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Lightstruck presents - Fred Worden: A Cinema of Pure Energy. January 22nd, 19:30h - 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Fred Worden: A Cinema of Pure Energy
For the first event of 2026, Lightstruck is extremely excited to present a double feature of programs from one of our very favorite artists and individuals, Fred Worden. Since 1970, Worden has produce...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Lightstruck presents - Fred Worden: A Cinema of Pure Energy. January 22nd, 19:30h - 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles expcinema.org/site/en/even...
SCREENING LAV #031: Donde comienza el juego. 17 de enero, 19:30h - Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid expcinema.org/site/es/even...
SCREENING LAV #031: Donde comienza el juego
Lo político apareció porque olvidamos el juego.¿Lo olvidamos ¿O huimos de él?Nos vamos encarcelando, poniéndonos barreras, alejándonos de la curiosidad. Miramos el juego como símbolo infantil, pero es...
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January 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
SCREENING LAV #031: Donde comienza el juego. 17 de enero, 19:30h - Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid expcinema.org/site/es/even...
Scratch Projection: Henry Hills - Edited to the Frame. January 20th, 20:30h - Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Scratch Projection: Henry Hills - Edited to the Frame
Screening in the presence of the filmmakerThe single frame is the basic constituent unit of film. Kubelka’s Schwechater is one of the boldest (and possibly the first) explicit demonstrations of this f...
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January 14, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Scratch Projection: Henry Hills - Edited to the Frame. January 20th, 20:30h - Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Theories of Personal Experimental Filmmaking. Live Online Masterclass (Zoom) with Rouzbeh Rashidi expcinema.org/site/en/gene...
Theories of Personal Experimental Filmmaking
Theories of Personal Experimental FilmmakingLive Online Masterclass (Zoom) with Rouzbeh RashidiDates: 15 Feb – 22 Mar 2026 (Sundays)Time: 16:00–18:00 CETFormat: Live on Zoom + recordings provided (pri...
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January 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Theories of Personal Experimental Filmmaking. Live Online Masterclass (Zoom) with Rouzbeh Rashidi expcinema.org/site/en/gene...
Cinezeta: "No es agosto, pero es verano": Filmes de Chantal Akerman, Teo Hernández y Ado Arrieta. 16 de enero, 19h - Cineteca, Madrid expcinema.org/site/es/even...
No es agosto, pero es verano
Cinezeta: Jóvenes programando - Cineteca, Matadero.Primera sesión sábado 17 de enero. Programación colectiva.Le jour où (Chantal Akerman, Suiza, 1997, 7')Feuilles d'été (Teo Hernández, Francia, 1983, ...
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January 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Cinezeta: "No es agosto, pero es verano": Filmes de Chantal Akerman, Teo Hernández y Ado Arrieta. 16 de enero, 19h - Cineteca, Madrid expcinema.org/site/es/even...
Open call for feminist screening (Budapest, Hungary). Deadline January 25th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Open call for feminist screening
Please read the submission guidelines before applying!
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January 13, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Open call for feminist screening (Budapest, Hungary). Deadline January 25th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
aCinema's aDifferent Program Submissions Now Open!. Deadline Ferbuary 3rd expcinema.org/site/en/call...
aCinema's aDifferent Program Submissions Now Open!
Over the weekend of Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17, 2026, aCinema will present a spring screening series featuring six programs, at Woodland Pattern. Two of the six programs will be curated fro...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
aCinema's aDifferent Program Submissions Now Open!. Deadline Ferbuary 3rd expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Braquage: On Lost Highway. January 15th, 20:30h - Espace en Cours, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Braquage: On Lost Highway
Just one year ago, David Lynch, an innovative filmmaker who constantly pushed the boundaries of abstraction, nightmare and sensory plasticity in images, passed away. A major artist, his work drew on m...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Braquage: On Lost Highway. January 15th, 20:30h - Espace en Cours, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Open Call | FECIMU 2026 6th International Film and Multimedia Art Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Deadline February 10th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Open Call | FECIMU 2026 6th International Film and Multimedia Art Festival
The 6th edition of the FECIMU International Film and Multimedia Festival invites artists and filmmakers to submit their experimental short films and multimedia art works.FECIMU is a non-profit festiva...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Open Call | FECIMU 2026 6th International Film and Multimedia Art Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Deadline February 10th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Confesionario: de nubes y de relojes. Trabajos en 16mm de Pablo Useros. 13 de enero, 19h- - Cinetca, Madrid expcinema.org/site/es/even...
Confesionario: de nubes y de relojes
"Sesión que reúne algunos de mis últimos trabajos en 16mm., es decir algunas de mis dudas y mis deseos". (Pablo Useros)Programa:One frameInstrucciones para un autorretratoServidumbres de la luzCuba Ve...
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January 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Confesionario: de nubes y de relojes. Trabajos en 16mm de Pablo Useros. 13 de enero, 19h- - Cinetca, Madrid expcinema.org/site/es/even...
Look What I Found! Found Footage Video 1936 - 2026. Exhibition Jan.17-Feb.7 + Screenings Jan.17+24 - Millennium Film Workshop, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Look What I Found! Found Footage Video 1936 - 2026
As we sail into 2026, Millennium is proud to announce our first exhibition of the new year, Look What I Found! Found Footage Film & Video 1936-2026 a 90 year survey of re-appropriated media. The found...
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January 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Look What I Found! Found Footage Video 1936 - 2026. Exhibition Jan.17-Feb.7 + Screenings Jan.17+24 - Millennium Film Workshop, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Call for films - protocole hystérique. Deadline January 19th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Call for films - protocole hystérique
@protocole.hysterique collective has launched an open call for films (experimental, DIY, crashed, dirty & rowdy), open until January 19, in preparation for the first edition of its festival which will...
