Wide Open Experimental Film Festival

Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (WOEFF) is a festival organized by the students of Alternative Cinema in the Film Department at Oklahoma City University.

Inspired by Oklahoma’s wide-open landscape, WOEFF showcases experimental films that will open peoples’ eyes to the alternative forms, structures, and styles of film. We’re interested in unusual techniques, fringe topics, edge cases, longing outsiders and fed-up insiders, films that break machines, films that channel rage onto celluloid, films that quietly observe, films that chaotically invent. Films by thoughtful weirdos, intuitive poets, structuralists, purists, Luddites, avant-gardists, experimenters, artisans.

In addition to serving as the director of the festival, I have written several program spotlights and introductory comments:

2024 Film Spotlight: Admissions of Desire directed by Becca Rieckmann

2024 Film Spotlight: Quartet for the End directed by Gregg Biermann

2024 Opening Statement: Clear Ice Fern directed by Mark Street

2023 Closing Statement: Pet World, directed by Sofia Theodore-Pierce and Grace Mitchell

2023 Film Spotlight: “I Blink Therefore I Am” — The man who could not see far enough, directed by Peter Rose

2023 Opening Statement: Light’s Return, directed by Kathleen Rugh

2022 Program 3 Spotlight: Immersion and rejection of reality in Connexions, directed by Cendrine Robelin and Texturas de luz sobre fondo negro, directed by Luis Carlos Rodríguez García

2022 Program 1 Spotlight: We Had Each Other by Kelly Gallagher

The festival’s website is here; the festival’s Instagram account is here.