Join us for the Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) Film Festival 10th Anniversary Program #2: "Transformations" introduced by RPM Festival curator Benny Shaffer.

Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) is a Boston-based, artist-run festival devoted to experimental cinematic work in animation, documentary, essay film, installation, and audiovisual performance. RPM 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.

"Transformations", the second of two programs screened at Colgate this semester, explores the formal and conceptual possibilities of the medium with distinctive approaches. These films showcase the diversity of works shown at RPM Festival in recent years.

Program:

Winter’s First Moons dir. Kathleen Rugh, 2018, 3 min 
Radiant Forms dir. Ryan Marino, 2022, 7 min 
Bathers dir. Douglas Urbank, 2019, 4 min
LIMEN dir. Kathryn Ramey, 2019, 12 min 
Prologue to the Tarot: Glenna dir. Brittany Gravely & Kenneth Linehan, 2018, 7 min
Amusement Ride dir. Tomonari Nishikawa, 2019, 6 min 
601 Revir Drive dir. Josh Weissbach, 2017, 6 min 
Water Mining (Eaton Canyon) dir. Kate Lain, 2021, 5 min 
In and Out a Window dir. Richard Tuohy, 2021, 12 min
Self Portrait with Bag dir. Dianna Barrie, 2020, 6 min
Ill Composto dir. Moviate (Josh Drake, James Hollenbaugh, Jeremy Moss, Caleb Smith), 2023, 4 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.

Programmed by Lindsey Lodhie