Cosmic Rays Touring Program 2025 | Experimental Film Lab

"You Don't Know Me"
A selection of films from the 7th Cosmic Rays Film Festival
Presented by the Experimental Film Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute and Screen/Society

What happens to our bodies in an age of disembodiment? A program of short experimental films about the roles our bodies play, the data they generate, the avatars they adopt, and the traces they leave behind. Films that ask if we’re evolving into something new, or just heading for extinction.

The Cosmic Rays Film Festival is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be. The Festival presents several programs of short films made by filmmakers from North Carolina and around the world that are formally inventive; speak with a personal voice; and are inspired by the possibilities of film as art.