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 DevelopmentAlberta 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.

6pm - Digital Program - International Highlights 

6:40pm - Intermission

7pm - 100$ Films

Featuring new work by Matt Prazak, Mave Ky, Paul Brain, Brody McCracken, Evelina Groll, Alex Mitchell, Taylor Nodrick, Dallas Soonias, Alexis Alvendia, Kainat Javed, Lonni Olson, Denver Johnson

7:30pm - Q&A with the filmmakers

8pm- Afterparty at Festival Hall