The experimental in cinema is subversive and has no image but itself. Beyond being personal, artistic, home made, pure, avant-garde, poetic, absurd, underground or metaphoric, the experimental cinema is a game and a mastering of the image as it is. A clearance that refers the movie to its own form and free it from boundaries of the narration to offer a perceptive connection between the film and the public. Clandestine and still too rare on the theatres, those films look at the self matter of the cinema.
We are now assembling the next collection of strange and experimental films from Southern California for The New Film Underrground Volume 15 showcase. Send us your strange, your surreal and your abstract short films, so they can be included in this undergrround cinema celebration taking place in Hollywood this July.
Films must be 15 min. or less. Filmmakers must be based in Southern Califorrnia.
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 April 10th, 2026
SET Film Festival is a grassroots, international platform for contemporary, artist and archival film run by SET, a London-based contemporary arts organisation and registered charity.
Founded in 2023 and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe, the festival presents experimental practices and emerging voices outside conventional exhibition and distribution contexts.
CALL FOR FILMS ❦ INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION ❦ EXPERIMENTAL FILMS MADE IN 2025 - 2026 ❦ ALL FORMATS AND DURATIONS ❦ DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION : MAY 25th 2025 ❦ LINK IN BIO
Co-founded by Golden Bear winning director Adina Pintilie in 2010, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival is an annual event dedicated to experimental films and visual arts. BIEFF aims to promote highly innovative films and filmmakers with strong personal views on contemporary reality, which also daringly explore the boundaries of cinematic language.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Bucharest, Romania
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Thu Jun 04 2026.
Artificial Imagination — A growing archive of video works about creativity and artificial intelligence. An open call dedicated to video works exploring the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
This is a call for submissions of your films (or also a performance of performance art, music, poetry). Could even be other visual forms of art but need to be easily installed and de-installed.
Submission deadline is April 27th. The event is April 10th and we invite all the artist to please come to the show.
Hotel Carrousel is a nomadic exhibition platform dedicated to video and media art, founded in 2024 by artist Lupe Arens. The project emerged from a personal search for more engaged, accessible and porous ways to present experimental moving image works within a cultural landscape that often overlooks video art, especially for artists at the start of their career.
