For Underneath the Floorboards' 15th Edition we will be continue our online event, which will be screened for a four weeks by our online platform: https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ which screens worldwide to maximises our international exposure. We got over Eleven thousand views last time around, and this time we're aiming for more. We'll also have a live event in the South of France for this edition
Videotage will publish D-normal/V-essay: Videotage Edition - Open Call in June 2026. From now until 6 February 2026, video creators worldwide are invited to submit their video essays.
The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival invites submissions in video/film, animation, VR, video installation & performance to its 13th edition, which takes place March 4 - 8, 2026 on the campus of West Virginia University. We’re looking for innovative, provocative, highly charged and deeply personal works in a variety of genres and themes. This year we also welcome submissions to a special thematic category, exploring new insights into evolving definitions and understandings of Time, in all of its many contexts.
The 6th edition of the FECIMU International Film and Multimedia Festival invites artists and filmmakers to submit their experimental short films and multimedia art works.
FECIMU is a non-profit festival and platform dedicated to the exploration, promotion, and dissemination of short films and multimedia art, with a special focus on emerging creators and innovative artistic practices.
Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiments. The festival has traveled to multiple partner venues including The Film-Maker's Coop in NYC, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Elastic Arts Foundation and Comfort Station in Chicago, and more.
Submission fees:
Fees charged - Waiver available
Location:
Chicago, Estados Unidos
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Thu Apr 23 2026, Tue Jun 23 2026.
The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course that examines moving images and contemporary artistic practices in the context of an international film festival. It operates on the boundary between film and art, between festival programming and knowledge production. Interested parties can now apply for the 2026 Seminar, which will be led by artist, curator and scholar Linda Chiu-han Lai (Hong Kong).
CHROMA: Image & Sound is an experimental film and music festival based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
We present short and feature-length experimental films in conversation with hand-selected, carefully curated music. Rather than treating sound as accompaniment, each program is conceived as a dialogue between moving image and live ambient and experimental music, allowing both to shape the experience of time, space, and attention.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Knoxville, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every month on the 1 of March, April, May 3 times.
Submissions for the 9th edition of FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter are now open!
FRACTO will take place in Berlin at the end of May 2026. We invite artists and filmmakers from all backgrounds to share their recent film works with us.
Submission Guidelines: – Each filmmaker may submit up to two works – We accept short and mid-length films ( approx. 40 minutes) and performance-based expanded cinema proposals – Eligible works must be completed after January 1, 2024 – The submission deadline is March 1, 2026
EXiS 2026 Call for Entries! 23rd Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS)
Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) is now calling for entries to the competitions of its 23rd edition. We value artists’ films made with an original vision that take challenges and aesthetic adventures.
Entry deadline is March 20, 2026. To submit your work, please check the regulations and use the entry form on the festival's website.
