Re–Fest
June 5-11, 2024
An online broadcast featuring video work and live performances by over 250 artists from 90+ countries.
Re–Fest 2024 is a durational experiment in global participation. CultureHub's annual festival will occur fully online, criss-crossing the globe with a constant stream of short video works interrupted by live segments produced by international partners. The online venue will be open June 5-11 for 24 hours/day.
Watch on a desktop or laptop (not a smartphone/tablet) using Google Chrome. Two videos will stream side by side. Click on either video player to toggle between them. Select which audio you'd like to hear by clicking the speaker icon.
Graphic Design: Shannon Lin
Live Segments
June 5
13:00 ET | 20:00 EAT
Beshte-Beshte “Welcome to the Friend Zone”
Bold Theatre Kenya Nairobi, Kenya
June 6
11:00 ET
International Artist Meet-Up
All Video Artists
June 7
12:00 ET | 19:00 EEST
Good Morning from Ukraine!
NASHi Experimental Theatre Club Kyiv, Ukraine
14:00 ET | 21:00 EEST
The Motion of the Image
Medrar Egypt
June 8
13:00 ET | 19:00 CEST
“Crystal strings” / Love songs for a Free Palestine
CultureHub NYC New York, United States
John King United States
Leyya Mona Tawil United States / Syria / Palestine
Myriam Nana Henne-Adda Madrid, Spain
Mercedes Klausner Roubaix, France
20:00 ET | 9:00 KST (Sunday June 9 in Korea)
The Field
CultureHub Korea Ansan, Korea
Cristián Tàpies Chile
Luigi Voglino Argentina
June 9
15:00 ET | 16:00 BRT | 21:00 CEST
PRI.MOR.DI.AI
Terrabytes Glitch Lab Berlin, Germany
MermaidBro420 Germany
dz. Brazil
19:00 PT | 22:00 ET
Hustle House
CultureHub LA Los Angeles, United States
Jessica Emmanual United States
with Tey Johnson, Jobel Medina, Ian Stahl, Dead Secretary United States
June 10
14:00 ET | 20:00 CEST
In a blink
Eho Animato Belgrade, Serbia
June 11
14:00 ET | 11:00 PT
على حافة البحر
Dena Al-Adeeb Iraq / United States
Sholeh Asgary Iran / United States
19:00 ET | 20:00 BRT
Open Works
Companhia Nova de Teatro São Paulo, Brazil
Video Artists
A'ssia Rai
Coyote (2024)
Pakistan
Aakarsh Singh
Abandoned Hotels of Zangsti
India
Adalet Garmiany
Contemporary Culture in Conflict Zones
Iraq
Adebayo Seun
The Assault
Nigeria
Ahmed Kamel
Under Skin - Spiral
Egypt, Germany
Ainesh Madan and Dayita Nereyeth
still/moving
India
àLaLuce & Jcosky
àLaLuce & Jcosky
Italy, United States, Lebanon
Aldiyar Abugalysina
Täñır
Kazakhstan
Alessandro Destro
STOP RADIOACTIVITY
Italy
Alessandro Paiano
2:22no23
England
Alex Pașca
Expanding your database
Romania
Alexandra Dementieva
Our portraits
Belgium
Alexandre Gnipper e Bruno Lasevicius
trans form
Brazil
Alfredo Travieso
Drum Solo
Venezuela
Amir Denzel Hall
Seasoning
Trinidad and Tobago
Ana Bilankov
LOVEMAP
Germany
Anais-karenin
Great Rumble
Japan, Brazil
Aneta Mihali Xhiku
Mëma's Soul
Albania
Anna Nikaki
States - Collaging Memories
Greece
Anshul Roy
Rage Against the Archive
India
Aska Soma
Algebra
Åland Islands
Augusto Calçada
SELFIE-DESTRUCTION
Brazil
Auratyk
Season Ending
Austria
Ausín Sáinz
4 Walls. (4 Paredes)
