2025 Festival
ABOUT
The Artifact Small-Format Film Festival is an annual film festival, screening works shot on Super8 and 16mm film. Formerly the $100 Film Festival, we are now in our 30th year of celebrating celluloid film! We are proud to be among the select few that continue to keep this unique medium alive and to draw celluloid lovers to Calgary each year.
Thank you to our supporters for the 30th festival: Calgary Arts Development, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 3rd, 2025
7pm | Globe Cinema (617 8 Ave SW, Calgary)
Opening Night Special Feature Ovid, New York (2024)
Vito A. Rowlands | USA & Belgium | 78 min| 35mm, 16mm, Super 8
Seven tales of transformation poetically reimagine Ovid's Metamorphoses and paint a picture of violence and catharsis, anchored in mythical landscapes
Followed by Q&A with Director Vito A. Rowlands
FRIDAY, APRIL 4TH, 2025
7pm | CSIF (1725 10 Ave SW #100, Calgary)
Projected Program
A curated selection of shorts films shot and projected on Super 8 and 16mm.
SATURDAY, APRIL 5TH, 2025
10am | CSIF (1725 10 Ave SW #100, Calgary, AB)
Workshop: Intro to Black & White 16mm Film in the Home Darkroom led by Sandy McLennan
7pm | CSIF ( 617 8 Ave SW, Calgary)
Secret Cinema Screening
SUNDAY, APRIL 6TH, 2025
7pm | Festival Hall (1725 10 Ave SW #100, Calgary)
On the closing night of our 30th Artifact festival, we celebrate both international excellence and homegrown enthusiasm in analog film. The evening begins with highlights curated from global submissions, paired with the premiere of new works created by local filmmakers under the banner of the $100 Film Festival: a filmmaking challenge where creators receive two rolls of Super 8 film- the original namesake of the Artifact Film Festival.
7pm - Digital Program - International Highlights
7:40pm - Intermission
8pm - 100$ Films
Featuring new work by Matt Prazak, Mave Ky, Brody McCracken, Evelina Groll, Paul Brain, Taylor Nodrick, Dallas Soonias, Samuel Lawrence, Kainat Javed, Lonni Olson, Denver Johnson, and Gergo Koroknay.
8:30pm - Q&A with the filmmakers
9pm- Afterparty at Festival Hall
