Fluxus Experimental Film Festival: 2026

Paying Respects – Jessica Wu, 2025
5:44

Yiqing explores her grief by offering her ancestors everything they couldn’t afford. Everything she burns gets sent to the afterlife.

istén:’a – KJ Edwards, 2023
5:13

A recounting of a visit from my mother in spirit, this film looks to dreamspace as a meeting place, where we can connect with our loved ones, who we are always tethered to.

Magic Tricks – Anna Holmen, 2026
6:30

A magician gives a stuffed rabbit the chance to experience all of the beauty and sorrow the world has to offer.

When the Curtain Falls – Venya Aggarwal, 2026
2:49

About to perform his last show, Mirth the clown tells the twisted tale of his journey to fame.

and the story remains – Darya Majlesi, 2026
5:44

After years of silence, a woman returns to a memory she was once forbidden to recall. As she develops forgotten images, the past surfaces in fragments of light, grain, and the slow emergence of a face.

Gabby and Eleanor Go Up and Down the Mountain – Eleanor Abrahams, 2025
17:39

Short experimental diary film about 2 girls going on a bike ride in Hamilton, Ontario

You Cant Stay Here – Gabrielle MacIntosh, 2026
2:27

You Can’t Stay Here is a risograph printed 2D animated short film that explores lived Queer loneliness and connection in Alberta, Canada. It follows an empty figure traversing the contrasting  industrial and natural environments of the province.

Palimpsest – Emma Mandziuk, 2026
10:25

Palimpsest follows a protagonist through a night of fitful sleep as the boundaries between their dreams and waking life begin to dissolve. These dreams—represented by archival 8mm home video footage—slowly seep into their environment.

How can I grieve a body I haven’t met? – Nahrain Yousefian, 2026
5:52

In this work, I explore my grief for Lake Urmia. This body of water, where my family originates, was officially declared dried up in September 2025.

Tactile Light Diary – Callon Murphy, 2025
5:50

Touch replicated through audiovisual means.
Fabric structures exposed and magnified.
Textiles dance over microphone and screen.
Images burst to the forefront.
First a beach, then an unclean pool.
Summer slips into fall.
Details are forgotten or misremembered.
The retained memory of tactile objects.

Connecting from the Inside Out – My-Van Dam, 2024
8:49

Through a series of sensitive gestures and embodied dialogues, the film questions how care can emerge when personal and shared grief feels impossible to contain.

Veiled – Maryam Tavakoli, 2023
2:33

Inspired by the recent years of unrest in Iran, this video brings together fragments of movement, voices, and fleeting encounters to create a space shaped by uncertainty, resistance, and collective memory.

Salma! – Mary Hanna, 2025
7:56

As Hadi is swept into a flood of childhood memories from Lebanon, he steps into the dreamlike whimsical world of Salma Zahore. A creature that encapsulates both the conflicts of his life and his declaration of love to the world.

Hexapod – Axel Kinnear, 2025
8:59

A lone goblin prisoner must attempt a dazzling escape from a labyrinthine castle, as a mad noble struggles to retain his reluctant audience.

Sojourn – Stacey Sproule, 2025
3:41

The work is a way to grapple with rapid development, loss of public access to nature and the ongoing destruction of habitat both in Prince Edward County and across the province.

All made up: notes on make believe – Nicole Blundell, 2025
5:00

She dressed up the ordinary — so they’d never forget the wonder. All made up. Notes on make believe is a fleeting trick of memory where the past is a story we tell ourselves, shifting shape to fit the needs of the present.

Anomalies Dans Le Paysage – Félix Caraballo, 2025
7:38

ANOMALIES DANS LE PAYSAGE is a film in four tableaux – four audiovisual landscapes that unfold in all their strangeness. Spices, leaves and local seaweed reveal and imbue with their hues this film shot and developed on the very banks of the Magtogoek/St. Lawrence river.

Marked – Wrik Mead, 2026
2:35

Marked is an experimental film that merges Super 8 and 16mm formats to examine the presence of queer intimacy. At its center are two shirtless men, locked in an embrace, dancing — a quiet yet radical act. Overlaid with hand-inked 16mm film, their bodies become both seen and obscured, highlighted and erased.

Lure – Christopher Rohde, 2025
4:54

As the sun starts to set in a secluded wood, an unwelcome guest emerges from the periphery, drawn into a glittering snare. Time slouches, voices murmur from between the trees, and corrosion starts ahead of schedule. Be careful out there. You might catch your death.

Knife Play – A. Laurel Lawrence, 2022
12:20

As the blood falls, I ask who it belongs to;
Is it mine, as it seeps from my body
or yours? As with this knife,
you’ve taken it from me.

A film in two acts.

Navels I – Justine McCloskey, 2025
3:01

Artist Robin Riad talks about her relationship with her belly button. This is the first in a series of short film profiles about navels.

Breaking Down the House – Debbie Ebanks, 2025
4:30

Home videos shot by the artist’s children in Ontario are remixed with still images and voice recordings produced in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl by relatives in Jamaica.

diario de verano – Franci Duran & Cristal Buemi, 2025
3:39

diario de verano is an exploration of neighborhood flora in Tkaronto, focusing on Kensington Market, Parkdale and Wallace – Emmerson, areas we live and move through.

Menders – Martha Griffiths, 2025
3:58

What story do the marks of time tell? “Menders” is a three-minute animation following a female art conservator restoring Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus.” Using creative methods that reveal imperfections and embrace fragmentation, she navigates the tension between a polished ideal and an unvarnished history.

Custom Trailer Series: Austin Powers – Kelly Egan, 2025
4:34

Exploring écriture feminine and the patriarchal biases still present in commercial cinema, “Custom Trailer Series: Austin Powers” reimagines the original Hollywood film through the structure of a starburst quilt pattern.

b.longing – mystery byrd, 2025
7:00

A dialogue and poetic home video about belonging, from young people living in modern capitalist colonial society.

Signs + Traces – James Pomeroy, 2026
3:10

Signs + Traces is a landscape portrait of the urban environment focusing on the ubiquitous sign as physical / semiotic indicator that , for better or for worse, ties together and structures the urban social / physical environment.

Husbandry – Hazel Meyer & Cait McKinney, 2024
11:46

Mary Imrie (1918 – 1988) and Jean Wallbridge (1912 – 1979) operated their architecture firm—the first run by women in Canada—at Six Acres, the home they built for their work and life together overlooking the North Saskatchewan River in west Edmonton. When Mary Imrie passed away, she bequeathed the records of their remarkable architectural practice and adventurous life, along with their home, to the province of Alberta.