The Toronto International Film Festival, now in its 36th iteration, opened to the public last night with a number of gala film presentations and a whack of glamorous parties. Among the Hollywood hooplah and general cinematic buzz that make this the most exciting two weeks of every year in Toronto, TIFF has lately been sure to provide a direct connection from the festival to the contemporary art world. This is accomplished through a selection of films and film-based projects by contemporary artists in a series called "Future Projections". This year's moving-image artworks include pieces by Peter Lynch, Nicholas and Sheila Pye, James Franco and Gus Van Sant, Mr. Brainwash, David Rokeby, Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky, Gregory Crewdson, Ben Rivers, Duane Hopkins, David Lamelas, and Eve Sussman | Rufus Corporation.

The Future Projections programme is free and open to the public for the duration of the Festival, September 8 to 18, at TIFF Bell Lightbox and various locations around Toronto. Descriptions and showtimes of all the works in the program are below:

Celebrity comes in all shapes and sizes, but I’ve never come across so oddly assembled a package as Thierry Guetta.

“You can’t choose your future,” offers Guetta, 45, in heavily French-inflected English. It’s a guileless non-sequitur, in his typically amiable fashion, followed up with an irrefutable truth: “From where I was to where I am, it’s a different world.”

That’s for sure. Somehow, some way, Guetta — who you might know better as Mr. Brainwash, if you know him at all — has jumped the line to be included in the pantheon of international street-art giants like Shepard Fairey — he of the iconic Obama “Hope” poster, most recently — and, of course, Banksy, the British kingpin of the street-art explosion.

That part’s important. Banksy, whose guerrillistic creative chutzpah knows no bounds, made Guetta the subject of his Oscar-nominated documentary last year, Exit Through the Gift Shop. He also made him a star — inadvertently, or so he claims — which is why Guetta and his team of handlers are in Toronto this week.