The inaugural Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiments. Screening August 20-24, 2025 in Chicago, including outdoor screenings at Chicago's historic Lawrence House. The festival will then travel to multiple venues through the Agitate21C artist network.
Festival Director, lead curator, and multidisciplinary artist M. Woods conceived of this festival as a way to embrace the convergences within video art, experimental film, and interactive design, encouraging new media, installation, photography, and expanded cinema/mixed-media performances. Open to art film, genre film, and any other type of cinema, so long as it transgresses the accepted and formulaic languages of the medium.