Harvard FAS CAMLab is excited to welcome Revolutions per Minute (RPM), an artist-run festival dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, and cinematic work across experimental film, essay film, animation, documentary, video, and audiovisual performance.Across three days, RPM brings together filmmakers, artists, faculty, alumni, and curators for a series of screenings exploring different approaches to experimental moving image, sound, storytelling, and artistic practice.

Day 1 | September 26
Films and Performance by Hampshire College Faculty and Alumni
4:00 PM — Faculty Screening
7:00 PM — Alumni Screening
9:00 PM — Bromp Treb (Neil “Cloaca” Young)

Day 2 | November 6
7:00 PM — “Before I Knew You”
Curated by Yifei Yao
Moving across historical periods, geographies, and domestic spaces, six short films turn toward the people we call family, tracing how emotional landscapes, generational legacies, and social changes become entangled with family histories.

9:00 PM — “Medium is …”
Curated by Shira Segal
Featuring ten new works, “Medium is …” questions the current state of experimental film and considers the boundaries of different media—old, new, and obsolete.

Day 3 | November 7
2:00 PM — “Tycoon”
4:00 PM — “Loose Dirt”
6:00 PM — “A Different Clock”
8:00 PM — “What Comes Through”