Beyond Resolution: Short Films by Sabine Gruffat | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Beyond Resolution: Short Films by Sabine Gruffat

Mills Folly Microcinema welcomes filmmaker Sabine Gruffat for Beyond Resolution, a program of her short films, on Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 7:00pm. Suggested donation: $5.00. Doors open at 6:30pm.

This series of films favors ambiguity and resists resolution. The nearer the gaze, the more obscure the view. Illegibility here is not an escape from politics, but a way of inhabiting it differently: as a site of tension, friction, and possibility. 

These films draw from a range of genres and layered techniques. Images are processed to draw attention to the hidden logics in software, hardware, and materiality. In repurposing media, the works call attention to the histories from which meaning’s fragile frameworks emerge. 

 

ABOUT MILLS FOLLY MICROCINEMA

Mills Folly Microcinema showcases nationally recognized experimental film and video art from the festival and microcinema circuit. We network with regional filmmakers and organizations to bring filmmakers and guest programmers to Madison for screenings. And we incubate local experimental filmmaking by providing screen time at Project Projection events.  

Filmmaker Sabine Gruffat

Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist born in Bangkok, Thailand. She co-founded and co-programs the Cosmic Rays Film Festival in Chapel Hill, NC with fi lmmaker Bill Brown. Currently she lives in Marseille, France.

Sabine Gruffat works on experimental, animation, and essay forms and exhibits her work as installations, performances, and single-channel screenings. By actively engaging with both current and outmoded technology, Gruffat’s work questions our standardized and mediated world.

Sabine Gruffat’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Migrating Forms, the Viennale, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Chicago Underground, Cinéma du Réel, 25FPS, Transmediale in Berlin, and The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. She has produced digital media works for public spaces as well as... Read More

This event is made possible by support from Dane Arts; Madison Arts Commission with additional funds from Wisconsin Arts Board. Additional funds also provided by Endres Manufacturing Company Foundation, the Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. Support also provided by a generous anonymous donor.

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