We've been busy the last few days moving the head offices of Wavelength HQ from Kensington Market to the Trinity Bellwoods Park area, which explains why we've been remiss in bigging up this year's Images Festival, which had its big launch two nights ago. For those who don't know — and there are still too many of you! tsk tsk! — the Images Festival has been Toronto's most risk-taking, yet accessible, festival of independent, non-commercial film and video since 1988.

2011 marks Wavelength's sixth annual collaboration with Images, with past highlights including The Valerie Project, Cloud Eye Control, Jens Lekman with Stephanie Comilang, and last year's commission of Hello Adventure by Polydactyl Hearts Collective, which went on to win the festival's "Overkill Award" — which has to got to be the best-titled prize of all time.

This year, we'd like to think we've stepped things up a notch — from a pretty high notch mark to begin with — with this year's Images co-presentation. We've asked our friends in Fucked Up to create an original live score to a classic silent film, Tod Browning's West of Zanzibar (1928) — a nasty tale of colonialism and revenge if there ever was one. The band is composing and arranging a score for the entire 65 minute running time of the film. This should show off the more ambient, atmospheric side of the band — one heard at times on their Polaris Prize winning 2008 album The Chemistry of Common Life — but could also lean more towards the theatrics we've heard will play a role in their forthcoming rock opera, David Comes to Life. Who knows what will happen? You will have to come find out yourself!

Fucked Up's live score to West of Zanzibar happens Saturday April 9, a week from tonight, as the Closing Night Gala of the Images Festival — at Toronto Underground Cinema on Spadina. You can still buy tickets at Rotate This, Soundscapes, Queen Video on Queen, and the Images box office. The concept of a punk band scoring a '20s era silent film has already attracted some mainstream media attention, so don't wait to buy tickets and end up missing out.

But that's not all!! The evening will be warmed up by a special big-screen showing of Luminations, the hour-long DVD created by Wavelength's own General Chaos Visuals. If you've ever been to a Wavelength, you've probably been entranced by the colourful, psychedelic visuals that illuminate our performers, and intrigued by the ancient projectors and the long-haired man waving his hands in front of them. That would be Stephen Lindsey, who along with partner Eric Siegerman, have been providing visual stimuli as General Chaos Visuals since Wavelength's early days at Ted's Wrecking Yard. The DVD is an audio-visual collaboration between General Chaos and URM — a.k.a. electronic musician Jamie Todd of The Ambient Ping, General Chaos' other weekly (now monthly-ish) home since '99. Luminations will screen when the doors open at TUC at 7:30pm, and will be available for purchase that evening. Truly a must-own item if you're a fan of the Wavelength series.