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.

9/27

Day One Pass

Program 1 @ Goethe Institut
Program 2 @ Goethe Institut

9/28

Program 3:@ MFA Boston

Day Two Pass

Program 4 @ Civic Pavilion
Program 5 @ Civic Pavilion
Program 6 @ Mezzanine, Boston City Hall

9/29

Day Three Pass

Program 7 @ Harvard CAMlab
Program 8 @ Brattle Theatre
Program 9 @ Harvard CAMlab
Program 10 @ Harvard CAMlab

10/03

Program 11: Owl, the Garden and the Writer @ MFA Boston

10/20

Sasha Waters @ Brattle Theatre

10/25 & 10/26

Program 12: Water II @ UMB
Program 13: Hiroya Sakurai @ Fitchburg State

11/10

Laura Kraning @ Brattle Theatre

12/8

Tomonari Nishikawa @ Brattle Theatre

RPM24 Selection Committee

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.