Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema is hosting the FNC Lab with films by Marie Losier, Chick Strand, Guy Maddin, Christina Battle and more.

March 6: Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt travels from Montreal to San Francisco to present a night of films from the transgressive world of Cinema Abattoir.

Montreal transgressive filmmakers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani will be screening their award-winning new film Amer in NYC in April.

A Rebours from Cinema Abattoir is a full-frontal assault of transgressive short films by Usama Alshaibi, Aryan Kaganof, Karl Lemieux and more.

Oct. 15: Cinema Abattoir presents a night of cinema performance by Karl Lemieux, Hyena Hive, Frederick Maheux, Pierre-Marc Tremblay, Dark Xenakiss and more.

Cinema Abattoir’s posters promoting their screening events in Montreal, Quebec are so striking and beautiful, I made an image gallery out of them.

Montreal’s Cinema Abattoir is offering up a night of disjointed, sexy fun on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 9:00 p.m. with a back-to-back screening event. First up, is the part: Rip in Pieces USA, directed by Dominic Gagnon.

The Lausanne Underground Film Festival is screening films by Alison Murray, Brian Lonano, Craig Baldwin, Jonas Mekas, Peter Whitehead, Richard Kern and more.

The WNDX Festival of Film and Video Art is screening films by Brett Kashmere, Clint Enns and Leslie Supnet, plus hosting a curated event by Cinema Abattoir.

Other Cinema’s Noel Lawrence travels up north to present four works by obscure and mostly forgotten underground auteur J.X. Williams. I’ve seen Psych-Burn.