Best of RPM 2024

Coming on December 8

Run Time: 90 min.

As RPM Festival draws to a close on its dynamic 2024 season, the organization reflects on a year of impactful screenings, performances, and community engagement. Over the past year, RPM Festival has proudly organized 24 events across the city, showcasing poetic and thought-provoking works at iconic venues and institutions including Boston City Hall, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Goethe Institut, Brattle Theatre, Harvard University, and UMass Boston. Of these, 16 events were offered to the public free of charge, reflecting RPM’s commitment to accessibility and inclusivity in the arts.

As part of the festival’s closing celebrations, RPM Festival is excited to present the RPM Highlights Program, a special screening curated from audience votes throughout the year.

Second Notes
Julia Petrocelli | 2024 | runtime 4:26 | B/W | silent

Dinner Building
Carter J. Hiett | 2024 | runtime 3:54 | B/W | sound

I Would’ve Been Happy
Jordan Wong | 2023 | runtime 8:41 | color | sound

The Lost Season
Kelly Sears | 2024 | runtime 6:09 | color | sound

Flux
Youjin Moon | 2024 | runtime 6:19 | color | sound

Reversal
Diane Nerwen | 2023 | runtime 6:34 | color | sound

The Spectacle of Her Appetites
Sue Ding | 2024 | runtime 5:00 | color | sound

monolithic tenderness
Kyle Joseph Petty | 2024 | runtime 7:18 | B/W | sound

Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War
Leah Loftin | 2023 | runtime 12:13 | color | sound

Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
Tomonari Nishikawa | 2023 | runtime 6:22 | color | sound

Please visit revolutionsperminutefest.org for more information.

Revolutions per Minute Festival (RPM Fest) is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, experimental film, essay film, animation, documentary, video and audiovisual performance, and is co-hosted by Art and Art History Department and Cinema Studies at UMass-Boston, Brattle Theatre in Cambridge & Harvard FAS CAMLab.

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