Wallabout Film Festival 2025

Join us on the afternoon of Saturday, May 3 at 3pm for Day 1 of Wallabout Film Festival 2025, comprising a screening of experimental and artist-made student films curated for e-flux Screening Room, a panel discussion with select filmmakers, and special remarks from the festival organizers. A reception will follow.

Day 2 of the festival will be hosted at Pratt’s Film and Video Building on Sunday, May 4th. Find the schedule, including information and tickets for Day 2, here.

Statement from the 2025 Programming Team
Sixteen years ago, a group of students from Pratt Institute, led by some of our most adventurous majors, founded a student film festival called the Wallabout Film Festival designed to showcase emerging student filmmakers. On April 23, 2009, thirty films representing thirteen countries screened in front of an audience of over 180 people in the lower east side of Manhattan. In two showcases, four awards were presented from a panel of accomplished and recognized industry practitioners. The entire film festival was coordinated and organized by students, for students. And now–after a seven year hiatus–we’re back!

Wallabout is curated annually by an interdisciplinary group of Pratt students who spend the semester examining the history and theory behind film festivals and learning the practical tools required to put on a public-facing festival. Under the guidance of a professor, the course culminates in the Wallabout Film Festival, planned and organized by the students. Students are responsible for organizing every aspect of the festival from sending out the call for submissions to selecting the films to running the festival itself, giving them the opportunity to get hands-on experience in the world of film festivals. This year, we have undergraduate students from the Critical and Visual Studies program, which originated the festival, as well as the Film department and the School of Design. 

This year, we received almost a thousand submissions from over ninety countries and regions. After several months of tireless work, we are thrilled to present a two-day festival at two locations. On Saturday, May 3rd, our program will include a selection of experimental films, shown at the e-flux Screening Room. The following day, Sunday, May 4th, our program will showcase a selection of animated films, followed by our main selection, shown in Pratt’s own screening room. We’ll also have discussions with some of the selected filmmakers, an awards ceremony, and a reception after the screenings. 

Our jury is composed of Pratt professors, visual artists, filmmakers, and industry professionals, including Olivia Crough, Hanna Mattes, Lisabeth During, Pilar Newton-Katz, and Faiyaz Jafri. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating the hard work of student filmmakers from around the world. 

Day 1: Films at e-flux Screening Room
Chihiro Yamanaka, Veils of Landscape (5 minutes)
Kinga Klajbor, Yesterday I Found… (1 minute)
Suhao Zhang, White Reminiscences (4 minutes)
Nilsu Demirel, The Fig Tree (3 minutes)
Amir Akhavan, Bokeh Baraneh (5 minutes)
Geng Zhang, Bandage (9 minutes)
Anna Pacini, PRESS (3 minutes)
Maya Ivona, en cemento (4 minutes) 
Rizky Zulfanny, Sadulur Opat Lima Pancar (5 minutes)
Victoria Okuneva, Breakfast (3 minutes)
Fikri Al Murtaky, Embroidering the Abyss (7 minutes)
Emilia Carbajal and Frances Freyder, The Storm is Passing Over (4 minutes)
Rain Park, gohyang (9 minutes)
Paul Charff, Featherbrain (6 minutes)

Please be advised that some of the films contain strobing effects. Those with photosensitivity or epilepsy are advised to use caution. 

For more information, please contact program [​at​] e-flux.com.

Accessibility             
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue. 
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program [​at​] e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.          
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.