Festivals
In this section, you will find a list of festivals that broadcast found footage films and videos. The descriptions of the festivals come from their respective websites. I propose translations of the descriptions that were not directly available in english.
100% Found Footage
UnArchive
Place: Roma (Italy)
Dates: May-June
Website
Presentation : "UnArchive is a sort of constellation that includes several multi-year projects (the Cesare Zavattini prize, the artistic residence Suoni e Visioni, other production projects), each with its own identity, but all part of a common research: the enhancement of training, production and promotion activities focused on the creative reuse of archival images.
UnArchive Found Footage Fest intends to be the arrival point of a journey, but at the same time a great revival of practices related to found footage, and for this we have sought the collaboration of many national and international personalities animated by similar purposes, with the awareness that the great theme of audiovisual and film heritage, of its conservation, dissemination and reuse in the digital age, touches us all, each with our own experiences and sensibilities."
MUTA
Place: Lima (Peru)
Dates: August-September
Website
Presentation : MUTA is an exhibition and training festival that combines the use of audiovisual archives, and reappropriated material of any type and origin, for the production of new content from cinema, film performance, sound art and artistic installation. Likewise, it is particularly interested in promoting the preservation of film archives, both for their dissemination and for creative use.
Archivio Aperto
Place: Bologna (Italy)
Dates: Fall
Website
Presentation : Archivio Aperto is the yearly programme concerning the rediscovery of private and unpublished film heritage: amateur, experimental, independent films and documentaries. An original archive exhibition which hosts the comeback of small gauge films (Super8, 8mm, 9,5mm and 16mm).
Kinoskop
Place: Belgrade (Serbia)
Dates: Fall
Website
Presentation : Kinoskop is a indie niche festival, started in 2019 & based in Belgrade, Serbia, dedicated to the exploratory tendencies and experimental ways of working with celluloid (Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, and found footage) in the digital era, and a showcase of imaginative works of cinema which trigger strong audio-visual stimuli and puzzling afterthoughts, rooted in the spirit of underground, surrealist and experimental cinema.
Although not entirely devoted to found footage cinema, the festival offers dedicated selections.
Mashup film festival
Place: Several places in France
Dates: Fall
Website
Presentation : "“There are four types of creative expression revolutionizing cinema nowadays:
TV series, Transmedia, Virtual Reality and Mashup. The first one enriches the medium with complex characters, the second one furthers the means of expression, the third enlarges our field of vision and the fourth creates unusual and sometimes unexpected combinations. Only the latter doesn’t, at the moment, have a Festival of its own. We would like to change that.”
Julien Lahmi, Artistic Director of the festival"
ULTRAcinema
Place: Tepoztlán (Mexico)
Dates: November
Website
Presentation : "We are the most important experimental film and found footage festival in Mexico, we love all kinds of audiovisual experimentation and we exhibit it in any format."
The Festival of (In)appropriation
Place: Los Angeles (USA)
Dates: November-December
Website
Presentation : Founded in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a preeminent international showcase for experimental, found-media film and video. Every year, the Festival attracts artists working across an astonishing array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of collage, machinima, re-mix, détournement, mash-up, and more. The raw material for their work derives from the abundant new sources of audiovisual media to have surfaced in recent decades, from official state and commercial archives to vernacular collections, home movie repositories, and digital databases of every stripe.
By exploiting and refashioning these pre-existing materials, such creations generate novel juxtapositions and recombinations, often producing ideas and meanings that were unintended or unimagined by the original makers. These remarkable works, in other words, are “inappropriate” in the profoundest sense of the term.
Sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum and curated annually by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner, and Greg Cohen, the Festival of (In)appropriation strives to evince the remarkable range, sophistication, and critical impact of this vital aesthetic practice.
Experimental
transmediale
Place: Berlin (Germany)
Dates: January
Site web
Présentation : At the heart of transmediale’s activities is the annual festival that has turned into an essential event in the calendar of media art professionals, artists, and students from all over the world. The annually changing themes are being reflected through exhibitions, performances, screenings, and workshops. Among other things transmediale has discussed the role of emotions and cultural emergence in digital culture, the political, economic, and cultural divides of our time, the elusiveness of perpetually transitioning media cultures at the festival.
