VAST LAB Inc.
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Building community with experimental Visual, Audio, Story & Technology Arts. We host 6-8 shows each year spanning genre and medium.
Check here for this weeks hours and events: https://www.instagram.com/thevastlab/
Founded in 2016 by Daniel Paul Bates in Los Angeles, CA THE VAST LAB is a Multi-Disciplinary Playground for Lovers, Learners, and Masters of the Visual, Audio, Story, and Technology Arts. In parallel to our programming, we host monthly Youth Labs connecting local students with working artists.
VLX 7.4
Date: Wednesday, July 29
Doors: 7:30 PM
Capacity: 20 seats
Venue: Material
Address: 2025 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618
RSVP: Wednesday, July 29
Press list / press inquiries: [email protected]
Program
12 films · 8 countries
01 — How Do You Move In This World?
dir. Brian Padian
Short Fiction
United States
02 — Externalities
dir. Dan McHale
Short Animation
United States
03 — On a clear day you can see forever
dir. Ian Haig
Short Animation
Australia
04 — The Dream Portal
dir. Samuel Karow
Short Non-Fiction
United States
05 — hurricane
dir. Héctor Almeida
Short Non-Fiction
Cuba
06 — London Quick City
dir. Mark G Lonsdale
Short Fiction
United Kingdom
07 — Buses don’t stop here anymore
dir. Penny McCann
Short Non-Fiction
Canada
08 — Sandia
dir. Mélissa Faivre
Short Non-Fiction
Germany
09 — Calibrating
dir. Aby Isakov
Short Fiction
United States
10 — You’re finally home
dir. Hanna Viktoria Abrahamsson
Short Fiction
Sweden
11 — Wherever Street Piece
dir. Panu Johansson
Short Non-Fiction
Finland
12 — La noirceur souterraine des racines / The subterranean blackness of roots
dir. Charles-André Coderre
Short Non-Fiction
Canada
Each VLX program includes a LIVEscore segment: an intimate, live response to selected moving-image works, created in the room and shaped by the charged immediacy of the screening environment. Rather than treating sound as a fixed accompaniment, LIVEscore opens a space where film, performance, audience, and venue can briefly become part of the same unstable signal.
The Los Angeles programs of VLX7 have come to a close. A massive thank you to the artists, the audience, and the KAW theatre for making this weekend an unforgettable exploration of experimental cinema and live sound.
But the signal is still moving. 📡
We are thrilled to announce that VLX7 will continue this summer in Chicago with Programs 4 and 5. 🏙️ We’re bringing a whole new set of underground visions to the Midwest, and we can’t wait to share them with you.
Keep your eyes on this feed.
more details, venues, and dates will be dropping in the coming months.
03/15/2026
Before you hit the awards
come join us for VLX7 matinee!
PROGRAM 3
Sunday, March 15 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (Doors 1:30)
The final transmission of VLX7 arrives Sunday afternoon, featuring a Live Score by Redmapledome and friends. We close the Los Angeles leg of the festival with 12 works by:
Peter Whittenberg, Harper Austin, Nicole Blundell, Andrew Wakeman Proctor, Ghada Sayegh, Daniel Jaśniewski, Timothy James Nohe, Sub Net, Sarah Legow, Mersolis Schöne, Estelle Cortet, and Billy Palumbo.
Many thanks to for a beautiful LIVEscore performance wrapping Program #2 of VLX7. 🫶
PROGRAM 2
Saturday, March 14 | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM (Doors 4:30)
Join us tonight for a 90-minute exploration of reality and memory, featuring 11 boundary-pushing films. Tonight’s predinner Program 2 features a special LIVEScore by Audrey Harrer, a composer and harpist who will be live scoring Stand Alone by Soyeon Kim (soyeonkimart.com) and Does the Sea Have a Heart? by Miglė Križinauskaitė ()
Program 2 Features short films by:
Tristan Zand, Hogan Seidel, Georg Koszulinski, Saba Khatami, Benjamin Poumey, Natasa Prosenc Stearns, Eric Souther, Matt Mullins, Jacob Swafford, Soyeon Kim, and Chris May.
📍 Where: KAW theatre, 14366 Ventura Blvd (2nd Floor)
🕗 When: Saturday, March 14 | Doors 4:30 PM | Show 5:00 PM
Thanks for joining us for Program 1 tonight. We’ll see you tomorrow with a special LIVEscore with
Doors at 430pm - Program 2 starts at 5pm sharp.
03/14/2026
🫶 to all our Filmmakers that shared their work with us for this weekends programs 🫶
We open the doors to VLX7 at 7:30 PM tonight at the KAW theatre. 16 films from around the globe ready to redefine your perspective.
📍 14366 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks (2nd Floor)
🕗 Doors 7:30 PM | Program 1 Starts 8:00 PM
🎫 Tickets at the link in bio or at the door
Reminder: Saturday (5pm) and Sunday (2pm) feature live scores by Audrey Harrer and Redmapledome. Grab a 3-Day Pass to experience it all.
VLX7 starts tomorrow!
We are taking over the second floor of the KAW theatre for three days of world-class underground cinema and live performance.
• Friday at 8:00 PM: We kick things off with 16 films in 90 minutes.
• Saturday at 5:00 PM: Program 2 with a special LIVEScore by Audrey Harrer.
• Sunday at 2:00 PM: Program 3 with LIVEScore by Redmapledome and friends.
We are located at 14366 Ventura Boulevard. Doors open 30 minutes before each show.
Presale tickets and 3-Day Passes are available now at the link in our bio. Students, there are still a few FREE passes left—claim yours before they are gone.
And remember: we turn away no one for lack of funds. Pay What You Can options are always available at the door.
See you there and bring your friends!
VLX7 kicking off this Friday!
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 🌀
• FRIDAY (3/13 @ 8PM): 16 films. One night. Infinite perspectives. The opening transmission.
• SATURDAY (3/14 @ 5PM): Digital reality & entropy + Live Score by Audrey Harrer.
• SUNDAY (3/15 @ 2PM): Toxic Edens + Live Score by Redmapledome & Friends.
📍 Where: KAW theatre | 14366 Ventura Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 91423
🎫 Tickets: $18 Presale / $12 Student
🎟️ 3-Day Pass for $40 (Access to all 39 films + both live scores)
🖤 PWYC: No one turned away for lack of funds. Pay What You Can at the door.
Students: we still have a few FREE 3-Day Passes left. Claim yours before they’re gone!
Click here to claim your Sponsored Listing.
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