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.

All films will be presented as submitted with their own original audio, however if you wish for your film to be presented alongside a live improvised score, you can select that option upon submission.

We are drawn to work that takes risks: films that slow down, disorient, or reimagine cinematic language; that dwell in the in-between of fiction and nonfiction, ritual and routine, the spiritual and the mundane. 

Hosted at St. James Episcopal Church, CHROMA: Image & Sound transforms the nave into a contemplative cinematic space. The sacred architecture is not a backdrop but an active participant in the experience. Each program is curated to encourage reflection, conversation, and connection between artists and the local community.

CHROMA: Image & Sound is not a non-competitive festival. It is about communion, a shared space where filmmakers, musicians, and viewers gather to encounter one another and rediscover the mystery of the moving image and sound together.

No submission fees except for late deadline.