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Slip Stream

Wheeler Winston Dixon | 2023 | USA | 5 min | W Cdn Premiere

“I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience.” – Elizabeth Jane Howard

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor of Film Studies at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and author of more than 30 books on film history, theory and criticism. Before his time at UNL, he taught at Rutgers University, New School in New York and University of Amsterdam in Netherlands. Dixon is also a notable experimental filmmaker, with films screened at British Film Institute and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. In 2003 Museum of Modern Art honoured Dixon with a retrospective of his work. His writing on film history, theory and criticism has been published widely in scholarly journals, including Cinéaste, Interview, Film Quarterly and others.

Fragments of a Journal in Hell

Rebecca Barten | 2026 | USA | 8 min | Cdn Premiere

A narrated found footage collage film bringing together fragments of writing by the French Surrealist poet, essayist and philosopher, Antonin Artaud. Fragments of a Journal in Hell both looks at and exemplifies a self under siege, undergoing agonizing psycho-physical states. At the same time, the film celebrates an improbably alive artistic practice struggling to still create personal metaphors during a wartime of the self and the world.

Rebecca Barten is an experimental filmmaker who makes poetic and conceptual works both in film and video. Engaging radical otherness, the reclaimed image and film editing as a metabolic system—her works have screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter, Experiments in Cinema, Other Cinema and Cosmic Rays.

North

Hogan Seidel | 2026 | USA | 3 min | Cdn Premiere

I found a decaying print of Nanook of the North and continued its collapse through photochemical processes, confronting the violence of its legacy. North is not a restoration, but a reckoning—an act of holding damaged images until they blur, bleed and refuse the gaze that once claimed them.

Hogan Seidel is a Boston-based artist working in the traditions of experimental film and photography. Their current artistic research, framed through poetic, political and personal lenses, delves into contemporary queer discourse, queer history and queer ecology. Hogan currently is an assistant professor of photography at Simmons University. 

Three Kicks at the Can (A Love Story)

Darrell Varga | 2026 | Canada | 13 min | W Cdn Premiere

A weird and wonderful experimental collage film on dreams of flight and troubles at sea. There are alien invasions in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, but the aliens are us. Steamboat Willie and Bertrand Russell are along for the ride, a journey of hope and fear, a cold fish and the relentless turning of the doomsday clock.

Darell Varga is a documentary and experimental filmmaker originally from Winnipeg, now located in Nova Scotia and working as professor of film at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Balancing Act

Federica Foglia | 2025 | Canada/Italy | 7 min | W Cdn Premiere

A self-portrait at the mirror, except there is neither a portrait nor a mirror. The film navigates the boundaries between what can and can't be told, through the remediation of a 1930 home movie, altered via hand-tinting and digital intervention.

A transnational visual artist and writer, Foglia holds a BA in Multimedia Languages and Digital Computing for Humanities: History of Art, Theatre and Cinema from the University of Naples L'Orientale, an MFA in Film from York University, Toronto and is currently a PhD. candidate in Cinema and Media Arts at York University. Interested in issues of immigration, citizenship and identity, displacement, women of the diaspora, migrant temporalities and finding a visual language to investigate these experiences, Foglia’s practice revolves around recycled cinema, amateur filmmaking, imaginary archives. Her works have screened extensively in festivals and art galleries worldwide, including EX-iS Seoul, Antimatter, Images Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Crossroads San Francisco, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante MACA and Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova,

Duotone Handshake

Winston W Hacking | 2026 | Canada | 2 min | W Cdn Premiere

An experimental film investigating a new form of surface transformation through folding and collage. Concealed narratives begin to unfold through a relatively simple process. The film literally unpacks meaning where each crease reveals an image complexity that was hidden beneath the seemingly flat surface. Original score by electroacoustic and musique concrète composer Andrew Zukerman.

Winston Hacking is an award winning filmmaker and artist who is best known for his collaborations with Flying Lotus, Run the Jewels, Animal Collective and Andy Shauf. His passion lies in conjuring up hybrid works that are equal parts contemporary collage and early cinematic illusion. Capturing anomalies and combining analogue and digital techniques, his explorative work has garnered millions of views online and has been featured by The New York Times, Juxtapoz and Vogue.

The Stars Watch from Long Ago

Stacey Steers | 2025 | USA | 24 min | W Cdn Premiere

A tiny farmhouse spins through the cosmos, carrying silent film icon Lillian Gish into the vast unknown. Meticulously crafted from thousands of handmade collages, this dreamlike, uncanny epic evokes wonder, loss and longing against the shadow of wildfire. Winner Richard Myers Award for the Best Non-Narrative Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival 2026. In competition Annecy International Festival of Animation 2026 and Ottawa Animation Festival 2026.

Stacey Steers is known internationally for her process-driven, labor-intensive films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Her work employs images appropriated from early cinematic sources, from which she constructs original, lyrical narratives.

Steers’ animated short films have screened throughout the USA and abroad, and have received numerous awards. Her work has been featured at Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Locarno International Film Festival, IFFR, Rotterdam, New Directors New Films (New York), MoMA, Lincoln Center in NYC and National Gallery of Art in Washington, among numerous other venues.

Stacey Steers is a recipient of grants from Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital and American Film Institute. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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白日离魂 [Ghost Noon]

Ting-Kin Chan | 2026 | China | 8 min | NA Premiere

Vom Geist der Schwere! Become a ghost at noon, open a spectral drift with no terminus—escape, defection, exile, nomadism—from this point on one cannot be pinned down by any exact and unshifting identification in time or in coordinates.

Under the shadow of the state machine’s perpetual operation, hauntology emerges as a methodology of survival against a pervasive spiritual decline—even as it all is ultimately destined to fail.

