Up to now we have been low-key, we have been playing it nice.
But the world is broken.
This time we are demanding—stop fossil fuels dependence bringing war and destruction worldwide!
We are demanding — unleash creative r/evolution!
We are demanding — destroy the large-file clichés of thinking that prevent us from imaging a world otherwise!
Our films are PUNK/CHIC — forceful and elegant, streamlined and stealthy, uncompromising in vision, edgy in the message. Curated in six programs that make you THINK THRICE TWICE!
THANK YOU!
Thank you to all of the attendees, artists, volunteers, partners, organizers, SFU Production Team and everyone else involved in making the first ever in-person Small File Media Festival a rousing success!
Here are the awards from the 2022 Small File Media Festival:
Small File Media Festival Programmers’ Awards:
Jami Reimer, Frog of Chorus
Best Molecule (less than 1 MB)
Amber Morrison Fox and Matthew Fox, DOOMER 1-3:
Best Trouble (22 MB series)
BiglerWeibel, Twelve Past One
Best Smallfile Humor
Saghi Ehteshamzadeh, Journal
Best Screenlife
Clint Enns, Downer Canada—Environmental Dub
Best Small File Ectoplasm
Tewhigan Bluesky, Klumsy Kevin Kisses Konkrete
Best Punk
Kofi Oduro (Illestpreacha), A World Where Information Can Gather
Best Secular Religion
Andrew Roach, Teenagers from Outerspace—Silent Edition
Most Ingenious Compression
Yuyan Song, JellyFun
Best Nonorganic Tragic Romance
Leo McArdle, Sex and Violence
Dawn of Cinema Award
Hana Kokšalová, MyPhone Funeral
Best Digital Mourning
TRIPOT (Marius Packbier & Aïlien Reyns), scaling algorithm 02
Most Hypnotic Pixel
Ayana Madi, Built Reality
Best Small File Nomadism, Small File Golden Mini Bear
Partner awards:
Margarita Osipian of The Hmm, Amsterdam, chose these works for screenings and artist talks:
Monique Motut-Firth, Data Dreaming
“We really loved this work because of the narrative it created through the use of patterns and beautiful animations. We were also very impressed that the file was such a small size but was still a good length and the quality of the video was high and not very pixelated.”
Rachel Stuckey, Solid State PSA
“With this work, we loved the idea of creating a PSA in a small file media format. We also liked that the work was taking a humorous approach to talking about technological obsolescence and technological waste.”
BiglerWeibel, Adhäsion
“We loved this work because of the way it used sound and a humorous and absurd image to convey all of our feelings about adhesion and stickiness.”
Jesse Russell Brooks, director of the Film and Video Poetry Society, Los Angeles, will program the following films in this year’s festival:
Criss Wang, Yellow
Dag Davidge, Electric Storm
VIVO Distribution Award, Vancouver
Mandana Mansouri, the Video Out Distribution manager, writes: “VO is a non-profit distribution & outreach service and connects with local and international festivals, institutions, libraries, galleries, curators, programmers, and researchers. Operating since 1980, Video Out is a non-exclusive distributor so artists are free to continue to distribute their work independently and with other distributors nationally or internationally. You are also free to end the contract at any time. We provide artist fees garnered from festival screenings, exhibitions, and licenses to libraries and universities, once a year as a lump sum to artists/producers in distribution. The distribution agreement outlines a 67% (artist) and 33% (distribution) ratio for fees garnered. While we have a list of festivals that we submit to, and curators/programmers we have good relationships with, please feel free to let us know of any places you would like to have your work submitted to, at any time.”
Mozhdeh Bashirian, Get Out Before It’s Too Late
BiglerWeibel, Adhäsion
Yerin Choi, Four Seasons
Dag Davidge, Electrical Storm
Saghi Ehteshamzadeh, Journal
Sophia English, It is going to be a hot summer
Josh Hite, A Vista
Avesta Mahmoudvaand, Hellmouth
Monique Motut-Firth and pr0phecy sun, TV Party
Yuyan Song, JellyFun
Gabriel Soucheyre, Anne’s Portrait
Jordyn Stewart, Landscape Study IV
Rachel Stuckey, Moon Clock: 4 Phases 2 Optimize U
Eric Tkaczyk, Press
Criss Wang, Yellow