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
Place: Paris (France) / Berlin (Germany)
Dates: February (FR) / August (DE)
Site web
Présentation : A major event dedicated to the contemporary practices of the moving image, Rencontres Internationales offers a space to discover and reflect upon new cinema and contemporary art.
RPM Festival
Place: Boston (USA)
Dates: February
Site web
Présentation : Drawing on a wide range of techniques and modes of filmmaking, ranging from avant-garde poetics, non-fiction, experimental animations and narratives to dance films, performances, and contemporary art practices, RPM 2020 brings together innovative efforts by over 160 artists, 122 pieces from 32 countries and territories.
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Place: Ann Arbor (USA)
Dates: March
Site web
Présentation : The mission of the Ann Arbor Film Festival is to promote bold, visionary filmmakers through the advancement of film and new media art, and to engage communities with remarkable cinematic experiences.
Experiments In Cinema
Place: Albuquerque (USA)
Dates: April
Site web
Présentation : In many ways EIC likes to think of itself as a micro-community rather than a festival, in that we are proudly and defiantly non-competitive—no pretentious red carpets, arbitrary prizes or VIP passes at our event. Everyone who participates wins! EIC is about sharing and nurturing, as we truly believe that the community of media un-dependents are modern day traveling troubadours, sharing their news of the day (from personal, un-embedded perspectives) with colleagues and friends from around the world.
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
Place: Hawick, Scotland (UK)
Dates: April-May
Site web
Présentation : Alchemy Film & Arts is a cultural organisation invested in experimental film as a means of generating discussion, strengthening community, and stimulating creative thought.
We connect artists and audiences within Hawick and the Scottish Borders through a diverse range of year-round events – including exhibitions, commissions, residencies, community filmmaking workshops and an annual film festival.
(S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico
Place: A Coruña (Spain)
Dates: May-June
Site web
Présentation : (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico was born in 2010 in A Coruña, a city in the Spanish Northwestern region of Galicia. Since its very first edition this cinema has focused on experimental cinema and contemporary creation, with special attention to works done in analogue format. (S8) is a non-competitive showcase that was held during its first two editions in the old prison of A Coruña, and has, after changing locations a couple of times, arrived to its current venue: the PALEXCO movie theatre, Centro Galego das Artes de Imaxe – Filmoteca de Galicia, and Fundación Luis Seoane, among other venues scattered around the city.
Montreal Underground Film Festival
Place: Montréal (Canada)
Dates: May-June
Site web
Présentation : MUFF celebrates low-budget filmmaking and promotes those who challenge the constraints and conventions of mainstream Hollywood. Co-founded by Karina Mariano and Zoë Brown, MUFF has morphed into a collective of independent filmmakers, writers, teachers and cinephiles committed to seeking out edgy films bristling with a sense of creative freedom, energy and experimentation. Films in any way affiliated with a major motion picture studio, and “calling-card” films (that is, slick, thinly disguised shout-outs to the commercial industry), are ineligible.
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Place: Chicago (USA)
Dates: June
Site web
Présentation : The Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival is one of the premiere international festivals exclusively devoted to experimental film and video.
Crossroads
Place: San Francisco (USA)
Dates: June
Site web
Présentation : CROSSROADS is San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival celebrating recent (and rediscovered) artist-made film, video and performance cinema. Founded in 2010, each year CROSSROADS presents a diverse line up of contemporary work from the international community.
Filmadrid
Place: Madrid (Spain) and online on MUBI for the video essay selection
Dates: June
Site web
Présentation : FILMADRID International Film Festival aims to promote the exhibition of author cinema, with special interest in works that innovate in their narrative and formal approaches.
Online and on-site section dedicated to the art of the video-essay is made in collaboration with MUBI. The selection of works reflects on the format and explores its different tendencies.
Laterale Film Festival
Place: Cosenza (Italy)
Dates: Summer
Site web
Présentation : Laterale is an international non competitive Festival of cinematic art organized by Associazione Culturale Laterale. Its aim is to enhance the most innovative aspects of audio-visual languages of the contemporary scene and to reduce the distance between artistic research and public involvement. Particular attention is given to young and independent filmmakers and to self-made no-budget works, as result of individual search.
Independent Film Show
Place: Napoli (Italy)
Dates: July
Site web
Présentation : Independent Film Show is built around the researches of filmmakers totally free to experiment the ways and the approaches generating complex images that share an accentuated propensity to creative genius. This intense search mode is the result of ingenious choices to instil an alternative way of seeing and to evaluate the intricate codes flowing on the screen and into the mind.
