Athens International Film & Video Festival
Profile: Melika Bass, 67th Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany. Two solo showcase programs of short films directed by Melika Bass, Turn the Garden featured in Opening Night Program, plus a Q & A with Tanja Vrvilo.
Best of the Chicago Underground Film Festival Special Virtual Edition
George Lindsay UNA Film Festival
Vangaurd Section
Florence, Alabama
PLATFORMA HR
Zagreb, Croatia
Video Installation
Forbes Digital Plaza
Pittsburgh
Solo Screening
Headroom Film Series
University of Iowa
Opening Night Program: Histories & Futures
with films by Colleen Smith, Deborah Stratman / Barbara Hammer, Nazli Dinçel
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Solo Screening
Gothic Fictions
Silver Eye Center of Photography
Pittsburgh
FLEX Film Festival
Tampa
The Female Gaze
alongside films by Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, Martha Colburn, Jodie Mack, and Laura Kraning
Images and Views of Alternative Cinema
Cyprus
Human Rights Film Festival
Zagreb, Croatia
Meditations
Chicago International Film Festival
10th BAMcinemaFest
Brooklyn, New York
Cimatheque
Cairo, Egypt
International Competition
64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Germany
2017
April 6
Devotional Animals
Solo Screening
Conversations at the Edge
Gene Siskel Film Center
January 31 – May 9
New Sensory Cinema
Weekly Public Lecture / Screening Series
Gene Siskel Film Center
2016
June 17-19, 24-26
Sick by Seven
A Red Orchid Theatre
June 2
Rudzienko Screening with Melika Bass
Public Lecture
Arts Club of Chicago
May 26
CFA Media Mixer with Coppice
Chicago Film Archives
April 10
Roots & Culture 10th Anniversary Screening
March 16
Panel
Expanding Frames
Ann Arbor Film Festival
2015
September 18 – 20
Special Exhibitions Screening
EXPO Chicago
September 10
Panel
Lunchtime Lecture: Visual Art Fall Arts Preview
Arts Club Chicago
May 9
Screening the Speculative
Screening + Panel
New Museum , NYC
January – April 19
The Latest Sun is Sinking Fast
Solo Exhibition
Hyde Park Art Center
2014
November 19
Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk
Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey
Block Museum
November 2
Solo Screening
Los Angeles Film Forum
September 23
Screening
Avantgarde ist keine Strömung IV
Leipzig Cinematheque, Germany
July 9
Prairie Gothic: Films by Melika Bass
Screening + Talk
Art Kino, Rijeka, Croatia
July 6
Prairie Gothic: Films by Melika Bass
Screening + Dialogue with Tanja Vrvilo, Invisible Cinema Series
Kino Tuškanac, Zagreb, Croatia
March 26
Music Videos in Competition
Ann Arbor Film Festival
2013
November 3 – December 16
Slider Chamber
Solo Exhibition
Iceberg Projects
November 12
Summerstock (Phoebe & Nanty)
site-specific video installation
in Outside the Screen
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
August 24
Nordic Focus Programme
Dokufest
Prizren, Kosovo
July 18
Films by Melika Bass
The Least Foreign Films: Current Chicago Image Makers
Doc Films, University of Chicago
May 10 – June 2
The Presence of Absence
Contemporary Arts Council
Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago
April 27
Kino der Kunst
Munich, Germany
April 12
Sunspot Cinema
Orlando, Florida
April 4-28
Mecal Film Festival
Barcelona, Spain
March 30
Flatpack Film Festival
Birmingham, England
February 23-March 16
Exchange
CAVE, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit
Dance on Camera Festival
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
2012
Sigur Ros’s Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, featuring Varðeldur.
Selected Worldwide screenings:
IndieScreen (New York), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), Indie Lisboa Film Festival (Portugal), Kino Rifraff (Switzerland), Kino Siska (Slovenia), Rovaniemen Cinema (Finland), Cambridge Picturehouse (England), Instanbul International Film Festival (Turkey), Canadian Film Institute (Canada), Ancienne Belgique (Belgium), Goethe Institut (Vietnam), Bloor Cinema (Canada), CPH Dox Film Festival (Denmark), Filmtheatre Valentin (Germany), OFFF Barcelona (Spain), Glasgow Film Theatre (Scotland), International Short Film Festival Leuven (Belgium), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle), Madeira Micro International Film Festival (Portugal), Bio Oko (Czech Republic), McMurdo Station (Antartica), and many more.
Video Guerrilha, San Paulo/Rio De Janiero/Brasilia, Brazil
Valtari Mystery Film Experiment , BFI London Film Festival, England
A Hole is to Dig: Performance-based Film/Video from Chicago, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Slider, solo exhibition BOLT Project Space, Chicago
Nocturama, solo exhibition, Comfort Station, Chicago
Screening the Local, Historical, and Surreal, Evanston Art Center
They Live by Night, Chicago Underground Film Festival
Athens International Film Festival, Ohio
Bijou Cinema, Iowa City, Iowa
COIL Festival, PS 122, New York
Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York
2011
Torino Film Festival, Italy
Requiem for Waking Things, Aftermath, Bolt Project Space Chicago
Union Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Requiem for Waking Things, MDW Fall Showcase, Chicago
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Fine Arts Theatre, Asheville, North Carolina
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago
Contemplative Cinema Series, Dallas, Texas
Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas
Cinema Series, Binghamton University, New York
DiverseWorks Art Space, Houston, Texas
Nightingale Theater, Chicago
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan
UBS 12×12 Solo Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Cinema Space, Segal Center, Montréal, Canada
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Union Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Space Gallery, Portland, Maine
2010
Northwest Film Center, Portland, Oregon
Acadiana Center for the Arts, Louisiana
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Michigan
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan
Media Lounge, CAA, Chicago, Illniois
2009
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
Ox Bow School of Art, Michigan
Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois
Cinequest Film Festival, California
2008
Harold Arts Center, Ohio
Egilsstadir Experimental Film & Video Festival, Iceland
Galleria FAFA, Helsinki, Finland
Around the Coyote, Chicago, Illinois
Looptopia, Chicago, Illinois
Roots & Culture Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California
Artists Television Access, San Francisco, California
New Vision Cinema Series, New York, New York
2007
ATA Film Festival, San Francisco, California
AV Aerie, Chicago, Illinois
Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, Illinois
2006
Busker Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Almada International Dance Festival, Cinema Showcase, Portugal
2005
The Ice Factory, Chicago, Illinois
2004
Diana Wortham Theatre, Asheville, North Carolina
2003
Festival de la Cultura Iberoamericana, Holguin, Cuba