WINNERS: January 2026 EXPERIMENTAL Festival

A showcase of the best EXPERIMENTAL films from around the world today. AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS (From Feedback Festival)Best Experimental Film: SELF-MIMETICBest Art Film: PALANQUINS OF THE SOULBest Visual Design: EGGSECUTIONBest Animation: SIMPLE RANDOM WALKSBest Direction: DYNAMICSBest Poetry Film: HAIR TRAILS Palanquins of the Soul, 4min., South KoreaDirected by Seung-il ChonPalanquin of the soul (Youngyeo) is… Continue reading WINNERS: January 2026 EXPERIMENTAL Festival

WINNERS: January 2026 DANCE Festival

A showcase of the best DANCE films from around the world today. AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS (From Feedback Festival)Best Dance Film: MELBOURNE HOPAKBest Story: THE BROKEN CYCLEBest Visual Design: PACEBest Direction: CORPS LIQUIDE The Broken Cycle, 3min., Hong KongDirected by Andreas GuzmanAn endless cycle. A dance of stagnation. A relationship’s rhythm, caught in a relentless tide,… Continue reading WINNERS: January 2026 DANCE Festival

WINNERS: January 2026 MUSIC Festival

A showcase of the best MUSIC films from around the world today. AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS (From Feedback Festival)Best Music Video: LOW ROAR – FIELD OF DREAMSBest Peformances: CLOSE ENOUGH TO HURTBest Story: IS ANYBODY OUT THEREBest Direction: CHERRY! (red)Best Animation: SOUL KITCHENBest Visual Design: WHAT A LIE – Music Video for «Nonexister»Best New Media: BUDDHAMACHINE=HMA… Continue reading WINNERS: January 2026 MUSIC Festival

EXPERIMENTAL Festival First Scene: Death in Poland, by Grant Huffman

An unflinching, brutally honest portrayal of the Holocaust’s most infamous death camps, *Death in Poland* chronicles the systematic machinery of genocide through a series of interwoven scenes of cruelty, precision, and silence—where memory is the only thing left standing. CAST LIST: Narrator: Hannah Ehman Nameless Prisoner: Geoff Mays

BALLAD Poetry Reading: the brushfire, by Alani Hicks-Bartlett

Peformed by Val Cole —— the brushfire if all the injuries were just words of smoke, dawn could falter but still would come before you’d have the timber from the fallen oak. the sputter of the mourning land and folk who cry and burn, lament and then deplore, if all the injuries were just words… Continue reading BALLAD Poetry Reading: the brushfire, by Alani Hicks-Bartlett