Fracto

Fracto FRACTO is an annual Experimental Film Encounter taking place in Berlin at ACUD Kunsthaus

What an encounter these past few days at Fracto.Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped shape this edition throug...
02/06/2026

What an encounter these past few days at Fracto.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped shape this edition through their presence, attention, and exchange.

From the conversations with our guests, to the curiosity and engagement of the workshop participants, to Jan Kulka's unforgettable performance, each moment contributed to the unique atmosphere of the festival.

Most of all, thank you to the audience for showing up with openness and commitment. The atmosphere of the festival was created as much in the room as on the stage.

We're grateful to everyone who shared their time, work, and trust with us.

Until next time!

Tonight, FRACTO 2026 concludes with Expanded Cinema: Jan Kulka at ACUD CLUB.Working with custom-built projection systems...
31/05/2026

Tonight, FRACTO 2026 concludes with Expanded Cinema: Jan Kulka at ACUD CLUB.

Working with custom-built projection systems and handmade film formats, Czech artist Jan Kulka explores the material and perceptual conditions of cinema through light, movement, repetition, and interference. His performances transform projection into a live, spatial experience where images oscillate between attraction, disruption, and disappearance.

Presented live, the program brings together three works that push film beyond the screen and into the space of projection itself.

GRACIAS PABLO
Czech Republic / Spain, 2025, 20’ 00”, 70mm, German Premiere

PATTERNS
Czech Republic, 2024, 42’ 00”, 60mm, Berlin Premiere

FRINGE SHADES
Czech Republic, 2026, 22’ 00”, 48mm transparent tape / color filters / aluminium tape, World Premiere

A rare opportunity to experience expanded cinema through handmade formats, custom-built apparatuses, and live projection.

EXPANDED CINEMA: JAN KULKA
21:30 / ACUD CLUB

Join us for the closing event of FRACTO 2026.

Tonight at 19:00 at ACUD KINO, we conclude our Focus dedicated to Cécile Fontaine with Part II: Political Deconstruction...
31/05/2026

Tonight at 19:00 at ACUD KINO, we conclude our Focus dedicated to Cécile Fontaine with Part II: Political Deconstructions.

Bringing together works spanning nearly two decades, the program explores Fontaine’s transformative engagement with found footage, where newsreels, commercials, fiction films, and documentary images are cut, displaced, corroded, and reassembled into new cinematic territories.

Through collage, chemical intervention, and material manipulation, familiar images are detached from their original contexts and set into motion again, revealing unexpected connections between memory, politics, desire, and representation.

Cécile Fontaine will be present for a Q&A following the screening.

OVEREATING
France, 1984, 3’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

2 MADE FOR TV FILMS
France, 1984, 6’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

STORIES
France, 1989, 7’ 00”, 16mm

SANS TITRE, MAI 1988
France, 1988, 6’ 00”, 16mm, silent

HISTOIRES PARALLÈLES
France, 1990, 11’ 00”, 16mm, silent

CRUISES
France, 1989, 8’ 00”, 16mm

LA PÊCHE MIRACULEUSE
France, 1995, 10’ 00”, 16mm

LION LIGHT
France, 1996, 2’ 00”, 16mm, silent

SAFARI LAND
France, 1996, 8’ 00”, 16mm

SILVER RUSH
France, 1998, 7’ 00”, 16mm

THE LOST LAST SHOT
France, 1999, 8’ 00”, 16mm

BOY'S BEST FRIEND
France, 2002, 12’ 00”, 16mm

Today, on the final day of FRACTO 2026, we present Selection #5: Grayscale.Bringing together works by Simon Payne, Raqu...
31/05/2026

Today, on the final day of FRACTO 2026, we present Selection #5: Grayscale.

Bringing together works by Simon Payne, Raquel Vermunt, Sophie Watzlawick, Kate Solar, Robert Schaller, Manuel Knapp, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Douglas Urbank, and Nikita Baranov, the program explores the expressive possibilities of black and white, grain, flicker, texture, and light.

Across these films, perception unfolds through unstable surfaces and shifting forms. Images emerge and disappear, oscillating between abstraction and recognition, inscription and sensation, tracing a physical cartography of movement, memory, and material transformation.

