Experimental Series – Salt Lake City (EXPS/SLC) is a screening series hosted at the Union Theater at the University of Utah. Programs highlight experimental, avant-garde, and otherwise alternative film/video. Screenings incorporate a variety of themes but are always rooted in embodied, personal, experiential, and/or radical approaches to movement, choreography, and the body on screen.

SUBMISSIONS

We especially encourage BIPOC, women, queer, and disabled creators whose work is rooted in experimental approaches addressing movement, choreography, and/or the body to apply. Please apply if your film incorporates movement or the body, but would not typically be considered “dance”. See our previous programs under “Archive” for examples of what we typically curate. Note that at this time we can only screen your film as a digitized video. If our equipment access changes, we will update accordingly. Submission fees are according to film/video length and student status. If the submission fee causes a significant barrier in your submission to our festival please reach out. Submit here!

LOCATION

The Union Theater is located on the first floor of the Student Union at 200 S Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. For wheelchair access/power doors into the union, enter from the east, opposite the parking lot, go straight through the lobby, turn left along the first hallway, and go right to the end, where the theater is on your left. General parking and visitors with disability placards may park in any spot in the visitor’s parking lot to the east of the Student Union. Map of the theater can be found here.

ACCESS

Screenings are free and open to all university and community members. The theater is ADA accessible with comfortable room for mobility devices. Trigger warnings (if applicable) will be given before each program. ASL interpreters can be provided at the screening with at least two weeks advance notice.

EXPS/SLC Archive

  • Arrival/Departure (2023)

    Tuesday, August 29, 2023 – 7:30pm

    Films by Fanxi Sun, Elisa Harkins, Tristen Ives, & Jasmine Liaw. Full Program.

  • LIGHT SPEED (2023)

    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 – 7:30pm

    Films by Stephanie Barber, Josh Weissbach, Camila Dron, Cecilia Araneda, Soetkin Verstegen, Leo Ryan, Laura Iancu, Christopher Thompson, & Tony Balko. Full Program.

  • Disability Currents (2023)

    Tuesday, October 24 – 7:30pm

    Films by Holly Márie Parnell & Petra Kuppers. Full Program.

  • Feature: Gretchen Jude & Doug Corbin (2023)

    Tuesday, April 4, 2023

    A conversation with new faculty - Assistant Professor in Film Sound in the Department of Film & Media Arts, Gretchen Jude, and Music Director in the School of Dance, Doug Corbin.

  • International Screendance Shorts (2023)

    Tuesday, April 4, 2023 – 7:30PM

    Films by Adam Sekuler & Shannon Stewart, Kenna Cottman & Kevin Obstaz, Kioto Aoki, Marie Lévêque, Irishia Hubbard, Stella Mastorosteriou, Jeremy Moss & Pamela Vail, & Kelly Gallagher. Full Program.

  • BREATH WORK (2023)

    Tuesday, January 31, 2023 – 7:30PM

    Films by Annie Peterson, Crystal Z Campbell, Sofia El Khyari, Todd Fraser, Leila Awadallah, Kelly Sears, ARSÈNE, Kamila Kuc, Hugo Ljungbäck, & Sasha Water Freyers. Full Program.

  • Beauty is a Verb (2022)

    Thursday, December 1, 2022 – 8PM

    Films by Charli Brissey & Petra Kuppers, Gabby Sumney, Danielle Peers & Alice Sheppard, Stephen Wardell, Lauren Henschel, Dorothy Allen Pickard, & Robyn Ehrlich. Full Program.

  • Notes on Gesture (2022)

    Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 8PM

    Films by Martine Syms, Ariana Gerstein, Chanelle Lajoie, Terrance Houle, Janelle VanderKelen, & Ariel Teal. Full Program.

  • Tidal Forces: Bodies in Motion (2022)

    Thursday, October 20, 2022 – 8PM.

    Films by Raven Jackson, Ben Russell, Sasha Litvintseva, Adam Sekuler, Shannon Stewart, Angelle Hebert, Chella Man, Laura Magnusson, Roxanne Gray, & Terence Nance. Full Program.

  • Guest: Petra Kuppers (2022)

    Friday, December 1, 2022

    Disability activist Petra Kuppers will share her research and offer conversation on her recent book, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters.