Light Matter Film Festival travels to Argentina
The Light Matter Film Festival, curated by James Hansen, associate professor of art history in Alfred University’s School of Art and Design, was presented over two days in early December in Argentina.
Light Matter, now in its fourth year, is an experimental film and media art festival that showcases the work of emerging and established artists from around the world, celebrating the avant-garde in cinema and media art. Alfred University has hosted screenings for Light Matter in each of its four years. Hansen presented two newly curated screenings— Dec. 6 and 7, 2024, at the Kino Palais theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina—as a global expansion of acclaimed festival.
Light Matter presented seven programs over three days, Nov. 1-3, 2024, on the Alfred University campus. They included Ultraviolet, a major gallery exhibition by Jodie Mack; four short film programs; a special presentation of Jennifer Reeves’s new feature film The Gloria of Your Imagination; and live film/sound/media performances by Rebekkah Palov, M.F.A. ’09, former research administrative assistant in the School of Art and Design's Institute for Electronic Arts, the trio K/S/R, and Carrier Band.
The festival continues with traveling screenings in early 2025 before submissions open this summer for the 2025 festival season.