An interdisciplinary celebration of experimental time-based media that is held annually at the Starlite Drive-in Theater in Bloomington, Indiana.
2026 Edition
Poster design by Alexander Landerman
Signal Overload is returning to the Starlite Drive-in on October 1st for its second edition. This year’s event is co-sponsored by the Retained Image Collective and WFHB, Bloomington’s volunteer-run community radio station.
DJ Jack Kilobyte with Special Guest DJ BB
Special Screening: The Video Works of Jim Manion
Ben Cartha Fowler Project with live video by Liv Arnold
Film Block I: Uneven Encounters
Poetry reading by Essence London
Zachary James Watkins with live video by Luke Judd
Film Block II: Here & There
Poetry reading by Jurion Jaffe
Ortet with live video by Dave Rodriguez & Learn Not To
Special Screening: As Vid Muffler (2026) Gay Henry
Program of Events
Film Block 1: Uneven Encounters
is it us? (2023) LJ Frezza 5m53s
HOWW TO WAYT (2023) Johanna Winters 8m53s
Бабушка Галя и Дедушка Аркадий // Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy (2023) Anna Kipervaser 4m30s
After Image I (2026) Phil Baljeu 2m43s
Terminal Travel (2026) cskonopka 4m03s
Film Block 2: Here & There
Super, Natural (2025) Kyath Battie 7m24s
echoes of a zephyr (2026) Josh Weissbach 3m18s
Dream Walker (2024) Alex Pelly 3m43s
Tooborac (2025) Richard Touhy 8m57s
Hurricane Season (2025) Michelle Trujillo 6m22s
2025 Edition
The inaugural Signal Overload experimental media festival was held on October 9th, 2025 at the Starlite Drive-in Theater in Bloomington, Indiana. This event was made possible thanks to the support of the Bloomington Arts Commission. You can read a reflection of the event from Sixty Inches from Center here: Reflecting on Signal Overload.
Poetry reading by Andrea M. Sterling
Performance by Junior Conduit
Music by Ericson TM
Music by Let Me Hear You with video synthesis by Learn Not To
DJ Spikes with live video collage by Learn Not To
Let Me Hear You with live analog video synthesis by Learn Not To
Poetry reading by Alex Swartzentruber, Experimental Film Block 1
Ericson TM with live video by Junior Conduit
Poetry reading by Andrea M. Sterling, Experimental Film Block 2
DJ Spikes with special guest with live video by Liv Arnold & Learn Not To
Program of Events
Experimental Film Block 1:
the yard boy (2022) Jenelle Stafford 3m38s
Pixillation by Lillian Schwartz (1970) provided by IU Libraries Moving image Archive 4m24s
New Years Eve at the AI Mansion (2025) Damon Mohl 10m13s
Infomercial (2025) Josh Glinis 2m43s
Digital (2025) Pete Johnston 2m39s
Children’s Games (1928) by Zora Neale Hurston 1m10s provided by Indiana University’s Black Film Center & Archive
Stolen Identity (2021) Kit Young 3m44s
Experimental Film Block 2:
Gridding the Stream (2025) Psensibil 5m41s
TantrickAcid (2023) Andrei Jay 9m59s
The Cakes I Would Bake (2023) Will de Ritter 2m14s
Toxoplasmosis Episode 1: Time is a Circle (2023) Luke Judd 8m00s
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) J. Stuart Blackton 5m20s provided by Indiana University’s Black Film Center & Archive
SAME AS U – Weeze (2025) Dan Criblez 3m28s
Poster design by Alexander Landerman