Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival 10th Anniversary Program #1: "Passages"

Introduced by RPM Festival founder Wenhua Shi.

RPM (Revolutions per Minute) was founded in 2013 with the exhibition RPM: Sound Art China at Colgate University and Experimental Intermedia in NYC. Co-curated by Dajuin Yao and Wenhua Shi, the program featured 30 sound artists and traveled to Shanghai and Hong Kong. RPM subsequently expanded its scope to encompass a broader media art and experimental cinema landscape and relocated to Boston in 2019. Two touring programs celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the inaugural program at Colgate University; this first program, titled "Passages," is curated by Benny Shaffer and Wenhua Shi.

Program:

XCTRY dir. Bill Brown, 2018, 6 min
A throwing forth dir. Xiao Zhang, 2023, 6 min 
The Stream (XII-II) dir. Hiroya Sakurai, 2022, 7 min
Absent Objects dir. Janie Geiser, 2020, 8 min 
_GALORE dir. Bernd Lützeler, 2019, 9 min
Phase II dir. Kelly Sears, 2022, 7 min 
I'm sorry I'm late dir. Sharon Mooney, 2023, 7 min
de-composition dir. Laura Kraning, 2023, 3 min
In Littleness dir. Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, 2022, 8 min 
Traces with Elikem dir. Ariana Gerstein, 2018, 7 min

This series is made possible by the Department of Art, the Film and Media Studies Program and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Programming by Lindsey Lodhie