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).
Two newly digitised tapes from the LCVA act as the creative catalyst for this programme that explores different modes of feminist self-representation at the Barbican Cinema.
The programme begins with two works from the London Community Video Archive (LCVA): Conversation’s Over: Liz & Pauline (c 1980) by the Basement Project and Terry Flaxton’s Circumstantial Evidence (1983) which are placed in dialogue with moving-image works by Utako Koguchi, Chick Strand, CAMP and Yace Sula. The film examines how history can be mediated through autobiography.
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.
Named one of "the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World" by MovieMaker Magazine in 2021
The Oak Cliff Film Festival was established in 2012 as a regional film festival in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas. The festival has received national acclaim from prominent sources including The New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, and Moviemaker Magazine, as a festival that aims to showcase brave and independent filmmaking of all stripes in an atmosphere that encourages and fosters filmmaking in Dallas and beyond.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Dallas, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Sun Mar 22 2026, Sun Apr 12 2026.
