Knoxville’s underground screening series for experimental & arthouse cinema
Past Screenings
Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) with Blue (2018, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)Alice (1988, Jan Švankmajer) with At Land (1944, Maya Deren)Happer’s Comet (2022, Tyler Taormina) with In Order Not to Be Here (2002, Deborah Stratman)Penda’s Fen (1974, Alan Clarke) with The Fall (2019, Jonathan Glazer)First Cow (2019, Kelly Reichardt) with Berlin Horse (1970, Malcolm Le Grice)The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Sergei Parajanov) with Kyiv Frescoes (1966, Sergei Parajanov)Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax) at Space Craft with Seances (2016, Guy Maddin)The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene) with Nimic (2019, Yorgos Lanthimos)The Wolf House (2018, Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña) with Fire (Pozar) (2015, David Lynch)Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami) with The House Is Black (1963, Forough Farrokhzad)Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang) with Blessed Land (2019, Phạm Ngọc Lân)Last Things (2023, Deborah Stratman) with A Valley Without Trees (Janelle VanderKelen) & Language Unknown (Janelle VanderKelen)Universal Language (2024, Matthew Rankin) with The Tesla World Light (2017, Matthew Rankin)First Reformed (2018, Paul Schrader) with A Dream in Red (2020, Christin Turner)The Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky) with Sink or Swim (1990, Su Friedrich)The Turin Horse (2011, Béla Tarr) with A Ladder (Scott Barley)Funeral Parade of Roses (1969, Toshio Matsumoto) with Ātman (1975, Toshio Matsumoto)About Endlessness (2019, Roy Andersson) with H is for House (1973, Peter Greenaway)The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman) with Entr’acte (1924, René Clair)
About Us
CHROMA is a monthly screening series presenting experimental and arthouse cinema in distinctive and carefully chosen locations throughout Knoxville, TN.Since its launch, CHROMA has screened works by internationally acclaimed filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Maya Deren, Kelly Reichardt, Sergei Parajanov, and many others.In addition to film screenings, the series aims to host discussions and community events designed to foster engagement, conversation, and discovery among new audiences.
OCTOBER 2 - 3 | KNOXVILLE TN
CHROMA : Image & Sound is an experimental film and music festival based in Knoxville, Tennessee.An expansion of our year-round screening series, the festival brings together filmmakers, musicians, and audiences for a weekend of work that rethinks how images and sound move and resonate together.We present short and feature-length experimental films in conversation with hand-selected, carefully curated music. Rather than treating sound as accompaniment, each program is conceived as a dialogue between moving image and live ambient and experimental music, allowing both to shape the experience of time, space, and attention.Hosted at St. James Episcopal Church, CHROMA : Image & Sound transforms the nave into a contemplative cinematic space. The sacred architecture is not a backdrop but an active participant in the experience. Each program is curated to encourage reflection, conversation, and connection between artists and the local community.
FRIDAY6:00 PM — WELCOME6:10 PM — INVOCATIONBody Prop — 1:17:57
Q&A following the film7:45 PM — GLOAMLive Score by Slow Blink
Branches from Concrete — 13:50
Negative / Positive Film — 14:00
The Visible Material — 8:00
The Mirage of Ultra-Realistic Hands — 14:079:05 PM — PALIMPSESTFilms of Michael Alexander Morris
Palimpsest 1: Now U See Us — 3:25
Palimpsest 2: بيت لحم / Bethlehem — 3:39
Palimpsest 3: Bell Riots — 3:52
Break All The Vases, Steal All The Flowers — 3:39
Blue Movie — 7:06
A Chorus of Black Voids Sings In Rays of Unseeable Light — 15:00
Live Score + Q&A10:20 PM — NOCTURNEClosure — 6:46
Sometimes I Hear the Light Leak in Through the Corners of My Room — 8:54
Rushing Green — 11:50
An Unholy Dance — 7:00
Theseus & the Minotaur (Negative) — 1:27
Fort Garry Lions Pool — 6:01
In Thin Air — 12:04
A Poem — 2:42
Toward a Course Bend All — 12:40SATURDAY12:00 PM — MATINSSpring Rebirth at Source du Pêcher — 1:40
You Do Not Exist — 8:00
Air — 3:33
All in light ebbed aside — 18:50
In Paintings, All Emotions — 8:30
Cool Pants — 4:03
Im Dickicht — 8:00
The Hermit's Tomb — 2:271:05 PM — FALLOWLive Score by Joseph Allred
The Other River — 13:00
Who Has Seen the Wind? — 5:00
The Ground is Bleeding Light — 7:45
An Embrace — 17:00
Dawning Soul, Traveling Light — 7:00
Silver Like Dust — 8:312:15 PM — EMANATEDuotone Handshake — 2:04
Glitter for Girls — 4:00
Screen Memory — 3:45
SCAPES — 4:02
Interstice — 3:28
You’re Not a Fool, Grandpa — 4:13
Flowing Soil and Other Forms — 5:28
Like Fire Concealed in Ashes — 18:503:15 PM — LEVIATHANLive Score by Jackie Manning
Spectre — 9:06
Nothingscapes (and the Inherent Politics of Texture) — 13:00
Wherever Street Piece — 8:49
Traces — 8:45
A Disc of Reflected Sky — 11:584:15 PM — CORPUSUrine Trouble — 4:35
Fracture Summer — 8:25
What Does It Feel Like to Live Inside of a Pomegranate? — 4:40
The Dream Portal — 4:00
Velvet Burn — 2:30
Hold My Hand — 17:00
Distant Bison — 8:22
The Story of the Cricket Queen — 3:575:15 PM — METANOIAMore Wonderful Was Your Love — 1:07:34
Q&A following the film7:30 PM — PARALLAXLive Score by Alison Swafford
Hurricane Season — 6:22
Wrecks of the Day — 8:27
Black Trees — 4:09
Red River — 4:11
Skyscraper Film — 7:568:15 PM — STRATAA Failed Experiment — 6:30
Tears for Lost Frequencies — 10:03
My Body Is a Lens I Can Look Through With My Mind — 16:26
World on a String — 3:189:15 PM — BENEDICTIONDog Star Man — 1:18:00
Live Score by Luke Schneider