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Links to a range of other video art organizations and related resources.
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Split Film Festival - International Festival of New Film

Split Film Festival is one of the oldest film and video festivals in Croatia that showcases new, creative, personal, radical works of all styles, themes, genres and lengths, whether film, or new media, preferably from outside the mainstream.

SF IndieFest

SF Indiefest is a year-long organization presenting three two-week long festivals: the SF Independent Film Festival in February, Another Hole in the Head in June and the SF Documentary Festival in October.

New York Queer Experimental Film Festival

Since 1987, MIX NYC has presented the latest in queer experimental film and previously unseen works from legendary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer- identified figures in avant-garde cinema.

The International Short Film Festival Winterthur

The International Short Film Festival Winterthur is Switzerland’s largest short film festival.  Apart from innovative programming, the International Short Film Festival is committed to the sustainable promotion of short films, for example by maintaining the largest short film archive in Switzerland.

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

The Jihlava IDFF is the largest festival of creative documentary film in Central and Eastern Europe. For last 15 years Jihlava is a meeting place of directors and audience and an important crossroad of the documentary business.

Hamburg International Short Film Festival

The Hamburg International Short Film Festival celebrates short films as an independent art form, while offering an opportunity for film makers from all over the world to get in touch with an eager audience and with each other.

Media City Film Festival

Media City is an annual international festival for film and video art.

Migrating Forms

Formerly the New York Underground Film Festival, Migrating Forms is a 10 day festival presenting a program of film and video from more than 50 artists representing a broad spectrum of contemporary moving image practices.

New York Film Festival

Founded in 1963, the New York Film Festival stands as the second-oldest film festival in North America, and one of the oldest in the world.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is one of the world's most respected film events - a place where filmmakers and artists ranging from Roman Polanski to Cate Shortland, from George Lucas to Pipilotti Rist have presented their first films.

Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona - OVNI Festival

OVNI, which stands for Observatorio de Vídeo No Identificado (Observatory of Unidentified Videos), is an independent documentary festival that screens films primarily concerning globalization and colonialization.

BFI London Film Festival

The London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from established and emerging film-makers from almost 50 countries.  

Kassel Dokfest

A festival that screens documentary film and video work, in addition to offering an array of networking and educational platforms.

Impakt Festival

Impakt presents critical and creative views on contemporary media culture and innovative audiovisual arts in an interdisciplinary context.

ImageOut

ImageOut presents LGBT arts and cultural experiences showcasing films, other creative works and artists to promote awareness, foster dialogue and build community.

Images Festival of Independent Film and Video

The Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen.

The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (FLEX)

Florida's only film festival devoted to works of avant-garde/experimental/underground cinema.

Outfest

Outfest contributes to the movement for acceptance and equality of all LGBT people through film screenings and preservation and film distribution.

Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival

Focusing on non-narrative work that goes against the grain of mainstream entertainment, the PDX Fest showcases artistic, underground, quirky and challenging work that reflects contemporary culture, documents historic oddities, and is otherwise unclassifiable.

Rencontres Internationales

The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid are interested in opening up different areas of creation and providing an opportunity to view contemporary audiovisual works that exist at the intersection of new cinema and contemporary art. 

Gijon International Film Festival

An annual film festival that presents works by international filmmakers.

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema.

Festival Zemos98

A festival based in Sevilla, Spain that features film, video and performance-based works.

Wisconsin Film Festival

An annual film festival presented by the UW-Madison Arts Institute that screens films from international emerging and established filmmakers

Whitney Biennial 2012

A biennial art exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose 2012 iteration featured an extensive film and video component co-curated by Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, founders of the experimental film and video venue Light Industry located in Brooklyn, New York.

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