A password-protected love affair, a little vapor on Venus, and a horse with no name ride out in search of a better world. Against the mounting darkness, a willing abduction offers a stab at tomorrow. World Premiere: Toronto Int. Film Festival (Wavelengths) - Sept. 2017 US Premiere: New York Film Festival (Projections) - Oct. 2017 Euro Premiere: Berlin Int. Film Festival (Forum Expanded) - Feb. 2018 Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2017 Hong Kong International Film Festival 2018 Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago) 2018 MIXNYC: New York Queer Experimental Film Festival 2018 EMAF: European Media Art Festival (Osnabruck, Germany) 2018 Athens International Film + Video Festival (Athens OH) 2018 MUFF: Milwaukee Underground Film Festival 2018 (*WINNER - BEST OF FEST*) ICDOCS: Iowa City Documentary Film Festival 2018 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Hawick, Scotland) 2018 Transform Fest at Yerba Buena Center (San Fransisco, CA) 2018 XPOSED Queer Film Festival (Berlin, Germany) Videoex (Zurich, Switzerland) 2018 Fracto Experimental Cinema Encounter (Berlin, Germany) 2018 Acropolis Cinema at The Downtown Independent (Los Angeles, CA) 2018 VIS: Vienna Shorts (Austria) 2018 WUFF: Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (Canada) 2018 Hamburg International Short Film Festival (Germany) 2018 Crossroads Festival at SFMoMA (San Francisco, CA) 2018 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia) 2018 Cine Jove: Valencia International Film Festival (Spain) 2018 EXiS Film and Video Festival (Seoul, South Korea) 2018 Q-Fest (Houston, TX) 2018 Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia) 2018 Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (Brazil) 2018 Queer City Cinema (Regina, SK) 2018 Moscow Int'l Experimental Film Festival (Russia) 2018 Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema (France) 2018 Antimatter Media Art Festival (Victoria, BC) 2018 BFI London Film Festival (UK) 2018 LUFF: Lausanne Underground Film And Music Festival (Switzerland) 2018 Dirty Looks "8 Years On" at Never Apart (Montreal, QC) 2018 High Desert Test Sights / The Ski Club at The Palms (29 Palms, CA) 2018 Dirty Looks "8 Years On" at The STUD (San Francisco, CA) 2018 Media City Film Festival (Windsor, ON) 2018 Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife (Brazil) 2018 (*WINNER - BEST SOUND*) Kinemastik at Valetta Contemporary Gallery (Malta) 2018 MUTA-II Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual (Lima, Peru) 2018 Istanbul Int'l Experimental Film Festival (Turkey) 2018 Dirty Looks "8 Years On" at Ace Hotel (Los Angeles, CA) 2019 FLEX: Florida Experimental Film Festival (Tampa) 2019 Cornell Cinema "Online / On Land" (Ithaca, NY) 2019 Flaherty NYC: Surface Knowledge, Metrograph (New York) 2019 Video Art Festival Turku (Finland) 2019 EMAF: European Media Art Festival, “Wild Grammar” (Osnabruck, Germany) 2019 Tom of Finland Foundation, “Films4Fags: Onward Lossless Follows / Sebastiane” (Los Angeles) 2019 Dirty Looks "8 Years On" 2019 touring program: Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY); Binghamton University (NY); RISD (Providence, RI); Space Gallery (Portland, ME), The Cock (New York, NY); Block Museum of Art (Evanston, IL); Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU (Richmond, VA); Northwest Film Center (Portland, OR); UC Berkeley Film and Media Seminar (CA) exhibitions: Royal Hibernian Academy, “Michael Robinson: Under the Wrong Star” (solo exhibition), Dublin, Ireland (2019-2020) PRESS: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/michael-robinson-s-rha-exhibition-feels-like-the-future-1.4105980 https://www.totallydublin.ie/arts-culture/artsdesk-under-the-wrong-star-michael-robinson/ http://www.revolver-film.com/michael_robinson_onward_lossless_follows/ https://www.kqed.org/arts/13834289/eight-experimental-films-not-to-miss-at-this-years-crossroads https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/i-m-the-man-the-2018-crossroads-festival https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/film/IN-CONVERSATION-Michael-Robinson-with-Z-W-Lewis http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/festival-reports/2017-toronto-international-film-festival/ https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/tiff-2017-wavelengths-preview-the-short-stack http://desistfilm.com/tiff-2017-wavelengths-dislocation-blues-by-sky-hopinka-onward-lossless-follows-by-michael-robinson/ https://www.motelpictures.com/blogs/2017/9/1/40-must-see-shorts-at-tiff-2017 http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/andrea-picard-talks-tiffs-wavelengths-programme https://www.yearendlists.com/2020/01/darren-hughes-favorite-films-of-the-2010s https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/an-experimental-decade-the-short-films-a-catalogue-of-future-mistakes