you burn me - Sarah Jenkins
2026 RT: 10 minutes

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Universe Moves So Fast - Sarah Jenkins
2023, RT: 3:55 minutes

Stop motion animation and music by occurence.

Sarah E. Jenkins (they/she) is a queer Appalachian artist and experimental animator from central Pennsylvania.
Their recent work explores extraction, hidden labors, and disappearance via both in-studio and site-responsive stop motion animation. Their work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Art Boston, ICA/Boston, Emerson Contemporary, and the Torrance Art Museum. In 2023, the Ciné Culture Series at Massachusetts College of Art and Design offered a screening retrospective of Jenkins’ moving image work. Jenkins's work has also been screened with The Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany, Wonzimer, and at independent theaters including the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, Massachusetts. Jenkins’s residencies include MacDowell, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, , the Santa Fe Art Institute’s 2023 Thematic Residency: Changing Climate, and a six-month solo exhibition of Jenkins’ work at the Boston Children’s Museum 2023. Their work was included in the forthcoming book Queering Appalachia's Visual History: A Collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers, University of Kentucky Press (2024).

Disappearing Acts - Sarah Jenkins
2022, RT: 03:32 minutes

Stop motion animation and original score by Feona Lee Jones

Susie's Ghost - Bill Brand & Ruthie Marantz
2011, RT: 7 minutes

SUSIE’S GHOST is about the mystery of the marks we make and leave behind. The “Susie” in the title refers to a sibling but the "ghost" refers more generally to lingering feelings of loss. The cinematography and performance both express a tentative presence and diffuse sense of disappearance. Is she looking for something? Is she really there? We shot with aging 16mm film in my downtown Manhattan neighborhood, just before construction mania obliterated the last traces of the manufacturing district I’d moved into years earlier.

Bill Brand is a multi-disciplinary artist whose films, public artwork, installations, paintings and works-on-paper have exhibited worldwide in museums, galleries, microcinemas and on television. His 1980 Masstransiscope, an animated mural installed in the New York City subway, is in the MTA Arts and Design permanent collection. Bill Brand’s artwork has been featured at Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Anthology Film Archive and Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. He is represented in Paris by Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre and Court Tree Collective in Brooklyn, NY. His films have been presented at major film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, New Directors/ New Films Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival.

Ruthie Marantz is an award winning multi-hyphenate. Her work has been screened at festivals including: MoMA, Seriesfest, and Seattle International Film Festival. She has her M.F.A. from NYU Graduate Film Program where she was recipient of the Leo Rosner, Maurice Kanbar, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences Scholarships. Spike Lee EP-ed Autobiographical TV Pilot "RAINBOW RUTHIE " which was accepted to IFP Episodic Lab, premiered at SXSW and became Oscar Eligible in 2019.

Cuentos Para Niños #1 - Michelle Trujillo
2018, RT: 3:23 minutes

La Llorona transcends from the world of the living to that of infinite waters. Images were created on 16mm film through alternative techniques.

Michelle Trujillo was born in Miami to Colombian and Costa Rican parents and grew up in South Florida. She received her B.A. in multimedia studies from Florida Atlantic University and her M.F.A. in film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The focus of her practice is to question and explore representations of Latin American culture, gender, and identity creation. Trujillo works in Spanish, English, and Spanglish as a mirroring of her lived experience. She also works in various mediums such as eco and hand-processed 16mm film, digital video, 35mm still film, and cyanotypes.

Her films have been exhibited in festivals, galleries, and conferences nationally and internationally such as the Alchemy Film Festival, Wisconsin Film Festival, and Mimesis Documentary Festival. Trujillo has won multiple awards such as the Lightpress Grant and the LEF Moving Image Grant.

Cuentos Para Niños #2 - Michelle Trujillo
2019, RT: 4:00 minutes

An imagined origin story following El Coco; european colonizers' most powerful weapon. Images were created on 16mm film through alternative techniques.

Hurricane Season - Michelle Trujillo
2026, RT: 6:22 minutes

Hurricane anxiety takes a visceral form as the image searches for an escape route. Inspired by true events. Created on 16mm film and developed with comfrey, mint, yerba mate and willow leaves.

MOKUM - Abraham Ravett
2025, RT: 30:00 minutes

Mokum is a film that explores the feeling of home experienced walking through the streets of Amsterdam during the filmmaker’s multiple trips to Holland. Utilizing 16mm and digital footage filmed over the past thirty years plus recently acquired, early 20th century, silent, b/w archival footage of Amsterdam, Mokum is a tribute to ancestors fleeing the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions. Street sounds come up at 19:13.

Abraham Ravett has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty-five years. Ravett has received grants for his work from the Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Foundation for Jewish Culture: Fund for Documentary Filmmaking; National Endowment for the Arts; The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities; The Japan Foundation; The LEF Foundation; and The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation; as well as a 1994 filmmaking fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

His films have been screened internationally, including at several one-person shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. His work has won “Top Prize” at the Viennale 2000, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Onion City Film/Video Festival. In 1999, he collaborated with dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones on his solo performance "The Breathing Show." A retrospective of Ravett's films was shown at the 2014 Festival Film Dokumenter Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Intro & Post Screening Q&A with Robert Haris & Filmmakers

Robert Harris is an educator, film-poet, and traveler. Currently a professor of film production at Fitchburg State University, he was formerly Curator of Video at Anthology Film Archives (NY) and PS#1 (Queens, NY), and Artistic Director of the New York State Summer School of the Arts: Media Arts. He has taught at the University of California, San Diego, Palomar College, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Ithaca College. He has assisted and collaborated with artists Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota, and Aldo Tambellini. In 1977, he spent 9 months living with and filming the Arhuaco peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. His films have been shown in festivals, museums, and institutions throughout the world.

echoes of a zephyr - Josh Weissbach
RT: 3 minutes

a glimpse and a breath of antiquity.

