Independent Silent Film Festival 7.0
About this Event
Independent Silent Film Festival 7.0
Sunday, August 30, 2026 | 7–10 PM | Avogadro’s Number, Fort Collins , rating PG-13
Join us for an unforgettable evening where cinema, movement, and original music collide—and independent artists from Colorado and around the world take center stage.
🌟 Experience a new collection of short silent films from award-winning, international, independent, and emerging filmmakers, including:
twigmedialab • David Bradburn • David Couture • colabDM • Ren Curry • Dmitry Marin • Valentina Priolo • José Crúzio • Martin Gerigk • Markus Bentsen • Michael Arche • Austin Cole & more
🎶 Original music meets cinema with newly created scores and performances featuring:
Quarkestra • George Sarah • Rae McAlister • Brother Saturn • Blood and Thunder • Riley Ann • Haley Harkin • K*ll Your Darlings • RAGZ • The Body of Elen West
—with a special spotlight on the incredible musicians and collaborators creating work right here in Colorado.
🎭 This year’s theme: Creatures & Monsters
Explore the creatures around us, the monsters within us, and the strange worlds in between. Movement, music, physical theatre, and film come together in surreal soundscapes, unexpected collaborations, and cinematic dreams.
And of course, our curious RKO junkyard mascots LuneA and Tic return to guide us through the beautiful, bizarre, and wonderfully monstrous world of ISFF 7.0.
👗 Attire: Come dressed to impress! Channel a classic film star, dapper cinema glamour, or embrace this year’s Creatures & Monsters theme for a chance to win LuneAseas swag.
📍 Avogadro’s Number
608 S Mason St
Fort Collins, CO
🚗 Street parking is available nearby. Arrive early to grab a spot, get settled, and enjoy the evening.
Come support local artists, discover global storytellers, and experience what happens when filmmakers and musicians are challenged to create something entirely new together.
Let’s keep the magic of “not-so-silent” cinema alive.
Our Story
Well… it’s more like the “Not-So-Silent Film Festival.”
The Independent Silent Film Festival began during the summer of 2020, when the pandemic brought much of the performing arts industry to a standstill.
Rather than stop creating, LuneAseas found a new way to collaborate.
Dancers, physical performers, filmmakers, and visual artists created short films that could be shared across long distances and placed in the hands of independent musicians and composers, who created original scores inspired by what they saw.
What began as a response to isolation opened an entirely new door for collaboration.
Now in its seventh year, the Independent Silent Film Festival brings together movement artists, filmmakers, musicians, composers, actors, and interdisciplinary creators to explore the relationship between movement, music, storytelling, and cinema.
The festival has supported more than 120 artists from across the United States and internationally, creating new artistic partnerships while providing a platform for independent and Colorado-based artists.
Previous participants include artists from Wonderbound, MOMIX, Pilobolus, Six Degrees Dance NYC, Evolving Doors, Life/Art Dance Ensemble, and independent artists from Colorado, New York, Baltimore, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and beyond.
Past collaborators include Pierre Gaiffe, Luca Di Bartolo, Jeremy Speed Schwartz, Yuuki, Anne Gart, Piotr Smolenski, Dave Huemann, Rae McAlister, Cipriano, Astin Lopez, Los Mocochetes, A.M. Pleasure Assassins, David Wohl, Tenia Nelson, Adam Bodine, Cerise Sprague, and many more.
Every year, the experiment continues:
What happens when we give artists from different disciplines a film, an idea, and the freedom to make something new?
Come find out August 30.
Photos by Kim Mayorga
Agenda
🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Welcome! Door open at 6:30
Info: Doors are open
🕑: 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Jamming to Classic Silent Films with Quarkestra
Host: Quarkestra
🕑: 07:30 PM
The selections for the 7th annual ISFF with live music and performance
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00 to USD 35.00
