As part of FILMZ, Capitol Kino Mainz will be activated for three late night screenings. Filmmm invites you to stay awake, watch, doze off, dream and to descend into the twilight. A found footage compilation film transforms the movie theatre into a historical spaceship. A program of shorts illustrates the more explosive side of experimental film in Germany and Austria. And an underseen French-German response to the giallo revives the feeling of classical midnight movie screenings.
Queer Valley Screening Series is an artist-run screening series based in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, programmed by Michelle Trujillo and Stephen Wardell. We program underground, experimental, and avant-garde work by both local and international queer artists. We screen in both institutional venues like theaters and galleries, and in makeshift event spaces as wide-ranging as bodies of water, street-corners, and basements.
The Cosmic Rays Film Festival is now accepting submissions from August 24 - November 16, 2026.
Now in its ninth year, Cosmic Rays is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be.
The Festival presents several programs of experimental short films that are formally inventive; that explore hybrid forms and the hard-to-describe spaces between filmmaking modes and genres; that speak with a personal voice; and that are inspired by the possibilities of film as art.
Werner Nekes (1944 – 2017) is one of the key figures of German avant-garde cinema. In the mid-1960s, he traded the visual arts for a 16mm camera and began experimenting with both the filming and editing process.
We meet again on the third Wednesday of the month for another 20/20 Vision screening, with three works from our collection, each produced around the year 2000. During this complex, vibrant moment at the turn of the century, The Otolith Group, Julia Meltzer & David Throne and the fictional collective Vidéoconférence explore formats of speculative storytelling. By doing so, they question who holds the monopoly on our collective imagination.
SET Film Festival returns to SET Social, Peckham, London, for its fourth edition this November, bringing together contemporary, artist and archival film across a month of screenings and events.
Curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs, Verity Monroe and the wider SET FF26 team, this year’s programme comprises four short film nights, a feature-length screening and a free evening of archival film and performance. Each night centres on a distinct theme, with selected screenings followed by Q&As with the filmmakers.
Chicago Filmmakers is currently taking entries for the 37th Onion City Experimental Film Festival, which takes place April 8-11, 2027. The regular deadline is October 22 and the late deadline is November 19.
Onion City was founded in the 1980s by the Experimental Film Coalition.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Chicago, Estados Unidos
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Wed Nov 18 2026.
Andrew Tamburrino presents a collection of his 16mm work made over four years, tracking a tumultuous time, but also a settling back into the person he is and wants to be. BECOMING explores nature, community, and the photochemical process, often using atypical film stocks, developing techniques, and other experimental methods to embody the belief that life is planned happenstance, chaotic order.