Spain
Banna Desta
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Batya Gil Margalit
Tut time
Israel
Bea Mariano
Dominion
Philippines
Beatie Wolfe
Smoke and Mirrors
United Kingdom, United States
Bel Astorga
Sober and Beautiful
Argentina
Blerta Kambo
Heavy Stone
Albania
BOUGE Alexandra
MODERN AGRICULTURE, FISH FARMING
France
Brian Ratigan
Non Films Death Archives No. 4
United States, Belgium
Brigitte Valobra, Wald, Joseph DeVita
Suspension
Spain
Bruno Pavić
The Message
Croatia
Caiyi Feng
We Will Eventually Lose the Ability to Reason 我们终将失去理智
China
Callon Murphy
A Honeymoon in Elora
Canada
Camilo Londoño Hernández
Eden
Colombia, Germany
Captain Fiffy
Wassermusik (Water Music)
Germany, Austria
Carlo Galbiati
Le mot couleur
Italy
Carlos Silva
Tierra
Mexico
Carol Montealegre
Deep Beyond the Visible
Colombia
Casper Plummer
Look Here
Jamaica
CensorBG
Never Give Up
Ghana
CHAN CHEUK SZE
No brightness in the City
Hong Kong
Chian Ying Xuan with Post-Growth Singapore
humane resources: five ways to thrive in an urban hive
Singapore
Chloé Desaulles
i'm so like
France, Germany
Chris Pavlakis
In/Visible
Greece
Christian Niccoli
ZWEI
Germany
Clara Eloisa da Fontoura Ungaretti
The beauty of the Nature, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
Brazil
Clarissa Ribeiro
Metachanges Painting (performative data-visualization 0001/2024)
Shanghai
Claudix Vanesix
Amy Camus AR
Perú
Clover
N.S.E.W
England
Cristián Tàpies Goldenberg
The blue cage
South Korea
Cyan D'Anjou, Luisa do Amaral, and Sunghoon Song
Unknowable Certainty: Restlessness
Netherlands, Korea, United Kingdom
Daniel Chong
I want to be a plant - Chapter 1
Singapore
Daniel Gianfranceschi
A Song Of Spring
Germany
Daniel Zander
Sol Alegria Del Mare Alias Yume Nikki
Germany
DARE
GR-AI-N
Spain
Dasul Kim
Swimming in the Void
South Korea
Dayita Nereyeth
moving/still
India
Dina Khalil & Maya Khalil
Nostalgia | Sound Design
Egypt
Elena Ghigas
Beneath the surface of the world
Italy
Ellen Pearlman
Language Is Leaving Me, An AI Opera Of The Skin
United States, Poland, Ukraine
Ellie Kyungran Heo
The Ragwort
United Kingdom
Eloy Gurucharri
La mirada de Goya
Spain
Elsie Dzhan Lappoh
unBUNNY_0
Austria
Emi Kusano
Morphing Memory of Neural Fad
Japan
Eneos Çarka
Where Are You Now?
Albania
Eoin O'Dowd
Tama
Finland
Eunjeong Kim
Floating in painting
Germany, South Korea
Evans Akanyijuka
Symbiosis of dreams -Tai tai
Uganda
Fabian Krebs
A Symphony
Switzerland
Faissal El-Malak
The Lizard of my Dream
London
Fatemeh Afimoh Kazemi
Poor Knee; Trigger Finger
Iran
Fedelis Kyalo
Gone fishing
Kenya
Flávio Cardoso
ALiEN | Room 222 | Fuckin' Globo Luanda 2020
Angola
Florencia Martinez Aysa
Caltrop woman
Uruguay
Frank Mhina
Will You Marry Me?, Violence Against Women, Aziza
Tanzania
Frank Serge Lehmann
Good Morning Mr President
Switzerland
Freddie Reilly
He Sells Soft Drinks'
England
Genta Habib Pegagan
+Tomato+
Indonesia
Gilberto Polo Pacheco
El Juego
Venezuela
Giorgio Gerardi
Driving
Italy
Hamza Madfaï
Eternal Recurrence
Tunisia
Harmeet Singh Rahal
