Fluxus Experimental Film Festival 2025

Egg is a Cracked Moon – Sahar Te, 2025
6:28

Egg is a Cracked Moon is a poetic exploration of a man on a volcanic terrain reshaped by eruption.

In My Head – Irina Tempea, 2024
6:15

In My Head is an experimental first-person short film. It deals with the multiple sclerosis that has affected the filmmaker for over eight years.

Dissolution – Rennie Taylor, 2022
2:30

When a building with a history of community, opportunity and creativity is slated for the chopping block, does it make a sound? What would this building say to us if given the chance?

Sous le soleil exactement – Noa Blanche Beschorner, 2024
14:28

Taking the form of language exercises, Sous le soleil exactement is a tribute to the city symphonies of Berlin – a city whose inhabitants, streets and movements inspire the traveler’s observations.

A Domestic Performance – Christina Oyawale, 2021
5:04

A Domestic Performance is a video that explores the disruption between female domesticity and the queer body. The work pays homage to Chantal Akerman’s work relating to the radical potential of “women” rejecting their traditional gender roles.

Abgad Hawaz – Robin Riad, 2024
1:30

Learn the Arabic Alphabet in 28 easy steps!

SISTERSISTER – Mitsuko Noguchi, 2024
6:25

Sister, life isn’t fair.
Let’s make up a script.
Light the screen.
Let’s get rich.

This is my Face – Tara Natalia, 2024
6:04

Trapped at an ornate vanity mirror, a young woman spirals into madness while attempting to conceal severe acne.

(for once i dreamed of you) – Kate Solar, 2025
5:59

As night falls over the fields, a woman looks out into unknown areas. The space at the end of a poem. The distance between map and territory. The darkness between film frames.

Making lupini / Fare i lupini (V1) – Olivia Mossuto, 2025
5:29

A durational and variable film, the making of lupini and the making of Cochineal paintings becomes an ambient conversation on food, colour, indigeneity, and history.

This is a crisis – Tamara Jones, 2024
4:02

An anonymous bureaucrat traipses around the City of Toronto, repurposing hostile architecture as their playground.

How to Interpret the Masquerade – Iyunade Judah, 2024
7:01

How to Interpret the Masquerade merges personal and found footage to explore the intersection of cultural heritage, colonial history, and spiritual practices within the Yoruba tradition.

Lavenza – Lauren Eden, 2024
10:55

Lavenza, a 19th-century noblewoman, overhears her husband complaining about her looks. In an effort to make him love her more, Lavenza turns herself into his ideal wife by thrifting the body parts from all the women he desires.

Bugsick – Silverfish Pictures, 2025
8:04

After a recent break up, Bug’s ex-girlfriend June calls to come pick up the rest of her stuff from their apartment. This triggers Bug to spiral, as we follow their desperate attempt at keeping their past alive by creating a massive dungball of the items June left behind.

Northened – Una Di Gallo, 2024
8:15

Growing up in the twilight of industrial Hamilton, Sam and Franklin spend an endless, muggy summer exploring the outskirts of their neighbourhood.

Tuktuit : Caribou – Lindsay McIntyre, 2025
15:00

An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use.

Homeless Sound Poem – James Witwicki & Jenny Hawkinson, 2024
12:14

How does the city hold sound and how does the body listen? The poet was inspired to perform his piece in an ode to Fluxus; written on index cards and picked at random because homeless individuals have very little control over how sound “happens” to them.

Buses don’t stop here anymore – Penny McCann, 2024
7:28

Buses don’t stop here anymore is a chronicle on Super 8 of the closure, abandonment, and demolition of the Greyhound bus station in Ottawa, Canada.

Otolith – Ty Tekatch, 2024
11:20

OTOLITH is an an experimental film that poeticizes the concept of umwelt, as described by Estonian-German biologist Jakob Von Uexküll. Uexküll theorized that animals, ourselves included of course, experience unique, species-specific sensory worlds.

Surviving Silence – Fareh Malik, 2023
6:34

Surviving Silence is a short film that explores the link between depression and movement. It finds the intersection of one’s own painful hope – a journey into joyful thriving – and an invaluable tool of perseverance: dance.

Uncle Bardo – Luke Mistruzzi, 2024
14:00

Through an innovative blend of documentary and experimental stop-motion animation, Uncle Bardo delves into the mind of an estranged family member who has undergone a near-death experience and awakens lost between two worlds.

Fort Garry Lions Pool – Ryan Steel, 2024
6:01

Before I knew. When I could sense.

Yonge Again – Brian R. Donnelly, 2024
1:00

Yonge Again is a surreal recreation of the landscape at the intersection of Yonge and Elm Streets in Toronto, as captured in popular films over four decades.

Handsome Devil – Daniel Barrow, 2024
4:35

Barrow uses Amiga software from the late 1980s (DeluxePaint 4) to create this romantic pink and green story of a “sissy devil” who probes the depths of internet intelligence, composing an “advanced search” on an antiquated search engine. The “advanced search” becomes a kind of contemporary, queer, love poem. 

Texas Switch – Darren Dominique Heroux, 2024
9:16

A “Texas Switch” is a cinematic sleight of hand where one performer is swapped for another in a single shot, often hidden in plain sight. This experimental short stages bold acts of substitution, toying with visibility, presence, and what slips past the viewer’s gaze.