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2024
– PROTOTYPE: The Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC
– Laberint Sequences: The Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC
– A Woman Escapes: DUFANG – Kinetoscope Circus: 3D Films Collection, Wuhan Photography Art Centre, Wuhan, China
– Laberint Sequences: No Future – Experimental Short Films About the Future, Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International, Frankfurt, Germany
– Laberint Sequences: La Inesperada Festival de Cine, Barcelona, Spain
– A Woman Escapes: Off-Circuit (London Theatrical Run: February 1–8) – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
2023
– Laberint Sequences: Eiffel Towers and Hoover Dams – Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston, TX
– Laberint Sequences: International Currents – Film Fest Knox, Knoxville, TN
– A Woman Escapes: Midbo 25 – Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá – Cinemateca de Bogotá, Colombia
– Laberint Sequences: Program 4: Artifice? What Artifice? – Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, NY
– Laberint Sequences: Kurzfilme – Viennale, Vienna, Austria
– Laberint Sequences: International Shorts Competition – Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine, Lima, Peru
– Laberint Sequences: Beyond the Canvas Competition – Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
– Laberint Sequences: The Edge Shorts – Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, TN
– Laberint Sequences: Currents – New York Film Festival, New York, NY
– Laberint Sequences: Wavelengths – Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON
– A Woman Escapes: Cineastas na Fronteira – V Fronteira, Goiânia, Brazil
– Laberint Sequences: Experimental Shorts, Melbourne International Film Festival – Melbourne, Australia
– Laberint Sequences: International Short Dox Competition – DokuFest, Prizren, Kosovo
– A Woman Escapes: Future Lights – Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan
– PROTOTYPE: Anthology Film Archives – New York City, NY
– Laberint Sequences: FLUX: Art+Film – Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
– Various 2D and 3D shorts: Short Films by Blake Williams, Anthology Film Archives – New York City, NY
– A Woman Escapes: Anthology Film Archives (New York Theatrical Run: June 9–15) – New York City, NY
– A Woman Escapes: Official Selection – FILMADRID International Film Festival, Madrid, Spain
– Red Capriccio: Mirrors – FILMADRID International Film Festival, Madrid, Spain
– Laberint Sequences: Competitiva Internacional – FENDA – Experimental Festival of Film Arts, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– A Woman Escapes: wave 5, Prismatic Ground – New York City, NY
– Laberint Sequences: National Competition – Documenta Madrid, Spain
– A Woman Escapes: Expanded Cinema – Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, South Korea
– Laberint Sequences: Expanded Cinema – Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, South Korea
– A Woman Escapes: Panorama – Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, Dortmund & Cologne, Germany
– A Woman Escapes: TIFF Wavelengths Presents, co–presented with Images Festival – TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto, ON
– A Woman Escapes: Best of the Fests – Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
– Laberint Sequences: Specter – Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
– Red Capriccio: Presented with Michael Snow’s Wavelength, Nicholson School of Communication, University of Central Florida – Orlando, Florida
– A Woman Escapes: FIDMarseille in Izmir, Institut français Izmir – Izmir, Turkey
– Laberint Sequences: Competition – Cinéma du Réel, Paris, France
– A Woman Escapes: Burak Çevik Film Showcase – Kino ARMATA, Pristina, Kosovo
2022
– A Woman Escapes: Puertos – Cámara Lúcida, Cuenca, Ecuador
– A Woman Escapes: Altered States – Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Mar del Plata, Argentina
– A Woman Escapes: Departures Competition – Indie Memphis, Memphis, TN
– A Woman Escapes: Container: Brisbane Film Society – Brisbane, Australia
– A Woman Escapes: New Visions – Doclisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
– A Woman Escapes: Competencia Internacional – Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine, Lima, Peru
– A Woman Escapes: Les Nouveaux Alchimistes Competition – Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal, QC
– A Woman Escapes: Competencia Largometraje – FICValdivia, Valdivia, Chile
– A Woman Escapes: National Feature Film Competition – Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Antalya, Turkey