Ting-Kin Chan is an independent artist, filmmaker and organizer of non-profit art initiatives. Working through site-based practice, textual writing and spectral media, he regards the post-industrial landscapes left behind by Southern China’s modernization as a field of experimentation. Through mise en scène, citing the audiovisual grammar of art cinema while holding its narrative function in fracture and suspension, he compels the bodies traversing these landscapes to undertake their own rehearsal, dwelling, weight, breath, posture, displacement, so as to choreograph a bodily tactic of perpetual dislocation; and through the moving image, he dislodges the historical spectres sedimented within the folds of this terrain, so that they can no longer be concealed and abruptly develop into the visible. Ting-Kin holds a BA in Experimental Art and an MA in Modern Art and Theory Studies from the School of Fine Arts at South China Normal University. He is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Rice-Free Cooking Art Centre and LIMINALcinema: Film and Moving Image Festival.

Magpie Eye

Jonathan Seungjoon Lee | 2026 | Argentina/South Korea/USA | 6 min | Cdn Premiere

Magpie Eye is an analog film work that explores the immaterial realities of our world through the lens of Korean dream journey traditions (monguyrok). Using a 16mm handmade pinhole camera, the work captures ritual sites, sacred trees and activist sites in Jeju Island. Like the magpie’s iridescent blue that appears beneath its seemingly black and white feathers, this work reveals what is invisible or dismissed as unreal, offering an alternative way of seeing and understanding the spirit world around us.

Born in Argentina, Jonathan Seungjoon Lee is a Korean-American video artist and filmmaker working with themes of family, diaspora and ecology.

Llamada Vidente [To Summon a Seer]

Alan Medina | 2025 | USA | 8 min | W Cdn Premiere

Apertured voyages, orbs of light and memories of migration summon a clairvoyant into the big city, confounding a sense of place through blurred and distant recollection.

Alan Medina is a filmmaker, artist and programmer based in Chicago. His work favours poetic and fragmented modes of storytelling, exploring how place, language and memory shape the inner and outer geographies of portraiture and landscape. He is interested in and often researches material histories and the spectres of a place as points of departure for his films. Through fluid structures, his work approaches filmmaking with an experimental lens that sometimes drifts, blurs, double imposes, but always remembers. His films work and films have screened and shown at festivals including FICUNAM, ICDOCS, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF), ITHEX, Antimatter [media art], DIFFUSION and Prismatic Ground.

敬祖 [Paying Respects]

Jessica Wu | 2026 | Canada | 6 min | BC Premiere

Paying Respects is a short film using the Chinese ritual of burning joss paper to reflect on questions of death and diaspora. Yiqing explores her grief by offering her ancestors everything they couldn’t afford. Everything she burns gets sent to the afterlife. The film plays with themes of memory, distance and dreams. 

Jessica Wu is a visual storyteller with a background in journalism and documentary studies. She is interested in retracing stories of immigration through cultural, political and historical lenses in an attempt to answer ever-entangled questions of identity and diaspora.

but days pass like this

Ariana Gerstein | 2026 | USA | 5 min | Cdn Premiere

A duet for two eyes, just one at a time. Shot on a 1952 Stereo Realist and on a consumer 3D video camera made 70 years later. Hand processed, each eye numbered, taken apart and rebuilt a frame at a time. Made by hand. Sung at a distance. “The Happy Sunny Side of Life” (1936) counter melodies against despair.

Ariana Gerstein uses non-traditional methods to digress, reconsider, recycle, complicate and slow down to think through cinema about relationships and material presence. Her techniques include desktop scanners in place of cameras and other single-frame, animation, and off-use approaches. Her films have been screened at many venues including IDFA, European Media Arts Festival, Media City, 25FPS, New York Film Festival, MOMA, and received awards and support by way of the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film from Ann Arbor Film Festival, Golden Gate Award from San Francisco International Film Festival, a Truer Than Fiction/Independent Spirit Award with partner Monteith McCollum (with Ariana as editor), Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, New York Council on the Arts, New York Foundation of the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and Illinois Arts Council. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024 Her experimental documentary work has been nationally broadcast on the P.B.S. series P.O.V. Ariana graduated from High School in Mobile, Alabama, college in Binghamton, New York, and got her MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

And I See

Billy Palumbo | 2026 | USA | 4 min | W Cdn Premiere

The world, unfixed. When mortality shakes me, the search for joy means making the familiar new. Here’s to starting a new life where sight is an affirmation of life. Will you look with me?

Billy Palumbo is an experimental filmmaker and writer. His films interrogate authorial control in the filmmaking process, explore the limits language places on political and self-expression and display an irreverent sense of humour. Billy is a faculty member at Emerson College and visiting lecturer at Tufts University Experimental College.

The Ghost Image

Emmanuel Piton | 2025 | France | 19 min | W Cdn Premiere

In the house of my childhood, I search for traces of an apparition that still haunts my memory.

Emmanuel Piton's films oscillate between experimental cinema and documentary. Most of his creations, shot on Super 8 and 16mm film and developed using traditional methods, address the question of memory and traces in isolated territories. His films are screened at film festivals, museums and independent screenings. In 2008, he founded Zéro de conduite, a collective of artists working in film creation (workshops, films, performances, etc.), and in 2014, Labo K, an experimental laboratory dedicated to film photography. He has set up training courses on filmmaking at universities and art and film schools (La Fémis, Master's in Documentary Film at Lussas, Performing Arts, Ty Films in Mellionnec). He also directs collective performances at Labo K and in collaboration with other artisanal film laboratories (Bombay, Mexico, Tromso, etc.). In 2021, he co-founded the Obskura film festival in Rennes.