A new edition of IFFR sound//vision back at WORM

Together with IFFR, WORM have put together a new iteration of sound//vision for the 2026 edition of the legendary festival.

In the last weekend of January we present six programs at WORM, exploring where image and sound collide and transform. Three of these dive into the materiality of perception itself: AI-reprocessed travel footage suspended between documentation and hallucination, hydrophones frozen in ice capturing their own disintegration alongside rituals of flesh and suspension, and human traces pressed directly into film emulsion asking whether a shadow can become a form of life. Bodies, landscapes, and light in constant states of becoming.

The program is fully co-curated by IFFR and WORM and runs over three nights, from Friday 30th January to Sunday 1st February, with two performances per evening.

  • It’s too cold for the spirits to live here by Tosca Schift, 2025 (Netherlands)
  • Forget The Director, This is Emmy’s Cut! by VJ Emmy, 2026 (Uganda)
  • 水托邦 (Hydrotopia) by Chiemi Shimada & Jamie Man, 2026 (United Kingdom)
  • DIsINCARNATE (I – III) by Cristina Nisticò, 2025 (Italy)
  • Pedra e Montanha by Tetsuya Maruyama*, 2023 – ongoing (Brazil)
  • Echoes of Seeing #3 by Nan Wang, 2026 (Netherlands)

*IFFR 2026 will also present a shorts Focus programme dedicated to Tetsuya Maruyama

The article image is a still from one of the works mentioned above: DIsINCARNATE (I – III) 
by Cristina Nisticò.

A black and white still of two screens, on the left, branches silhouetted against the sky, on the right, a face in profile against a light background. Taken from a film in the IFFR 2026 sound//vision edition at WORM

Het programma sound//vision in WORM keert ook terug en bestaat uit een reeks live audiovisuele performances die muziek, film, celluloid en licht combineren die volledig samengesteld zijn door IFFR en WORM. De performances vinden plaats gedurende drie avonden, van vrijdag 30 januari tot en met zondag 1 februari, met twee performances per avond.

  • DIsINCARNATE (I – III) door Cinzia Nistico, 2025 (Nederland)
  • Echoes of Seeing #3 door Nan Wang, 2026 (Nederland)
  • 水托邦 (Hydrotopia) door Chiemi Shimada & Jamie Man, 2026 (Verenigd Koninkrijk)
  • “It’s too cold for the spirits to live here” door Tosca Schift, 2025 (Nederland, Indonesië)
  • Pedra e Montanha door Tetsuya Maruyama*, 2023 – doorlopend (Brazilië) *IFFR 2026 presenteert ook het Focus korte filmprogramma dat toegewijd is aan Tetsuya Maruyama
  • VJ Emmy: Ugandan live dubbing door VJ Emmy, 2026 (Oeganda, Duitsland)