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.

Festival Director, lead curator, and multidisciplinary artist M. Woods conceived of this festival as a direct attack at the gate-kept, corrupted, and cronyistic film festival circuit.

Fugue State seeks to usurp institutions backed by blood money and corporate dollars, opposed to the not-for-profit industrial complex, offering a fully independent alternative where your work matters. We don't have any premiere requirements, and we judge submissions based on their merit, not your connections or institutional roles.

Fugue State embraces the convergence of video art, experimental film, and interactive design, encouraging new media, installation, photography, and expanded cinema/mixed-media performance entries.

Open to art film, genre film, and any other type of cinema, so long as it transgresses the accepted and formulaic languages of the medium.

Open to all experimental, avant-garde, and innovative approaches to film, video, performance, photography, immersive design, installation and multimedia. If you have an idea that does not fit into the categories we've provided, please email disamedia@gmail.com

Due to the success of Season 1, we have lowered the prices for our submissions.

WE PROVIDE NEED-BASED SUBMISSION WAIVERS - 1 SUBMISSION ONLY*
Email 13mwmw@gmail.com to ask for a waiver.

* We rely on submission fees because we watch every single movie and give deep consideration to all candidates. We use these fees to fund the entire festival, including venue costs, marketing, and festival production, so we deeply appreciate your contributions, but we also do not gate-keep. We understand the financial toll of making work in this economy, and we do not block entries.

Submit your work through Film Freeway: https://filmfreeway.com/FugueState-1 or via www.thedigitalsickness.com