Experimental Film & Music Video Festival
Submit your film and get it shown at the festival that runs for 4 times a year in the heart of downtown Toronto at the Carlton Cinemas.
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: BLACK LIVES MATTER
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: PASSAGE
BEST PERFORMANCES: THANATOS
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: TOO MANY BODIES
BEST MUSIC: EMERGENCE
Them of night: “Transformation”
Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:
The 9th event of the Los Angeles festivals in 2019.
3 more festivals to go in LA this year.
See you at the festivals.
– Matthew Toffolo
ABSOLUTION, 7min, USA, Dance
Directed by Stirling Matheson & Sarah Farnsley
The House of the Rising Sun is a place of transition in music and folklore. It’s a purgatory where travelers, vagabonds, and lost souls cross paths before continuing toward their life after. Absolution is a snapshot of that purgatory, that waiting room, where souls must accept the regrets and disappointments in their lives before they can cross over. Personal struggles are highlighted in duets and solos throughout the piece. Some remorse is too difficult to let go, though, and while many find reprieve from their sins and escape the cycle of self-recrimination, others are doomed to stay and repeat it.
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UNREMEDIED, 2min., USA, Dance
Directed by Alayna Jennings
Sexual harassment is an epidemic.
I wrote this piece as a way to relieve the screams I felt suppressed in my own skin.
I created this work for anyone who felt they were hiding in their bones too.
We can not silence the monsters of our society by hiding them,
under beds they grow and maintain.
We must put light to our demons, only then can we truly discover what it means to remedy.
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UFO, 4min., Belgium, Music Video
Directed by Kevin Meul
Boy meets girl. He turns out to be an alien.
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TOO MANY BODIES, 6min., USA, Music Video
Directed by Reena Dutt
Too Many Bodies is a music video for Alex Mackey’s “Place Called Us”, addressing America’s need for gun reform through dance, music and passion, culminating in a website of resources for advocacy and survivor support.
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THE SHE IN ME, 3min., France, Music Video
Directed by Mikaël Vecchio
Are we prisonners ? Between light and dark, between destruction and beauty, between wild and thinking, monster and human ? “The She in me” is a experimental idea thought by Alexandra Moulié (Make up Fx) and Mikaël Vecchio (writer, director and editor).
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THANATOS, 6min., USA, Music Video
Directed by Anjela Vega
Nonsense Mouth is a surreal and lyrical visual album in six chapters by theatrical composer Ellen Warkentine, exploring the heroine’s journey and themes of identity and individuation.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER, 9min., USA, Experimental
DANCE WITH DEATH, 6min., USA, Experimental
EMERGENCE, 5min., USA, Dance
FLORETS, 4min., USA, Music Video
GEOMETRY, 2min., USA, Experimental
PASSAGE, 2min., Australia, Animation/Experimental
RANGWANG, 6min., Canada, Experimental
REDEMPTION, 7min., USA, Experimental
THANATOS, 6min., USA, Music Video
THE SHE IN ME, 3min., France, Music Video
TOO MANY BODIES, 6min., USA, Music Video
UFO, 4min., Belgium, Music Video
UNREMEDIED, 2min., USA, Dance
ABSOLUTION, 7min, USA, Dance