Billions of years away from now, who or what will have been our ancestors? From billions of years ago, what are the remnants we hold? What will have been our radiant future fossil, an exclamation mark for Earth’s double helix of resource exploitation, depletion and extinction and the resilience of ancestral spirits and of love?
It Is Going
to Be a Hot Summer
Sophia English
2022
VANCOUVER, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Portals
DURATION 1:50
Processing Time

Hot News
JPEG 2000 (SETH EGGLER, JOEY MALBON)
2022
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5 MB)
SONG
DuraTION 3:19
Processing Time 5:26

Handmade Biscuits
Cat Hart
2022
VANCOUVER, CANADA
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
NSFT
Duration 0:14
Processing Time 0:08

Page 32
Lisa McCarty
2022
Dallas TEXAS, USA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5 MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 0:16
PROCESSING TIME 0:30

DOOMER 1, 2, 3
Amber Morrison Fox & Matthew Fox
2022
Nanaimo, BC, Canada
TROUBLE (22MB)
OTHER
DURATION 1:18
Processing time 1:24

JellyFun
Yuyan Song
2022
VANCOUVER, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 2:12
Processing Time 5:00

Found a Happy Kitchen: Played a Happy Kitchen
(Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
Lara Band
2022
London, UK
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
OTHER
Duration 1:00
Processing Time 0:23

Solid State PSA
Rachel Stuckey
2016-2022
Austin Texas, USA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 2:00
PROCESSING TIME 5:00

Data Dreaming
Monique Motut-Firth
2022
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 2:59
PROCESSING TIME 0:29

ROW
Selina Repole
2022
VANCOUVER, CANADA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 1:01
PROCESSING TIME

Anne’s Portrait
Gabriel Soucheyre
2022
Clermont-Ferrand
Trouble (22MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 0:10
PROCESSING TIME 0:05

Bear
Alanna Edwards
2020
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 0:01 (looped)
PROCESSING Time


Drive a motorcycle through the woods at night. An arrow of failing speed. They never showed up but you just don’t care. An owl hoots as you plunge into your own shadow, but in this pool, in the mirror of the asphalt, what do you see? Marvel at the smell of wet meadow at night. The red sky opens and so does a well of memories—those sticky threads you unravel are ghosts, are ghazals reaching out.
Electrical Storm
Dag Davidge
2022
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 3:00
PROCESSING TIME

Cycle Race with Bells and Whistles
August Weinbren
2022
London, UK
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 2:09
PROCESSING TIME 0:42

Scopophilia
Phoebe Legere
2021
New York City, USA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 0:22
PROCESSING TIME 0:02

Red Skies at Night
Calla McCord & Taliesin Herb
2022
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Portals
DURATION 0:27
PROCESSING TIME 0:52

Road & Hores
Minoo Iranpour
2022
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 0:47
PROCESSING TIME 0:47

Downer Canada – Environmental Dubs
Clint Enns
2021
Toronto, Canada
TROUBLE (22MB)
SONG
DURATION 8:00
PROCESSING TIME 2:00

Hellmouth
Avesta Mahmoudvand
2022
Tehran, Iran
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals
DURATION 0:51
PROCESSING TIME 0:04

If These Walls
Eva Dominelli
2021
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 0:03 (looped)
PROCESSING TIME

New Moon Gannentini
(SOUL-ASSEMBLAGE WITH ZEKI MOURAD AND NANCY MOUNIR AND MENA EL SHAZLY)
Radek Przedpelsk
2022
Éire, Poland
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Song
DURATION 2:02
PROCESSING TIME 10:00


Do not stand by and watch! Refuse exploitative work, protest the work of cliché, refuse the fixed organisation of time, refuse complacency, and crochet your resistance. Denounce toxic patriarchy violently insinuating itself into every situation. The movies in this fierce program surely pack a punch!
press.gif
Eric Tkaczyk
2020
Vancouver, Canada
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals
DURATION 0:03 (Looped)
PROCESSING TIME

