Vertical Cinema is a student group at the University of Iowa dedicated to the exhibition of experimental and avant-garde moving image work. We screen films and videos that would not otherwise be seen by the University of Iowa community, and foster conversation about them - preferably by bringing filmmakers to present their work in person. We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming event!
We take our name from experimental cinema foremother Maya Deren, who defined "vertical cinema" as "an investigation of a situation, in that it probes the ramifications of the moment, and is concerned with its qualities and its depth, so that you have [art] concerned in a sense not with what is occurring, but with what it feels like or what it means."