– A Woman Escapes: Nuevo Horizonte Competition – Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
– A Woman Escapes: Panorama – Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
– A Woman Escapes: International Feature Film Competition – Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
– A Woman Escapes: International Feature Dox Competition – DokuFest, Prizren, Kosovo
– A Woman Escapes: International Competition – FIDMarseille, Marseille, France
– PROTOTYPE: Movies from Earth – MoMA Film, New York City, NY
2021
– 2008: Experimental Shorts – Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
– 2008: First Look 20/21 – Museum of the Moving Image, New York City, NY
– 2008: Expanded Cinema for Shorts 1 – Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, South Korea
– PROTOTYPE + Various 3D shorts: Stereo Unrest: The 3D Videos of Blake Williams (solo) – Container: Brisbane Film Society, Australia
2020
– 2008: First Look 2020 – Museum of the Moving Image, New York City, NY
– 2008: Berlinale Shorts Competition – Berlinale, Germany
2019
– 2008: Wavelengths 2: Sun Rave – Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON
– PROTOTYPE: Gartenbaukino – Vienna, Austria
– Something Horizontal: Infrared: Color Theory – Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
– PROTOTYPE + Something Horizontal: 3D: optiske eksperimenter, sanselige oplevelser – Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
– PROTOTYPE: Cornell Cinema – Ithaca, NY
– PROTOTYPE: “A 3D Avant-Garde Experience” – UW Cinematheque, Madison, WI
– PROTOTYPE: Presented with a selection of Experimental 3D Shorts – The Royal Cinema, Toronto, ON
2018
– PROTOTYPE: Loft Film Fest – Tucson, AZ
– PROTOTYPE: Alamo Drafthouse w/Texas Archive of the Moving Image – Austin, TX
– PROTOTYPE: Museum of the Moving Image (New York Theatrical Run: August 31 – September 9) – New York City, NY
– PROTOTYPE: Experimentations – Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
– PROTOTYPE: MEMORY Presents – Los Angeles, CA
– PROTOTYPE: 4:3 Special Presentation – Sydney, Australia
– PROTOTYPE: Queensland Film Festival – Brisbane, Australia
– PROTOTYPE + Various 3D shorts: LOST FUTURES – Genesis Cinema, London, UK
– PROTOTYPE: Graveyard Shift – Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, TN
– PROTOTYPE: Expanded Cinema – Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea
– PROTOTYPE: IV Fronteira – Goiânia, Brazil
– PROTOTYPE + Red Capriccio: Channels: A Quarterly Film Series – Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, IL
– PROTOTYPE: Locarno in Los Angeles – Los Angeles, CA
– PROTOTYPE: STEREO VISIONS: A Survey of 3D Cinema – Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN
– PROTOTYPE: !f Special Screenings: Ways of Seeing – !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
– PROTOTYPE: The Dream That Kicks presents “X, Y and Z: Three Dimensions of Dialogue” in Sad Disco Fantasia – Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo, Norway
– PROTOTYPE: First Look 2018 [Opening Night] – Museum of the Moving Image, New York City, NY
2017
– PROTOTYPE: Beyond the Canvas – Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
– PROTOTYPE + Red Capriccio: Altered States – Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Mar del Plata, Argentina
– PROTOTYPE: Houston Cinema Arts Festival – iPic Theatre, Houston, TX
– PROTOTYPE: Future//Present – Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
– Red Capriccio: Jury’s Choice, Sebastian Buerkner: Reunion, 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
– Red Capriccio: Inner Distances – Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, IL
– PROTOTYPE: Wavelengths – Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON
– PROTOTYPE: Fuori concorso – Locarno Festival, Locarno, Switzerland
– Many a Swan: My First 3D Part III: The Final Chapter – Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
– Red Capriccio: X-Ray: Space – Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2016
– Something Horizontal: Lines that we follow, shapes that we create – Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY
– Something Horizontal: INFRARED: New Visions from the Queer Underground – TWIST: The Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Seattle, WA
– Something Horizontal: International Competition – ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
– Something Horizontal: Experimental Shorts – Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
– Something Horizontal: CC14 – CROSSROADS: thank your body for its strength and power – Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
– Something Horizontal: Competitive Screening #3 – Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill, MA
