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Factory Media Centre is Hamilton's artist-run centre for film, new media, installation and sound art.

The Factory Media Centre is a not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre dedicated to the production and promotion of creatively diverse forms of independent films, videos, and other streaming multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members and non-Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region, who are involved or interested in the Art, the Craft and the Technologies of, but not limited to the motion picture media. The Factory exists to provide access to facilities, equipment, peer resources and educational initiatives to the community of time-based visual artists, as well as to the community at large. To encourage the development and appreciation of all related visual art forms through an ongoing program of screening and events.

10/16/2026

We’re delighted to be co-presenting the Shorts Program “Over the Garden Wall” with Toronto Q***r Film Festival at this weekend! Join us on a magical journey of self-discovery through the dark, damp woods and treacherous terrain inhabited by q***r friends, lovers, spectral voices, and park rangers alike.

🌝 Over the Garden Wall | October 16 | 8PM 🎞️

Featured Shorts: Le***an National Parks and Services: A Force of Nature, Gabby and Eleanor Go Up and Down the Mountain, Every Forest is a Magic Forest, ONCE IN A FULL MOON

📅 Friday, October 16 at 8PM
📍 Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Ave)
🎟️ PWYC tickets at IQFF.ca

09/23/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

We’re thrilled to announce Semantic Drift, an exhibition by HAVN.

Join us for the opening reception of Semantic Drift:

📍OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 9th | 7-11PM
📍WITH PERFORMANCES BY: Haolin Munk | Hamilton Noise Orchestra | Earth Wind & Choir | Eschaton | Choose Up

Semantic Drift describes a form of language change through which the meaning or usage of a word evolves over time. This exhibition takes that idea as a point of departure for imagining the ways in which we’ve come to understand and use shared language, visual aesthetics, cultural references, and lived experiences. HAVN emerged at a particular moment when DIY arts and culture offered possibilities for artists to create spaces outside of established institutional structures. It was a space for experimentation and collaboration.

HAVN’s significance was not only rooted in the events that were hosted or the work presented, but in the relationships and shared practices that formed around it. From 2012-2020, as artists across disciplines we had the privilege of time and space to develop our own practices and learn/work with each other. The connections that were formed reveal how individual experiences diverge, overlap with, and reshape collective ones. This exhibition uses semantic drift to consider how our understanding of collectivity and DIY culture has shifted since HAVN’s beginnings. Six years after the closure of HAVN, Semantic Drift offers an opportunity to witness the continuity of practice for the collective and its members.

Bringing together artists connected to HAVN and its wider community, the exhibition revisits the art space through ephemera, artworks, and personal recollections. This is our reunion and our homecoming.

09/18/2026

The second night of the 2026 Fluxus Experimental Film Festival is tomorrow! FREE to attend!

Hamilton Artists Inc.
Hamilton, ON.
September 19, 2026
8PM

Lineup of films:

⚪️Hexapod (Axel Kinnear, 2025)
⚪️Sojourn (Stacey Sproule, 2025)
⚪️All made up: notes on make believe (Nicole Blundell, 2025)
⚪️Anomalies Dans Le Paysage (Félix Caraballo, 2025)
⚪️Marked (Wrik Mead, 2026)
⚪️Lure (Christopher Rohde, 2025)
⚪️Knife Play (A. Laurel Lawrence, 2022)
⚪️Navels I (Justine McCloskey, 2025)
⚪️Breaking Down the House (Debbie Ebanks, 2025)
⚪️diario de verano (Franci Duran & Cristal Buemi, 2025)
⚪️Menders (Martha Griffith, 2025)
⚪️Custom Trailer Series: Austin Powers (Kelly Egan, 2025)
⚪️b.longing (mystery byrd, 2025)
⚪️Signs + Traces (James Pomeroy, 2026)
⚪️Husbandry (Hazel Meyer & Cait McKinney, 2024)

Still image from Wrik Mead’s ‘Marked’. Join us tonight for the opening night screening of the fest!

09/16/2026

The first night of the 2026 Fluxus Experimental Film Festival is this Friday! This screening is dedicated to exhibiting the work of emerging artists and filmmakers. FREE to attend!

Hamilton Artists Inc.
155 James St. North, Hamilton.
September 18, 2026
8PM

Lineup of films:

⚪️ Paying Respects (Jessica Wu, 2025)
⚪️ Istén:’a (KJ Edwards, 2023)
⚪️ Magic Tricks (Anna Holmen, 2026)
⚪️ When the Curtain Falls (Venya Aggarwal, 2026)
⚪️ And the story remains (Darya Majlesi, 2026)
⚪️ Gabby and Eleanor Go Up and Down the Mountain (Eleanor Abrahams, 2025)
⚪️ You Can’t Stay Here (Gabrielle Macintosh, 2026)
⚪️ Palimpsest (Emma Mandziuk, 2026)
⚪️ How can I grieve a body I haven’t met? (Nahrain Yousefian, 2026)
⚪️ Tactile Light Diary (Callon Murphy, 2025)
⚪️ Connecting from the Inside Out (My-Van Dam, 2024)
⚪️ Veiled (Maryam Tavakoli, 2023)
⚪️ Salma! (Mary Hanna, 2025)

Still image from KJ Edwards’ ‘Istén:’a’. KJ Edwards 🌙🐺💜🎥

08/12/2026

🚨 NEXT TUESDAY! 🚨

Join us for the opening reception of 💧Wet Maps💧 a culminating exhibition from one of our 2026 &NOW Artist-in-Residence, Emma Eichenberg!