Process Experimental Film Festival
Place: Riga (Latvia)
Dates: August
Site web
Présentation : The festival is dedicated to analogue cinema, celebrating the physical medium of film in all its personal, adventurous and uncompromising forms.
Process is organised by Baltic Analog Lab which is an artist-run film laboratory based in Riga, in collaboration with guest-curators and artists differing each year.
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
Place: Moscow (Russia)
Dates: August
Site web
Présentation : MIEFF is a platform for everyone who creates, takes interest in or otherwise engages with the moving images. Its main goal is to support Russian artists and introduce them to the international community, as well as help experimental cinema reach a wider audience.
Bogota Experimental Film Festival
Place: Bogota (Colombia)
Dates: August
Site web
Présentation : The Bogota Experimental Film Festival is a Colombian platform for creation, exhibition, and, circulation of audiovisual works of art that focus on narrative, technical and conceptual experimentation. The festival welcomes works and artists that transcend the aesthetics, technical, and semiotic boundaries and break with dominant and standardized discourse.
25 FPS
Place: Zagreb (Croatia)
Dates: September
Site web
Présentation : 25 FPS Festival screens independent and non-commercial films which innovatively explore the possibilities of cinematic language, narration and the medium itself, cross film types and genres and broaden the notion of film as art. It promotes expressive original concepts, progresses in terms of theme, idea and aesthetics, as well as works that perpetuate the tradition of avant-garde and experimental film.
EXiS Experimental Film And Video Festival
Place: Seoul (South Korea)
Dates: September
Site web
Présentation : Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul since 2004, South Korea.
Videoex
Place: Zurich (Switzerland)
Dates: Sptember-October
Site web
Présentation : Videoex is Switzerland's largest festival dedicated to experimental film and video. Over the course of nine days, Videoex shows films and videos beyond conventional narrative cinema: experimental, visually surprising, conceptually unexpected or controversially political films and videos on the threshold between visual art and film.
The VAST Lab Experimental Festival
Place: Burbank (USA)
Dates: Fall
Site web
Présentation : "Building community with experimental Visual, Audio, Story & Technology Arts.
Whether on-site in our studio or at an off-site satellite program, VAST Lab is a creative incubator. A place for Lovers, Learners, and Masters to Collaborate, Create, & Connect."
Fracto
Place: Berlin (Germany)
Dates: October
Site web
Présentation : Growing in the lively Berlin scene, Fracto aims to offer a novel and unique focal point dedicated to experimental and avant-garde film, gathering a worldwide community interested in art film-based research processes. Fracto is conceived as an encounter embracing the cinematic medium as a membrane for intersubjective exchanges, merging multiple perspectives into an embodied and shared experience where the primordial and the critical actively unfold in the enjoyment of endless interpretation.
Experimental Film Guanajuato
Place: Guanajuato (Mexico)
Dates: October
Site web
Présentation : Experimental Film Guanajuato is made up of a lot of creative minds, concerned with the formation of audiences, spaces and the continuous development of ideas in favor of free expression and the plasticity of audiovisual forms.
Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas
Place: Paris (France)
Dates: October
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Présentation : The festival promotes cinematographies which focus on the creative act and endeavors to guide audiences by producing editorial contents. Since 1999, the festival is increasingly recognized internationally.
Antimatter Media Art
Place: Victoria (Canada)
Dates: October
Site web
Présentation : Encompassing screenings, installations, performances and media hybrids, Antimatter provides a noncompetitive setting in Victoria, British Columbia, free from commercial and industry agendas.
Engauge : Experimental Film Festival
Place: Seattle (USA)
Dates: November
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Présentation : Each Fall, Engauge Experimental Film Festival hosts screenings sponsored by the Interbay Cinema Society in partnership with Northwest Film Forum. The festival screens only work that originates on film, by filmmakers both local and international.