Second-Hand Spectres
India, United Kingdom
Harsh Pundit
ELEMENTAL
India
He Anna Ren
Drifted Memories
China, United States
Heiko Kalmbach
Troubled Mind
Germany
Hesam Rahmani
Faces without Visage
Iran
How to Life: setting your expectations below average
The Rabbit Hole
Finland
Hyash Tanmoy, Santasil Mallik
Liminal Visions
India, United Kingdom, Canada
Hye-Soon Seo
Night Rhythm
Korea
Hyugo Takeda
Pretend Game
Japan
Ian Margo
my beloved new face
Spain
IIOANA & Naoto Hieda
IIOANA - AQUA PARK (underground demo music video)
Romania, Estonia, Japan
Intizor Otaniyozova
Teaser of "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks
Kazakhstan
Irena Paskali
Compassion with the Earth, Inconceivable time
Germany
Irina Tall
Another world
Belarus
Ivanka Apostolova Baskar
THE PCR SONG
Macedonia
Jacob Mrima
Days of Our Lives
South Sudan
Jan Schekauski
Back to the Garden of Eden
Germany, Kenya
Jason Zumpano
GLIDE
Canada
Jean-Michel Rolland
Vaches:Vestiges
France
Jeanne Li
Digital Zen, Eternal Flow: Mountains of the Mind
China
Jennifer Yeung
THESE FACES
Hong Kong
Jiatong Yao
toothopia
China
Jingyi Chen
Nature simulation
China
Jiwon Choi
IDOL_Boys on Top's Tik Tok
Seoul
JMRead
Hideaway, Local Figurative
United Kingdom
Joaquin Arturo Dolera Rosa
ʎɔuǝɹɐdsuɐɹʇ
Argentina
Johanna Nulty
From One To Another
Ireland
Johannes Christopher Gerard
Dream Plant 2
Netherlands
Jordan Bruce
PISS IN MY MOUTH
United Kingdom
José Godoy
Reading Circle
Chile
Jose Trejo Maya
Transparencies in Time:
Mexico
Juli Saragosa
I Dream of Inadequacy
Germany
K K Mallick & Souvik Das
Road to Qatar
India
Kakuwood Theatre and Film
ART YETU
Congo
Kazakhstan
Sana Serkebaeva
mockumentary
Kei Yamamoto
We are Migratory Birds.
Japan
Kevork Mourad
Barbed Wire
Syria
Laura Waltz
A_live,
Germany
Laurent madravel
VOIR SANS ETRE VU(ES)
France
Lilia Li-Mi-Yan and Katherina Sadovsky
Where is my plastic bag?
Armenia
Linh Valerie Pham
A Game of Good Citizens
Vietnam
Lisha Nie
Do Nothing Company
China
Lívia Sá & Sofia Scharff
ALAMO
Brazil
Lois He
The Stains
China
Luan Machado - Paris Blues
“R”
Netherlands
Luis Henrique Almeida de Oliveira
pollinatorDiplomacy#1
Portugal
Luisa Vidales Reina
self-portrait of the commons
Mexico
Łukasz Horbów
3 acts
Poland
Luna Maluna Gri
Flying Free
Austria
Lyazzat Khanim
fresh film
Kazakhstan
Mael Audren
la maison brûle, les oiseaux chantent
France
Magnus Pind
Scans
Denmark
Manya Theatre Group
Hustle Gone Rogue, Little Liar
South Sudan
Marcelo Kraiser
Shards
Brazil
Maria (Morra) Kozlitina
A Nasty Hole
Russia
Maria Nalbantova
cleanse
Bulgaria
Marie Nerland, David A Rios, Volt Bergen, Norway
A Part and the Whole
Sweden
Mariela Soldano
PUTREFACTUS
Uruguay
Marja Knape
The night logic
Sweden
Marja Viitahuhta and Ánnámáret
Bálvvosbáiki
Finland
Mark A. Hernandez Motaghy / Janastu
Sughavazhvu
India, United States
Martín Emiliano Díaz
Scrollear después de Gaza es un acto de barbarie
Argentina
Marwen Ben Cheikh
LUCIDREAM
Ethiopia
Mathijs Hunfeld
THIS IS NOT AN EXIT
Netherlands
Mati Jhurry
tropical cheeks (warning signs)
Mauritius
