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New Work  brings Erica Schreiner home. An Oregon native, Erica now works from New York, where she has maintained a 20+ year practice in

TAOS ABSTRACT ARTIST COLLECTIVE PRESENTS exLAB: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION AND SCREENING PROGRAM AT TAOS FILM FESTIVAL

Taos, New Mexico, April 10, 2026. TAOS ABSTRACT ARTIST COLLECTIVE (TAAC) partners with the Taos Center for the Arts at the Taos Film Festival to present exLAB, a series of short films that cultivate conversation through experimental storytelling. Presented in two formats, the exLAB gallery space is an immersive installation at the contemporary multi-media space, Atelier 111 featuring 15 filmmakers. This installation is free and open to the public. The exLAB screening program is a series of short films to be screened at various venues throughout the festival. Presented by Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC), exLAB is an exploration into ways of making that deviate from traditional classification. exLAB is a poetic journey into the mind, piquing the senses, stimulating every part of the soul.

Directors

Dusty Deen

Asuka Lin

Lauren Dana Smith

Nadia Iftkhar

Eliot Grigo and Simon Schneider

Marcie D Begleiter

Dan Rule

Mike Rollo

Rana San

Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero

Adeline Newmann

Anshul Roy

Daniel Maldonado

Erica Schreiner

exLAB Schedule

exLAB Gallery

Location: Atelier 111 (101 Cam De La Placita, Taos, NM 87571) Friday, April 24th:10am-2pm and 5-8pm

Friday, April 24th: 8-11pm, The shortShorts After Party at TNT with DJ Tymer Buck

Saturday, April 25th: 11am-2pm and 5-8pm

Sunday, April 26th: 11am-2pm

exLAB Screening

Fri, Apr 24th, 11:55 AM at Taos Center For The Arts

Fri, Apr 24th, 6:00 PM at Harwood Museum of Art

Sat, Apr 25th, 6:45 PM in the gallery at Hotel Willa

Special Events

TaosFF Opening Night PartyApril 23rd Juliette @ Hotel Willa 5pm - 9pm Celebrate the opening night at TaosFF with drinks on the patio at Hotel Willa. Pick up your pass, connect with other filmmakers and festival goers and get excited for a weekend full of film, fun, connection and learning. Free and open to the public.

April 24th 7pm @ Taos Center for the ArtsDeVotchKa LIVE - 20th anniversary tribute to the Grammy-nominated soundtrack of Little Miss Sunshine. Tickets and reservations required.

TAAC presents the exLAB shortSHORTS after party April 24th 8-11pm @ Tomorrow and Tomorrow + Atelier111 TAAC presents the exLAB shortSHORTS after party with DJ Tymer Buck at Tomorrow and Tomorrow (101 A Cam De La Placita, Taos, NM 87571). There will be dancing! Food and drinks! Be experimental! Wear your short shorts! Free to attend.

Full Taos Film Festival Schedule

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About the Taos Film Festival taosff.org April 23–26, 2026, the inaugural Taos Film Festival shares over 100 independent filmmaking voices from New Mexico and around the world. TaosFF presents narrative, documentary, and experimental works in feature-length and short-form. In addition to screenings, TaosFF connects artists and audiences through Q&As, talks, events, and parties.

Taos Center for the Arts, the Harwood Museum of Art, and WildFlower Playhouse serve as primary screening venues. Eclectic pop-up events, parties, and creativity labs for youth and adults take place at partner venues, such as Hotel Willa, Atelier 111, TNT, and more.

TaosFF is a project of the Taos Center for the Arts (TCA). TCA has cultivated a robust year-round film program, observing what draws people to the cinema, what sparks hope, and what riles tensions. Beyond film, TCA hosts music, dance, theater, visual arts, and community events. TCA prioritizes collaboration and manages the innovative Inter-Arts Internship Program, which offers paid work-learning opportunities to area youth at arts & culture organizations across Taos County. Film Festivals have been a much-loved part of the Taos community before. Taos Talking Pictures (1995–2003), Taos Mountain Film Festival (2002–2009), and Taos Shortz (2007–2019) all generated a lot of enthusiasm and goodwill.

Taos is an elemental place full of epic contrast and true feeling. It is a home for families and communities that stretch more than a thousand years into the past. It is a creative oasis for wanderers of every stripe. It is a high-elevation desert scrubbed of all pretense by nature’s unrelenting intensity. Taos offers a front-row seat to technicolor sunsets and the phases of the moon. Taos reminds you, you are a speck. And you will be grateful for it.

TAOS FILM FESTIVAL

exLAB

APRIL 23-26TH, 2026

TAOS, NEW MEXICO Full Taos Film Festival Schedule

Video Transcendence: Erica Schreiner-- a collection of short experimental films + premiere of two new films: The Escape (2026) and Providence (2026); followed by a Q+A. April 18th, 7:45pm at PhilaMOCA via Blood Sick Productions Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA

Blue Transcendence, Jan 25, NYC

Jan 25th- 'Blue Transcendence' screening as part of Cloud Horizon at CAVE /Leimay Foundation at 58 Grand Street, Brooklyn; 1pm, curated by Benja Thompson

Dec 7th, 2025, Cork Ireland

On SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, at 7pm, you're invited to the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) for a 20-year retrosp

On SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, at 7pm, you're invited to the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) for a 20-year retrospective of the work of Erica Schreiner.

