Basement Films

Last Day of Experiments in Cinema v21.5!!!
Full Sunday of film programs, all showing at the .

Experiment 10 - 1:00 - 2:00pm (99 Ho**er live)
Experiment 11 - 2:45 - 4:15pm (EXiS Festival)
Experiment 12 - 4:45 - 6:15pm (Dance on Film)
Experiment 13 - 7:45 - 8:45pm

Conversations with the filmmakers after each program. Filmmakers present with films showing today!

99 Ho**er
Rosie Trump
John Akre
Mark Street
David Sherman .sherman.560

Full program information at experimentincinema.org. For those outside of Albuquerque, programs will be viewab le online April 28 - May 10, pay what you want.

Day 3 of Experiments in Cinema v21.5!
A beautiful Saturday for experimental cinema! All programs at the .

Experiment 8 - 4:30 - 6:00 (Q***r X 3.0)
Experiment 9 - 7:30 - 9:00

Conversations with the filmmakers after each program. Filmmakers present with films showing today!

Peggy Ahwesh
Csanad Baksa-Soos .baksasoos
Rebecca Barten
Lily Greene .b.greene
Toney Merritt
Rankin Renwick

Full program information at experimentincinema.org. For those outside of Albuquerque, programs will be viewable online April 28 - May 10, pay what you want.

Day 2 of Experiments in Cinema v21.5!
All programs at the

Experiment 4 - 1:00 - 1:45pm
Experiment 5 - 2:30 - 4:00pm
Experiment 6 - 4:45 - 6:00pm
Experiment 7 - 7:30 - 9:00pm

Conversations with the filmmakers after each program. Filmmakers present with films showing today!

Alison Johnson
Lynne Sachs
Nina Fonoroff
Rebecca Barten
Dominic Angerame

Full program information at experimentincinema.org. For those outside of Albuquerque, programs will be viewable online April 28 - May 10, pay what you want

Day 1 of 4 of Experiments in Cinema v21.5!

A full Thursday afternoon of artist films from around the world, all screening at the beloved Guild Cinema. $10 for a full day pass. Grab popcorn, grab a program, and open your mind to the experiments!

Experiment 1 - 2:00 - 4:00pm
Experiment 2 - 5:30 - 7:00pm
Experiment 3 - 7:45 - 9:15pm

Conversations with the filmmakers after each program. Filmmakers present with films showing today!

Susan DeLeo susan deleo
Mélissa Faivre
Salise Hughes Salise Hughes
Heidi Kumao Heidi Kumao
James Lawrence fredricksbrooke
Diane Noreen Diane Nerwen
Lynn Silverman
Yinan Wang Yinan Wang
Kit Young Kit Young

Full program information at experimentincinema.org. For those outside of Albuquerque who can’t attend in person, all programs will be viewable online April 28 - May 10, pay what you want.

More tomorrow….

Highlights EICv21.5 Experiment 13
Sunday, April 18 at 7:45-8:45

Film stills:
🎞 “BETTER LIGHTING” by Kathryn Ramey
🎞 “Spirit Away” by Sally Cloninger
🎞 “Prefer Not To Say” by Tommy Becker

All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque. $10 for a full day pass.
Full program details at experimentsincinema.org

EIC special program spotlight:
Dance On Screen, curated by Rosie Trump
Sunday, April 19 at 4:45 - 6:15 pm at the

A program of recent short films from the Third Coast Dance Film Festival curated by Rosie Trump. The Third Coast Dance Film Festival celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening series of short dance films. They program films that reflect diversity in genre, form, and representation.This program is supported by the University of Nevada, Reno with grant support from the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance.

Film stills:
🎞 “the window kind of opens by itself” by Rebecca Salzer/Anya Cloud
🎞 “Sueño de Obsidiana (Obsidian Dream)” by Scotty Hardwig/Claudia Lavista

All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM. $10 for a full day pass.
Full program details at experimentsincinema.org

EIC special program spotlight:
Survey of the Cave: Select films from the EXiS Festival, curated by Inhan Cho
Sunday, April 19 at 2:45 - 4:15 pm at the

