The world is stranger than we imagine, and nothing confirms it more than Jon Rafman’s show, The Nine Eyes Of Google Street View, now at Angell.

Inaugurating this lofty post-industrial art space, an offshoot of one in Montreal, gallerist René Blouin mounts a show of seven Quebecers who use digital photographic tech but can’t be pigeonholed as photographers.

MOCCA’s exhibit takes a wary view of public space and its discontents. Anonymous crowds dominate, from Michael Wolf’s snapshots of compressed Tokyo subway commuters to Philippe Chancel’s panoramic photos of North Korean mass games.

Europe-based American Mark Boulos, who moved from documentary cinema to the less linear form of gallery installations, has filmed such disparate groups as Nigerian anti-oil-company guerrillas and Pentecostals who speak in tongues.

In this season of graduating students’ exhibits, U of T curatorial studies master’s candidate Wanda Nanibush goes to the head of the class. Exploring the many dimensions of aboriginal performance, Sovereign Acts showcases work by some of Canada’s major artists.

In the movie Strait-Jacket, Joan Crawford returns home after serving a 25-year sentence in a psychiatric ward for murdering her husband and his mistress with an axe. Her daughter, raised in her absence, gives her the gold charm bracelets her mother wore the night of the murder, initiating a twisted plot that examines how the legacy of violence is passed from one generation to the next.

The paul good papers, co-presented by the Images Festival, is part of Deanna Bowen’s ongoing research into the links between racism and the civil rights movement in the U.S. and Canada.

Time, memory and narrative can play endless tricks on us. Kerry Tribe, an artist from Los Angeles, uses video and film to plumb the labyrinth of memory as it’s skewed and distorted through rumour, falsehood or physical mishap.

From what we read, most of us imagine that Iranians, especially women, live in constant fear of morality police crackdowns on violations of state-mandated dress codes and inappropriate socializing between the sexes.