Join us for a dreamlike celebration of far-out and experimental short films crafted by both veterans and newcomers from the SoCal underground. Every type of surreal and abstract filmmaking will be united for a night that celebrates exploration, D.I.Y. and unbound imagination. Nine unusual short films will be featured. Filmmakers will be in attendance. Tyler will tell a joke. Filmmakers and film lovers will mingle and meet at The Plunge Bar next door. An all around fun time will be had by all. And rest assured, you will see nothing normal.
The Barbican’s Experiments in Film series turns its focus to Gabriel Abrantes, whose work moves freely across film, performance, digital media and installation. Drawing on an eclectic mix of references, from internet culture and political satire to melodrama, animation and contemporary art, Abrantes creates films that are as visually playful as they are disorienting. Presented alongside Bardo Loops at Gasworks, the two events showcase a practice shaped by collage, hybrid forms and unexpected cultural collisions.
Fechas:
De Sábado, Mayo 30, 2026 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Mayo 31, 2026 (Todo el día)
On MONDAY, JUNE 1st, at 7pm, join us at The Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) for a retrospective screening of the films of longtime FMC artist-member, and current FMC Advisory Board member, Devon Narine-Singh.
ON FRIDAY, MAY 15th, at 7pm, join us for a screening at The Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) of Zoe Beloff's new film LIFE FORGOTTEN (2026) and the launch of her accompanying book of the same name!
Kevin Jerome Everson is one of the defining voices of contemporary experimental cinema. Working with a handheld 16mm camera, he observes everyday Black life: labour, neighborhoods, gestures, movement, and meteorological phenomena. Precise, poetic works of striking formal clarity.
Everson brings together aesthetics and the politics of seeing. His films reflect on history, migration, and resistance beyond conventional modes of representation. Scratches, light flares, long takes, and the materiality of analogue film become carriers of meaning in their own right.
Fechas:
De Viernes, Mayo 22, 2026 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Mayo 31, 2026 (Todo el día)
In collaboration with the film collection of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou
Light Cone extends an invitation to the American film critic J. Hoberman to present a film program in connection with his latest book, Everything Is Now (Verso Books, 2025).
In only 23 years Teo Hernández, one of the central figures of Paris’s queer avant-garde film scene of the 1970s and ’80s, produced a monumental body of work that reveals how myth and zealous desire are inextricably knit to our everyday lives. Across more than 150 Super 8mm films, encompassing portraiture, urban landscapes, and diaristic cinema, he ceaselessly forged radical alternatives to linear time and perspectival vision, entrancing audiences with a visceral style that affects both body and spirit.
Fechas:
De Jueves, Mayo 14, 2026 (Todo el día) hasta Martes, Mayo 26, 2026 (Todo el día)
FRACTO is an annual film festival held in Berlin since 2017, dedicated to fostering discourse around avant-garde and experimental filmmaking. The ninth edition in 2026 brings together filmmakers from Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. The program unfolds across five curated sections, three focuses, one dedicated section, and an expanded cinema work, comprising 61 films.
Fechas:
De Miércoles, Mayo 27, 2026 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Mayo 31, 2026 (Todo el día)
