The ImagineNative festival is 18 years old this year, and though it’s an unremarkable number — neither 10 nor 25 nor anything else conveniently notable — there’s nothing off-the-rack about this year’s instalment. With the occasion being Canada 150, the festival, perhaps the world’s premiere venue for Indigenous film and video, offers up as its marquee a slate of virtual-reality projects around future nightmare dreaming. Benesiinaabandan gives you a front-row seat to the enormity of the cosmos, maximizing the medium’s immersive power like no other here. More to the point, perhaps, is how small it can make you feel — a feeling entirely appropriate to both the mindset that got us here, and the blip it truly is. In the Atrium of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., until Dec. 31.

Source: thestar October 17, 2017 19:18 UTC