Melisa Yagmur Saydi
Walking around my head, Sample Text
Turkey
Merel Noorlander
Erotic Engine, Cruising Kink
The Netherlands
Meshal Al-Obaidallah
IMG_0220: Physical Preservations of a Once Lost-Internet Video
Saudi Arabia
Milica Denković
Heavy Shots: Severe Period Pain Simulator
Serbia
Mitsouka Exantus
Endless Resources, Endless Possibilities
Haiti
Mohamed Thara
As Long As I Can Hold My Breath
France, Morocco
MOSS YAFAI DANCE
BLOWN AWAY | In Preview
United Kingdom
Nabìr
Childhood Tales
Italy
Nanut Thanapornrapee
This History is Auto-Generated: History Bureau Agent
Thailand
Nick Fox-Gieg and Meagan Williams
Traffic Flow III
Canada
NiNi DONGNIER
Field Record 4: Every Motion is a Ritual
Mongolia
Nuff
FACETS
Nigeria, United Kingdom
Nuur Taibah
Blend In
Saudi Arabia
Oleksa Konopelko
Mutafory Lili
Ukraine
Omnia Elamir
My Doll's House
Bahrain
ORTA Collective
ORTA Collective – Zharyqopera Overture «Ң. Ғ. Қ.»
Kazakhstan
Pannawat Sertsuwankul
4CELL
Thailand
Papierfilm
Kino-chronicle Reduction
Russia
Pauli Bertholon
Grandma's Son
France
Pedro Carcereri
How close are you to losing control?
Brazil
Pedro Marques Pereira
Cascata
Portugal
Perro Feo
Todas las batallas son con unx mismx no con lxs demás (All the battles are with one self, not with others)
Austria
Pier Alfeo
LAPSE - The time during which something continues
Italy
Pierre Yves Clouin
Rain Again
France
Planeta Sobremesa
Peixe Fora d'Água (Fish Out of Water)
Brazil
Pouria Kazemi
The Lost Forgotten Child
Norway
Rafael Arévalo
Generación zapping, La vida adulta de las efímeras
Perú
Ramiro Wong
What have I escaped? Where, anyway, would I go escape?*
Austria
Ranadeep Bhattacharyya & Judhajit Bagchi
Children of the Soil
India
Rasha Amin
Solitude 2023
Italy
ReVerse Bullets feat. Jamika Ajalon
Replikant
Germany
Robert Cahen and Nicolas Vérin
Ceremonies
France
Ruben Cabenda
tongo sondi
Suriname
Ruby Caurlette
Return And Confusion
Syria
Ruhul Robin Khan
Against The Wind, Commitment to Change
Bangladesh
Rui Yamaguchi
Eating Tour For Freedom #2
Tokyo
Rym Jalil
Beles Stealing Beles
Egypt, Eritrea
Ryota Amaya
My Requiem
Japan
S4RA
R̶A̶V̶E̶
Portugal
Sabīne Šnē
World In a Grain of Sand
Latvia
Sahand Sarhaddi
Slaughter
Iran
Salomon Perez
2 Reels
Perú, Portugal
Salt Salome
I am not where you think I am. I am where you think I am not
Ukraine
Sampsa Pirtola
Walk the Walk
Finland
Santasil Mallik, Hyash Tanmoy, Aidan W. Syiem
Meeting ID: 874 0061 7174
India
Santiago Vitale
Bleach Kiss
Argentina
Sergio R. Reyes M.
Jardín de casa/Home garden and others
Guatemala
Shiqing Chen
Temporary Space Pt.1
China
Shon Kim
BOOKOLORBAR: Action
South Korea
Siden Kong
Reminiscence
Cambodia
Sofía Suazo
La ilusión de los mapas
Chile
Sohaila Mosbeh
Ya Taqill
Egypt
Splaces Studio
DendroSonic
Malta
stochastic reverie
this will remain untitled
Mexic, Sweden
Stuart Pound
electron city
England
Suelyn Choo
Paria's Pearl
Jamaica
Tomiris Batalova
Project Mayhem: Dolphin House II
Kazakhstan, United Kingdom
Toochi Gabriel
STORY OF AGWU
Nigeria
Twinkle Banerjee
Home where are you?
