Cut and Run

Started in early 2009 at San Francisco’s Artists' Television Access and turned into a multi-city West Coast tour. Cut and Run’s aim is to explore the range of experimental and avant-garde works, from the past to the present. C + R celebrates works that deviate from mainstream and traditional narrative film, and opt towards authentic, brave, challenging, stylized, alternative and imagined subjects.

The call for submissions has no direct set theme. The program theme develops around the sense we make of the selected works, as well as individual sought-out films that provoke and inspire us.

C + R is curated and organized by Brenda Contreras and Mallary Abel.