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OPEN CALL 18th Edition Inshadow - Lisbon Screendance Festival. Deadline April 30th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
OPEN CALL 18th Edition Inshadow - Lisbon Screendance Festival
InShadow is an international festival dedicated to screendance and moving image, held annually in Lisbon from mid-November to mid-December. We celebrate bold, innovative and hybrid works at the inters...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:03 PM
OPEN CALL 18th Edition Inshadow - Lisbon Screendance Festival. Deadline April 30th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
MicroActs Artist Film Screenings (London, UK) - Open Call. Late deadline February 28th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
MicroActs Artist Film Screenings - Open Call
MicroActs is now accepting submissions for our next edition of MicroActs, an evening of artist short film!We celebrate artist filmmakers from around the globe & across genres, and aim to create an int...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM
MicroActs Artist Film Screenings (London, UK) - Open Call. Late deadline February 28th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
The Film-Makers' Cooperative's 65th Anniversary Gala Benefit. February 13th, 19h - Judson Memorial Church, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
February 2, 2026 at 10:18 AM
The Film-Makers' Cooperative's 65th Anniversary Gala Benefit. February 13th, 19h - Judson Memorial Church, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Pebbles Underground - Award Winning films from Winter 2025 edition streaming on VisualcontainerTV February 1-15 expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Pebbles Underground: Award Winning films from Winter 2025 edition streaming on VisualcontainerTV February 1-15
This screening showcases the award-winning short experimental films and video artworks from Pebbles Underground Winter 2025 edition. Despite vastly different geographies and aesthetics, the artists sh...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Pebbles Underground - Award Winning films from Winter 2025 edition streaming on VisualcontainerTV February 1-15 expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Cinema of the Body: Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki. February 12th, 19h - e-flux Screening Room, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Cinema of the Body: Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, February 12 at 7pm for a rare screening of four films by Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki: three short works made between 1970 and 2016, and their fo...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Cinema of the Body: Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki. February 12th, 19h - e-flux Screening Room, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Marienbad Film Festival 2026 Open call. Deadline March 31st expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Marienbad Film Festival 2026 Open call
The Marienbad Film Festival is an international film festival based in Czech Republic focusing on works of an experimental nature, marginal forms of cinema, contemporary moving image, and artistic & c...
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January 30, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Marienbad Film Festival 2026 Open call. Deadline March 31st expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Scratch Projection: ARCHIPELAGIC VISIONS: SWEDISH EXPERIMENTAL FILM 1954-1991. February 3rd, 20:30h - Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Scratch Projection: ARCHIPELAGIC VISIONS: SWEDISH EXPERIMENTAL FILM 1954-1991
Guest program by Martin Grennberger, independent curatorWhen attempting to remap some early milieus of experimental film culture in Sweden, one cannot help but notice their scattered nature.
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January 30, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Scratch Projection: ARCHIPELAGIC VISIONS: SWEDISH EXPERIMENTAL FILM 1954-1991. February 3rd, 20:30h - Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
SITUATIONS/PROJECTIONS. February 6-22 - Reflet Machine, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
January 29, 2026 at 7:59 AM
SITUATIONS/PROJECTIONS. February 6-22 - Reflet Machine, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
European Media Art Festival (EMAF) 2026: "An Incomplete Assembly". April 22-26 - Osnabrück expcinema.org/site/en/even...
European Media Art Festival (EMAF) 2026: "An Incomplete Assembly"
Institutions strive to organise volatile relations, such as power, work, privileges, language and emotions, as efficiently as possible, in order to establish a permanent order. What benefits do they o...
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January 28, 2026 at 2:40 PM
European Media Art Festival (EMAF) 2026: "An Incomplete Assembly". April 22-26 - Osnabrück expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival 2026 - call for entries. Deadline May 15th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival 2026
Call for entries is open! Every fall for the past twenty-five years, the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival has occupied the Casino de Montbenon (which is actually NOT a casino - but this almo...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival 2026 - call for entries. Deadline May 15th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Kinoskop 7 (Belgrade, Serbia) - International Festival of Analog Experimental Cinema - Call for Entries. Deadline February 4th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Kinoskop 7 - Call for Entries
KINOSKOP - 7TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANALOG EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - CALL FOR ENTRIESSTRICTLY ACADEMIA - SPECIAL EDITION8-9 March 2026Kinoskop, Belgrade’s indie/niche festival dedicated to analog cin...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Kinoskop 7 (Belgrade, Serbia) - International Festival of Analog Experimental Cinema - Call for Entries. Deadline February 4th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Look What I Found! Negativland + Craig Baldwin. January 31st, 19h - Millennium Film Workshop, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Look What I Found! Negativland + Craig Baldwin
On Saturday January 31, we will be screening a special double feature celebrating the work of found footage luminaries Negativland and Craig Baldwin. Negativland is an experimental music and video gro...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Look What I Found! Negativland + Craig Baldwin. January 31st, 19h - Millennium Film Workshop, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Jennifer Locke: Passing Through. Exhibition February 7th-April 4th - Telematic Gallery, San Francisco expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Jennifer Locke: Passing Through
Jennifer Locke’s Passing Through is a two-channel video installation, projected on opposing walls of the gallery, exploring the body as a sculptural object in relationship to architectural space and t...
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January 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Jennifer Locke: Passing Through. Exhibition February 7th-April 4th - Telematic Gallery, San Francisco expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Frames Per Wave: Collective 16mm Film Fundraiser For Flotilla to Gaza. Deadline January 30th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Frames Per Wave: Collective 16mm Film Fundraiser For Flotilla to Gaza
Please find the project introduction on Instagram first.https://www.instagram.com/p/DTVj3-wAeT6/ Frames per Wave is a collective film/mutual aid film project supporting A Thousand Madleens To Gaza. Ju...
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January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Frames Per Wave: Collective 16mm Film Fundraiser For Flotilla to Gaza. Deadline January 30th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Short Circuit: Village People. Open Call for Films. Deadline March 6th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Village People. Open Call for Films
Short Circuit's themed screenings continue into 2026 with an invite for filmmakers to share their films for our April programme VILLAGE PEOPLE What is a village? Whether urban or rural, ancient or evo...
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January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Short Circuit: Village People. Open Call for Films. Deadline March 6th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Dicky Bahto: a survey of recent works. Triple program, January 30th-February 1st - Human Resources, Los Angeles expcinema.org/site/en/even...
January 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Dicky Bahto: a survey of recent works. Triple program, January 30th-February 1st - Human Resources, Los Angeles expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Bogota Experimental Film Festival 2026 - call for entries. Deadline February 28th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Bogota Experimental Film Festival 2026
The Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Cineautopsia, celebrates its XII (12th) edition in 2026. We call upon works and artists from Colombia and around the world who are nonconformist and dissident to...
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January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Bogota Experimental Film Festival 2026 - call for entries. Deadline February 28th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence. January 30th-February 7th - BAMPFA, Berkeley expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence
This career retrospective, combined with a filmmaker residency, offers Bay Area audiences a chance to see American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers’s highly rewarding body of work and engage with ...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence. January 30th-February 7th - BAMPFA, Berkeley expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Videotage: Open Call for Video Essays. Deadline February 6th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Videotage: Open Call for Video Essays
Videotage will publish D-normal/V-essay: Videotage Edition - Open Call in June 2026. From now until 6 February 2026, video creators worldwide are invited to submit their video essays.As a keen observe...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Videotage: Open Call for Video Essays. Deadline February 6th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Skin, Inscribed: Contemporary Brazilian hand-processed films. February 15th, 16h - Cinéma le Grand Action, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Skin, Inscribed: Contemporary Brazilian hand-processed films
✸ Skin, Inscribed ✸ Contemporary Brazilian hand-processed films► Just as a painter applies raw paint on a canvas, a filmmaker applies light(and other matters) on film strip. This hand-picked program f...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Skin, Inscribed: Contemporary Brazilian hand-processed films. February 15th, 16h - Cinéma le Grand Action, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
In Another Light: Cinema of Memory - Artistic Impulses. January 30th, 19:30h - Paradise Factory, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Artistic Impulses
In Another Light: Cinema of Memory is the Al Larvick Conservation Fund’s 10th anniversary screening series, marking a decade of work dedicated to preserving and sharing American home movies, amateur c...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:23 AM
In Another Light: Cinema of Memory - Artistic Impulses. January 30th, 19:30h - Paradise Factory, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
BEAST IFF 9.0 (Porto, Portugal): Call for Entries. Deadline April 30th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
BEAST IFF 9.0: Call for Entries
9th BEAST IFF – Festival of Central & East European Film June 3 - 7 2026 Porto, PortugalSubmissions: until April 30Entering its 9th edition, BEAST International Film Festival is returning to Porto, tu...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:21 AM
BEAST IFF 9.0 (Porto, Portugal): Call for Entries. Deadline April 30th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Spectrum Between presents - Illuminated Hours: 16mm Films By Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler. February 15th, 19h - Sunnyside Community Center, Portland expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Illuminated Hours: 16mm Films By Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler
Calling all romantics, stoners, and formalists! We’re showing a split program dedicated to Dorsky and Hiler, two legends of avant-garde cinema known for their meticulously constructed works of abstrac...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Spectrum Between presents - Illuminated Hours: 16mm Films By Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler. February 15th, 19h - Sunnyside Community Center, Portland expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Speaking Aloud / Conversation’s Over: Feminist Self-Portraits and Autobiographical Experiments. February 28th, 16h - Barbican Cinema, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Speaking Aloud / Conversation’s Over: Feminist Self-Portraits and Autobiographical Experiments
Two newly digitised tapes from the LCVA act as the creative catalyst for this programme that explores different modes of feminist self-representation at the Barbican Cinema.The programme begins with t...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Speaking Aloud / Conversation’s Over: Feminist Self-Portraits and Autobiographical Experiments. February 28th, 16h - Barbican Cinema, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Kamera Series | Experimental Films and Printed Matter Retrospective 2021-2025. January 23rd, 14h, 16h & 18h - Labor Neunzehn, Berlin expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Kamera Series | Experimental Films and Printed Matter Retrospective 2021-2025
KAMERA Series | Retrospective 2021–2025 is a one-day screening program bringing together international artists who have taken part in the KAMERA series over the past five years.
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January 22, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Kamera Series | Experimental Films and Printed Matter Retrospective 2021-2025. January 23rd, 14h, 16h & 18h - Labor Neunzehn, Berlin expcinema.org/site/en/even...