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Experiments in Cinema is an annual international festival celebrating current trends and history of international cinematic experimentation. Experiments in Cinema is a non-competitive festival produced by Basement Films and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The festival takes place at the Guild Cinema April 16-19, 2026. The programs will be also available to watch free of charge April 28 - May 10, 2026 here on our website, so everyone in the extended international community can watch the programs.
THU APRIL 16
Exp 1 - 2:00-4:00pm
Exp 2 - 5:30-7:00pm
Exp 3 - 7:45-9:15pm
FRI APRIL 17
Exp 4 - 1:00-1:45pm
Exp 5 - 2:30-4:00pm
Exp 6 - 4:45-6:00pm
Exp 7 - 7:30-9:00pm
SAT APRIL 18
Filmmakers' Luncheon - 12pm
Exp 8 - 4:30-6:00pm
Exp 9 - 7:30-9:00pm
SUN APRIL 19
Exp 10 - 1:00-2:00pm
Exp 11 - 2:45-4:15pm
Exp 12 - 4:45-6:15pm
Exp 13 - 7:45-8:45pm
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Trailer by Lili Greene
ATTENDING
All programs will be screened at the Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque New Mexico. Tickets can be purchased at the box office. There are no advance ticket sales.
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General admission is $10 per day
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$40 for a festival pass
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Student and senior admission is $8 per day
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Free admission for exhibiting artists and sponsors
If you are a visiting artist, please contact experimentsincinema@gmail.com to let us know you're attending (so we can stuff your artist welcome bag!) and for more information about lodging, transportation, artist receptions.
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS HIGHLIGHT
Experiment 6: Youth Lens
Curated by Nina Shoenfeld and students from Amy Biehl High School. Throughout the year, Basement Films brings Experiments in Cinema to schools around New Mexico with the goal of inspiring new generations of homegrown film artists to recognize the value of their media voices, and to participate in shaping future trends in cultural representations. The Youth Lens program features films made by students from not only Albuquerque and New Mexico, but from around the world. This year’s selections seek to create cultural, creative, and educational cross-pollination amongst the youngest participants in Experiments in Cinema.
Friday April 17, 4:45-6:00PM
Friday, April 17, 7:30 - 9:00PM
Experiment 7: The Magic of Cinema: the Films of Dominic Angerame
Curated by Kornelia Boczkowska. This program celebrates the recent work of Dominic Angerame, a prolific, award-winning filmmaker, educator, programmer, cinephile and former Executive Director of Canyon Cinema. Known for his broad interests, inventiveness, keen observations of social realities and genuine passion for experimental filmmaking, Angerame has made over sixty films that have received critical acclaim and worldwide recognition. With the career spanning over fifty years, Angerame has produced a vast and remarkably diverse body of work, from his monumental city symphony series, travelogs and landscape films to highly personal diaries, portraits, found footage films and comedy shorts. Angerame’s films are magical: a powerful marriage of image, sound, movement and technique, they are both realist and surrealist, documentary and poetic, strange and familiar, concrete and ephemeral, dark and illuminating. Angerame has taught film production and cinema studies at several leading universities and art schools, educating future generations of artists, scholars, critics and curators. From 1980 to 2012, he served as Executive Director of Canyon Cinema. Under his visionary leadership, Canyon Cinema has become one of the largest distributors of avant-garde and artist. In November 2019, Re:Voir released nine of Angerame’s films on a DVD, entitled "Cityscapes." — Kornelia Boczkowska
Experiment 8: Queer X 3.0
Curated by Roberto Appicciafoco. The Way OUT West Film Festival is proud to return with the third edition of Queer 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 Queer 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 queer person in this world? Through memory and bureaucracy, climate collapse and erotic awakening, digital ghosts and ancestral tides, Queer X reminds us that queer life is always in motion. It adapts. It resists. It desires. And sometimes, defiantly, it finds pleasure anyway.
Saturday April 18, 4:30-6:00PM
Experiment 11: Survey of the Cave
Select films from the EXiS Festival
Curated by Inhan Cho. 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.
Sunday April 19, 2:45-4:15PM
Experiment 12: Dance on Screen
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.
Sunday April 19, 4:45-6:15PM
Thanks to our amazing sponsors &
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Consider making a tax-deductible donation
If you feel inspired, we invite you to support the festival with a pay-what-you-want donation. Your contribution will help pay screening fees to all participating artists, support visiting scholars and presenters, and make programming such as our Youth Lens and artist residency thrive for another 19 years to come. Basement Films is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and all donations are 100% tax deductible!