VOTE!
Peggy Fussell
2022
Kingston, CANADA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 1:10
PROCESSING TIME 0:03

Kevin Kant Kope
Tewehigan Bluesky
2022
Vancouver, CANADA
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
OTHER
DURATION 0:34
PROCESSING TIME 1:00

TOXIC WEST
Molly Hankwitz
2022
San Francisco, USA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Portals
DURATION 1:00
PROCESSING TIME

Sex and Violence
Leo mcardle
2022
Delta, BC, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 2:53
PROCESSING TIME 0:09

Catapult of Procrastination
Jerone Domenico Baur
2021
Augsburg, Germany
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
OTHER
DURATION 0:05
PROCESSING TIME 12:00

Box Tree – Tree Box
BiglerWeibel
2021
Bern, Switzerland
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals
DURATION 0:06
PROCESSING TIME

Moon Clock: 4 Phases 2 Optimize U
Rachel Stuckey
2016
Austin Texas, USA
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
NSFT
DURATION 1:11 (Looped)
PROCESSING TIME 1:00

Klumsy Kevin Kisses Konkrete
Twehigan Bluesky
2021
Vancouver, Canada
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Other
DURATION 0:19
PROCESSING TIME 1:00


“From the perspective of the crystal, we assert that things produce their own time, that there is more than one time depending on the diversity and difference of nature’s possibilities”
The Crystalist Manifesto, 1976.
Through a wormhole darkly, a hatch opens. The films in this program are little crystalline germs around which new rituals and coalitions can form. They ponder the mystery of a crystal, its vertigo of opaque and transparent faces, its capacity to graft an infinite new reality, the yet-unseen, a roar of contingency, into the mundane.
dépaysant
Christopher M. Carruth
2022
Boulder, USA
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
NSFT
DURATION Infinite Loop
PROCESSING TIME 15:00

Portalling Away
Kofi Oduro (Illestpreacha)
2022
Montréal, Canada
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals
DURATION 0:50
PROCESSING TIME

Just to Dream
Sami Keskikallio
2022
Haparanda, Sweden
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 34:19
PROCESSING TIME 2:53

Father’s Album
Minoo Iranpour
2022
Toronto, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 1:09
PROCESSING TIME 0:47

Building no. 9
Zarin Salahi
2022
Brisbane, Australia
Trouble (22 MB)
NSFT
DURATION 0:50
PROCESSING TIME 2:00

Journal
Saghi Ehteshamzadeh
2022
Vancouver, Canada
TROUBLE (22MB)
Other
DURATION 1:40
PROCESSING TIME 10:25

scaling algorithm 02
TRIPOT (Marius Packbier & Aïlien Reyns)
2015
Brussels, Belgium
TROUBLE (22MB)
NSFT
DURATION 5:00
PROCESSING TIME 30:00

A Vista (Portals) Mockup #1
Josh Hite
2018
Vancouver, Canada
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals
DURATION 0:27
PROCESSING TIME

w0rmh0le_infinite_l00p
paul_g00dfell0w
2022
Newcastle, Uk
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 0:13 (Looped)
PROCESSING TIME

Through the Looking Glass
Monique Motut-Firth and Prophecy Sun
2022
Vancouver, Canada
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 0:39
PROCESSING TIME 0:29

Four Seasons
Yerin Choi
2022
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 2:56
PROCESSING TIME


“ Once I had a love and it was a gas/ Soon turned out had a heart of glass”
Debbie Harry, Blondie, 1978
The cold touch of glass, acting under hypnosis like the cast of Werner Herzog’s 1976 Heart of Glass, an unfeeling rock surface that goes on forever, unserenaded life-cycles of electronic devices, strange vagaries of flesh liberated from a determinate function, serialisations and permutations of an algorithm. These are non-human affects we don’t understand, their workings—a black box. Small-file media artists probe this glacial reality with a punk abandon.
we become water
Leanne Dunic
2022
VANCOUVER, CANADA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
SONG
DURATION 3:04
PROCESSING TIME 0:59

Picky Eater
Rianna Richards
2022
VANCOUVER, CANADA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 2:53
PROCESSING TIME 0:47

