Video Art and Experimental Film Festival

Running for its 11th year, the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (VAEFF) showcases to New York City audiences some of the most innovative, provocative, and exciting works of film, video, and photography from around the world. The festival embraces a boundary-pushing spectrum of work that includes animation, music video, fashion film, documentary, visual narrative, and more. Past selected artists have included prominent video directors such as David LaChapelle, Marie Schuller, and Kalup Linzy, and the panel discussions have attracted prestigious artists and scholars including Alanna Heiss (founder of MoMA PS1), David Ross (former director of the Whitney and SFMOMA), Jason Sondhi (co-founder of Short of the Week and former lead curator of Vimeo Staff Picks), and Ziggy Levin (executive producer for Art + Commerce and faculty member at SVA). Panel discussion moderators have included curator and critic Lyle Rexer, and best selling author Mark Alpert. Update Regarding VAEFF 2020: VAEFF 2020 was originally scheduled to run on November 12-14 of last year. However, due to COVID-19 we had to postpone it. VAEFF 2020’s official selections will now be screened in November 2021 alongside VAEFF 2021.