2026 has to be one of our best years for experimental work - and that's really saying something! This sensational package celebrates the analogue which in itself is back in a big way. This selections is as stylish as it is intriguing. Really great stuff

Inverted Valleys*

Takahiro Suzuki USA/2025

*(previously titled OTHERWORLD -- the title was changed due to another film of the same title being made at the same time)A short in-camera edit film shot on Allen Island off the coast of Maine. The film relates the island's history to considerations of the ecological and technological futures affecting society today.

Summer School

Josh Weisbach Latvia/2025/2:45mins

along the banks of the salaca river in rural latvia, a haven emerges where analog film wizards and aspiring apprentices unite. at this pop-up school, the art of filmmaking intertwines with botany, folklore, and magic, weaving a tapestry of creativity and tradition.

Maria Henriqueta Was Here

Nuno Perimental Portugal/2025/13:45mins

Portugal 1872. The Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II, travels to the city of Porto, and stays at the Grand Hotel du Louvre, property of Maria Henriqueta de Mello Lemos e Alvelos. In the present day, the attempt to make a film about this episode becomes an invocation. Maria Henriqueta is with us. Memories, sounds and sensations take over the screen, and help build an emotional geography of our invisible protagonist. This is a phantasmagoria of the senses. A good haunting.

The Stars Watch From Long Ago

Stacey Steers USA/2026/24:00mins

A tiny farmhouse spins through the cosmos . On board is silent film actor Lillian Gish, alone in the vastness. A dreamlike construction conjures a surreal meditation evoking wonder, loss, connection and longing. Wildfires, an existential threat in Colorado where the filmmakers live, emerges as a key element. Meticulously crafted from thousands of handmade collages, the film features Lillian Gish, Janet Gaynor and Ana Torrent whose images are seamlessly lifted from their early films and cast into a contemplative, uncanny epic.

Airports in the 90’s

Laura Morel USA/2025/24:51

"Airports in the 90’s" is a collage film composed entirely of scenes from over 100 Hollywood films set in airports or airplanes during the 1990s. Blending moments of tension, intimacy, absurdity, and quiet routine, the film constructs a single, fictional day at an unnamed airport—an ephemeral space where strangers intersect, journeys begin, and stories are suspended mid-air. In the spirit of Christian Marclay’s “The Clock” and Guy Maddin’s “The Green Fog”, this film operates in the realm of archival remix and cinematic reconstruction. "Airports in the 90’s" invites viewers to reflect on the cinematic language of a pre-9/11 era of travel, where every terminal was a stage and every departure gate a site of drama

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