Adhäsion
BiglerWeibel
2019
Bern, Switzerland
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 0:41
PROCESSING TIME

Collatz
Eric Lennartson
2022
BERN, SWITZERLAND
Ripples (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 0:10
PROCESSING TIME 0:31

Frog of Chorus
Jami Reimer
2022
Vancouver, Canada
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Song
DURATION 0:55
PROCESSING TIME 0:27

Vivid Dreams Only Happen in Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
(VDOHREMS)
Debbie Y.J. Lin
2019
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals
DURATION 0:37
PROCESSING TIME 0:18

Look at you on the FUTURE – Look at you on the DISPLAY
Hernando Urrutia
2022
Portugal
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 0:10
PROCESSING TIME

Triptych
Anabela Costa
2016
Paris, France
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
OTHER
DURATION 2:12
PROCESSING TIME 2:00

MyPhone Funeral
Hana Kokšalová
2021
Czech Republic
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
OTHER
DURATION 10:46
PROCESSING TIME 15:00

Two Minutes
Leo Xiong Tianyu
2022
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
OTHER
DURATION 1:32
PROCESSING TIME 0:15

Landscape Study IV
Jordyn Stewart
2019
Grimsby, Canada
TROUBLE (22MB)
Portals
DURATION 2:30
PROCESSING TIME 0:30

TV Party
Monique Motut-Firth and Prophecy SuN
2022
Vancouver, Canada
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals
DURATION 1:04
PROCESSING TIME 0:29


Space that is not one, a space that overflows, a space that you yourself are making when you are cruising aimlessly, lost to meandering thoughts, to the desire of a place outside the map. The movies in this category celebrate the freedom of losing your way and making it as you go.
The Resolution
Moay Sakata
2022
Vancouver, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 4:06
PROCESSING TIME

YELLOW
Criss Wang
2022
Surrey, BC, CANADA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 2:23
PROCESSING TIME 5:00

Do Capitalist Drones Dream of Electric Communism?
Andrew Roach
2022
Ellijay, USA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
OTHER
DURATION 5:00
PROCESSING TIME 20:00

Oceano
Mary Delphine Freedman
2022
Cambridge, UK
TROUBLE (22MB)
Song
DURATION 0:52
PROCESSING TIME 3:52

Flow
Ockert Greeff
2022
Montréal, Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 2:39
PROCESSING TIME 4:00

Mapping
Mary Delphine Freedman
2022
CAMBRIDGE, UK
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 0:30
PROCESSING TIME 1:00

Teenagers from Outspace – Silent Edition
Andrew Roach
2020
Ellijay, USA
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 15:27
PROCESSING TIME 30:00

Get Out Before It’s Too Late
Mozhdeh Bashirian
2021
Iran / Canada
RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other
DURATION 0:59
PROCESSING TIME 0:50

The First February Fire
Amélia Simard
2022
New Westminster, Canada
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
OTHER
DURATION 1:02
PROCESSING TIME 2:32

In Nisyros: An Instagram Story Poem
Marilia Kaisar
2019
Athens, Greece & Santa Cruz, USA
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
NSFT
DURATION 0:39
PROCESSING TIME 5:00

Atmos
Xiaoying Tan
2022
Vancouver, Canada
Ripples (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT
DURATION 2:24
PROCESSING TIME 5:00

Skylines
Monique Motut-Firth and Prophecy SuN
2022
Vancouver, Canada
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals
DURATION 0:37
PROCESSING TIME 0:29

Built Reality
Ayana Madi
2022
VANCOUVER, CANADA
MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
PORTALS
DURATION 3:58
PROCESSING TIME


Join us for a selection of organizer favourites from this year and award winners from festivals past.
why wonder
Christopher M. Carruth
My Grandmother and the Eating Disorder
Marilia Kaisar
O’Hara Lane
Colin Williscroft
Catfessions #1
Pierre Leichner
Moththth
Weihan Zhou
The Frontiersman
Joseph Ku
Fantasmas sobre asfalto
Nicolás Higuera
Built Reality
Ayana Madi
DOOMER 1, 2, 3
Amber Morrison Fox and Matthew Fox
YELLOW
Criss Wang