– Something Horizontal: Chromatics – Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB
– Something Horizontal: Competición Vanguardias – FILMADRID Festival Internacional de Cine, Madrid, Spain
– Something Horizontal: thank your body for its strength and power – CROSSROADS, San Francisco, CA
– Red Capriccio: upon maelstroms of unbearable reality (and
throughout dimensional spectrums) – CROSSROADS, San Francisco, CA
– Something Horizontal: Flicker & Wow: The Dockworker’s Dream – Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN
– Red Capriccio: Technicolor – Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, Germany
– Hotel Video: We Know We Are Just Pixels – Microlights, Milwaukee, WI
– Something Horizontal: Opening Night Program – Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL
– Various 2D and 3D shorts: Pleats of Matter: The Films of Blake Williams – Acropolis Cinema, Los Angeles, CA
– Red Capriccio: Technicolor – Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France
2015
– Various Anaglyph 3D shorts: event #4 – Rubicon Cinema, Akron, OH
– Something Horizontal: Competition Program #4 – Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
– Something Horizontal: Magasinet Walden visar Mary Helena Clark – Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
– Red Capriccio: Breathing in the Territory – Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY
– Something Horizontal: Fascinations – Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
– Something Horizontal: Projections Program 1 – New York Film Festival, New York, NY
– Something Horizontal: Wavelengths 1: Fire in the Brain – Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON
– Various Anaglyph 3D shorts: Flicker and Wow: Experimental Shorts 1 – The Public Cinema, Knoxville, TN
– Red Capriccio: The City Echoes – Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB
– Red Capriccio: 3D in the 21st Century – BAMcinématek, Brooklyn, NY
– Red Capriccio: Theme: The Third Image – 3D Cinema as Experiment – Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
– Red Capriccio: The Influence of Anxiety – Images Festival, Toronto, ON
– Various 2D and 3D shorts: On Screen @ Blaffer – Anaglyphic Analogies: Films by Blake Williams – University of Houston, TX
– Baby Blue: Blue Sunday – Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (FLEXfest), Gainesville, FL
– Red Capriccio: Shorts Program Five – Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL
2014
– Red Capriccio: Fascinations – Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
– Red Capriccio: Projections Program 9 – New York Film Festival, New York City, NY
– Red Capriccio: Wavelengths 2: Something in the Atmosphere – Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON
– Coorow-Latham Road + C-LR: Coorow-Latham Road For Those Who Don’t Have the Time: Place Studies – Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB
– Baby Blue: Tales from the Northern Underground – Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX
– The Storm: Synesthesia III: Film & Music – FAWN Opera & The Seventh Art, Toronto, ON
– Nothing: Almost Everything – Eric Arthur Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2013
– Depart: Let There Be Light: The Cycle of Life – Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, NY
– Many a Swan: Co-presented w/Kazik Radwanski’s Tower – The Royal Cinema, Toronto, ON
– Many a Swan: Experimental Shorts – Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL
2012
– Many a Swan: INTER PRO 4 – Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
– Depart: Green Program – International Streaming Festival 7th Edition, The Hague, The Netherlands
– Many a Swan: Fascinations – Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
– Many a Swan: Wavelengths 1: Under a Pacific Sun – Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON
– Many a Swan: Summer Nights Festival – Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
– Depart: Right Ascension – Recent film & video from Toronto – Images Festival, Toronto, ON
2011
– Coorow-Latham Road: Alternative Visions – Recent Avant-Garde Shorts: Space is the Place – Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
– Coorow-Latham Road: Wavelengths 4: Space is the Place – Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON
– Forest Video: Tout contre nature – Le Wharf, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse–Normandie, France
– Coorow-Latham Road + Depart: MVS Thesis Exhibition – University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON
2009
– Hotel Video: Trivial Pursuits: Mass Distraction – InterAccess, Toronto, ON
– Pupils: FLY Gallery (solo) – Toronto, ON