

• J.A. de Sève cinema
  1400 de Maisonneuve West (guy metro)

• Café Laika
  4040 St-Laurent (Duluth corner)

This festival regroups more than one hundred films, including long cuts, shorts and documentaries. Throughout those movies, LGBT culture will obviously be a recurring theme and will be explored by hard facts or funny events.

Also,  IMAGE+NATION festival organizes a photo exposition and this year, they invited the artist JJ Levine.

JJ Levine is a young Montreal-based artist who works in intimate portraiture. Levine has recently completed a BFA in photography at Concordia University, and a Minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality from a Fine Arts perspective. Levine works mostly in photography and video, and through these visual mediums, explores issues surrounding gender, sexuality, self-identity, and queer space. She has exhibited at artist run centres in Montreal as well as commercial galleries across Canada. These bodies of work balance a political agenda with a strong sense of formal aesthetic integrity/beauty. In addition to pursuing a career as an artist, Levine gives “lesbian haircuts” in a bike shop in Montreal’s gay village, across North America and in Europe. 

He presents us his new exhibition called  Switch 2009.

This serie of diptychs presents pairs of seemingly different “heterosexual couples” interacting intimately in a studio setting. This parody of prom-style portraits challenges gender stability as the viewer will recognize that these couples are comprised not of four models, but only two.

The festival ends on October 31th with the movie Mr. Right, of David & Jacqui Morris.

• The website: here
• You can see the movie listing here
• To buy your tickets, click here

Have fun!

DPV