İstanbul International Experimental Film Festival
Place: Istanbul (Turkey)
Dates: November
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Présentation : Istanbul Experimental is a mission-oriented non-profit art organization structured by a group of artists inspired by Antonin Artaud’s “Body without Organs“ idea; carries out its activities with the awareness that the desire brings responsibilities as much as the need, which bases its relationship with life on ‘weaving’ it instead of ‘building’ in nomadic thoughts along with people and geographies. The association aims to contribute to the presence and visibility of experimental film and arts by doing screenings, exhibitions, performances and training workshops, in collaboration with curators, artists, art spaces and organizations around the world. Istanbul Experimental is the head organization of Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Place: Chicago (USA)
Dates: November
Site web
Présentation : The Chicago Underground Film Festival is an annual event showcasing independent, experimental and documentary films from around the world. Widely recognized as a world-class event, the festival showcases the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to some of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers and emerging talent from around the world. Our mission is to promote films and videos that dissent radically in form, technique, or content from the mainstream and to present adventurous works that challenge and transcend commercial and audience expectations.
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Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video"
Place: Mexico City (Mexico)
Dates: November-December
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Présentation : The objective of the festival is to make experimental cinema have a greater boom in the social fabric. In this way curatorial efforts can captivate a wider audience that feels part of the energetic torrent that only art can give.
ANALOGICA
Place: Bolzano (Italy)
Dates: December
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Présentation : ANALOGICA is a platform for the investigation and dissemination of analog practices in visual and sonic experiments.
It is also a festival started in 2011 in Rome and now taking place during the last week-end of November in Bolzano, Italy.
Throughout the year, a selection of the best works screened at the Analogica festival travels in various places around the world to provide encounters where artists working across disciplines (photo, film, sound, installation) can meet and exchange ideas about analogue practices.
Luminous Void Experimental Film Festival (LVEFF)
Place: Cork (Ireland)
Dates: December
Site web
Présentation : Ireland’s only festival wholly dedicated to experimental cinema.
Experimental Film Society is an Irish company dedicated to the production and distribution of experimental cinema. It creates radical, visually intense films that are distinguished by an uncompromising devotion to personal, formally daring filmmaking. LVEFF is the most concentrated example of its longstanding commitment to screening the wayward work that emerges from its filmmakers and from likeminded artists.
Codec/International Experimental Film and Video Festival
Place: Mexico City (Mexico)
Dates: December
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Présentation : We are a non-competitive national and international independent experimental film festival, which has been held since 2015 in various venues located in the heart of Mexico City and within the Mexican Republic, we also offer a cultural exchange with other countries and festivals.
Documentary
Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival
Place: Pamplona (Spain)
Dates: March
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Présentation : Punto de Vista celebrates non-fiction film.
Open City Documentary Festival
Place: London (UK)
Dates: September
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Présentation : Open City Documentary Festival creates an open space in London to nurture and champion the art of non-fiction cinema. Based at the UCL Centre for Public Anthropology, the team delivers training programmes, an annual documentary festival, the bi-annual Non-Fiction journal and events throughout the year that aim to challenge and expand the idea of documentary in all its forms.
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Place: Jihalva (Czech Republic)
Dates: October
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Présentation : In addition to the main competition section, Ji.hlava offers three other categories: “Fascinations" for the best experimental films, “Testimonies" for the best films with political, ecological or scientific themes, „Short Joy“ for the best short docs, and the traditional national competition "Czech Joy".
DOK Leipzig
Place: Leipzig (Germany)
Dates: October
Site web
Présentation : DOK Leipzig is an annual festival for documentaries and animations that celebrates film and promotes debate. The festival focuses on the values of peace, tolerance, human dignity and freedom of expression, along with a strong, individual artistic signature of the filmmakers.
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
Place: Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Dates: November
Site web
Présentation : IDFA believes in the power of documentaries. In creative documentaries that deepen, reveal and inspire. In documentaries that bring people closer together. And in documentaries that stand for change by inspiring people to act.
Generalist
Trieste Film Festival
Place: Trieste (Italy)
Dates: January
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Présentation : The Trieste Film Festival, for more than thirty years, has continued to act as a special signpost to the cinema of countries and directors which are often unfamiliar – or even unknown – to Italian, and, in general, Western audiences. More than a festival, it acts as a bridge connecting the cinema of Western and Eastern Europe discovering names and trends destined for international success.
London Short Film Festival
Place: London (UK)
Dates: January
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Présentation : LSFF exists to spotlight a multiplicity of filmmakers, visual artists and creatives, across intersections and with a commitment to peripheral voices. We pride ourselves on an 18 year ethos of giving screen-space and visibility to unconventional and thoroughly independent filmmaking, and our programming seeks to situate the contemporary in dialogue with its history and the world at large. We consider LSFF both a platform where filmmakers can cut their teeth and define their careers, and a celebrator of the archival treasures and talent that got us here.