“Erica Schreiner’s videos span a 20-year period, charting her personal and creative evolution within that time frame, while also appearing to collapse time altogether. Her journey as a visual artist, performer and world-maker — beginning in her early 20s through to her early 40s — is crystallized here within the same gauzy, waxy, pastel-tinted medium. Schreiner’s work looks and feels like no one else’s; you always know when you are watching an Erica Schreiner video, and in this sense she is the definition of an auteur. There are influences and compeers, certainly. As the artist (typically in an enclosed and claustrophobic space) turns the camera on herself, adorns herself with wigs and dresses and glitter, devours fruit and chocolate and butterflies, and smothers her body in paint, one can’t help but think of Věra Chytilová’s candy-coated feminist classic Daisies, Jacques Rivette’s lush and otherworldly Celine and Julie Go Boating (both of which Schreiner cites as key influences) or Chantal Akerman’s gleefully anarchic debut Saute ma ville. Like Schreiner’s work, all of these films probe the tension between creation and destruction and reveal the power and agency in girlishness, whimsy, and so-called frivolity. There are also shades of Marja Samsom’s Super 8mm shorts from the 1970s, in which the artist — in a series of static, single-shot portraits — turns the camera on herself and engages subversively with apparatuses of traditional femininity and domesticity as her alter ego, ‘Miss Behave,’ thereby blurring the line between diaristic filmic portraiture and outright performance. Schreiner’s videos engage with all of these techniques, elements, and dichotomies through an intimate and hyper-feminine visual aesthetic, engendering connections to these antecedents while simultaneously transcending precedent altogether to emerge as totally original (and indelible) audiovisual evocations. Ultimately, Schreiner’s work invites viewers into a world that is all her own: one that reveals the softness in anarchy, the tenderness in ruination, and the capacity for creation amid devastation.”

—Matt McKinzie (Co-curator)

Sat 7/12

Artist Talk w/ Erica Schreiner (10 AM)

T.A.P.E. presents an artist talk with visiting filmmaker Erica Schreiner!

Preceding a screening of her work, join us on Saturday July 12 at 10 for an intimate conversation with filmmaker Erica Schreiner. Showcasing her wide breath of VHS-based performance work, Erica will discuss her ethos and aesthetic, with open space for dialogue and questions!

Erica Schreiner has exhibited her work extensively throughout the course of her career both in the United States and internationally. She has completed more than 100 video works of performative art, two feature films, and several music videos. In 2021, Schreiner received a New York City Artist Corps Grant for The Special People, and her films have screened at SHOWstudio, Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, MIX NYC, Millennium Film Workshop, and MoMA.

$10 general admission, $8 for Whammy! and T.A.P.E. members.

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Sat 7/12

10:00AM

Presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.

Erica Schreiner: An Invitation to Love

Artist in person!

For the past two decades, the New York based visual artist Erica Schreiner has been working exclusively in the medium of VHS to produce a body of intimate and performative work that transcends time, technology, and prevailing trends. Schreiner’s gaze is personal and provocative, her color palette soft and subdued, yet her work does not shy away from hard truths. Painterly and confessional, Schreiner’s films are gestures to connectivity, reaching out with tactile sensuality. In An Invitation to Love, viewers are beckoned into the artist’s private world (Schreiner’s apartment), witnesses to a queer exploration of beauty and ecstatic consumption of its conventions. Through precise camera work and gut-wrenching examinations of desire, femininity, and heartache, Schreiner’s kaleidoscopic and vast inner monologue is laid bare, welcoming viewers to share in the dreamlike vulnerability and take part in its often startling catharsis.

Featuring the West Coast Premieres of:

Birth [9.5min, 2022]

Stargate [4min, 2023]

Blood Run Free by The Johns (Music Video) [7min, 2018]

Hold [7min, 2024]

Smoke (with an original score by Toby Goodshank of The Moldy Peaches) [7.5min, 2025]

Somewhere [4min, 2021]

+ more!

A Limited Edition run of Erica Schreiner’s sophomore feature length film, The Special People will be available for purchase on Video Cassette & Blu Ray through distributor Art Label. ‍

A panel discussion / Q+A will follow the screenings. Moderated by Lucé Tomlin-Brenner

‍Erica Schreiner has exhibited her work extensively throughout the course of her career both in the United States and internationally. She has completed more than 100 video works of performative art, two feature films, and several music videos. In 2021, Schreiner received a New York City Artist Corps Grant for The Special People, and her films have screened at SHOWstudio, Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, MIX NYC, Millennium Film Workshop, and MoMA.

Please join us for this retrospective spanning twenty years of experimental, and fiercely independent work!‍

dir. Erica Schreiner, 2005 - 2025

United States, Digital projection

79 mins‍

Sunday, 7/13

7:00 DOORS

8:00 SCREENING

9:30 PANEL / Q+A

Presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501©3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.

Blue Transcendence will be screening this weekend in Basel at a FLINTA empowerment workshop for experimental film and performance.

KASKO, Werkraum Warteck pp May 24–25 | 11:00–16:00

Thank you: @jvule@mattisttda@kasko_basel@ggg_kulturkick

video installation at MIX: May 31st https://ra.co/events/2164567

more info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ9VOjnxRZC/?img_index=1

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Friday April 11th, Smoke premieres at Millennium 8pm

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