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Revolutions per Minute Festival

RPM festival, an artist run festival, is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, cinematic work in experiments, essay film, animation, documentary, video and audiovisual performance.

Revolutions Per Minute Festival 2024 was co-hosted by Art and Art History Department and Cinema Studies at UMass-Boston, MFA Boston , Goethe-institut Boston , Brattle Theatre in Cambridge & Harvard FAS CAMLab.
RPM Series at Boston City hall presented with the support of a grant from Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture.

For more info: rpm@revolutionsperminutefest.org

RPM25 submissions will be accepted from January 1st through July 1st.





RPM in Motion

Submissions to RPM in Motion (Spring Festival) are now open

RPM in Motion celebrates independent essay film, animation, digital media art, and music videos. It also features title sequences, and experimental media art that expand our experience, including animation, digital frontier art, and audiovisual performances.
Please submit your work through FilmFreeway. Selections by Feb. 1, 2025.




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  • October



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    October 3rd, 7PM
    RPM @ MFA Boston


    Program 11:

    An Owl, a Garden, and the Writer

    Sara Dolatabadi



  • Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161)
    MFA Boston
    465 Huntington Avenue Boston
    Massachusetts 02115


  • Day One

    Friday
    September 27th


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    September 27th, 7PM
    RPM @ Goethe Institut


    Program 01:

    Water I:
    Form



  • Goethe Institut Boston
    170 Beacon Street
    Boston
    MA 02116



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    Power(s) of Water


  • Special thanks:


    Karin Oehlenschläger (Cultural Program Curator)
    Jörg Süßenbach (Director, Goethe-Institut Boston).




  • Day Two

    Saturday
    September 28th


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    September 28th, 2:30PM
    RPM @ MFA Boston


    Program 03:

    Sun Xun
    Historical Amnesia
    拒绝记忆的历史



  • Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161)
    MFA Boston

    465 Huntington Avenue
    Boston
    Massachusetts 02115



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    September 28th, 5PM
    RPM @ Boston City Hall


    Program 04:
    Letters and Objects



  • Civic Pavilion
    Boston City Hall
    1 CITY HALL SQUARE
    ROOM 802
    (5 Congress St.)
    BOSTON
    MA 02201-2029






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    September 28th, 6:30PM
    RPM @ Boston City Hall


    Program 05:
    Ephemeral Flesh



  • Civic Pavilion
    Boston City Hall
    1 CITY HALL SQUARE
    ROOM 802
    (5 Congress St.)
    BOSTON
    MA 02201-2029


    FILMMAKER RECIPITION



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    September 28th, 8:30PM
    RPM @ Boston City Hall


    Program 06:
    Feng + Ge


    Multichannel Audiovisual Performance


  • Mezzanine
    Boston City Hall Plaza
    1 City Hall Square Boston
    MA 02203
    entrance at Congress St.


  • Day Three

    Sunday
    September 29th


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    September 29th, 3:30PM
    RPM @ CAMLab


    Program 09:

    Quiet Irradiations



  • Harvard CAMlab
    Lower Level Auditorium
    485 Broadway
    Cambridge
    MA 02138



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    September 29th, 5PM
    RPM @ CAMLab


    Program 10:

    Random Acts of Surreal Reality



  • Harvard CAMlab
    Lower Level Auditorium
    485 Broadway
    Cambridge
    MA 02138


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