# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Our Psychedelic Nature: Short Films by Emily Pelstring
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 10 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Mills Folly Microcinema welcomes filmmaker Emily Pelstring for an in-person presentation of Our Psychedelic Nature, a program of her short films, on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 7:00pm. Suggested donation: $5.00. Doors open at 6:30pm.

Emily Pelstring is a Canadian artist and tenured professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her animated short films have screened widely at film festivals, including Slamdance, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Transmediale Berlin, Images, and Internationale Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) presented a 13-film retrospective of her work in 2020. In 2023, the GIRAF Festival presented a second retrospective of her work.

Parallel to, and often in connection with her work in film and animation, Pelstring creates sculptural installations that expand cinema into material space. She is also a founding member of the underground experimental music group, The Powers (Katherine Kline, Jessica Mensch, and Pelstring), who create theatrical installations and performances that use speculative play, camp, and visual spectacle as tools for transformation.

"Pelstring, as much a sound artist and performer as a visual artist and filmmaker, uses her super powers for good; critiquing the world in which she lives indirectly by way of celebrating what makes it strong rather than by explicitly exposing what makes it weak. Her interests and creative output make her as true a multi-disciplinary artist as ever I've seen... 

Pelstring's visual language has one foot in the realm of the familiar and one foot gleefully in a world of levitation, alternate histories and spells, which gives Pelstring's cinematic space an almost infinite and inexplicable depth." —Keltie Duncan, Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (ASIFA)

Total program running time: approx. 56 minutes, with a talkback portion to follow.

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. 

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.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/madison/our-psychedelic-nature-short-films-by-emily-pelstring/200030185685606
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, festivals, art, nonprofit, performances
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Madison
- **state**: WI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Arts + Literature Laboratory
- **lat**: 43.080157452455
- **long**: -89.37362909317
- **full address**: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston St. #100,Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Our Psychedelic Nature: Short Films by Emily Pelstring being held?
  - **A:** Our Psychedelic Nature: Short Films by Emily Pelstring takes place on Wed, 10 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 10 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston St. #100,Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Our Psychedelic Nature: Short Films by Emily Pelstring?
  - **A:** Our Psychedelic Nature: Short Films by Emily Pelstring is organized by Arts + Literature Laboratory.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Our Psychedelic Nature: Short Films by Emily Pelstring is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Madison, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Our Psychedelic Nature: Short Films by Emily Pelstring sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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