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Basement Films is a nonprofit, volunteer-run microcinema for experimental, undependent, and under-represented forms of film and video making. We serve as a resource for artists, filmmakers, and students interested in exploring new approaches to moving image art. Our headquarters are located at the UNM Cinematic Arts Department building out at Mesa del Sol, in the yawning desert just south of the A
04/19/2026
Last Day of Experiments in Cinema v21.5!!!
Full Sunday of film programs, all showing at the .
Experiment 10 - 1:00 - 2:00pm (99 Ho**er live)
Experiment 11 - 2:45 - 4:15pm (EXiS Festival)
Experiment 12 - 4:45 - 6:15pm (Dance on Film)
Experiment 13 - 7:45 - 8:45pm
Conversations with the filmmakers after each program. Filmmakers present with films showing today!
99 Ho**er
Rosie Trump
John Akre
Mark Street
David Sherman .sherman.560
Full program information at experimentincinema.org. For those outside of Albuquerque, programs will be viewab le online April 28 - May 10, pay what you want.
04/16/2026
Highlights EICv21.5 Experiment 13
Sunday, April 18 at 7:45-8:45
Film stills:
🎞 “BETTER LIGHTING” by Kathryn Ramey
🎞 “Spirit Away” by Sally Cloninger
🎞 “Prefer Not To Say” by Tommy Becker
All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque. $10 for a full day pass.
Full program details at experimentsincinema.org
04/15/2026
EIC special program spotlight:
Dance On Screen, curated by Rosie Trump
Sunday, April 19 at 4:45 - 6:15 pm at the
A program of recent short films from the Third Coast Dance Film Festival curated by Rosie Trump. The Third Coast Dance Film Festival celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening series of short dance films. They program films that reflect diversity in genre, form, and representation.This program is supported by the University of Nevada, Reno with grant support from the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance.
Film stills:
🎞 “the window kind of opens by itself” by Rebecca Salzer/Anya Cloud
🎞 “Sueño de Obsidiana (Obsidian Dream)” by Scotty Hardwig/Claudia Lavista
All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM. $10 for a full day pass.
Full program details at experimentsincinema.org
04/15/2026
Highlights from EICv21.5 Experiment 9
Saturday, April 18 at 7:30-9:00pm
🎞 “No Landscape Ever Made Me Cry.” by Sujin Lee
🎞 “the Night Sky Trilogy” by Peggy Ahwesh,
🎞 “A Vernacular of the Numinous” by M Freeman
All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM. $10 for a full day pass. Full program details at experimentsincinema.org
04/12/2026
EIC special program spotlight:
Way OUT West Fest: Q***R X 3.0
Curated by Roberto Appicciafoco
Saturday, April 18 at 4:30-6:00pm
The Way OUT West Film Festival is proud to return with the third edition of Q***r X at this year’s Experiments in Cinema festival. Spanning 34 years, this program begins with Resonance (1991) by Stephen Cummins, a landmark of the New Q***r Cinema movement, and builds toward a decidedly (happy) ending with Love, Jealousy and Revenge from subversive filmmaker Michael Brynntrup. In between, bold contemporary works from Whammy Alcazaren, May Kindred-Boothby, Will Miller, Angelique Kalani Axelrode, and Gael Jara & Martín André stretch across continents, aesthetics, and identities. Together, these filmmakers ask a persistent question: how does one live—and survive—as a q***r person in this world? Through memory and bureaucracy, climate collapse and erotic awakening, digital ghosts and ancestral tides, Q***r X reminds us that q***r life is always in motion. It adapts. It resists. It desires. And sometimes, defiantly, it finds pleasure anyway.
Film stills:
🎞 “Water Sports” by Whammy Alcazaren
🎞 “Chimera” by Gael Jara & Martín André
🎞 “The Eating Of An Orange” by May Kindred-Bootby
All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM. $10 for a full day pass.
Full program details at experimentsincinema.org
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