Josh Weissbach is an experimental filmmaker. His films have been shown worldwide in such venues as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Light Field, European Media Art Festival, 25 FPS Festival, Courtisane Festival, First Look at Museum of the Moving Image, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Festival dei Popoli, and Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. He has won jury prizes at Montreal Underground, Videoex, ICDOCS, Onion City, Ithaca Experimental, Infinito Super 8, Denver Underground, and Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. He is the recipient of a 2021 Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, a 2020 Moving Image Fund Early Development Grant from the LEF Foundation, a 2018 LightPress Grant from the Interbay Cinema Society, a 2015 LEF Fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, a 2013 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Emerging Artists from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and a 2008 Cary Grant Film Award from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA. A selection of Josh's films is in distribution at Light Cone in Paris, France.

Pigeon Within - Emily Hubley
RT: 4 minutes

Pigeon Within depicts a woman’s journey home through tunnels of doubt,and what may be an encounter with her guardian angel, to the joy of slapping Park Avenue canopies.

Emily Hubley makes hand-drawn animated films exploring personal memory. Her feature, The Toe Tactic (2009) and In the Eyes of the Worm (2024), made with Max Rosenthal, premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, where her work is in the permanent collection.

Itinerary of Surfaces - Carl Elsaesser
RT: 8 minutes

What I am//What you are//salt and sweat on my tongue.

A quarantined love letter of domestic imagination. A year of rain and other fluids. Contentment is a difficult emotion. 26 Main St. Bucksport, ME

Carl Elsaesser is an experimental filmmaker whose work blends genres and materials to critically investigate the overarching presence of history without losing sight of individual experiences of human connection. He is interested in framing a film practice through ritualistic and slow processes—thinking with a project as something akin to skin or clothing, worn throughout his day as he teaches class, walks through the city or countryside late at night, or calls a friend across the world.

sweat/tears/sea - Miatta Kawinzi
RT: 6 minutes

A meditation on alternative temporalities of feeling, experience, and linguistic unfolding. Here movement becomes a way of thinking through questions of positionality regarding the self and environment. Sparked by the artist’s participation in a walking residency with Beta-Local (Puerto Rico), it taps into the rhythm of dreaming across geographies.

Miatta Kawinzi is a New York-based multi-disciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, writer, and educator. Her work explores themes of inter-connectivity, hybridity, and diaspora. She received an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College and a BA in Interdisciplinary Art and Cultural Theory from Hampshire College.

Unsettled - Tara Knight & Nick Drashner
RT: 7 minutes

Conflicting layers of animation reveal glimpses into the ecological and economic histories of an American landscape.

Tara Knight (F96) is an interdisciplinary artist. Recently, her virtual reality “Sound Planetarium” project appeared at the American Astronomy Society, “the desire of a body” at Dance on Camera in NYC, and “Unsettled” at the Ottawa and Annecy Animation Festivals with a Director’s Citation from the Thomas Edison Film Festival.

two sisters - Magdalena Bermudez
RT: 7 minutes

A history of sister portraiture is reanimated by nascent datasets, as portraits dodge derogatory categories by paradoxically inhabiting both one and multiple bodies.

Magdalena Bermudez is a filmmaker and educator whose practice examines relations between humans, nonhuman animals, plants, and technologies through essayistic film and video works. Her practice is research-based, often recontextualizing scientific or operational images to interrogate their formal and political implications. Her work has screened internationally at film festivals such as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], European Media Arts Festival, Alchemy Moving Image Festival, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Kasseler DokFest, İstanbul International Experimental Film Festival, and Science New Wave Festival. She has received residencies at Marble House, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, and Mount Lebanon. She is an Assistant Professor of Cinema at Binghamton University.

Applied Pressure - Kelly Sears
RT: 6 minutes

Sequential images sourced from dozens of massage books are altered and reordered to shift the emphasis from the actions on the body to the reception of the touch. Rising tension and threat is realized as multiple bodies emerge, stutter and struggle.

Kelly Sears uses experimental animation techniques to reconfigure recognized source imagery. Her films draw on documentary and speculative storytelling as she reimagines our social and political legacies and futures. In the process of cutting out and collaging, untethering images from their intended use, she creates slippages between the familiar and the fantastic.

RUN! - mythography 1 - Malic Amalya
RT: 10 minutes

Shot at sites of nuclear development, detonation, industry, tourism, and activism, RUN! examines the ways that ideologies of war structure landscapes, community rituals, cinematic technology, entomology, pandemic management, and even notions of LGBTQ liberation.

Malic Amalya is an experimental filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and Film Production at Emerson College. He graduated from Hampshire College in 2003. Exploring racism in popular films largely considered feminist, Malic's Div III was titled, "The Rise of the White Heroine: Racism and Feminism at the Movies."

From Sea to See - Eve LaFountain
RT: 8 minutes

A Symptom - Ben Balcom
RT: 6 minutes

An exploration of cinematic and linguistic reflexivity. A mirrored discourse. Some things are just so difficult to say.

Ben Balcom is a filmmaker and educator based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is a professor of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

SET - Peter Miller
RT: 10 minutes

For this found footage animated film I downloaded 10,000 photographs of the sunset, adjusted each one and arranged them in order, setting into motion a singular, colossal, collective sunset.

Born in Burlington, Vermont, Peter Miller is an artist working in film and photography and lives and works in Essen and Paris. He received his BA from Hampshire College and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is Professor for photography and time-based media at the Folkwang University of the Arts.