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Place: Clermon-Ferrand (France)
Dates: January-February
Site web
Présentation : Today, the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival is the world's largest film festival dedicated to short films.
Sundance Film Festival
Place: Park City, Utah (USA)
Dates: January-February
Site web
Présentation : The Sundance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the United States. It has been around since 1978.
International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR
Place: Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Dates: January-February
Site web
Présentation : International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) offers a high quality line-up of carefully selected fiction and documentary feature films, short films and media art. The festival's focus is on recent work by talented new filmmakers. However, there is also room for retrospectives and themed programmes. IFFR actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through its co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund, Rotterdam Lab and other industry activities.
Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival
Place: Berlin (Germany)
Dates: February
Site web
Présentation : Every year, around 400 films of all genres, lengths and formats are shown in the various sections and special presentations of the Berlinale. Across the spectrum from feature films to documentary forms and artistic experiments, the audience is invited to encounter highly contrasting milieus, ways of life and attitudes, to put their own judgements and prejudices to the test and to reinvigorate their experience of seeing and perceiving in the realm between classic narrative forms and extraordinary aesthetics.
Filmfest Dresden
Place: Dresden (Germany)
Dates: April
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Présentation : The short film festival focuses on short film in all its facets, and has become one of the most important festivals of its kind throughout Germany.
Seattle International Film Festival
Place: Seattle (USA)
Dates: April
Site web
Présentation : SIFF's mission is to create experiences that bring people together to discover extraordinary films from around the world. It is through the art of cinema that we foster a community that is more informed, aware, and alive.
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Place: Athens (USA)
Dates: April
Site web
Présentation : Founded in 1974, the AIFVF has been presenting the best in international film for 46 years. Known globally as a festival that supports cinema from underground and marginalized populations, the AIFVF represents the values that we share as a community. It is a champion of justice and provides a voice for underrepresented artists and viewpoints on a global level. For four decades, Athens International has embraced experimental, narrative, short-form, feature length, and documentary films from every corner of the globe, offering filmmakers a stellar platform for public exposure and an environment that values artistry above marquee names and industry relationships.
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Place: Oberhausen (Germany)
Dates: April-May
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Présentation : The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has been moving in the field of tension of short film for over 60 years. It is a catalyst and showcase for current developments, a forum for often controversial discussions, a discoverer of new trends and talents and, last but not least, one of the most important short film institutions worldwide.
Pesaro Film Festival
Place: Pesaro (Italy)
Dates: June
Site web
Présentation : From its inception, the goal was to create a non-competitive festival of “first works,” not in the personal sense, but in the sense of new choices and new paths able to generate renewal processes, of growth, maturation and the evolution of cinema. The goal from the onset was thus not only to present new works that young directors were creating, but also to contribute to rendering recognizable and more comprehensible, to all those who shared idealistic patrimonies, the cultural demands and tensions towards breaking equilibriums crystallized by conformist habit and diverse interests. A festival, therefore, more ‘for’ new cinema than ‘of’ it.
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival
Place: Vila do Conde (Portugal)
Dates: July
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Présentation : Assuming as main objective the promotion and diffusion of cinematographic and audio-visual works, selected according to a quality criteria, Curtas Vila do Conde focus on the discovery of new films and filmmakers and also on the recognised legacy of Cinema.
Locarno Film Festival
Place: Locarno (Switzerland)
Dates: August
Site web
Présentation : Throughout its 73-year history, the Locarno Film Festival has occupied a unique position in the landscape of the major film festivals. Every August, for eleven days the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno, right in the heart of Europe, becomes the world capital of auteur cinema.
IndieLisboa
Place: Lisbon (Portugal)
Dates: August-September
Site web
Présentation : IndieLisboa International Film Festival focuses on the exhibition of works that fill the void of film circulation shaped by the mainstream production and exhibition dominating the market. Every year, showing more than 270 films, IndieLisboa attracts audiences and film professionals from all over the globe by giving them the opportunity to discover recent films from emerging talents and to rediscover reputed authors. The festival sections also comprise themed programs, shining a light on relevant affairs, aiming for a conceptually and geographically diverse selection.
