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Mass Art Film/Video Department Events and News | Sept 2025

Welcome Back

Welcome New Faculty Member, Bobby Abate

BOBBY ABATE (Brooklyn, NY) is a Queer artist, filmmaker, and editor whose films have been exhibited around the globe at venues such as the New York Film FestivalInternational Film Festival RotterdamMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkGuggenheim Bilbao, and the San Francisco Cinematheque.

The New Perspectives/ New Faculty exhibition

Featuring Mass Art Film/Video Alum Youjin Moon

Mass Art Film/Video Alum

Annalisa D Quagliata Blanco


We are thrilled to share that Annalisa’s film Aoquic iez in Mexico! Mexico will be no more! Received the Jury’s Award for Best Feature Film at the DOQUMENTA Festival in CHIMAL this August

Adam Marchand’s Alice to Debut October 16

Mass Art Film/Video alum Adam Marchand’s film Alice will premiere at the New Hampshire Film Festival on October 16!

F/V FYI

2025 Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival at Boston University

Wednesday, Sep. 24, 2025 @6PM - CAS B12 Flow is a 2024 dialogue-free animated film directed by Gints Zilbalodis, written and produced by Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža; a co-production of Latvian, French, and Belgian. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Best Animated Feature at the 97th Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Award.

Taiwan Film Festival of Boston | 波士頓台灣影展

7th Taiwan Film Festival of Boston - 9/19-10/12

FILM/VIDEO FYI

List Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes | MIT List Visual Arts Center

"If it is ever possible to diminish fear, it is beautiful to witness." So says the death doula in Every Ocean Hughe's recent video work One Big Bag.

Floating Clouds... The Cinema of Naruse Mikio - Harvard Film Archive

Though still underrated and underappreciated for his restrained formalism, the influence of Naruse Mikio (1905-1969) endures today, teaching generations of filmmakers how to temporally and spatially imagine the grandeur of freedom on a microcosmic scale. ...

Boston Cyberarts

STATIONED: A Response to a Climate of Restraint

August 30 – September 20, 2025

Gallery Hours: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11 am–5 pm

The core theme of this show is to highlight the significance of the current political climate and its impact on the greater international student demographic within the United States.

Opportunities

29th Annual DIYDS!! Film Festival Submission

Submissions to our 29th annual Do It Your Damn Self!! Film Festival (DIYDS) is open and free! DIYDS!! It is the longest-running youth-led film festival in the country, hosted by CAC's Teen Media Program.

International Short Film Competition - Forum on Life, Culture & Society

The International Short Film Competition annually encourages and showcases the creation of short films exploring themes of justice, human rights, and the law by independent, emerging filmmakers from around the world.


Open Call 2026 - Experimental Loop

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