Film Format: Digital File

  • Handful of Dust

    Prussian blue can be used to render images and counteract radiation poisoning. This obituary is composed of sequences of cyanotypes, exposed in the sand using paper sensitized with handmade emulsion and negatives from a 1954 Hollywood film. Rates of cancer in the film’s cast and crew reflect that it was shot downwind during the period of above ground nuclear testing. Handful of Dust, produced in the Utah canyon where the 1954 film was shot, is designed as an antidote to recover the memory of the downwinders. IMAGE AR: 2.35:1 NOTE ON THE SOUND: The integrity of the original –a dirty…

  • The Sea [is still] Around Us

    Rachel Carson is dead, but the sea is still around us…This small lake is a sad reminder of what is taking place all over the land, from carelessness, shortsightedness, and arrogance. It is our pool of shame in this,’ our particular instant of time.’ E.B. White, 1964 A postcard usually enhances the reality. The contrast is more stark in Corinna, Maine, a former woolen mill town on the shores of Lake Sebasticook, where years of dumping industrial waste contaminated the water. In 1964, the author E.B. White mourned the death of fellow Mainer Rachel Carson and the altered ecology of…

  • Savage / Future

    Editing to the soundscape of shaking Iroquois white corn and finger tapping, Seneca filmmaker Terry Jones uses personal and historic still images to link his family and the American Indian Residential Boarding School experience.

  • Folds of Stone

    Rock is subject to constant change. Natural forces, geodynamics, and anthropogenic interventions shape the supposedly rigid matter as an extended organism, which can only be perceived in geological thinking of time. In their short film “Folds of Stone” Nicole Krenn and Lisa Truttmann continue these thoughts: We see breathing stones, pulsating furrows, trembling rocks, material that vibrates. Microscopic landscapes dissolve in the image. Surface, materiality and structure oscillate between jagged rock edges and soft, silky fabric folds. The two artists translate a multimedia installation from an old sawmill at national park Gesäuse into the cinema space, showing the process of…

  • GANGBANG

    GANGBANG takes place in a bedroom that resembles a gay porn set. Six male models occupy the space, surrounding an empty bed, staring at you. They’re shirtless, wearing blue jeans. We move closer to the group and watch each face dissolve over each other in a series of close-ups. The models never break their seductive smiles, which is all the intimacy they offer. Based on the setup, we anticipate that someone will eventually make the first move. But unlike the stimulating title, GANGBANG denies the viewer of sexual gratification; instead, time freezes – the boys pose together but never make…

  • The Expanding Horizon

    A 16-year-old wants to buy weed from his drug dealer classmate, but he has an unusual request.

  • Boys of My Youth

    Through eerie iPhone photographs of empty high school hallways and dimly lit locker rooms, an unknown narrator reflects on his teenage sexual repression.

  • The Magical Quality of Armpits

    A silent foray into the most underappreciated part of the body.

  • Intersextion

    Two abstract energies fall in love, unite as one then disappear into a vanishing point. Cameraless handmade film with handmade optical soundtrack.

  • The GraveSleepers

    The GraveSleepers is an animated short film, exploring themes of transience, mortality and the human condition. Inspired by factual events that led a group of itinerants to inhabit rows of empty graves in a cemetery on the outskirts of Tehran, گور خواب ها / The GraveSleepers, is a literal title of what aims to offer a lyrical interpretation, questioning the fragile and fleeting nature of our existence against a backdrop of dust.