Toronto International Film Festival
Place: Toronto (Canada)
Dates: September
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Présentation : Recognized as the world’s largest public film festival, TIFF is bringing the theatrical experience back to life and continues its reputation as both a leader in amplifying under-represented cinematic voices and a bellwether for programming award-winning films from around the globe.
New York Film Festival
Place: New York (USA)
Dates: September-October
Site web
Présentation : Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema. An annual bellwether of the state of cinema that has shaped film culture since 1963, the festival continues a long-standing tradition of introducing audiences to bold and remarkable works from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent.
BFI London Film Festival
Place: London (UK)
Dates: October
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Présentation : Each year the festival presents a selection of the best in world cinema, showing audiences a wide array of films, representing a variety of languages, genres and filmmaking styles. The festival showcases exceptional British filmmaking alongside international work, and the programme spans features, shorts, fiction, documentary, artists’ moving image, restorations, animation and films for families, alongside titles destined for awards-season glory.
L'Alternativa
Place: Barcelona (Spain)
Dates: November-December
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Présentation : L'Alternativa has three competition sections in l'Alternativa Official: Spanish Films, International Feature Films and International Short Films. L'Alternativa Parallel presents tributes, premieres, little-known films, work by new directors and a programme of family screenings. And l'Alternativa Hall offers a rich, varied programme of free screenings, performances and debates in the CCCB Hall.
Places and associations
Other Cinema
Place: San Francisco (USA)
Website
Presentation : Other Cinema is a long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in San Francisco's Mission District.
Whether avant-garde or engagé, their emphasis is on the radical subjectivities and sub-cultural sensibilities that find expression in what used to be called "underground cinema".
Their calendars are curated on a semi-annual basis, mostly comprised of polymorphous group shows--several pieces, in different moving-image and intermedia formats--organized around a common theme. Almost always the artist herself appears in person, bringing new work to an energized microcinema audience opting for the provocative images and ideas only available in a non-commercial and non-academic salon environment.
Conceived and stewarded by Craig Baldwin, with a whole lot of help from ATA Gallery, Steve Polta, Christine Metropoulos, and others in a core collective whose commitment has created a space for contemporary cinematic expression and exchange.
Pleasure Dome
Place: Toronto (Canada)
Website
Presentation : Pleasure Dome is an artist-run presentation organization and publisher dedicated to experimental media. Their organization is committed to presenting artists who expand, fracture, and scrutinize the traditional cinematic spectacle, including those who use moving image technologies that are digital, interactive, or performative.
Anthology Film Archives
Place: New York (USA)
Website
Presentation : Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.
Anthology screens more than 900 programs annually, preserves an average of 25 films per year (with 900 works preserved to date), publishes books and DVDs, and hosts numerous scholars and researchers.
Fueled by the conviction that the index of a culture’s health and vibrancy lies largely in its margins, in those works of art that are created outside the commercial mainstream, Anthology strives to advance the cause and protect the heritage of a kind of cinema that is in particular danger of being lost, overlooked, or ignored.
LightCone
Place: All around the world
Website
Presentation : LIGHT CONE is a nonprofit organization whose aim is the distribution, promotion and preservation of experimental cinema in France and around the world.
LIGHT CONE's primary mission is the distribution of the works in its collection, in their original format whenever possible, to cultural organizations such as nonprofits, cinemas, museums, universities, galleries and festivals. To fulfill this mission, LIGHT CONE operates as a filmmakers' cooperative, guaranteeing to the authors (or the rights-holders) the ownership of both the physical copies and the moral rights of the distributed works.
Each year, LIGHT CONE organizes the Preview Show -- a series of screenings intended to present newly acquired works to an audience of professional curators.
LIGHT CONE also promotes experimental cinema through the programming of regular screenings in Paris (notably as part of the SCRATCH series), as well as through publications and curatorial collaborations, both in France and abroad. Programmers regularly consult its holdings, and many partnerships with cinema and arts institutions are thus secured. These partnerships result in periodic co-publications.
Cyprus Contemporary Film Centre
Place: Lefkosia (Cyprus)
Website
Presentation : Cyprus Contemporary Film Centre, established in 2017, is a film platform which operates in Lefkosia, Cyprus with an aim to promote contemporary cinema, film art practices and different forms of film and audiovisual work primarily experimental and alternative. Screenings take place in multi-cultural spaces, institutions and cinemas across the capital.