GREYSCALE — Simon Payne
UK, 2025, 3’ 00”, DCP, German Premiere

A HOUSE WITH A VIEW — Raquel Vermunt
Latvia / Netherlands, 2025, 4’ 14”, 16mm, DCP, German Premiere

WHERE NIGHT FALLS A THUD — Sophie Watzlawick
Germany / Austria, 2025, 8’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

(FOR ONCE I DREAMED OF YOU) — Kate Solar
Canada, 2026, 6’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, Berlin Premiere

RUN — Robert Schaller
USA, 2026, 12’ 00”, 16mm, European Premiere

ABOUT THE NATURE OF DARKNESS — Manuel Knapp
Austria, 2025, 14’ 00”, DCP

THIS ARROW POINTS — Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Austria, 2025, 2’ 00”, DCP

MOIRÉ — Douglas Urbank
USA, 2026, 7’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, World Premiere

THE SOOT — Nikita Baranov
Russia / Armenia, 2024–25, 14’ 00”, DCP, German Premiere

17:00 / ACUD KINO

Tickets & full schedule via link in bio.

FRACTO 2026 celebrates his last day today.Over the past days, we have shared screenings, discussions, workshops, perform...
31/05/2026

FRACTO 2026 celebrates his last day today.

Over the past days, we have shared screenings, discussions, workshops, performances, and encounters with filmmakers and audiences from around the world. Thank you to everyone who has joined us so far.

If you haven't made it to the festival yet, today is your last chance.

The final day includes:

— Selection #5: Grayscale (17:00 / ACUD KINO), a program dedicated to the material and perceptual possibilities of black and white, grain, flicker, and light.

— Focus: Cécile Fontaine — Part II (19:00 / ACUD KINO), concluding our focus on one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary experimental cinema. Cécile Fontaine will be present for a Q&A following the screening.

— Expanded Cinema: Jan Kulka (21:30 / ACUD CLUB), featuring three live projection works presented through custom-built apparatuses and handmade film formats, including the World Premiere of Fringe Shades.

Join us for one final day of experimental cinema, analog film, and expanded projection.

SAT 30 MAY · 21:00 · ACUD KINOFOCUS: CÉCILE FONTAINE — PART 1Home (Made) MoviesA program dedicated to Cécile Fontaine’s ...
30/05/2026

SAT 30 MAY · 21:00 · ACUD KINO

FOCUS: CÉCILE FONTAINE — PART 1
Home (Made) Movies

A program dedicated to Cécile Fontaine’s exploration of film as material: scratching, layering, soaking, collaging, and transforming found images into tactile cinematic forms. Through chemical and mechanical interventions on celluloid, these works trace the entanglement of light, color, movement, and memory, where images break apart and re-emerge in new configurations.

SELF-PORTRAIT N° 1 (TOILETTE)
France, 1982, 3’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

A COLOR MOVIE
France, 1983, 5’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

CARS LIGHT ON A RAINY NIGHT (WITH DIAGONAL BLEACH)
France, 1985, 2’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

PARIS, LE 7 JANVIER 1988
France, 1988, 8’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

3 SHORTS [L'ATELIER DE PEINTURE + CHURCH + SUBJECT. SOUND COLOR PICTURE]
France, 1984, 5’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

LE CALVAIRE
France, 1986, 3’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

ABSTRACT FILM EN COULEUR
France, 1991, 3’ 00”, 16mm, silent

LA FISSURE
France, 1984, 1’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

MOSAÏC
France, 1987, 3’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

ALMABA
France, 1988, 5’ 00”, 16mm, silent

SPACED ODDITIES
France, 2004, 6’ 00”, 16mm

CORRESPONDANCE
France, 1985, 2’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

CHARLOTTE
France, 1991, 3’ 00”, 16mm, silent

LE DÉJEUNER SUR L'HERBE (OU PIQUE-NIQUE)
France, 1986, 1’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

HOME MOVIE
France, 1986, 5’ 00”, 16mm, silent

SUNDAY
France, 1993, 6’ 00”, 16mm

CROSS WORLDS
France, 2006, 12’ 00”, 16mm

JAPON SERIES
France, 1991, 7’ 00”, 16mm, silent

Tickets & full schedule via link in bio.

SAT 30 MAY · 18:30 · ACUD KINOSELECTION #4: SENSUOUS LIGHTA program of films where light becomes both material and even...
30/05/2026

SAT 30 MAY · 18:30 · ACUD KINO

SELECTION #4: SENSUOUS LIGHT

A program of films where light becomes both material and event. Moving between exposure and encounter, these works explore the image as a site of contact—where matter, time, and the outside world leave their trace. At the threshold between framing and openness, film reveals its own limits, making visible what resists being captured.

