Event · Greenwich Village
At Cinema Village in Greenwich Village, NYC: VAEFF Marks 16 Years of Video Art and Experimental Film
The 16th Video Art & Experimental Film Festival runs November 13–15 at Cinema Village in Greenwich Village, with seven screening programs, an opening-night wine and cheese reception and a closing-night jazz set. Tickets start at $15.
By NBT Editors · 2026-11-13
The Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, known as VAEFF, returns for its 16th year from Friday, November 13, through Sunday, November 15, 2026. The venue is Cinema Village, the long-running movie house on East 12th Street in Greenwich Village.
The festival presents New York audiences with work from around the world that it describes as innovative, bold and boundary-pushing. The range is wide: animation, music video, fashion film, visual narrative and more.
Seven screening programs make up the schedule: Beauty, Sex & Shame; Color, Movement, & Space; On The Edge; Something is wrong. very wrong!; Between Fashion & Music; Me, Sex & Other People; and Home Sweet Home? Each has its own lineup of films and artists, listed on the festival's site, so visitors can pick the themes that appeal to them rather than commit to the whole run.
Opening night includes a wine and cheese reception at the theater. The festival closes with live jazz from Benno Marmur and his All-Star Quintet, an unusual way to end a film program.
Tickets start at $15 and are sold through the festival's schedule and tickets page, with the opening-night reception ticketed separately. For anyone curious about experimental moving-image work that rarely gets a regular theatrical run, this is a compact three-day way to see a lot of it in one place.
