Image from Chimeras courtesy Mika Mattila and Navy Blue Bird Inc.
Don't miss the chance to see World, North American and Canadian film premieres and to meet curator Germano Celant, artists Kehinde Wiley, Michael Landy and Richard Deacon, and other famed art world figures who will be speaking after the screenings. Read David Balzer's interview with Richard Deacon, and visit canadianart.ca/raff for tickets and program.
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Opening Night Screening & Celebration
Festival Programming
All screenings and panel discussions take place at
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West.
Thursday, February 20
 The Clay Diaries
7:00 p.m.
Canadian Premiere
Director: Isaki Lacuesta
Nan Goldin – I Remember Your Face
9:00 p.m.
Canadian Premiere
Director: Sabine Lidl
Screening with: LaToya Ruby Frazier Makes Moving Pictures
Director: Wesley Miller
Friday, February 21
 Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace
7:00 p.m.
Director: Jeff Dupre
Screening with: Rashid Johnson Makes Things to Put Things On
Director: Nick Ravich
Meet the artist: Kehinde Wiley will be interviewed by Julie Crooks, Doctoral Candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, after the double screening.
 Richard Deacon – In Between
9:00 p.m.
World Premiere
Director: Claudia Schmid
Artist Richard Deacon and director Claudia Schmid will be present for a post-screening discussion and interview.
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Saturday, February 22
Quand les attitudes deviennent formes
1:00 p.m.
Canadian Premiere
Director: André Gazut
Screening with: When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013
Director: Ranuccio Sodi
Famed curator Germano Celant will present a lecture, introduced by Richard Rhodes, editor at Canadian Art, after the screening.
Levitated Mass
3:15 p.m.
Canadian Premiere
Director: Doug Pray
 Michael Landy: Saints Alive 5:30 p.m.
North American Premiere Director: Jared Schiller
Screening with Art Bin
Director: Jared Schiller
H2NY
Director: Michael Landy
Artist Michael Landy and director Jared Schiller will be interviewed by Elizabeth Legge, associate professor of art history at the University of Toronto.
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 Artists on the Underground
7:30 p.m.
North American Premiere
Director: Jared Schiller
Screening with White City – Interview with Anna Barham
Director: Jared Schiller
Who Is Community? – Interview with Bob and Roberta Smith and Tim Newton
Director: Jared Schiller
Canadian Art’s online editor, Leah Sandals, will moderate a panel discussion with director Jared Schiller, Sharon Switzer, Art in Transit programmer and curator for Pattison Onestop, and Dylan Reid, senior editor at Spacing magazine.
Chimeras
9:30 p.m.
Director: Mika Mattila
Sunday, February 23
Breathing Earth
12:15 p.m.
Toronto Premiere
Director: Thomas Ridelsheimer
Fifi Howls from Happiness
2:30 p.m.
Toronto Premiere
Director: Mitra Farahani
 BackBone: Vancouver Experimental Cinema
5:00 p.m.
Toronto Festival Premiere
Director: Richard Martin
Following the screening Chris Kennedy, executive director at Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), will moderate a panel discussion with director Richard Martin and artist Sturla Gunnarson.
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The Reel Artists Film Festival is North America’s only festival devoted exclusively
to documentary films about visual art and artists. We showcase international feature-length
and short documentaries that address challenges and questions raised by artists.
For a full program with film descriptions, and more information on the panel discussions,
visit canadianart.ca/raff.
All screenings and panel discussions take place at
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West.
Program subject to change.
