MOMI Screening & Workshop

Bringing together an international community of artists pioneering small-file eco-media, the Small File Media Festival (SFMF) comes to New York City for the first time for this free screening and workshop. “An all-out intervention to save the world, one pixel at a time,” SFMF raises awareness around the high carbon footprint of streaming media with its annual showcase of small-file treasures. Small-file videos run at 1.44 MB per minute by harnessing a range of techniques, from filming with obsolete cameras to compressing video with open-source algorithms. Designed for lightness and resilience, this tiny bitrate allows the small file to thrive in places where electricity and internet access are precarious.

The selected shorts in this program showcase the breadth and depth of the small-file video for those who never considered the future could be so small. It includes contemplative home videos, experimental animations, poetic revelations, and pixelated dreams.

The screening will be followed by a workshop inviting participants to make their own small-file videos with an introduction to various video compression techniques. This program invites participants to collectively, radically, and creatively rethink computational culture and sustainability practices.