NOVA24 | Photo + Film Festival

THE COLLECTIVE | Print Sale Fundraiser @thevoyeurbordello Join us Friday May 22nd from 6-10pm at a fundraiser to benefit the festival featuring prints by former NOVA24 artists and exhibitors ! Additional viewing hours Saturday 6-8pm ——— Featured Artist : Lo Braden #NOVA24 #photofilmfestival

Announcing Our Next Call For Art: Kinetic Obsession - A photo and short film exhibition. Comment Obsession for a link to the submission, or check out our bio. This is more than a call for “good” photography this is a call for the photography that makes your heartbeat. We don’t wanna see the work that got a million likes, we want to see the work that you spent nights obsessing over. We wanna see the work that lights the fire inside you, we wanna see the photographs that took your own breath away and took your practice to a new level. We wanna see the photographs that you couldn’t not create because they were inside you, you just didn’t know it until you let them out. We want to see the work that made you realize you were not just a photographer or a film maker, you were an artist. Kinetic Obsession is a 7-day group exhibition taking place opening weekend for the @nova.twentyfour film and photography festival. We invite artist to submit their photographs and short films. Please note the short films will be played in our “basement” cinema on a loop with other accepted short films. It has a punk rock feel. No work previously showcased at The Voyeur Bordello will be accepted. Submission deadline: June 9th at midnight - Link to submit in bio. 10$ to submit Show Dates: June 26th - July 1st Submission does not guarantee entry. Original artwork by @cazmuck

Thank you to @ushersnewlook for bringing @nova.twentyfour to the Spark Lab Studios: Spark Sessions for our first ever workshops on The Basis of Screenwriting & Life on a Film Set. It was awesome to teach the youth screenwriting and hear their dope stories. A big part of NOVA 24 is to teach and show the craft in accessibility. Honored to have this opportunity to show just a bit of what we do to talented future film figures. It is amazing future directors, special effects artists, writers, and producers coming out of Spark Labs. Thank you to @arlayaw for bridging this all together and the work you do to make sure the youth have what they need to succeed ✨ - Miles

DEADLINE EXTENDED! All NOVA24 Curated Open Calls are due Wednesday, April 29th! We are seeking projects and events featuring photographers + filmmakers that show innovation and experimentation through concept, materiality, and more. The sky is the limit - show us what you’ve got! A Helpful Hint - Be open to different types of exhibitions and participation. The more types of submissions you select on the Project Open Call, the more often your work will be in front of our curators for opportunities. Different Types of Open Calls Project For artists - submit one project to multiple NOVA24 curated calls at one time. Space For spaces with no event - work with the NOVA24 team to plan a curated event at your space! Event For previously planned photo + film based events - submit for consideration for the NOVA24 2026 Festival Calendar. Curated By Gallery For spaces that run their own Open Call system that are participating during the 2026 festival season, links will be included on the website. Due dates will differ from the NOVA24 festival calls! Link to all Open Calls in bio! Featured Artist: @marie.le.moigne

Experimental photo and film crew, listen up! We’ve heard you loud and clear - All NOVA24 Open Calls have been extended! Project and Event Open Calls are now due Wednesday, April 29th at 11:59pm ✨ A little bit of advice for the Project Open Calls: Open yourself up to being available for different types of events! The more that you’re open to, the more your work lands in front of the NOVA24 curatorial crew. We can’t wait to see what you’ve got!

Time to show us what you’ve got! ✨ Project, Event, + (new to this year) Space Open Calls are officially launched! Project | For artists who have innovative and experimental photography and/or film based work that they want to be curated into festival events. (Most of you fit in this category!) Event | For artists and spaces who have their own photo + film event already planned that they would like to be considered for inclusion in the festival calendar. Space | For spaces who want to have NOVA24 events, but want to work with the festival to make that happen! Choose your adventure - everything is due on 4/22 ✨ —————— Featured Artist: @kamari_crenshaw —————— #nova24 #nova24photofilm #nova24photofilmfestival #photofestival #detroitartist

Next Thursday, March 12, our winter film series Silent Movie Soundtracks concludes with 2 short films scored live by harpists Ackeem Salmon (@ackeemrsalmon ) and Ahya Simone (@ahyasimone ). Buster Keaton’s “The Electric House” and Charlie Chaplin’s “The Immigrant” are the final two selections as the season wraps up. It’s been an incredible sequence of screenings here at Moondog and we’re honored to have gotten to work with Rob Nash (@nash_is_clay ), Taqsim (@taqsim.live ), Na Bonsai (@na_bonsai ), Kris McKinney (@kdot__m ) and our host and film curator Emmy Perryman (@cineleo ) in exploring improvised film scoring. Gratitude to Mirrored Glass (@mirroredglass.co ) and Nova24 (@nova.twentyfour ) who helped us launch and spread the word! Join us for this final show! Tickets are $10 and the screening begins right at 8pm!