India
Valent Tan
Cryptosphere [Future in 2050: A Solarpunk Aesthetic]
Singapore
Valentin Sismann
Screensong
France
Valentine Tusa
Voguing Down the Staircase
Germany, Luxembourg
Vic Pereiró
_DUST_ IS_NOT_DESERT_
Spain
Viviane Roi
Content Park: Scroll and Get Fed
Taiwan
Wac people
ITA “The world outside”
Nigeria
Wamjira Wamaina, Rey Bulambo
Food Security
Congo
Wenqing Ye
Symbiotic Dream
China
Xinyu Jiang
You are Surrounding Me
China
Yalan Wen
Cascade
Taiwan
Yoshihisa Kitamura
Metamorphose
Japan
Yuchan Cao
Symphony of being
Australia
Yufan Xie
Sonarium
China
Yufan Xie & Angry 5JAR
Focal Lapse
China
Yufan Xie & Ziqian Yin
Geomedia
China
Yufan Xie, Melvin Lewis, Ziqian Yin, Wei Wu
Maelstrom
China
Yuta Shimonishi
Subtle Obsession
Japan
Yuxuan Qi
Diffused Surface
China
Zamanbap art
Winter Theatre
Kyrgyzstan
Open Call
Seeking videos by artists from every country on Earth.
The open call closed on June 3rd. If you have work you would like to include and are from a country listed as “still seeking”, please email refest@culturehub.org!
The theme of Re–Fest 2024 is Re-Source which asks the question: how do we open source Re–Fest so that artists and audiences can participate from anywhere in the world? All types of video work is accepted: short films, music videos, video art, A/V submissions, day-in-the-life content, and more.
LiveLab Broadcaster
Re–Fest 2024 takes place in your web browser using LiveLab Broadcaster, a browser based low-latency live-streaming platform that allows for real time interactions with online audiences. Click here to enter the festival.
There are over 200 video works by artists from 90+ countries that are streaming 24/7 from June 5-11. Watch on a desktop or laptop (not a smartphone/tablet) using Google Chrome. Two videos will stream side by side. Click on either video player to toggle between them. Select which audio you'd like to hear by clicking the speaker icon. Refresh if you experience issues.
The open-source project is supported and used by CultureHub and NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. It has been used by CultureHub and La MaMa in the following productions: Take 21 (2022), A Few Deep Breaths (2022), Fractals of Prometheus (2023), Downtown Variety Ukraine Edition (2023), The Scam Auction (2024), and Medea (2024).
Developers: Aidan Nelson, Shawn Van Every, Yuguang Zhang
Online Interactions: Shuang Cai, Tuan Huang
Participating Countries
Åland Islands
Argentina
Austria
Belarus
Bulgaria
Canada
Colombia
Denmark
Ethiopia
Germany
Guatemala
India
Iraq
Italy
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Luxembourg
Mauritius
Morocco
Norway
Philippines
Romania
Serbia
South Sudan
Suriname
Syria
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom
Venezuela
Albania
Armenia
Bahrain
Belgium
Burundi
Chile
Congo
Egypt
Finland
Ghana
Haiti
Indonesia
Ireland
Jamaica
Kenya
Latvia
Macedonia
Mexico
Netherlands
Pakistan
Poland
Russia
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Taiwan
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
United States of America
Vietnam
Angola
Australia
Bangladesh
Brazil
Cambodia
China
Croatia
Estonia
France
Greece
Hong Kong
Iran
Israel
Japan
South Korea
Lebanon
Malta
Mongolia
Nigeria
Peru
Portugal
Saudi Arabia
Slovenia
Sudan
Switzerland
Tanzania
Tunisia
Ukraine
Uruguay
International Partners
ArtNow New Zealand
Bold Theatre Kenya
Companhia Nova de Teatro Brazil
Eho animato Serbia
Medrar Egypt
NASHi Experimental Theatre Club Ukraine
Seoul Institute of the Arts Korea
Terrabytes Glitch Lab Germany