FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter 2026
May 27–31
ACUD Kunsthaus
Full program and tickets:
https://fractofilm.com
FRACTO returns for its ninth edition, presenting 61 films from Europe, the Americas, and Asia. The program unfolds across five sections, three focuses, a dedicated feature-length program, and an expanded cinema work, mapping a field where the image moves between material presence and perceptual intensity.
Focuses include Cécile Fontaine (France), working with film as material through collage and reassembly, Peter Todd (UK), composing attentive in-camera observations and Moucle Blackout (Austria), with newly restored works exploring color and optical transformation.
Experimental Film Treasures #1 introduces feature-length experimental cinema with works by Telemach Wiesinger and Warren Sonbert.
The festival closes with an expanded cinema work by Jan Kulka (Czech Republic).
Accompanying events at ACUD, alongside program at ACUD Kino:
-EXPANDED CINEMA. Jan Kulka
Sun 31 May
21:30–23:00, ACUD CLUB
90 min
Jan Kulka’s expanded cinema practice engages film through custom-built projection systems and handmade formats, exploring light, movement, and perception at their limits. His works expose the conditions of display, where the image oscillates between physical intensity and perceptual instability.
Gracias Pablo (2025, 20’, 70mm, German Premiere)
A reworked 70mm reel transforms fragments of action cinema into a continuous field of motion and light.
Patterns (2024, 42’, Berlin Premiere)
A handmade film projected via the Archeoscope, unfolding shifting structures of repetition and interference.
Fringe Shades (2026, 22’, World Premiere)
A chromatic field of flicker and afterimage, where perception moves between the physical and the subjective.
Full program and tickets:
https://fractofilm.com
-WORKSHOP. Cécile Fontaine
Sat–Sun 30–31 May
10:00–17:00, ACUD Rooftop
Participation limited to 15 participants
Pre-registration required
This two-day workshop with Cécile Fontaine offers a direct engagement with film as material. Working with found footage across formats, participants will create a short piece through hands-on experimentation—scratching, removing, and reworking the film strip itself.
Moving away from established techniques, the workshop opens a space of trial, gesture, and transformation, where the image breaks down and re-forms through physical intervention. The focus is not on a finished film, but on exploring film as a mutable surface.
Materials are provided.
Registration & info:
fractofilm@gmail.com