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January 12, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Call for films - protocole hystérique. Deadline January 19th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Audio Visual Butoh Performance: Frequency in Motion. January 26th, 19:30h - the old hairdresser's, Glasgow expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Audio Visual Butoh Performance: Frequency in Motion
Audio Visual Butoh Performance: Frequency in MotionSilent images on the screenA Dancer pausessounds and notes linger on frequency in motionLive sounds, field recordings, objects : Hiroko Komiya (JP) ,...
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January 12, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Audio Visual Butoh Performance: Frequency in Motion. January 26th, 19:30h - the old hairdresser's, Glasgow expcinema.org/site/en/even...
I, Internet - screening + symposium. January 31st, 14h - Verdurin,London expcinema.org/site/en/even...
January 12, 2026 at 9:47 AM
I, Internet - screening + symposium. January 31st, 14h - Verdurin,London expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Chroma: Image & Sound Film Festival (Knoxville, USA) - Call for submissions. Earlybird deadline March 1st expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Chroma: Image & Sound Film Festival
CHROMA: Image & Sound is an experimental film and music festival based in Knoxville, Tennessee.We present short and feature-length experimental films in conversation with hand-selected, carefully cura...
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January 8, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Chroma: Image & Sound Film Festival (Knoxville, USA) - Call for submissions. Earlybird deadline March 1st expcinema.org/site/en/call...
20/20 Vision : From Chicago to Palestine, a "screening in solidarity with Video Data Bank." January 21st, 18h - argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels expcinema.org/site/en/even...
20/20 Vision : From Chicago to Palestine
We’re compiling the programme of this month’s 20/20 Vision screening in solidarity with our colleagues at Video Data Bank in Chicago.Founded in 1976, Video Data Bank is a pioneering media archive and ...
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January 8, 2026 at 11:32 AM
20/20 Vision : From Chicago to Palestine, a "screening in solidarity with Video Data Bank." January 21st, 18h - argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels expcinema.org/site/en/even...
The Hotel presents... Stan Brakhage + Henry Cyer + Excel DJ. February 4th, 19:30h - Cafe Oto, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...
The Hotel presents... Stan Brakhage + Henry Cyer + Excel DJ
For its first evening at Cafe OTO, The Hotel presents a diverse line-up of three singular artists with a shared intuition towards the ineffable.As first act to the evening, The Hotel will host a rare ...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The Hotel presents... Stan Brakhage + Henry Cyer + Excel DJ. February 4th, 19:30h - Cafe Oto, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Fugue State Season 2: Call for Submissions. Deadline June 24th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Fugue State Season 2: Call for Submissions
Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiment...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Fugue State Season 2: Call for Submissions. Deadline June 24th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Synch Pulse - No. 22: Water. January 14th, 19h - The Rose Hill, Brighton expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Synch Pulse - No. 22: Water
Experimental film night screening alternative and unusual shorts, this month focussing on a theme of Water. Synch Pulse is a monthly free entry experimental film night featuring a different theme for ...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Synch Pulse - No. 22: Water. January 14th, 19h - The Rose Hill, Brighton expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Pollen: Crystal Wind, a "night of expanded cinema ... featuring three curated programs.". January 25th, 13h - CAVE, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Pollen: Crystal Wind
Partnering with LEIMAY, Pollen will present a second night of expanded cinema on January 25, 2026 at CAVE featuring three curated programs.
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January 7, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Pollen: Crystal Wind, a "night of expanded cinema ... featuring three curated programs.". January 25th, 13h - CAVE, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Five Rooms: The Dark Flipside of the Modern Home, by Samuel Otte and Melli Müller. Exhibition opening January 16th, 16h - WIHH Gallery, Amsterdam expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Five Rooms: The Dark Flipside of the Modern Home
Five Rooms is a door to the subconscious of the modern domestic space. Samuel Otte and Melli Müller entered the subconscious before you by using Source Tuning, a method by which the body is asked ques...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Five Rooms: The Dark Flipside of the Modern Home, by Samuel Otte and Melli Müller. Exhibition opening January 16th, 16h - WIHH Gallery, Amsterdam expcinema.org/site/en/even...
ecoSYNTH² - Call for Films, VR & Digital Performances. Deadline January 18th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
ecoSYNTH² - Call for Films, VR & Digital Performances
ecoSYNTH² — Call for Films, VR & Digital PerformancesVorspiel 2026 · CTM × transmediale30–31 January 2026 · BerlinecoSYNTH² returns for its second edition as part of Vorspiel 2026 (CTM × transmediale)...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
ecoSYNTH² - Call for Films, VR & Digital Performances. Deadline January 18th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
The 2026 Film and Video Poetry Symposium - call for submissions. Deadline August 31st expcinema.org/site/en/call...
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The 2026 Film and Video Poetry Symposium - call for submissions. Deadline August 31st expcinema.org/site/en/call...
55. Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival 2026 - Call for Entries. Deadline January 12th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
December 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
55. Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival 2026 - Call for Entries. Deadline January 12th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
EXiS 2026 (Seoul, South Korea) Call for Entries. Deadline March 20th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
EXiS 2026 Call for Entries
EXiS 2026 Call for Entries!23rd Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS)Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) is now calling for entries to the competitions of its 23rd edit...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
EXiS 2026 (Seoul, South Korea) Call for Entries. Deadline March 20th expcinema.org/site/en/call...