The Museum is once again excited and proud to host The Thomas Edison Film Festival (formerly The Black Maria Film Festival). Join us at the Museum Saturday, February 26th at 7 pm. Tickets are $20 and include refreshments. Seating is limited and pre-purchase is highly recommended. Masks are required. Purchase tickets here.

This year’s line up of seven short films features work by American, French and British filmmakers. The program has a total running time of 65 minutes and the films’ styles run the gamut from documentaries and experimental, to narrative and animation. Thomas Edison Film Festival Executive Director Jane Steuerwald is your host for this artful evening.

A Parisian Circus – Documentary – 11 min. by Hugo Besson, Paris, France

Timeline – Experimental – 5 min. by Osbert Parker, London, England, UK

Alone beneath the Northern Lights – Experimental – 7 min. by Valentin Boitel-Denyset, Paris, France

My Brother is Deaf – Documentary – 10 min. by Peter Hoffman Kimball, Bethesda, MD, US

Fulcrum – Animation – 8 min. by Timothy David Orme, Monterey, CA, US

Charon – Narrative – 16 min. by Yannick Karcher, Strasbourg, France

Dawn – Documentary – 4 min. by Timon Birkhofer, Pasadena, CA, US