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Rage Against the Screen! Part 2 ‘don’t dream it - be it’ — Festival Formula As long as there has been cinema, there have been those who have experimented with the form in the name of social critique. In part one of a two-part series, Jess Sweetman explores the history of film...

Thanks to Jess Sweetman for taking the time to chat with MIX in the latest Arthouse Edition of the @festivalformula.bsky.social Insight Blog, “Rage Against the Screen! Part 2 ‘don’t dream it - be it’”.

Can’t wait for more updates about MIX FEST 2025 and our year-round programming? Make sure to sign up for our newsletter for information about volunteer opportunities, events, and festival submissions: mailchi.mp/mixnyc/maili...

We can’t believe it’s February already! The MIX NYC team is busy preparing for another year of innovative programming. But we’re not done reminiscing about MIX FEST 2025 just yet. Here are a few more highlights from last year’s festival.

📸 Photo credits: Aderet Fishbane, Zhiyu Li, Blake Pruitt

In a context where we are once again under attack and finding our rights being pushed back, we want to thank you all for being a very bright spot in our lives, for being the community we always imagined having.

Being in this practice of working together to ask and answer these questions makes us stronger as a community and ready for anything that can be thrown at us.

MIX was founded during a time of great loss and crisis, when AIDS both decimated the queer community and made it fiercely resilient.

We are all in a practice right now, a devoted habit of asking each other what we need, what we want to achieve, and how we can support each other to make them happen.

But beyond that, we’re creating one of the few spaces in our lives that isn’t fueled by capitalism – instead, it’s run by mutual aid and with care.

We brought together artists and revelers for three days of queer, experimental films and celebration.

On the surface, we’re putting on a queer experimental film festival. Showcasing work that won’t be bought and sold, all of us working without monetary pay.

That’s a wrap on MIX FEST 2025! 👏 Thank you to the community of experimental film lovers and filmmakers who came out this weekend and made MIX FEST 2025 a huge success.

The MIX team is immensely grateful and proud of what we all achieved at MIX FEST 2025.

We’re looking for volunteers to help with ticket-scanning, bartending, coat check, photography, set-up, breakdown, and more. Click through to our form for more details: forms.gle/xMGMEGqptpLb...

MIX FEST is back for our 2025 festival, November 20-22 at Quad Cinema, with afterparties at various locations.

Help bring MIX FEST 2025 to life by volunteering as part of our on-site teams!

Film still from Meat (dir. Marian McLain)

Introducing the MIX FEST 2025 Night 3 lineup!

BRAINROT, HORROR, AND WAY TOO MANY IMAGES / 7pm

AN ESSENCE TO OOZE / 9:15pm

📅 November 22nd
📍 Quad Cinema, 34 W. 13th Street, New York, NY
🎟️ Full details and tickets are available at mixnyc.org

Introducing the MIX FEST 2025 Night 2 lineup!

EVERY ARCHIVE EVER INCOMPLETE / 7pm

STOP THE CRUELTY MACHINE / 9:15pm

📅 November 21st
📍 Quad Cinema, 34 W. 13th Street, New York, NY
🎟️ Full details and tickets are available at mixnyc.org

Introducing the MIX FEST 2025 Night 1 lineup!

QUEER ECOLOGIES / 6pm

FULL BODY LISTENING / 8:30pm

📅 November 20th
📍 Quad Cinema, 34 W. 13th Street, New York, NY
🎟️ Full details and tickets are available at mixnyc.org

MIX FEST 2025
NOV 20-22
Quad Cinema

Tickets and film info available at mixnyc.org

Trailer edited by Garrett Beltis

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PRESENTING: The MIX FEST 2025 Trailer

Join us at Quad Cinema from November 20-22 for 3 nights of Queer experimental films with Q&As following the screenings and afterparties located near the cinema! Individual program tickets and full festival passes are on sale now.

This year’s festival unlocks new worlds of expression—films that breathe, stories that defy convention, and visions that expand the possibilities of queer film. Together, we gather to witness the collision of art, identity, and community in all their raw, luminous forms.

MIX FEST 2025
NOV 20-22
@QuadCinema

From November 20 to 22, MIX NYC returns to the Quad Cinema with three nights of bold, boundary-pushing queer cinema and moving image art from around the world.

Lineup and tickets available now at mixnyc.org

MIX NYC is proud to partner with NewFest to present JASON AND SHIRLEY REVISITED

📽️JASON AND SHIRLEY REVISITED by Stephen Winter
📅 October 10th, 7:30pm
📍 BAM Rose Cinemas
🎟️ Tickets: newfest.org/events/jason...

MIX Film Festival presents: Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud Todd Haynes depicts the violent love between poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine in this early Todd Haynes work.

🎟️ Tickets at www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/m...

Check out the original 1987 festival program and press mentions.

Source: Todd Haynes. “A Queer Kind of Film.” Afterimage, Volume 16, Issue 5, Dec. 1988, University of California Press.

Archival research by LaTefy Dolley

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Iconic queer director Todd Haynes’s thesis film, Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud, premiered at the 1st MIX fest in 1987.

We're presenting this rarely screened film this month – don’t miss this chance to see an underground classic!

📅 October 20th at 7pm
📍 The Roxy Cinema

MIX is back!

MIX FEST 2025: November 20–22 at Quad Cinema

See you there 😘

📽️Lineup:
Stray Dogs (Richard Kern, 1985)
Sleeping With the Devil (Reza Abdoh, 1990)
Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969)
Cattle Mutilations (George Kuchar, 1983)
A Lot of Fun for the Evil One (MM Serra, 1994)

In this wide-ranging program, experimental film and video works at the intersections of these ideas offer self-reflection and humor as well as pure abject jouissance.

In the right-wing imagination, queer sexuality, gender nonconformity, devil worship, and a sordid lust for violence and carnage have long been inextricable.

Amidst the latest religious-paranoia-fueled surge in evergreen fears of satanism, queers have – as always – found ourselves at the center of the fray.

Join MIX NYC for Friends of the Devil: Queer Occult Depravity

📅October 6th at 7:30pm
📍Spectacle Theater, 124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn
🎟️ Tickets and full program details here: www.spectacletheater.com/mix-nyc-presents-friends-of-the-devil-queer-occult-depravity

Don’t miss your chance to experience the magic of NYFF63 on the big screen with us.

Exclusive Perk for Our Community:

Use promo code COMMUNITY63 (available starting the week of Sept 22) to unlock discounted tickets to select screenings.

(Excludes Opening Night, Centerpiece, Closing Night, and Spotlight selections unless otherwise noted.)