“Cinema is both a medium that records time and one that creates it. The linear and irreversible. Yet cinema merely creates an illusion of continuous movement; in reality, it is a composition of discontinuous units. The four films in this program focus precisely on what lies 'in between' - between frames, between images, between past and present. There, the linear progression of cinematic time is dismantled, giving rise to new temporal forms: reversal, doubling, circulation, and layering. Heehyun Choi, Jaekyu Byun, HeeSue Kwon, and Ji-hwan Kim each question the forward flow of time in their own distinct ways. A world transformed into negative, forward-moving time encountering backward-moving time, images rotating through cycles of forgetting and return, memories that scatter when pursued. Through reversal, inversion, and recursion, they present the multiplicity of time, decomposing the cinematic time believed to flow only forward and recombining its discontinuous units - frames, photographs, layers - to construct new temporal experiences. In this process, the materiality of the medium becomes decisive. Rather than traditional editing, corporeal and physical acts become methodologies for constructing time. This program explores the fundamental question: cinema does not represent time but generates time itself.”

Film stills:
🎞 “Our Cave (우리의 동굴)” by Heehyun Choi
🎞 “Photographic Survey (사진측량)” by Jaekyu Byun
🎞 “Snowy Train (눈 내리는 기차)” by Ji-hwan Kim

All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM. $10 for a full day pass.
Full program details at experimentsincinema.org

EIC special program spotlight:
Films by Alison Johnson, awardee of the Bryan Konefsky Fund
Friday, April 17 at 1:00-1:45 at the Guild Cinema

Alison Johnson is an experimental filmmaker and media artist based out of Santa Fe, NM. She experiments with blending analog, digital, and performative mediums. Her work explores the personal and intimate experiences with gender, identity, and mental health. She is a member of Women in Art and Tech in Santa Fe, a community based organization that focuses on creative exchange and innovation across art and technology.

The Bryan Konefsky Fund was established to support New Mexico based moving image artists and/or artists from around the world who have a moving image project that involves New Mexico. Our primary goal is to recognize people of color who identify as female, although other applications will be considered as well. The award is a way of giving back to a community that has been so supportive of Konefsky’s own creative projects and his curatorial work with both Basement Films and Experiments in Cinema.

For inquiries about the Bryan Konefsky Fund, potential applicants should contact Khia Griffis of the Albuquerque Community Foundation.

🎞 “January 22”
🎞 “First/Last”

Highlights from EICv21.5 Experiment 9
Saturday, April 18 at 7:30-9:00pm

🎞 “No Landscape Ever Made Me Cry.” by Sujin Lee
🎞 “the Night Sky Trilogy” by Peggy Ahwesh,
🎞 “A Vernacular of the Numinous” by M Freeman

All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM. $10 for a full day pass. Full program details at experimentsincinema.org

EIC special program spotlight:
Way OUT West Fest: Q***R X 3.0
Curated by Roberto Appicciafoco
Saturday, April 18 at 4:30-6:00pm

The Way OUT West Film Festival is proud to return with the third edition of Q***r X at this year’s Experiments in Cinema festival. Spanning 34 years, this program begins with Resonance (1991) by Stephen Cummins, a landmark of the New Q***r Cinema movement, and builds toward a decidedly (happy) ending with Love, Jealousy and Revenge from subversive filmmaker Michael Brynntrup. In between, bold contemporary works from Whammy Alcazaren, May Kindred-Boothby, Will Miller, Angelique Kalani Axelrode, and Gael Jara & Martín André stretch across continents, aesthetics, and identities. Together, these filmmakers ask a persistent question: how does one live—and survive—as a q***r person in this world? Through memory and bureaucracy, climate collapse and erotic awakening, digital ghosts and ancestral tides, Q***r X reminds us that q***r life is always in motion. It adapts. It resists. It desires. And sometimes, defiantly, it finds pleasure anyway.

Film stills:
🎞 “Water Sports” by Whammy Alcazaren
🎞 “Chimera” by Gael Jara & Martín André
🎞 “The Eating Of An Orange” by May Kindred-Bootby

All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM. $10 for a full day pass.
Full program details at experimentsincinema.org

EIC special program spotlight:
"The Washing Society" by Lynne Sachs/Lizzie Olesker
Film plus live performance ft Rebecca Barten & Nina Fonoroff
Friday, April 17 at 2:30-4:00pm at the

When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who’s doing the washing and folding? The Washing Society brings us into New York City laundromats and the experiences of the people who work there by observing these disappearing neighborhood spaces and the continual, intimate labor that happens there. The juxtaposition of narrative and documentary elements in The Washing Society creates a dream-like, yet hyper-real portrayal of a day in the life of a laundry worker both past and present.