Signal Overload is an interdisciplinary celebration of experimental time-based media returning for its second year to the Starlite Drive-in Theater in Bloomington, Indiana on October 1st. The festival brings together experimental film, video synthesis, live music, poetry, and other forms of time-based art in an informal, accessible setting. The drive-in provides a unique environment for experiencing experimental media. Audiences can move through the space, watch live performances up close, or relax in their cars with popcorn while experiencing the projections on screen.

The Hong Kong Film Festival UK is returning from 25 September to 4 October in London with a newly launched Experimental & Expanded strand, which spotlights works that reimagine the possibilities of moving image art through an experimental lens, with a particular focus on collective memory as well as personal recollection.

The program for the 10th Festival Ecrã (Rio de Janeiro) is now available online and features new films by Júlio Bressane, Jodie Mack, Carlos Adriano, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ephraim Asili, Ken Jacobs, Heinz Emigholz, Henry Hills, Mungo Thomson, Vinícius Romero, Amitt Dutta, Charlotte Zhang, Stanley Schtinter, Gabriela Mureb, Raúl Perrone and much more.

Adriatikino returns 22–24 May to Fermo, Italy, with a second edition devoted to analog cinema in all its forms: found footage and archive, experimental and narrative, animation and film collage. The selection brings together long-standing practitioners and emerging voices from across the world, with a strong presence of Italian filmmakers alongside an international program.