PLUS PLUS is the festival of Tomorrow: a world-class gathering right here in Portland, featuring a series of hybrid media arts, screenings, performances, music, interactive storytelling games, and yes, smell-o-vision. This year’s lineup of ten groundbreaking media arts premieres and one-night-only events will take place over two weekends—November 13–23, 2025—at both the PAM CUT Tomorrow Theater and Portland Art Museum.

In conjunction with the November 20 opening of the Portland Art Museum’s transformed campus, the projects featured in this year’s fest focus on transformation and shapeshifting, addressing what it means to be human in an ever-changing, constantly evolving world.

“An active imagination is our best weapon against ignorance and complacency, the ultimate shapeshifter that allows us to explore, rethink, and question everything. And we need that now more than ever,” says PAM CUT Director Amy Dotson. “PLUS PLUS invites us all—artists and audiences alike—to be brave and challenge traditional or long-held notions of for whom, by whom and how the art and stories we share can be told.”

Discover PLUS PLUS:

• Launching this year’s fest is an evening with multi-faceted writer and comedian Robby Hoffman, a self-described “small, ex-Hasidic, queer comedian” whose performances have been hailed as “the future of comedy.”

• Discover the West Coast premiere of the most wildly original storytelling experience of the year with Ancestors: An Interactive Journey into the Future. Fresh off sold-out runs at SXSW 2025, IDFA, and the 2025 Venice Biennale Immersive, this cutting-edge interactive experience connects you with fellow players to explore how collaboration can shape a better world.
• ​​Visit the opening of renowned media artist Marco Brambilla’s exhibition Maximalist Dreamscapes as part of the Portland Art Museum’s grand opening weekend, November 20 - 23.

• Return to the Tomorrow Theater with your knitting and crocheting for a screening of the classic 23rd-century adventure, The Fifth Element, co-hosted by Ritual Dyes.

• Then, catch an evening of readings from celebrated Northwest authors, led by multi-faceted author and screenwriter Jon Raymond (First Cow, Mildred Pierce, God & Sex), followed by a screening of Dreams (Sex Love), a poignant Norwegian drama exploring the shifting of love, sexuality, and self-discovery across generations.

• Join us for an evening of hypnotic sights and sound beginning with ñ (enye), a performance by ILVS Strauss—an audiophile’s meandering, slyly humorous exploration of sound, language, and human connection, guided by a green rabbit across a lush, intentional soundscape. Then, sink into Memoria, the beguiling, time-bending film from Palme d’Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

• Next up: a one-night-only Carte Blanche with acclaimed filmmaker Matt Wolf sharing influences, creative process, and behind-the-scenes stories, plus a very special marathon screening of his entire 2025 Emmy-winning two-part HBO documentary Pee-wee As Himself, an intimate portrait of Paul Reubens and his beloved alter ego.

• Into live performance? Artist Miwa Matreyek presents Infinitely Yours, using layered projections and her own shadow to create a dream-like meditation on climate catastrophe and humanity’s impact on the earth.
• Not afraid of being transported? Step into the avant-garde poetry-filled masterwork The Color of Pomegranates Smell-O-Vision—a special one-night-only immersive screening. During this event, Fumerie Parfumerie will be administering a custom scent designed intentionally for the film—transporting audiences to a heady, olfactory, multisensorial viewing experience.

• And finally: experience L’Inferno (1911)–a visionary landmark film that shaped the language of cinema from DeMille to Lynch—with a live score by Lori Goldston & Corey J Brewer.

See what the festival of Tomorrow brings - tickets are on sale now at tomorrowtheater.org.