Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (WOEFF) is a festival organized by the Film Department at Oklahoma City University. We showcase experimental films that will open peoples’ eyes to the alternative forms, structures, and styles of film.

Schedule:

Friday, April 4, 2025

6:00pm - 7:15pm: Program 1 - Openings

Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkad?y, Anna Kipervaser, 4:24 (US/Ukraine)

Lomme’s garden, Eva Claus, 10:00 (Belgium)

One Hundred White Trucks, Brice Goldberg, 4:13 (US)

Honda Lounge, Kaitlyn Paston & Lindsey Arturo, 2:21 (US)

giroscopio, John Muse & Brendamaris Rodriguez, 8:04 (US)

Midsummer, Masha Vlasova, 2:37 (US)

Island, Susan DeLeo, 3:34 (US)

Portrait of a Forest, Minhyeong Kil, 5:03 (South Korea)

Eureka, Nora Zubizarreta, 5:59 (US)

In Passing, Passing Through, Paul Theodoroff, 11:38 (US)

Under the Midnight Sun, Mélissa Faivre, 9:52 (France)

A Sense of Nothing, Francisco Rojas, 4:13 (Chile)

a film with sound (take three), Josh Weissbach, 2:57 (US)

8:00pm - 9:20pm: Program 2 - Another

Dream Machine Ballet, Pierre Ajavon, 3:46 (France)

The Specious Present, Sarah LeMieux, 6:57 (US)

Axiogenesis, Michèle Saint-Michel, 12:00 (UK)

Toward a Course Bend All, Luke Thompson, 12:40 (US)

spring rebirth at source du Pêcher, Emma Roufs, 1:40 (Canada)

Rule No. 5: Shadow Your Man Closely, Miro Manojlovic, 9:59 (Croatia)

Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water), Abinadi Meza, 8:43 (US)

The Visible Material, Ryan Marino, 8:00 (US)

The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogblsohie, Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying, & Gregor Kaspar, 16:12 (Germany & Ghana)

Saturday, April 5, 2025

4:00pm - 5:25pm: Program 3 - Films for People

Heart Shaped, Grace Mitchell & Sofia Theodore-Pierce, 13:05 (US)

Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass, Rebecca Jane Arthur, 18:18 (Belgium)

Gab, Hogan Seidel, 3:14 (US)

Tan/Vatan, Meenakshi Garodia & Homa Sarabi, 7:34 (US)

Fort Garry Lions Pool, Ryan Steel, 6:01 (Canada)

Gyrograph, Gitte Le Bruyn, 14:15 (Belgium)

Wilmington Escaped, Carrie Alicia Hawks, 5:47 (US)

garboface, Zona Gilreath, 4:32 (US)

The Year, Grace Mitchell, 10:00 (US)

7:00pm - 9:00pm: Special Presentation - Kelly Gallagher In Person

Filmmaker and animator Kelly Gallagher presents work from her innovative, award-winning career, with insights into her DIY, egalitarian practice at the intersection of the personal and the political.

Sunday, April 6, 2025

12:30pm - 1:50pm: Program 4 - Break

Cracks in the boundary between the beauty and pain of our times; the border of reality and abstraction starts to break.

Niches, Janelle VanderKelen, 7:10 (US)

Split Film, Cal Young, 9:59 (US)

Maspeth is America, Ben Kujawski, 6:59 (US)

Of All The Things We’ve Made, Lauren Bumgarner, 2:01 (US)

Living in a Miracle, Dorian Tocker, 2:13 (US)

Small Vessels, Matt Feldman, 7:00 (US)

Lunette, Mark Street, 8:23 (US)

Variations for light and shadow, Olivier Perriquet, 4:40 (Portugal)

Grapheme, Rennie Taylor, 4:00 (Canada)

Tetradic Truchet, Jeremy Bessoff, 3:00 (US)

Geométrika, Nicole Blundell, 4:00 (Canada)

In Threes, Natalia Ryss, 6:50 (UK)

Niagara, Michael Betancourt, 2:10 (US)

Dysfluency Circuit, Dave Rodriguez, 6:05 (US)

Floods Recede to Luxury, Kathleen Rugh, 4:00 (US)

2:30pm - 3:45pm: Program 5 - The End

In the face of mortality and apocalypse, perhaps through film we can understand, survive, and stave off the end.

Gan Tang, The Lake, Tianming Zhou, 13:48 (US & China)

a shifting pattern, Isaac Sherman, 6:00 (US)    

Trace On My Body, Yue Hua, 3:10 (China)

Something Went Click, Caryn Cline, 3:40 (US)

Full Out, Sarah Ballard, 14:25 (US)

In My Head, Irina Tempea, 6:15 (Canada)

kaua'i '?'?, Samy Benammar, 3:48 (Canada)

Plastic Aortas, Malic Amalya, 9:40 (US)

Crude Aesthetics, I??k Kaya & Thomas Georg Blank, 14:09 (US)

Date: April 4, 2025 - April 6, 2025

Location: Oklahoma City Museum Of Art Noble Theatre - 415 Couch Drive Oklahoma City, OK 73102

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