MONO NO AWARE (20)

Festival start: 01 December 2026      Festival end: 13 December 2026

MONO NO AWARE is the annual exhibition of expanded cinema showcasing sculpture, installation, single-multiple channel durational projection, and performance art that incorporates the moving image on Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or as an altered light projection. (No DV)

This year's festival and screening will be part of MONO NO AWARE's twentieth annual festival, which includes screenings of works curated from artists around the world.
Submission is sliding scale by donation ($0-20 - pay what you wish) which allows MONO NO AWARE to provide travel stipends and lodging to presenting artists.

The festival is organized by the non-profit cinema-arts organization MONO NO AWARE.

MONO NO AWARE offers year-round analog filmmaking workshops to the community teaching: Super 8mm, 16mm filmmaking, 2-D animation and 3-D puppet animation, Production for Independent Film, Hand-processing, Alternative-processing and Non-toxic-processing Techniques, Film Preservation, Handmade Emulsion, Advanced Super 16mm filmmaking, a range of special workshops led by visiting filmmakers and more. As an extension of the educational initiatives, the organization rents analogue filmmaking equipment, makes Steenbeck flat-bed editing and JK or Oxberry optical printing facilities available to the public and we also import/distribute Color and Black and White film stocks. Through our outreach program we present these same workshops at numerous universities, film festivals, and institutions throughout the US. This year we have presented workshops at The Japan Society (Manhattan, NY) The Oak Cliff Film Festival (Dallas, TX) The Queens Museum (Queens, NY) and this August we’ll travel to the Thomas Edison National Park to conduct a re-imagining kinetoscopes workshop inside the historic Black Maria (West Orange, NJ). MONO NO AWARE presents a monthly screening series entitled CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA with visiting filmmakers and most recently a co-presentation of a three-day retrospective ‘Super 8 Poetics’ the works of Stephanie Gray at The Anthology Film Archives. We’ve also started a reference library with a focus on cinema history, theory and technical filmmaking texts and publications.

To learn more about MONO NO AWARE visit: www.mononoawarefilm.com

MONO NO AWARE does not give prizes or awards, the exhibition is 'non-competitive'

That being said, we only select 14-20 works for the festival each year.

*THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS NOW OPEN* for the 20th edition of the Expanded Cinema Arts Festival: MONO NO AWARE XX !!

Come celebrate 20 years of MONO with us! Free to submit your work for consideration and free to attend since 2007. OPEN CALL to filmmakers and artists of the moving image whose work incorporates S8MM, 16MM, 35MM and altered light projections as part of a durational performance, instillation or sculpture. MONO is a non-competitive exhibition that provides travel stipend and accommodations for all selected persons.

Deadline: All submissions must have been received by Midnight EST US October 15th 2026

The full history of the exhibition and submission information can be found online at
https://mononoawarefilm.com/call-for-entries-mono-no-aware-xx-2026

We look forward to hearing from you,


Ramsey Tyson
Festival Coordinator, MONO NO AWARE XX

Steve Cossman
Founder / Director, MONO NO AWARE