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Sunset Kino is Canada's only outdoor, avant-garde film festival. Founded by Séamus Kealy in Austria in 2017, this festival continues now at Oakville Galleries. Introduced by the programmers and commencing at sunset, audiences experience a curated program of films and videos by Canadian and international artists.

All films are screened outdoors at 8:30 PM in Gairloch Gardens. Please dress appropriately and bring seating and blankets. With inclement weather, screenings will be indoors in the Studio, adjacent to the Gallery.

Oakville Galleries operates with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario and the Corporation of the Town of Oakville, along with our many individual, corporate, and foundation partners.

Film by Niels-Christian Bolbrinker, Dr. Kerstin Stutterheim

Programmed by Séamus Kealy

Flies and Angels , 2008, 92 minutes

Ilya Kabakov was born in the Ukraine in 1933. Today he is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide, and there is practically no significant museum of contemporary art around the world that doesn't show at least one of his installations. With his etchings, paintings and particularly with these installations he has for decades now created a phantastic world that serves as a counterpoint to the brutal reality and its many failed visions. These installations, executed with exquisite detail, are strange and enchanted spaces. They are like film sets telling life histories, touching emotions and memories held by people everywhere. But his stories are more than personal dramas: Kabakov is one of the last great utopists, he looks disenchantedly at the debris of the 20th century but at the same time, with human warmth and a distinct imagination, he is able to envision other worlds.

About the Artists +

Ilya Kabakov was born in the Ukraine in 1933. Today he is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide, and there is practically no significant museum of contemporary art around the world that doesn't show at least one of his installations. With his etchings, paintings and particularly with these installations he has for decades now created a phantastic world that serves as a counterpoint to the brutal reality and its many failed visions. These installations, executed with exquisite detail, are strange and enchanted spaces. They are like film sets telling life histories, touching emotions and memories held by people everywhere. But his stories are more than personal dramas: Kabakov is one of the last great utopists, he looks disenchantedly at the debris of the 20th century but at the same time, with human warmth and a distinct imagination, he is able to envision other worlds.

Emilia Kabakov is an international artist and curator, born in Dnepropetrovsk, USSR (now Dnipro, Ukraine), now based in New York. From the 1980s on, Emilia worked for decades with her late husband, Ilya Kabakov, and together they became known as pioneers of installation art. Particularly celebrated for their ‘total installations,’ which immerse the viewer in fabricated material and thematic environments and contexts. Much of the Kabakovs’ work focuses on the intersections between utopia and everyday realities and ordinary life. They explore themes of universality and the common human experience as well as critical darker themes that consider power and corruption. Emilia and Ilya’s work has been shown across the world at the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and institutions including the Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and Stedelijk Museum.

Film Program by Séamus Kealy

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