Program 2026
All screenings and Exhibits take place in the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center.
March 5 - 8, 2026
Thursday, March 5
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM:
Student Works!
Films & Animations from WVU, regional & global students.
A Giant of Limitless Power at Man's Command by Shelby Blair
Black Saturday! by Alexander Colt Young
Carnival by Paul Lilyea
Cliffs & Beyond by Ada Chen
Doomstroll by Taylor James Arnett
Flash Forward by Madison LaVigne
Forever Fetch by Evangeline Van Meter
Hunger by Taylor Bellah
Mephisto by Abhigyan Ravichandran
Miracles Happen Everyday by Sloane Ren
Ohio River Bridge Crossing by Braden T. Burnside
Petty People by Yang Yi
Picture Me Better (10 Minute Cut) by Xavier Alexander
Project Selkie by Ryleigh Moule
Prophecy by Sol Kim
Rotten by Marilyn Bell
Serenity by Snow Chen
Snow Day by Olivia Nestor
The Bunny by Isaiah Supadi, Oscar Smith
The Red Thread by Peyton Rhian Fitz
You've Got a Mothman in Me by Akira Jakkson
(Final WVU Student Films TBA)
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM:
Ruminations and Abstractions
A selection of video installations and screen-based performance works which reveal wonders, and phantasms, at the edge of experience.
Locations: Paul Mesaros gallery and the “Slab” practice space.
seen, stored and remembered by Tracy Miller-Robbins NECROPOLIS by Millie Dread
The Gravedigger's Spy by Sylvia Toy
A Life Half-Lived by Rob Munday
Caffeine Phosphene Reverie by Alanna Floreck Surface Recordings: Palo Duro Red / Ogallala Unfiltered by Andrew Weathers
Reading The Wound by Erich Barganier
Interview by Michael Mersereau
Île tête nue by Aitor Ibáñez
Friday, March 6
9:30 - 11:00 AM
Animation Workshop with Scott Turri
Location: Intermedia Lab, Room 5018
1:00 - 4:00 PM
Animation Workshop with Jeanne Stern
Location: Intermedia Lab, Room 5018
5:00 - 6:30 pM
Filmmaker/Artist Hangout & “Cyber Lounge”
Location: Drawing Studio
6:30 - 8:00 pM
Opening Film Showcase
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
PAPA by Florias Welch Gallay
Flow of Being by Helen Unt
Bug by Pat O'Connor
Dizzy Cavalry by Patrick Doyon
Tarfu Bravo Zulu by Jonathan Kiefer
Macabre by Jonah Manibusan
Patch by Meg Cook
Memories of the Little Pond by Yeon Choi
Screen Memory by Maggie Murphy
Where the Rhododendron Grow by Erin Draxler
Like Friend, Like Deer by Malek Eghbali
Artist Q & A
8:45 - 10:00 pM
”Time”
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
A video about red balloons by Walter Smits
fracture summer by Kym McDaniel
Purgatorio by Auden Lincoln-Vogel, Stephanie Miracle and Philip Rabalais
How Now, House? by Tess Martin
Buses don't stop here anymore by Penny McCann
Out of Nowhere by Billy Palumbo
Voices of the mountains by Laboratory for visual storytelling
10 52 by Amirmohammad Zand
Artist Q & A
10:30 pM
Filmmaker Hangout
Location: TBA
9:30 AM - 11:00 PM
Ruminations and Abstractions
A selection of video installations and screen-based performance works which reveal wonders, and phantasms, at the edge of experience.
Locations: Paul Mesaros gallery and the “Slab” practice space.
seen, stored and remembered by Tracy Miller-Robbins NECROPOLIS by Millie Dread
The Gravedigger's Spy by Sylvia Toy
A Life Half-Lived by Rob Munday
Caffeine Phosphene Reverie by Alanna Floreck Surface Recordings: Palo Duro Red / Ogallala Unfiltered by Andrew Weathers
Reading The Wound by Erich Barganier
Interview by Michael Mersereau
Île tête nue by Aitor Ibáñez
Saturday, March 7
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Integrating
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
Dollhouse Elephant by Jenny Jokela
beyond the supernova by Masha Kochanenkova
You Do Not Exist by Dwayne LeBlanc
All of This Must Be Paid For by Gabi Rudin
The Box by Caroline Rumley
Noli me tangere by Mahda Purmehdi
Fačuk by Maida Srabovic
Fumble by Mahsa Talebiani
giiwe πρό bizhiw / bizhiw πρό giiwe by mystery byrd
Hiding Places by Magdalena Bermudez
Artist Q & A
2:00 - 3:30 pM
Landscapes Convergences
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
Alpine Tundra by Kathleen Rugh
Sulfur by Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes
Hurricane Season by Michelle Trujillo
Fjord Time by Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson, Carleen Maur
In its fertile shade by Andrés Dávila
WHY-EEELA by Ian Gibbins
amphibolos lithos by Valery Grysha
Katelin Describes a Crisis by Stephen Wardell
Las Animas by Matt Feldman
Doxology for Ella May Wiggins by Jonathan Furnell, Rachel Pittman
Linija Među Nama/ A Line Between Us by Milena Jovićević
Artist Q & A
4:30 - 6:00 pM
The Folk Music of the Southern West Virginia Coalfields
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
A select screening of Associate Professor Chris Haddox’s film “Voices Faintly Heard” followed by a live musical performance. “Voices Faintly Heard” is an introduction to the landscape, people and music of southern West Virginia whose roots date back to 17th and 18th century England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Artist Q & A
6:30 - 8:00 pM
Short Narratives and Animated Stories
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
HR & B by Ron Scott Jr.
