Douglas Urbank

2026

Contact print onto high contrast 16mm black and white film of layers of different materials particularly moire patterns, generating "direct sound.

Filmmaker
Country
Year
Duration
PREMIERE

Douglas Urbank
USA
2026
7 min
Russian Premiere

Cryptogram (2025)
Small (2023)
Notes from a Redwood (2023)
Move (2021)
Skate (2019)
Bathers (2019)
Portrait (2014-2017)
Oracle (2014)

Douglas Urbank, based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, is an artist with a background in sculpture and drawing who began to experiment with filmmaking in 2008. His short films have screened in festivals and curated programs, including nationally at Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Boston, Massachusetts; Microscope Gallery and Millennium Film Workshop in New York; San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads Film Festival; Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Chicago Underground Film Festival; Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, Washington; and internationally at Mire Lab’s PRISME festival, Nantes, France; and curated programs including, Zumzeig Cinema, Barcelona; Laboratorio Experimental de Cine program, Mexico City; Artist Film Workshop, Melbourne, Australia; and others.
He is an original member of the AgX film collective, established in 2015. Beginning in 2001 he hosted a radio program devoted to experimental, improvisational, and other unconventional music and sound art. And he has been a member of Fort Point Theatre Channel, a company formed from an ensemble of artists from the worlds of theater, music, and visual arts. In 2025 he joined the board of Non-Event, a Boston-based concert series devoted to the presentation of experimental, abstract, improvised, and adventurous music. His films are distributed by Light Cone, Paris.