Media City is an annual international festival of film and video art presented in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan since 1994. Each year the festival attracts filmmakers and audience members from around the world to participate in five days of screenings, live performances, exhibitions and artist’s discussions.
A special program from some of the most exciting, disturbing and inspiring queer experimental short films screened at the 13th XPOSED International Queer Film Festival in May. The festival, which started in 2006 has been a passion project from Queer and Experimental film lovers since it’s inception. Now, it has put together a recap of the most discussed, desired and daring titles from this years program, including the four Lolly Award winners.
Bay Area-based non-profit film and media arts organization Canyon Cinema has, for 50 years, served as a bastion of “artist-made moving image work” not just as an archive, but as a distributor and champion of experimental, avant-garde, alternative and otherwise underserviced filmmaking voices.
A selection of avant-garde/experimental shorts will be presented on August 11th at Cinecycle in downtown Toronto, Canada. We are accepting submissions during the month of July. We will announce the program on the first week of August.
Unruly Archives is a program composed of emerging filmmakers whose works interrogate colonialism, cultural erasure, and historical and political truths that have been erased from the "traditional" filmic archive. Each of the works have some relation to the archive, both in the physical and political acts of documentation, be it in use of analog format or incorporation of source material-family photos, home videos, found footage.
