Program 1: Saturday, April 22 | 3 pm
The films in this program depict encounters with obstacles and endings. But even in the face of the cliffs of a river bed, enormous walls of lava, and the existential threats of pandemic and death, these films prioritize optimism by foregrounding intimacy and beauty.
Light’s Return, dir. by Kathleen Rugh, 2021 (US), 3:10
Lone Star State, dir. by Sarah Soucek, 2022 (US), 8:47
I Gave It To You, dir. by Claire Maske, 2022 (US), 2:45
Walden [verb], dir. by Emma Rozanski, 2022 (US), 22:00
Luminae, dir. by Dominic Angerame, 2023 (US), 4:00
Poignant Sorrow for an Immediate Cause, dir. by Erica Hill, 2022 (US), 3:00
“The Inner Project”, dir. by Tatjana Evonuk, 2022 (Ireland), 10:11
There, Where She Is Not, dir. by Sarah Ballard, 2022 (US), 7:00
Film dying under a patch of earth, dir. by Carmine Lo Regio, 2022 (US), 3:23
Saline, dir. by Anne-Marie Bouchard, 2022 (Canada), 2:56
Arrorró, dir. by Rafael de Almeida, 2022 (Brazil, Spain), 9:00
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Program 2: Saturday, April 22 | 5 pm
These films revel in various forms of motion— movement within the frame and on the screen, movement in space, and movement in time— tangled in a process of development, dancing, and decay.
Fixing A Hole, dir. by Pierre Ajavon, 2019 (France), 3:10
Subway Stops, dir. by Joe Zakko, 2022 (US), 18:00
A Grand Day Out, dir. by Iolo Edwards, 2022 (UK), 4:14
The Way We Flow, dir. by Lauren Bumgarner, 2022 (US), 5:39
Sunny Side Up, dir. by Misha Felix, 2022 (US), 3:03
futile / gestures, dir. by Yolanda Tianyi-Shao & Aaron Holmes, 2022 (US), 7:44
Language Unknown, dir. by Janelle VanderKelen, 2022 (Spain, US), 6:10
Street Twenty-Seven Number Ten Sixteen, dir. by Josh Weissbach, 2015 (US, Cuba), 2:47
Dissolution, dir. by Rennie Taylor, 2022 (Canada), 2:30
Against Time, dir. by Ben Russell, 2022 (France), 23:00
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Program 3: Sunday, April 23 | 1 pm
This program features place-based explorations of how to present and re-present the light, editing, and emotion inherent in the film medium, all centered on musings about the intersection of the self and the world.
Memorabilia, dir. by Mélissa Faivre, 2019 (France, Germany), 6:10
How to Shoot Flowers, dir. by Francesca Svampa, 2022 (Italy), 14:53
Frequencies of Deep Time, dir. by Eric Souther, 2022 (US), 6:43
60 Second Thoughts: Volume 2, dir. by David Baeumler, 2022, (US), 3:46
Light Leak, dir. by Nate Dorr, 2021 (US), 8:20
Valley Fever Dream, dir. by Andy Moore, 2022 (US), 6:43
1MTH/MIN, dir. by Ethann Néon, 2021 (Belgium), 3:45
The man who could not see far enough, dir. by Peter Rose, 1981 (US), 33:00
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Program 4: Sunday, April 23 | 3 pm
This diverse program features various experimentations in animation, abstraction, nontraditional techniques, and alternative forms. These films have visceral images and sounds to build full sensory experiences; the program even begins with a scratch-and-sniff film.
all roses sleep (inviolate light), dir. by Alana Bartol & Bryce Krynski, 2022 (Canada), 14:11
Film Tattoo, dir. by Caryn Cline, 2020 (US), 3:10
//Current state = true, dir. by Laura Iancu, 2021 (US), 3:00
Radiant Forms, dir. by Ryan Marino, 2022 (US), 7:00
Us, dir. by Nelson Fernandes, 2021 (Portugal), 5:00
LDN 41.5072N 0.1276W, dir. by Wen Pey Lim, 2022 (Malaysia, UK), 3:20
Roger’s Eye, dir. by Daniele Grosso, 2021 (Portugal), 4:30
Photosynthetic Patterns, dir. by Victor Emmanuel Navarro, 2022 (Mexico), 2:43
An Inertial Frame of Reference (three poems), dir. by Damian Gonzalez & Jeremy Weinstein, 2022 (US), 4:00
Black Palms, dir. by Justin Clifford Rhody, 2022 (US), 1:20
brushstrokes, dir. by Francisco Rojas, 2021 (Chile), 3:07
Anima #1, dir. by Vasco Diogo, 2022 (Portugal), 3:13
you feel soft, dir. by Cameron Kletke, 2022 (Canada), 2:25
Mushroom Water, dir. by Roger Horn, 2021 (Germany), 2:35
Rodas, dir. by Manu Toro, 2022 (Spain), 5:39
Pet World, dir. by Sofia Theodore-Pierce & Grace Mitchell, 2022 (US), 14:14
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