Small File Media Festival 2026
The Small File Media Festival features small-file ecomedia, movies compressed at a rate of 1.44 MB per minute each, showing that great cinema doesn’t have to mean great big files
Date/Time: Oct 17 2026, 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Vancouver, The Cinematheque1131 Howe St
This lo-fi intervention draws from both DIY movements and computer-based artistic practices. The films embrace the aesthetics of file compression and low resolution and lay the groundwork for a new experimental film movement in the digital age.
Festival Program:
The festival kicks off on Saturday, October 17 at 7:00pm with Series 1, pairing “Women Destroying Things” with “The Chaos of Quantity in Two Parts: Alien Capitalism and Telepathic Computation,” a twin program that oscillates between the chokehold of commodities and the reappropriation of capital for arcane purposes.
The festival continues on Sunday October 18 with two more series. Series 2 at 1:00pm features “So You Want to Be a Rock,” shimmering pixel-films that ask what it’s like to be a caterpillar, a plastic bottle, or a computer code, alongside “Suppose a Room,” a program of films that pass through, touch the walls, and leave the door open.
Series 3 at 4:00pm closes the festival with “Voidmaxxing (Joy That Kills),” eleven small films that traverse bodies, liquid humours, and VHS spaces, and “Grave Glitches,” a passage through the unclear limits of life, death, and rebirth.
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