COLORS FROM THE GARDEN
France, 2025, 12’ 00”, 16mm / Super 8, DCP, World Premiere

SERVIDUMBRES DE LA LUZ
Spain, 2025, 10’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP, World Premiere

WORDS FLYING BACK TO THE BLACK EARTH
China / USA, 2025, 19’ 12”, 16mm, DCP, Berlin Premiere

WOUNDED EDGES
Switzerland, 2025, 18’ 00”, 16mm, German Premiere

THE LIGHT OF SILENCE
South Korea, 2026, 12’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, International Premiere

A PURE PORTION OF ANXIETY
South Korea / USA, 2026, 11’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, World Premiere

FOCUS: MOUCLE BLACKOUT A key figure of the postwar Austrian avant-garde, Moucle Blackout developed a singular cinematic ...
29/05/2026

FOCUS: MOUCLE BLACKOUT

A key figure of the postwar Austrian avant-garde, Moucle Blackout developed a singular cinematic language through material experimentation, chromatic layering, and optical transformation. Her films navigate the tensions between body and culture, desire and constraint, nature and technology.

Opening with a world premiere by Dirk de Bruyn:

THOUGHT/ACTION
Australia, 1996–2026, 10’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, World Premiere

LOSS
Austria, 1998, 12’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

NEUE WEGE BRICHT NEUE WELT AUS
Austria, 1996, 11’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

DER GALAKTISCHE NORDPOL LIEGT IM HAAR DER BERENICE
Austria, 1992, 14’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

O.K.
Austria, 1987, 5’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

STONED VIENNA
Austria, 1976–1979, 20’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

DIE GEBURT DER VENUS
Austria, 1970–1972, 5’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

WALK IN
Austria, 1969, 5’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

Fri 29 May · 21:30–23:00
ACUD Kino

Peter Todd - Part 2 • A Room with a ViewThe section A Room with a View maps the prolongation of places into consciousnes...
29/05/2026

Peter Todd - Part 2 • A Room with a View

The section A Room with a View maps the prolongation of places into consciousness. External topographies confound with fragile interiorities. The outside folds into the self. The psyche recesses into the hallways of the house. The house is a nest for imagining, a refuge for dreaming, a shelter for becoming. There is a house that contains us and a house that is contained in us.

The celluloid endures the continuum and ruptures between geometrical spaces and inhabited spaces - one space spills, is swallowed, is deformed and reformed by the other. With these five films of Peter Todd, one ought to accept solitude, to embrace, even if only momentarily, a wandering around enchanted rooms. Todd’s films demonstrate so tenderly that the space can be poetry.

Fri 29 May
19:00 - 20:30 / ACUD KINO

ROOM WINDOW SEA SKY
UK, 2014, 3’ 00”, 16mm, silent

PILLOW BOWL ROSE TREE
UK, 2023, 16’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP

WE SAW
UK, 2009, 4’ 00”, 16mm, silent

THREE FILMS FROM THE ROOM
UK, 2015, 10’ 00”, 16mm, silent
UNTITLED
UK, 2012, 9’ 00”, 16mm, silent

Today at 16:30 at ACUD KINO, we present Selection #3: Living Skin.The program moves through questions of belonging, dis...
29/05/2026

Today at 16:30 at ACUD KINO, we present Selection #3: Living Skin.

The program moves through questions of belonging, displacement, intimacy, camouflage, and transformation.

Here, bodies and landscapes become porous surfaces, exposed to memory, sensation, and the outside world. Through repetition, pulsation, and mechanical rhythms, images drift between presence and disappearance, moving beyond narrative toward perception itself.

SEE THROUGH THE HOLLOWED BLUE HELLEBORE — Jiayi Chen
USA, 2026, 18’ 00”, 16mm, DCP

IN THE ANIMAL’S SKIN — Yuliya Tsviatkova
Poland / Germany, 2025, 14’ 10”, DCP

HIDING PLACES — Magdalena Bermudez
USA, 2025, 12’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, Berlin Premiere

THE OPPOSITE OF TADASHII IS LEFT — Yongha James Hwang
Japan, 2025, 11’ 00”, DCP, European Premiere

BEARING FRUIT OF FONDNESS — Shen Xin
UK / China, 2026, 5’ 40”, 16mm, DCP, German Premiere

FLIM FLAM — Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Austria, 2026, 15’ 00”, DCP

16:30 / ACUD KINO

Tickets & full schedule via link in bio.

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