On The Edge | VAEFF 2026

VAEFF Presents "On The Edge" Screening + Artist Q&A

“Are you a 1 or 0?” asks one of the films rejecting the rigidity of established binaries in “On the Edge,” a collection of films that push us to relish in the in-between space of what we readily accept in our society. Foundational silent cinema, uncovered film strips, and dystopian futures become fodder for the modern imagination in these films, grabbing from both the past and future to make sense of our present realities. Both abstract and hyper-focused, this program invites us to deconstruct our held beliefs, positing that the clearest way to see our world is to blur all of the lines.

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Program Lineup:

Turning Away directed by Joaquim Bayle

Un Pais Sin Imagen directed by Fabian Wolf

Transmutation directed by Charlie Jimenez

Beauty is the Terror We Can Bear directed by Derek Spencer

THRONE directed by Mark Chan and Omi Bahuguna

EXIT directed by Lievan Vanhove

Entities directed by Marcin Pospiech

Binary directed by Padrick Ritch

META BITCH: Feathers and Blood directed by Rois Martin