Neil Ira Needleman’s short film Visions of Wasted Time explores the obsession with capturing moving images in quite possibly the most startling and provocative way possible.

The 8th annual Portland Underground Film Festival is now run by filmmaker Bob Moricz and includes films by Damond Packard, Neil Ira Needleman, Carey Burtt and more.

The 24th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival is screening Lewis Klahr’s The Pettifogger, plus films by Jesse McLean, Clint Enns, Ken Jacobs and more.

The 7th annual Montreal Underground Film Festival features films by Aaron Zeghers, Neil Ira Needleman, Tony Gault, Ben Popp, Noam Gonick, Heidi Phillips and many more experimental filmmakers.

Chatting with Neil Ira Needleman, one of the most prolific and stylistically diverse filmmakers working in the independent film world today.

The 14th annual Antimatter Film Festival is screening films by Marie Losier and Jaimz Asmundson, plus holding a Kerry Laitala retrospective and more.

The 6th annual WNDX will host a Joyce Wieland retrospective, a Guy Maddin installation, films by Clint Enns, George Kuchar and more.

The 13th annual Boston Underground Film Festival is an 8-day blow-out affair with films by Usama Alshaibi, Jason Eisener and more.

Watch Neil Ira Needleman’s award-winning Meeskeit, a tragic tale about two Jewish spinster cousins told through paintings and narration.

Nov. 20: Moviate presents a night with avant-garde filmmaker Neil Ira Needleman, who will screen 15 of his confounding short movies.