RPM Festival and the Brattle Theatre Co-Present Crossing Lines, Films by Raymond Rea

Post Screening Q&A with Genevieve Carmel and Raymond Rea

Join us at the Brattle Theatre for a special retrospective screening of works, Crossing Lines, Films by Raymond Rea—filmmaker, writer, and genre-defier. Spanning four decades of experimental moving image, this program features 11 films from 1985 to 2025, showcasing Rea’s signature LoFi aesthetic, theatrical undertones, and a persistent push against cinematic and cultural assumptions.

Rea’s films have screened at renowned festivals and venues across the globe—from Ann Arbor to Frameline, BFI to Outfest—while his writing has been brought to life on stages in San Francisco and Minnesota. Whether grappling with gender, memory, or form itself, Rea’s work is always intimate, layered, and sharply aware.

Walk Out (1982)
2 min, 22 sec, 16mm

For Nelie and Maria (1994)
6 min, 19 sec, 16mm

Third (1996)
8 min, 32 sec, 16mm

Straightboy Lessons (1999)
8 min, 22 sec, 16mm

Wanted (1997)
4 min, 35 sec, 16 mm
16mm prints from Canyon Cinema

HEAR (1991)
4 min, 24 sec, Digital

cat’s cradle (2010)
2 min, 53 sec, Digital

AUGMENTED (2025)
8 min, 27 sec, Digital

13 th Ave, Fargo Mine Cart (2022)
2 min, 52 sec, Digital

The Album (2015)
14 min, 36 sec, Digital

Put the Brights On (2021)
17 min, 2 sec, Digital

Total: 72 mins
16mm prints from Canyon Cinema

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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