A night of experimental video work that appropriate or draw inspiration from the soap opera format, interspersed with segments from a new, locally produced reworking of a Joanne Kyger radio play. Guest programmed by Sean Dickerson & co-presented by PRROBLEM Press @prroblem.press 

Program:​

Our third and final installment of this three-part series devoted to Gene Youngblood’s 1970 book Expanded Cinema explores the outermost reaches of technological innovation spanning the late ‘60s to early ‘70s, highlighting creative connectivity through exceptional investigations of the cathode ray tube and other far-out forms of aesthetic-synesthetic interactivity.

FACETS announces another partnership with Full Spectrum Features on Friday, July 25. A multi-media, multi-sensory plunge into the virtual mucilage as they take over FACETS for a night of video, installation, performance, and goo. The event will have two versions of the screening of Cyberslime — one that will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A or one that will immerse you in the scent of Cyberslime’s official fragrance, cero by agar olfactory. The event will include a live set by WNTSAD and immersive installations by Video Waste.

Chris Kennedy is visiting Paris, and we are honored to welcome him to Etna for a special evening in his presence. An independent filmmaker, film programmer, and writer based in Toronto, he is the Executive Director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). His experimental short films have screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide and have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Canadian Film Institute, the Los Angeles Film Forum, the Nam June Paik Art Center, the Semana del Film Experimental de La Plata, and the Pacific Film Archive.