This celebration of cinema's fringes features a curated collection of the underground's most visionary contemporary shorts. These films are all surreal, abstract or bizarre, and each reveals a bold new path for cinema to take. The resulting experience is a mind expanding fever dream, and it is also an opportunity to meet the filmmakers and other lovers of unusual cinema. So come to Sherman Oaks and meet the next David Lynch or Maya Deren. We promise you will see nothing normal here.
Brigade Rouge, Poésie Noire returns for a new issue after 2 years of absence.This festival gives pride of place to tortuous itineraries and convoluted paths through a film and musical program.
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, the UK’s festival of experimental film and artists’ moving image, has released details of its 14th edition which will run from 2 – 5 May 2024. Based in Hawick in the Scottish Borders, only 90 minutes from the Scottish capital, Alchemy is the biggest film festival of its kind in the UK, uniquely blurring the boundary between cinema and visual arts.
Dates:
Thursday, May 2, 2024 (All day) to Sunday, May 5, 2024 (All day)
The third annual Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, presented by the Oklahoma City University Film Department in partnership with Oklahoma City Museum of Art, will take place April 26 - 28. Five programs will showcase 58 short films from around the world, including works by Tomonari Nishikawa, Lori Felker, Mark Street, Gregg Biermann, Sasha Waters, and more.
Dates:
Friday, April 26, 2024 (All day) to Sunday, April 28, 2024 (All day)
Images Festival is honored to present the 37th annual festival Rehearsing Refusal taking place from April 11-16, 2024 in Toronto, Canada. Rehearsing Refusal presents moving images from around the world that emphasize resistance and the subversion of oppressive systems through experimental film. Programs will debut at Innis Town Hall with additional programs online and at off-site venues: VTape, Mercer Union and TIFF. Tickets are on sale now at imagesfestival.com.
Dates:
Thursday, April 11, 2024 (All day) to Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (All day)
The eighteenth edition of Punto de Vista, the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra (Pamplona, March 11 to 16), which will bring together 23 films from 15 countries in its official section, will feature several programs dedicated to the work of Su Friedrich and Jerome Hiler.
Dates:
Monday, March 11, 2024 (All day) to Saturday, March 16, 2024 (All day)
Welcome to the mesmerising realm of World Cinema Carnival, a digital spectacle set to ignite your senses from December 26th to 29th, 2023. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of moving images, where the unconventional converges with the avant-garde, and cinematic boundaries dissolve into a kaleidoscope of creativity.
Dates:
Tuesday, December 26, 2023 (All day) to Friday, December 29, 2023 (All day)
Cafe Oto hosts the first ever residency by purge.xxx, a label celebrated by The Wire magazine for its ‘disregard for the music industry, self-promotion and prevailing cultural norms,’ and an ‘ability to elevate distinct works and the obscure artists behind them.’
Thursday 23 November 2023, 7.30pm Nkisi + Maggie Nicols Feat. Ellen Freed (New Noveta) + Adam Christensen With Tom Wheatley And David Aird (Vindicatrix)
