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This program of contemporary experimental, documentary, narrative, and animated films features a deserted work space; her voice; our transmodal connections; big hopes; a wandering mind; a traumatic memory; a race across their mine dump; two women who are one; lived and inherited experiences; and an unexpected ASMR respiratory exam.
Remote Desktop Animations
Jean-Guillaume Bastien
Montreal, Canada | 2021 | 4 | HD Video
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Remote desktop animations that meddle in a deserted work space. Applications of corporate surrealism and business magical realism in a computer film.
The Scrivener Speaks
Terri Sarris & Frank Pahl
Ann Arbor, MI | 2021 | 2 | HD Video
WORLD PREMIERE
In this reimagining of the short story “Bartleby, The Scrivener,” written by Herman Melville (1853), the Scrivener finally finds her voice.
Cosmos-war-finally-love
Luciano Zubillaga
Argentina/China | 2021 | 7 | HD Video
WORLD PREMIERE
cosmos-war-finally-love is a triptych about sequential and spatial indeterminacy. Linearity imposes a closed and rigid hierarchy of sensory organisation based on a fixed, external, geometrically positioned observer and narrative. Cosmos-war-finally-love incorporates the nebulous and swarming character of indeterminacy and ambiguity as opening to expand the plasticity of our transmodal connections, ultimately activating expanded telepathy
Everything’s gonna be OK
Leighton Pierce
Los Angeles, CA | 2021 | 7 | HD Video
WORLD PREMIERE
Part of UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), a series made with, on, and for the phone. Looking to the sky for threats and salvation.
I Want To Be Bored
Magda Kreps
London, UK | 2021 | 4 | HD Video
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
A hand-drawn short film, visualizing a wandering mind during the experience of doing absolutely nothing.
Scum Mutation
Ov
Tourcoing, France | 2020 | 10 | HD Video
UNITED STATES PREMIERE
Here you are SCUM, caged creature. Your gaze wavers inside the rage of our time. Your scream testifies to an individual and societal wound, a traumatic memory of our condition to overthrow. Your gesture, survival drive, questions our visceral link to violence. SCUM, in your silicon hands young germs are growing and mutating.
A Brief Appearance of Neon
Matthias Sahli & Immanuel Esser
Winterthur, Switzerland/Germany | 2020 | 16 | HD Video
UNITED STATES PREMIERE
Once a year, the operators of a potassium mine host a race across their mine dump. A white path guides the guests across the machine-made landscape. Their appearance is as sudden as their disappearance.
While the Vines Weep
Laura Moreno Bueno
San Sebastián, Spain | 2021 | 6 | DCP
WORLD PREMIERE
While the Vines Weep explores the emotions that emanate from crying. A sensory journey through the corporeality of two women who are one. Is it possible to reach ecstasy through movement? The filmmaker explores the duality of feelings and lets the bodies speak to each other and express what words cannot.
Sensorium
Elliot Mercer
Gambier, OH | 2021 | 20 | DCP
A queer fantasia on the slippages of memory, scholarship, meaning-making, and the transcendental.
Dots
Ann Oren
Berlin, Germany | 2020 | 5 | HD Video
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
An unexpected ASMR respiratory exam. ASMR is a popular genre of videos on YouTube, led by soothing sounds believed by its creators to generate euphoria, a sound porn of sorts. Dots is a part of Ann Oren’s video journals, a short video series responding to media culture in a square format, often starring animals.