Second Hand Ghouls by PJ Gaynard
Five Stars by Trinity Love Rollins
Pongo, Spike and Tyke by Meysam Shamsi
Going Home by Hunter Reardon, Peter Berinato
Vendetta by Dylan Anglin
Pandora's Greenhouse by Adrian Manuel Pijoan
Service Bus by Elmer Mikael L√∏demel
St. Jude's Reply by David Golden
American Pizza: A 48 Hour Film Project by Will Radan
Artist Q & A
8:30 pM
Awards Ceremony
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
9:30 - 10:15 pM
Experimental Works
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
Closure by Blake Riesenfeld
Match Dance by John Akre
Normal Litio by Massimiliano Marianni
Naya Sahasrabhuja Avalokiteshvara 新千手觀世音菩薩 by Shon Kim
Reading The Wound by Erich Barganier
The Story of The Cricket Queen by Natalie Peracchio
Primetime Mr. President by Saif Alsaegh
Tehran 615 by Hamidreza Nassiri
CosmonautOpReMix by Timothy James Nohe
Artist Q & A
6:30 - 8:00 pM
Liminal Worlds
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
Mysterious Purple House by Joshua Yates
Policed Mind by Laury Hooghuis
Algorithmic Nudes Grapple with Entropy by David R Witzling
But...You're A Dolphin! by Sarah Turner
Je jouissante... moi non plus by Flâneuse du Mal
Voyeur by Maryam Hashempour
I Exist by Martin Del Carpio
Artist Q & A
9:30 AM - 11:00 PM
Ruminations and Abstractions
Locations: Paul Mesaros gallery and the “Slab” practice space.
A selection of video installations and screen-based performance works which reveal wonders, and phantasms, at the edge of experience.
seen, stored and remembered by Tracy Miller-Robbins NECROPOLIS by Millie Dread
The Gravedigger's Spy by Sylvia Toy
A Life Half-Lived by Rob Munday
Caffeine Phosphene Reverie by Alanna Floreck Surface Recordings: Palo Duro Red / Ogallala Unfiltered by Andrew Weathers
Reading The Wound by Erich Barganier
Interview by Michael Mersereau
Île tête nue by Aitor Ibáñez
Sunday, March 8
1:30 - 2:15 pM
Young Filmmakers
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
Revolution by Xinti Lim
Revenge of the Killer Rubber Chickens by Tristan J Cook
35,567 Yup'ik Stories by Magnus Shipe
Mephisto by Abhigyan Ravichandran
empty nester by Alexandra Bennett
Fallen by Angela Ruohan Yan
The Red Thread by Peyton Rhian Fitz
Artist Q & A
3:00 - 4:00 pM
Defining Self & Purpose
Location: Bloch Learning and Performance Hall
(MOURNING) AFFIRMATIONS by Spyros Patsouras
Don't Cry For Me All You Drag Queens by Kristal Sotomayor
Gamelan Evolution by Juan Vito Timothy Reyner
a decade by Wrik Mead
Nabt Al-Ard by Mohammed hamed salama
On Camera by Jackie Mishol
Artist Q & A
1:30 - 4:30 PM
Ruminations and Abstractions
Locations: Paul Mesaros gallery and the “Slab” practice space.
A selection of video installations and screen-based performance works which reveal wonders, and phantasms, at the edge of experience.
seen, stored and remembered by Tracy Miller-Robbins NECROPOLIS by Millie Dread
The Gravedigger's Spy by Sylvia Toy
A Life Half-Lived by Rob Munday
Caffeine Phosphene Reverie by Alanna Floreck Surface Recordings: Palo Duro Red / Ogallala Unfiltered by Andrew Weathers
Reading The Wound by Erich Barganier
Interview by Michael Mersereau
Île tête nue by Aitor Ibáñez
A WVU Electronic Media / School of Art and Design Event
Founded in 2010, the WVMSFF has been a hub for narrative and experimental filmmakers worldwide, bringing diverse cultural and artistic perspectives to West Virginia and the Appalachian region.