📍 Tuesday, August 18th from 6–9PM
📍 Factory Media Centre (366 Victoria Ave. N)

Wet Maps reimagines the continuous movement of water through Hamilton’s Beasley neighbourhood sewer systems. The work builds on research into underground infrastructure and urban geographies, exploring how these systems mirror larger geological rhythms. Through conducting fieldwork in Hamilton’s Beasley and North End neighbourhoods, the work seeks to examine the duality between subterranean and atmospheric layers, the fast-moving asthenosphere below and the calm stratosphere above, and how these strata echo the hidden flows beneath Hamilton’s infrastructure.

🔗 Click through the link in our bio for more info about Emma’s residency work and the exhibition!

07/16/2026

🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED: July 26, 2026 at 11:59pm EST 🚨

Fluxus Experimental Film Festival is back for another year, and the deadline for submissions is now EXTENDED! 🎞️🤩

Fluxus is a contemporary short film and media arts festival hosted in partnership between Factory Media Centre, Hamilton Artists Inc., and McMaster University School of the Arts, dedicated to showcasing experimental and boundary-pushing media works from artists of all levels working in Canada.

Submissions are FREE and unrestricted by theme, and are open to a spectrum of artforms, including but not limited to: animation, documentary, video art, collage film, music video, experimental film, and more!

🔗To submit to Fluxus and learn more about the festival, click through the link in our bio!

06/19/2026

💥TONIGHT!💥

Join us for the opening of Dig Up My Heart, a new solo exhibition by Job Piston!

⛓️June 19th, 7–9PM
📍Orchid Contemporary (DM for address)

Co-presented by Orchid Contemporary and FMC, the works in Dig Up My Heart emerge through a process of excavation, both material and psychological. Borrowed from Canadian “The Peoples Poet” Milton Acorn, whose writing explored themes of love, death, labor, and working-class life, the show evokes associative thinking informed by poetry and psychoanalysis, where fragmented narratives dissolve as quickly as they appear. Ancient landscapes of abandoned Greek figures sit alongside formal portraits of living artists, both serve as the backdrop to a sculptural installation made of locally salvaged steel and automotive parts from Hamilton’s industrial yards. Human time is placed against geological and industrial time, where memory, intimacy, decay, and regeneration unfold in vastly different scales.

This programming is made possible thanks to generous support from the incite Foundation for the Arts, a non-profit organization dedicated to revolutionizing support for the arts in the Hamilton Community.

06/15/2026

We’re thrilled to host The Electric City, an evening of live performances and architecture curated by artist Job Piston! ⚡️⛓️

An extension of Piston’s solo exhibition, Dig Up My Heart, opening at Orchid Contemporary on June 19th, The Electric City features performances by Hamilton’s own Grandmother Sago, Sah Ra, and Loaming.

🗓️Saturday June 20, 7PM
📍Factory Media Centre (366 Victoria Ave N, Hamilton ON)
🎟️ FREE!

This event is made possible thanks to generous support from the incite Foundation for the Arts, a non-profit organization dedicated to revolutionizing support for the arts in the Hamilton Community.

🔗Click through the link in our bio for more info!

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Image info:
Slide 1: Posted for The Electric City, design by Eli Nolet, image by Job Piston
Slide 2: Image courtesy of the artist
Slide 3: Photo credit Christopher
Slide 4: Images courtesy of the artists

06/10/2026

Fluxus Experimental Film Festival is back for another year, and submissions are now open! 🎞️

📍Deadline: July 15, 2026 at 11:59pm EST

Fluxus is a contemporary short film and media arts festival hosted in partnership between Factory Media Centre, Hamilton Artists Inc., and McMaster University School of the Arts, dedicated to showcasing experimental and boundary-pushing media works from artists of all levels working in Canada.

Submissions are FREE and unrestricted by theme, and are open to a spectrum of artforms, including but not limited to: animation, documentary, video art, collage film, music video, experimental film, and more!

🔗To submit to Fluxus and learn more about the festival, click through the link in our bio!

05/20/2026

Please join us for a FREE workshop hosted by audio-visual artist Charlie Star (.slinky) 💿

Material Sound: Locked Loops is an experimental sound workshop exploring abstract turntablism through noise and modulation. Creating handmade records from unconventional and household materials, participants will then use turntables, modulators, and effect pedals to manipulate surface textures and locked grooves into evolving sonic compositions. The workshop is open to all and encourages experimentation with noise and collaboration.

This workshop is free but spots are limited!

🔗 Please RSVP through the link in our bio.

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366 Victoria Avenue North
Hamilton, ON
L8L5G6

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