Taqsim (a duo by Layan Srour and Yvonne Pruneau) is honored to be a part of Silent Movie Soundtracks at Moondog (@moondogdetroit ). In collaboration with Detroit art collective Mirrored Glass (@mirroredglass.co ) and NOVA24 Photo & Film Festival (@nova.twentyfour ), Silent Movie Soundtracks pairs silent film screenings with new improvised scores performed live by Detroit-based artists. On January 15, we’ll be LIVE scoring “Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943) and “Is It Always Right To Be Right?” (1970) 🎟️ Advance tickets available using the link in our bio. Limited seating! Grab them quick! Admission to each screening will be $10 at the door, or you can reserve space for all 4 for $30.

This winter, we’re excited to launch a new film & music series entitled Silent Movie Soundtracks. In collaboration with Detroit art collective Mirrored Glass (@mirroredglass.co ) and NOVA24 Photo & Film Festival (@nova.twentyfour ), Silent Movie Soundtracks pairs silent film screenings with new improvised scores performed live by Detroit-based artists. Film curator Emmy Perryman (@cineleo ) selected a variety of films to share with 4 Detroit-based artist composers—pianist Rob Nash (@nash_is_clay ), singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Na Bonsai (@na_bonsai ), electronic duo Taqsim (@taqsim.live ) and harpist Ackeem Salmon (@ackeemrsalmon ). Each artist chose a film or pair of short films and is in the process of preparing a musical accompaniment to each. ~ 12/18: Rob Nash will take on Harold Lloyd’s iconic “Safety Last,” a worthy, stunt-filled classic from 1923. ~ 1/15: Taqsim re-scores 2 short films, the surrealist “Meshes of the Afternoon” and animated work “Is It Always Right to Be Right?” ~ 2/12: Na Bonsai and video artist Kris McKinney re-treat the 1926 heist film “The Flying Ace.” ~ 3/12: Ackeem Salmon uses harp to wrap Charlie Chaplin’s “The Immigrant” and Buster Keaton’s “The Electric House” in new sonic dimensions. We’re thrilled to kick off Year 2 of our winter film series, and to be collaborating with so many talented music-makers and storytellers! Don’t miss Silent Movie Soundtracks! Advance tickets will be available at the link in our bio and we recommend grabbing some as space for these shows will be quite limited. Admission to each screening will be $10 at the door, or you can reserve space for all 4 for $30.

Media City Film Festival and Trinosophes Projects are OVER THE MOON  to host celebrated filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson in DETROIT and offer FREE public screenings of his films at Michigan Central and the Detroit Public Library’s gorgeous main branch (across from the DIA).  This series features 15+ films made by Everson across the past decade. Curated by MCFF Artistic Director Oona Mosna, programs range from early found footage works to studied compositions of celestial bodies, capturing elements from both MCFF’s long history of presenting Everson’s films and his globally celebrated approach to moving images, rooted in the experience of the Midwest Black working class. All are welcome to join!  ✨KEYS TO THE CITY: An Evening with Kevin Jerome Everson✨ 🗓️Satuday, November 15  ⏰6 PM 📍Newlab at Michigan Central 🎟️ Free  Conversation between Kevin Jerome Everson and Danielle Eliska, moderated by Kelly Kivland, Director and Lead Curator, Michigan Central Art. Introduction by Rebecca Mazzei, Artistic Director, Trinosophes Projects. Partners: Michigan Central Art, Modern Ancient Brown & NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival  ✨THREE QUARTERS: The Cinema of Kevin Jerome Everson ✨ 🗓️Tuesday, November 18 ⏰ 6 PM 📍Detroit Public Library Main Branch  🎟️ Free  Introduction by Paige Wood. Partners: Detroit Public Library & Detroit Narrative Agency  Everson visits the area to begin a new Knight Arts Foundation-supported MCFF commissioned film observing celestial space from the vantage point of metro Detroit! Special thanks to the Knight Foundation, Michigan Central, Detroit Public Library, Modern Ancient Brown Foundation, Detroit Narrative Agency, Warren Astronomical Society, Cranbrook Observatory, Picture Palace Pictures, and NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival.  Lead image: Portrait © Léa Rener courtesy Cinema du réel, Paris. Film stills © Kevin Jerome Everson courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC and Picture Palace Pictures. Films appear courtesy the artist and Picture Palace Pictures.  @michigancentraldetroit @detroitpubliclibrary

I’m so geeked yall. We got the NILE 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SCREENING. August 30th • 1pm • Location: Detroit Public Library Come celebrate the award winning film from @filmtoy Screening presented by @nova.twentyfour and @detroitpubliclibrary Trailer from @jchisik

Surprise! We've got one last thing going on - The Carr Center is holding a closing reception for MADE OF; this Friday, August 8th from 6-8pm. Hope to see you there! @thecarrcenter_detroit Photographic Artists Featured: Xavier Cuevas | @barelyhispanic Kamari Crenshaw | @kamari_crenshaw Amara Murphy | @zenithphotoss Melli Pittiglio | @melli.pittiglio Emerald Quartz | @emerald.png Nailah Rene Kayla Stotts | @sailor.lens ________ #nova24 #nova24photofilm #nova24photofilmfestival #madeof #thecarrcenter #thecarrcenterfilmseries #experimentalphotographer #experimentalfilmmaker #detroitphotographer