Experiments In Cinema

Experiments in Cinema accepts submissions thru Film Freeway August 1 - November 1, 2025! Please note that in spite of loosing our federal funding due to the orange turd in the White House, we found a way to reduce our submission fees this year as a way of giving back to a community that has supported us for 20 years! Also note that this fall both Senses of Cinema and Millennium Film Journal will have articles about our fest.

Hot off the presses, Experiments in Cinema printed programs are hitting the Albuquerque streets. Grab one at your local coffee shop, news stand, food co-op, dark alley.

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FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS, multi projector performances tour by Roger Beebe, one night only https://www.guildcinema.com/event-details/films-for-one-to-eight-projectors

Basement Films' president stages a major retrospective of his creative work!

Apparently the University of New Mexico’s now bloated film department has several new faculty searches in progress. After teaching in the film department at UNM for 25 years and experiencing first hand the seismic shift of its pedagogical reach - remember the chair of the department unceremoniously evicted Basement films seeing no cultural value in our 33years of supporting “undependent media” - I would argue that UNMs film department is now a sinking ship that the wise scholar will avoid at all costs.

Experiments in Cinema v20.0 call for submissions!! �Basement Films’ annual international film festival is proud to announce our call for submissions for our next edition of Experiments in Cinema v20.0 (April 16-20, 2025). EIC will take place at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, New Mexico and will consist of film screenings, lectures, special curated programs, live cinema events as well as workshops.
Our call for submissions is open from August 1 – November 1, 2024 through FilmFreeway.
For additional information contact festival director Bryan Konefsky at [email protected] or print traffic controller Nicole Delmar at [email protected].
We are seeking new and old moving image art that will engage audiences with the magic and wonder that IS un-dependent cinema! Submissions might be (but are not limited to) essay films, dance films, film poems, structural films, post-structural films, post-post structural films, underground films, abstract films, experimental narratives, experimental documentaries, video installations, transgressive films, portrait films, political rant films… Challenge us and make us happy. If your creative output requires fancy press packages, agents to be contacted, a world premiere, descriptions like “…think The Little Mermaid on steroids…,” or character development that can only be understood in terms of a traditional narrative arc, you might do well to find a different festival to screen your film.
Please note that Experiments in Cinema WILL be paying screening fees to all participating artists!
International and Alumni Artists, please contact us at [email protected] for a code to waive your submission fees on FilmFreeway!
Experiments in Cinema v20.0�Bryan Konefsky �Founder/Director, Experiments in Cinema �el presidente, Basement Films �[email protected]

Artist and curator Jungeun Kim recently invited me to participate in an exhibit at the Art These Days gallery in Seoul, South Korea. She will be including my film Have It Your Way: An Exercise in Domestic Terrorism (https://vimeo.com/192263920). The exhibit runs the month of August, 2024. This film was made shortly after what has come to be known as "9/11." I was thinking about finger pointing, xenophobia and the racism that Muslim Americans suffered during those difficult times. And, as a response I created what some have called the ultimate expression of domestic terrorism.