2020 Program
Features
The Horse
by Rafhael Barbosa and Werner Salles
Involved in an artistic process, seven young dancers are provoked to dive into their ancestry.
Lifting the Green Screen
by Claudia Giannetto
Open a window into the lives of activists, farmers, and entrepreneurs with an ethnographic take on everyday life in Costa Rica's biodiversity rich Osa Peninsula.
Songs That Never End
by Yehuda Sharim
Having fled their home in Iran, the Dayan family is greeted in Houston with hurricanes and perilous politics.
Revolution from Afar
by Bentley Brown
Sudanese-American poets and musicians engage in performances and conversation around the revolution in Sudan, from which they have been physically cut off.
Holding Hands with Ilse
by Abraham Ravett
A film about the filmmaker’s search for the German teenage girl that took care of him in post-WWII Poland.
The Gifts of Time
by Alfred Guzzetti
In the corner of a painting Gauguin wrote: where do we come from? What are we? Where do we go?
Documentary Blocks
Traces
The witness is present, being with and within, empowering the fragile traces of memory to challenge the writing of history. These films evoke the passing of time as ways of life shift and change, while the land bears the memory of those who share and shape it.
Nibi Walk
by Keely Kernan
Swika and Its Home
by Lin Li
mesa reservoir plainsong
by j. gluckstern
A Love Letter to the North
by Mardi Reardon-Smith
Sightseers
To the tourist, vision is the vehicle for experience and discovery, but these ulterior travelogues guide us through sights unseen. A passer-by navigates the obscure gaps of a vast waterway, violent off-screen histories are told but not shown, and a long dark hunt leaves the camera to fend for itself.
Panama Queen
by Will Jones
Even in Paradise
by Duane Peterson III
Caiman
by Milosz Wieckowski
Life On The Mississippi
by Bill Brown
Video Home System
Two personal stories, geographically and temporally separated, bridged by the collective memory of analog media. Informal archives and contraband videocassettes converge in films about loss, reconstruction, and bootlegging.
On The Road & other Places
by EB Landesberg
VHS Diaries
by Niyaz Saghari
Those Who Face Death
Among the first of animals to be domesticated by humans, Bovidae have been exposed to millenia of human exploitation. The toxic-masculine desire for power threatens goats, sheep, and humans alike.
On the Domestication of Sheep
by Jill Godmilow
A Dilo
by Shein Mezour
Astray
Wanderers encounter the world, drifting between cinematic gestures; specular highlights become apparitions, coffee grounds become your future. A Duras, a disturbance, a dérive.
Clara
by Janelle VanderKelen
HOMAGE TO SUMMER
by Katerina Markoulaki
Processes (Lucifer Disturbance)
by Adriana Ferrarese
Forest Language
by Jonathan Johnson
one sea, 10 seas
by Nour Ouayda
Bone Frequencies (or, The Purr)
Stumbling with hands outstretched, reaching blindly for the blurred edges of mortality. Thrumming through our bones and our optic nerves, these visceral works unearth the mysteries and anxieties beneath their subjects, opening up the possibility of expression within and beyond the limits of communication.
There's Just Something About Death That Makes Us Dance: the revival
by Rox Campbell
TAPE
by Britni Harris and Josh Downing
Unless You're Living It
by Sarah Bliss
Cat Secrets
by Colleen Pesci
No Garden Beyond
by Anna Kipervaser and Rhys Morgan
Take It Down
by Sabine Gruffat
Geographies of Confinement
The controlled ordering of time and space pits the internal against the external, detaching the body from realms of action, movement and transformation. Geographies of Confinement investigates the spatial tactics of dehumanization and systemic racisms through borders and imprisonment.
Becoming
by Alex Morelli
The Remandee
by Alexander Lind and Jakob Jakobsen
Evidence of the Evidence
by Alexander Johnston
Phone Home
Connections waver, relationships grow and heal. Dispatches of compassion, confession, and confrontation explore distance and the inescapable influence of kin.
Umbilical
by Danski Tang
Uriah Plays the Alien
by Stephen Wardell
Plant Talk
by Ruth Somalo
Home in E Major
by Tamar Rachkovsky
Generation Loss
Inviting the viewer into intimate domestic spaces, the women in these films share their personal and communal trauma through the everyday. Card games and mobile apps bring us reflections on fractured memory, the production of nostalgia, complicity in national mythmaking, and our relationships to each other and to our ancestors.
Scenes From a Transient Home
by Roger Horn
Her Type
by Masha Vlasova
The Previous Page
by Priyanka Chhabra
Object Impermanence
A cosmic gadget goes silent, statues topple, and seeds await their reincarnation. These are documents of the memorialized, objects celebrated, ignored, and vilified. Letters from the past transmit agony and adoration for the latent potential of human creation.
Dear Opportunity
by Lisa McCarty
Monumental
by Sarah Riazati
Accession
by Tamer Hassan and Armand Yervant Tufenkian
Extraction
Transmissions reclaiming oral history twist the dominant narratives of memory and myth. The personal, the sonic, and the social are prisms through which these films empower questions of identity, liberation and the coding of cinema itself.
At Home But Not at Home
by Suneil Sanzgiri
Bell Tower of False Creek
by Randolph Jordan
Inundada
by Michelle Trujillo
Talamanca
by Davide Marino
Kolmas Punkt (The Third Point)
by Alina Taalman
Here I Am, Where Are You?
A deep exploration of local ecosystems that humans (and other beings) live and move within. A cinematic journey of scale that begins in the microcosm of a Polish backyard and ends in urban communities of New York City.
In Harmony
by Dorota Bator
A Sense of Belonging
by Sophia Schelle
Arho - The Afar Salt Trade of Northeastern Ethiopia
by Till J F Trojer
Civilians
by Toma Peiu
Documentary Arts
Migrant Mothers of Syria
by Anna Fahr
Migrant Mothers of Syria is an interactive documentary that prompts users to put the broken pieces of two homes back together while exploring six short documentaries featuring Amani and Manal, two Syrian refugee mothers who are striving to rebuild their lives in Lebanon.
Mum’s The Word
by Colin Scheyen
An interactive documentary on the history and legacy of forced adoptions in Canada.