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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 2d

Synch Pulse - No. 19: Railways. October 21, 19h - The Rose Hill, Brighton expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Whether a train spotter or ordinary passenger, all can acknowledge the striking impact railways have had on the modern world. Filmmakers have sought to capture many of the aspects that hold an endurin...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 2d

Flesh, Wax & Glass pt. I & II By George Finlay Ramsay. November 10th, 18:30h - Barbican Cinema, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Flesh, Wax & Glass pt. I & II By George Finlay Ramsay

Two powerful short films charting a Southern Italian bloodletting ritual and one family’s journey through mourning, faith and devotion in the 21st century.Screening at the Barbican:https://www.barbica...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 3d

In Focus: Kaori Oda. November 20-23 - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

In Focus: Kaori Oda

Japanese experimental filmmaker Kaori Oda uses her camera as a navigational tool, feeling her way through unfamiliar worlds, particularly subterranean terrains, in her “underground” experimental non-f...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 4d

Elastic Arts Foundation and Fugue State Present A Night with Sonnie Wooden. October 29th, 20h - Elastic Arts, Chicago expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Elastic Arts Foundation and Fugue State Present A Night with Sonnie Wooden

Glenn Sonnie Wooden is one of the most provocative radical thinkers and artists in the Chicago art scene. His works Guillotine and Godspeed, both previously curated by Fugue State founder, M. Woods, d...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 4d

Berlin Masterclass & Screening (Cinematic Synesthesia / TCS 2025). Final deadline to apply October 20th expcinema.org/site/en/call...

Berlin Masterclass & Screening (Cinematic Synesthesia / TCS 2025)

Application deadline: Monday, 20 October 2025 (23:59, Berlin time)EFS Film School (Experimental Film Society/Rouzbeh Rashidi) and Tehran Contemporary Sounds invite final applications for the two-day, ...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 5d

Odds and Ends Experimental Film Festival (Charlottesville, USA) - Call for Entries. Earlybird deadline November 7th expcinema.org/site/en/call...

Odds and Ends Experimental Film Festival Call for Entries

Odds & Ends is an experimental film festival located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The festival will hold its fourth annual screening on February 21, 2026 at the Vinegar Hill Theatre and will be prese...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 5d

Pollen: Video Spells. November 2nd, 13h - CAVE, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 5d

Pasolini: Durations - exhibition of video works by Cathy Lee Crane and John Di Stefano. November 3-13 - Casa Italiana, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Pasolini: Durations

On the 50th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's death, artist-filmmakers Cathy Lee Crane and John Di Stefano present a meditation on Pasolini with a series of video-based works presented at NYU’s Cas...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 5d

Arquiteturas Film Festival 13th edition - "Urban Age" (Oporto, Portugal). Deadline November 2nd expcinema.org/site/en/call...

Arquiteturas Film Festival 13th edition - "Urban Age"

How can film help us reflect on the urban age we inhabit, and on the ways cities and territories are shaped by today’s social, political, and environmental challenges?With the 13th edition of the Arqu...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 5d

Mientras tanto CINE 2026 (Montevideo, Uruguay). Fecha límite de recepción 12 de enero 2026 expcinema.org/site/es/conv...

Mientras tanto CINE 2026

Mientras tanto CINE - Convocatoria 2026Se encuentra abierta la convocatoria nacional e internacional para películas experimentales en digital y/o en fílmico para participar de la 8va. edición de Mient...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 5d

Braziers International Film Festival 2026 (Oxford, UK) - Call For Entries. Early bird deadline November 30th expcinema.org/site/en/call...

Braziers International Film Festival - Call For Entries

Open Call to all filmmakers.The 8th edition of Braziers International Film Festival will run from Aug 28 - 30, 2026, with a 3 day programme of international films, along with installations, live perfo...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 9d

Both Sides Now 10 - artists’ film and video works from the UK and Hong Kong. October 30th, 19h - Barbican Cinema, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Both Sides Now 10

Curated and produced by videoclub (UK) and Dr. Isaac Leung (HK), Both Sides Now 10 presents a dynamic compilation of artists’ film and video works from the UK and Hong Kong.This milestone 10th edition...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 9d

The short films of Dicky Bahto. October 17th, 19:30h - No Name Cinema, Santa Fe expcinema.org/site/en/even...

The short films of Dicky Bahto

The short films of Dicky Bahtoat No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NMdoors at 7pm, show at 7:302013 Pinon St, Santa Fe$5-15 suggested donation at the door / free popcorn"His varied and complex engagement with...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 11d

27th Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (FCDEP). October 10-19 expcinema.org/site/en/even...

27th Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (FCDEP)

The 27th edition of the Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (FCDEP) takes place this year in various places around Paris from the 10th to the 19th of October 2025!This year, 45 f...

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La Liotta @laliotta.bsky.social · 12d

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 12d

Student Experimental Film Festival (SEFF) at Binghamton University - call for submissions. Deadline October 19th expcinema.org/site/en/call...

Student Experimental Film Festival (SEFF) at Binghamton University

As part of a curating course, Binghamton University’s Cinema Department holds this festival every year. This year’s festival will take place on Friday, November 7th, and the theme is Dwellings. SEFF f...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 13d

Altogether Without, a group exhibition proposing "an encounter with the (in)discernable gap between the still and the moving image." October 16th-November 8th - SET Lewisham, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 13d

Xcèntric - Crater-Lab / Spectral: A Programme of Expanded Cinema. October 9th, 19h - CCCB, Barcelona expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Xcèntric - Crater-Lab / Spectral: A Programme of Expanded Cinema

Designed in collaboration with Crater-Lab, this session presents three recent works by members of the collective, and one by Mexican Elena Pardo, one of the artistes participating in SCREEN, the inter...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 13d

Found Forms: Mattijn Seip. October 25th, 17h - Slottsbiografen, Uppsala expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Found Forms: Mattijn Seip

As part of the Uppsala Short Film Festival.Mattijn Seip (b. 1940) has since the 1960s been a important actor in Amsterdam's alternative film scene along with Barbara Meter, among others, and this 16mm...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 13d

Altered Images Vol. VI ft. Iklectik. October 25th, 17h - Club Cheek, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Altered Images Vol. VI ft. Iklectik

An electrifying night of experimental cinema, live performance, and shadow-soaked sound. Across film screenings, exclusive audiovisual encounters, and cutting-edge sets, Altered Images blurs the lines...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 17d

Laterale Film Festival 2026 (Cosenza, Italy) - Call for entries. Final deadline April 30th 2026 expcinema.org/site/en/call...

Laterale Film Festival 2026

LATERALE FILM FESTIVAL is an international non-competitive festival of cinematic art organized by the Associazione Culturale Laterale.Its aim is to highlight the most innovative aspects of contemporar...

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · 19d

Scratch Collection: SOWING TROUBLE - Ecocritical crossings through experimental cinema. Curated by Teresa Castro and Alice Leroy. Oct.9, 14 & 21, Nov. 4, 18 & 25 - Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...