Join us this June for programs exploring the parallel systems of artists’ cinema today; how queer and trans filmmakers developed visual languages in response to life and death with HIV; how private speech is informed by discourses of family, medical institutions, and media; reflections on artworks achieved through the use of evolving technologies; the nature of the intellectual; the materiality of the body in experimental film; and the position occupied by theory in art today.
Featuring Basim Magdy, Agnieszka Polska, Hiwa K, Maryam Tafakory, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Shana Moulton, Sarah Bex Rice, Ariana Kalliga, Elle Burchill, Andrea Monti, and Inney Prakash; Lawrence Brose, Cynthia Madansky, Alisa Lebow, Michelle Handelman, Jim Hubbard, Charles Lum, Glen Fogel, Clifford Prince King, Santiago Lemus, Camilo Acosta Huntertexas, Lourdes Portillo, Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski, J Triangular, and Imani Maryahm Harrington; Jean-Pierre Gorin, with Yuka Murakami; Joan Jonas, Justin Allen, Ivana Dama, and Toni Dove; McKenzie Wark, with Matt Seybold; Utako Koguchi and Cici Peng; Hiwa K, Oraib Toukan, Elena Vogman, Ben Eastham, Hallie Ayres, George Macbeth,and Anton Vidokle.
Monday, June 1, 2026 Artists’ Cinema Today Get tickets Artists’ cinema today does not operate as an extension of the film industry, nor as a marginal supplement to it. It has developed as a parallel system within contemporary moving-image culture, with its own forms of production, exhibition, circulation, and public discussion. This event offers an occasion to think about artists’ films moving between cinema and art settings, while resisting stable placement within either. Rather than gathering the films around a shared style, form, or theme, the screening presents different ways artists approach cinema from the context of contemporary art practice, often outside the expectations of narrative closure, standardized duration, and mass distribution. Join us for a screening and conversation organized together with the Brooklyn Film Festival. The program presents a selection of artists’ films by Basim Magdy, Agnieszka Polska, Hiwa K, Maryam Tafakory, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos,and Shana Moulton,alongside the recipient of the e-flux Honorary Mention from this year’s festival. Read more here.
Thursday, June 4, 2026 Experiment as Method, Care as Practice: Four Decades of HIV/AIDS Film and Video Get tickets The program traces how queer and trans filmmakers have developed new visual languages to render the complexities of life and death with HIV, as the wider community simultaneously formulated ways to survive through it. The provision of care, the insistence on love, the question of pleasure, and the importance of self-documentation in queer life all continue to accrue new meaning and urgency across distinct, ongoing phases of the epidemic. Join us fora program presented in collaboration with The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, Visual AIDS, and MIX NYC, featuring twelve experimental films and videos spanning 1986 to 2024 and sourced from the collections of the three organizations. Read more here.
Saturday, June 6, 2026 Unstructured Discourse: an afternoon with Jean-Pierre Gorin Get tickets Join us for a screening of Poto and Cabengo (1980) by Jean-Pierre Gorin, followed by an in-person talk by the filmmaker and a public discussion moderated by Yuka Murakami and Lukas Brasiskis. The film follows Grace and Virginia Kennedy, twin sisters in San Diego whose private speech briefly drew the attention of linguists, therapists, journalists, and television reporters. Gorin described the film as being about “unstructured discourse”: the language of the twins as it is surrounded by the more structured discourses of family, medical institutions, and media. Rather than treating that language as a puzzle to be solved, Poto and Cabengo uses observation, interviews, and essayistic reflection to examine how different forms of authority attempt to translate and contain it. In doing so, the film becomes an inquiry into mechanisms of power of interpretation, and into cinema’s own position within that field: how can film enter a situation without pretending to master it, and remain open to uncertainty and contradiction? Read more here.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 50 years of Harvestworks residents Get tickets Join us at e-flux to celebrate the 50 year anniversary of Harvestworks with a screening of Volcano Saga (1989) by Joan Jonas, and a performance by Justin Allen, a current Harvestworks resident. The program will be followed by a discussion between Harvestworks interim director Ivana Dama, e-flux Performance Curator Sanna Almajedi, and artist Toni Dove who was a Harvestworks resident in 1989 and 1990. The discussion traces the history of Harvestworks through its 661 residents across different decades, highlighting significant artworks created through the program. Read more here.
Thursday, June 11, 2026 Launch of e-flux journal issue #163: “Intellectuals,” with McKenzie Wark and Matt Seybold RSVP Please join us at e-flux to celebrate the launch of e-flux journal issue #163: “Intellectuals.” The evening will feature a live podcast recording for American Vandal, with a discussion between guest editor McKenzie Wark and contributor Matt Seybold. To introduce the issue, Wark writes: "Is it possible that we might know something of the world, share what we know, decide together what’s best, and work toward a world that is free, fair, and might endure? If I were to describe the project that’s consumed my life, I might put it something like that. It’s why I’m drawn to the work of those oriented toward something similar, other travelers passing in the shadows of the fiefdoms of knowledge-as-power who might have their eye on such a horizon." Read more here.
Monday, June 15, 2026 Between Fantasy and the Everyday: The Films of Utako Koguchi Get tickets The early 1990s saw a significant surge of women filmmakers entering the Japanese experimental film scene, bringing a shift in focus away from the abstract structuralism of earlier periods and toward the materiality of the body and its relationship to the city, with a renewed attention to lived experience and emerging forms of performance. Trained in theatre at Waseda University before turning to 8mm film, Utako Koguchi became a key figure in this feminist movement and an important figure in queer film history. Join us for a program of films by Utako Koguchi, guest-curated and introduced by Cici Peng. Read more here.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at Spore Initiative, Berlin Art and Theory Today: launch of e-flux Index #9 Join us in Berlin to celebrate the launch of e-flux Index #9, which reflects on the relationship between art and theory today. For the past fifty years, theory has profoundly shaped the conditions of artistic production: how artists are educated and how many of them work, how curators are trained, how exhibitions are framed, how institutions articulate their missions, and how criticism confers aesthetic value. Yet theory is not a body of abstract ideas simply applied to art from the outside. Theory and artistic practice have historically developed together, each transforming the other within the material and institutional organization of the field. What position does theory occupy in art today? With Hiwa K, Oraib Toukan, Elena Vogman, Ben Eastham, Hallie Ayres, George Macbeth, and Anton Vidokle. Read more here.
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