Artifact Small Format Film Festival – Night 1: Analog Projected Shorts

Calgary’s only celluloid based film festival. Tonight is a collection of Canadian short films projected from Super 8 and 16mm prints.

Night 1 of the Artifact Small Format Film Festival will happen at the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. There will be a collection of short films made by Canadian filmmakers screened from analog prints. After the intermission there will be two longer short films projected digitally.

Doors at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm.

Included films:

• spring rebirth at source du Pêcher - Emma Roufs (Super 8, 2min, Canada)
• La Colle Falles - Mike Rollo (16mm, 11min, Canada)
• Ashes to Ashes - Sidney Gordon (16mm, 5min, Canada)
• through the bushes and the trees, you'll find me - Morgan Sears-Williams (16mm, 4min, Canada)
• Assets - Christine Lucy Latimer (16mm, 2min, Canada)
• Go Between - Chris Kennedy (16mm, 6min, Canada)
• Domus - Rhayne Vermette (16mm, 15min, Canada)
• Tracks - Arne Kormer (Digital, 29min, 2025, Germany)
• Chemical Meadows - Nate Dorr (Digital, 21min, 2025, USA)

The Artifact Small Format Film Festival (formerly the $100 Film Festival) is Calgary’s only celluloid-based film festival. When the $100 Film Festival was born in 1992, it showcased eight short films on Super 8. The name sprung from the challenge to shoot a short film on four rolls of Super 8 – which tallied to the cost of $100. In following years, the festival dropped the budgetary limit and allowed 16mm film, which shifted the focus from low budget to quality small-format films. Thus, the name was changed to the Artifact Small Format Film Festival in 2017 so as to better represent the festival's role as an international celebration of creative story telling on film.

This event is sponsored by the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. CSIF was founded in 1978 by a collective of twelve filmmakers who saw the growing need for film resources and film equipment on the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), also known as Calgary, Alberta. Now over 40 years later we are an integral part of the growing cultural community in Calgary and are excited about new collaborations and opportunities.