exff. - tage des experimentellen films frankfurt

11/09/2025

this years edition of exf f. was the most wonderful 5-year anniversary imaginable 🎁 thank you to all the filmmakers, archives, curators, the festival team, projectionists - and finally you, the audience, who has come from all over the world to join us in frankfurt. ❤️ we’re super happy with how this intense edition turned out, and hope to see you again next year!! many thanks to for the analog pictures and working hard on the multiple exposures .film

24/07/2025

we proudly announce that the programs are ready - you can now find the screening schedule and overviews of all the programs on our website. time to prepare your trips to frankfurt! 🚣‍♂️🚴‍♀️🏄‍♂️

the texts for the programs will be released in the weeks to come. with films by peter hutton & mark lapore (curated by by arindam sen and daniel swarthnas), edward owens, ute aurand, milena gierke, hille köhne & uli versum (curated by Karola Gramann and Heide Schlüpmann), rose lowder, sílvia das fadas and nicole remy.

with loads of thanks to LIGHT CONE, Canyon Cinema, Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. and the Chicago Film Society for providing the prints and Hessen Film & Medien, Instituto Cervantes Frankfurt, the cultural affair office of the city of frankfurt (FRANKFURT & CULTURE) and the AStA Universität Frankfurt, as well as the school of the art institute of chicago (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, john m. flaxman library (Flaxman Library), the new american cinema group, Inc. and the film-makers‘ cooperative (The Film-Makers' Cooperative) for supporting us.

and, last but not least, of course the venues Pupille - Kino in der Uni and DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum for having us again 💛

09/07/2025

🌟🔮💫 with exf f. going into it's 5th round in less than 2 months, we are very excited to begin to unveil the program of the upcoming edition 💫🔮🌟

our first artist in focus will be Edward Owens. Owens was a q***r afro-american filmmaker that, after studying painting and sculpture at the art institute of chicago, began experimenting with 8mm films. after a decisive encounter with Gregory J. Markopoulos, Owens moved to new york to pursue his filmmaking, getting deeply involved in the local avant garde and experimental scene. over the second half of the decade, Owens would realize a small, but magistral oeuvre of profound intimacy, delicate formalism and profound melancholy. Owens' fulgurant debut would tragically meet an abrupt end, as he left new york in 1971, to return to his native chicago where he died in 2010, without having realized another film. we will show the entirety of Owens' works on 16mm, and are ecstatic to announce that our retrospective will include the european premieres of recently restored 8mm films by Owens. many thanks to the Chicago Film Society (Kyle Westphal and Julian Antos) for providing the prints and the cooperation as well as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Flaxman Library, The New American Cinema Group, Inc. and The Film-Makers' Cooperative.

22/06/2025

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as summer hits its full bloom, exf f. returns with with a feat of seasonal counter-programming : come join us at our yearly open air screening on the campus westend on the 23th of july, at 9:30 pm. this year’s edition will guide us, through the films of philippe cote, stan brakhage, laurence favre and jeanne liotta, from the urform of existence (Ether) over the glaciers of Creation up to the barren landscapes of Résistance to the sublime of the cosmos (Observando el Cielo).

and for those who can not make it to frankfurt in july : you can already mark your calendars. the fifth (!) edition of exf f. will take place from the 4th to the 7th of september. more information here very soon !

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Ether
FR, 2003, 9min, 16mm, Philippe Cote
Creation
US, 1979, 16min, 16mm, Stan Brakhage
Resistance
CH, 2017, 11min, 16mm, Laurence Favre
Observando El Cielo
US, 2007, 19min, 16mm, Jeanne Liotta

24/02/2025

from february 28 to march 2, all Cesare Pavese films by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub will be screened at in frankfurt, + Renate Sami’s beautiful Cesare Pavese. Turin - Santo Stefano Belbo (1984/85). the program was curated by Tobias Hering in collaboration with , our will moderate a discussion with Pavese translator Maja Pflug on the 28th. see you there! ☁️☁️☁️

04/12/2024

recommendation for frankfurt: and have put together a series on swiss filmmaker Anne-Marie Miéville in cooperation with at .film cinema, starting next week on december 13. with introductions by and .schneider.14 all dates can be found on the dff website or filmkollektiv-frankfurt.de - don’t miss this 💎💎💎🇨🇭

01/12/2024

had a GREAT time in portugal 🐳☀️

17/10/2024

17/10/2024

exf f. in the news : we are overjoyed to discover an article highlighting this year's edition in the october issue of the .
thank you so much for the wonderful text, and for the amazing programs.
and thanks to everyone that made this year's edition possible .

24/09/2024

big recommendation for next friday at DFF, 6pm: filmmaker Gariné Torossian will come to frankfurt to present a series of 16mm short films as well as her film Stone Time Touch as part of a monthly program on transnational armenian cinema organized by Filmkollektiv Frankfurt. don‘t miss!! 🐎🌟.film