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

Still: Laura Kraning, ESP, 2024

RPM in Motion celebrates independent animation, digital media art, and visual music. It also features experimental media art that expand our experience, including animation, digital frontier art, and audiovisual performances.

The mission of RPM Festival Foundation is to cultivate a vibrant cultural and artistic landscape by championing non-fiction, experimental, animation and avant-garde moving images, as well as supporting filmmakers, artists, immigrants, and diaspora creators. Through our diverse range of initiatives including screenings, symposiums, film festivals, and exhibitions, alongside workshops, skill-sharing opportunities, and artist residencies, we aim to empower and amplify voices within these communities. Additionally, we are committed to providing production funding and distribution support to facilitate the realization and dissemination of compelling artistic projects and hybrid-form creations and innovative expressions.

RPM FESTIVAL Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that depends on grants and donations. Please consider making a tax deductible gift.

Revolutions Per Minute Festival is 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. The RPM Awards are co-presented with the Cinelab, Boston.

Robert Harris
Ariel Hou
Sara Jordeno
Sarah Keller
Brett Melican
Natalie Minik
Homa Sarabi
Shira Segal
Wenhua Shi
Kalpana Subramanian