A Festival of Experimental, Essay, First Person, and Artists' Film

Cosmic Rays is an annual celebration of non-commercial short films
that extend the idea of film as art.

Cosmic Rays is excited by filmmaking that expands our idea of what film is and
what it can be.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR FILM SCREENINGS.

Submit your film through Film Freeway any time before January 9th, 2022.

CALL FOR SUBMISSION FOR DIGITAL ART

Deadline for Submissions: January 23rd 2022. COSMIC RAYS DIGITAL is now accepting submissions for Virtual Reality (VR) Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) artworks; digitally generated projections; sound art; and immersive art for our upcoming exhibition and film festival.
COSMIC RAYS DIGITAL will select a broad range of digital and immersive works for exhibition in a physical gallery, online, and in mixed reality (headset, mobile, pc).There are no thematic or formal limitations to the work we will accept.

Like the Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Cosmic Rays Digital aims to support artists who are excited by the formal and conceptual possibilities of emerging digital media technologies.

Please submit through the online form any time before January 23rd, 2022.

Cosmic Rays screens work that:

Experiments with the formal possibilities of film and video.
Explores hybrid forms and the hard-to-describe spaces between filmmaking modes and genres.
Speaks with a personal or poetic voice, or explores novel ways of telling stories.
Eschews convention and commerce.
Has utopian aspirations and weird friends.

Join us for our film festival on March 31-April 2, 2022.

Festival Screenings will take place at the historic outdoor amphitheater Forest Theater Chapel Hill, NC.

COSMIC RAYS FILM FESTIVAL

MAR 31-April 2 2022

Forest Theater
123 S Boundary St
Chapel Hill, NC 27514