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.
Friday:Block 1: INVOCATIONBody Prop — M. WoodsBlock 2: GLOAMLive Score by Slow BlinkBRANCHES FROM CONCRETE — Zhenyu Zhou
Negative / Positive Film — Federica Foglia
The Visible Material — Ryan Marino
The Mirage of Ultra-Realistic Hands — Guillaume ValléeBlock 3: PALIMPSESTFilms of Michael Alexander MorrisPalimpsest 1: Now U See Us — Michael Alexander Morris
Palimpsest 2: بيت لحم / Bethlehem — Michael Alexander Morris
Palimpsest 3: Bell Riots — Michael Alexander Morris
Break All The Vases, Steal All The Flowers — Michael Alexander Morris
Blue Movie — Michael Alexander Morris
A Chorus of Black Voids Sings in Rays of Unseeable Light — Michael Alexander Morris · Live ScoreBlock 4: NOCTURNEClosure — Blake Riesenfeld
Sometimes I Hear the Light Leak in Through the Corners of My Room — Jeremiah M. Carter
Rushing Green — Minhyeong Kil
An Unholy Dance — Tiago Almança
Theseus & the Minotaur (Negative) — Piers Broadfoot
Fort Garry Lions Pool — Ryan Steel
In Thin Air — Rushnan Jaleel
A Poem — Vasilios Papaioannu
Toward a Course Bend All — Luke ThompsonSaturdayBlock 5: MATINSSpring Rebirth at Source du Pêcher — Emma Roufs
You Do Not Exist — Dwayne LeBlanc
Air — Alexander Barancheyev
All in light ebbed aside — Liam Baldini
In Paintings, All Emotions — Will VanKoughnett
Cool Pants — Max G. Van Loan
Im Dickicht — Katharina Pichler
The Hermit’s Tomb — Piers BroadfootBlock 6: FALLOWLive Score by Joseph AllredThe Other River — Pieter Swier
Who Has Seen the Wind? — Panu Johansson
The Ground Is Bleeding Light — Yannick Mosimann
an embrace — Magali Coremans
Dawning Soul, Traveling Light — Andrew Tamburrino
Silver Like Dust — Sam WitherowBlock 7: EMANATEDuotone Handshake — Winston W. Hacking
Glitter for Girls — Federica Foglia
Screen Memory — Maggie Murphy
SCAPES — Angie Amaro
Interstice — Angie Amaro
You’re Not a Fool, Grandpa — Adrien Lhoste
Flowing Soil and Other Forms — Yujie Xu
Like Fire Concealed in Ashes — Dennis Muñoz EspadiñaBlock 8: LEVIATHANLive Score by Jackie ManningSpectre — Cristian Mazzoleni
Nothingscapes and the Inherent Politics of Texture — M. Woods
Wherever Street Piece — Panu Johansson
Traces | آثار — Chantal Partamian
A Disc of Reflected Sky — Andrew TamburrinoBlock 9: CORPUSUrine Trouble — Ella Berke
Fracture Summer — Kym McDaniel
What Does It Feel Like to Live Inside a Pomegranate? — Kamyar Mohsenin
The Dream Portal — Samuel Karow
Velvet Burn — Ryan Wicks
Hold My Hand — Sophie Sherman
Distant Bison — Asuka Lin
The Story of the Cricket Queen — Natalie PeracchioBlock 10: METANOIAMore Wonderful Was Your Love — Josias LopezBlock 11: PARALLAXLive Score by Alison SwaffordHurricane Season — Michelle Trujillo
Wrecks of the Day — Jean-Yves Roy
Black Trees — Francisco Alejandro Rojas
Red River — Fabiana Gallegos
Skyscraper Film — Federica FogliaBlock 12: STRATAa failed experiment — Josh Weissbach
Tears for Lost Frequencies — Monica Duncan, Senem Pirler
My Body Is a Lens I Can Look Through With My Mind — Ellery Bryan
World on a String — Yannick MosimannBlock 13: BENEDICTIONDog Star Man — Stan Brakhage
Live score by Luke Schneider