Half Light - Ryan Marino
16mm | Color | 2024 | 10min 40s | Optical

Shot over a period of three years in a single interior space, this film explores sensory perception through the textural surface of expired film stock, light and layered images. Ephemeral moments meld into voids of grain.

Ryan Marino is an interdisciplinary artist working with film, sound, and collage. His 16mm films explore the ethereality of time, light, and space.

Panoramic Communion - Théo Zesiger
HD | Color | 2024 | 9min 10s | Stereo | France

From the big wheel in the seaside district, a number of axes come forth. A succession of buildings compose the backdrop. The silhouettes and shadows wander and sway: strangely enough, they seem to stand alongside the same horizon.

Théo Zesiger is a filmmaker based in Marseille. His work, based on a mainly documentary approach, tends to somewhat fall within lyrical cinema. He explores intimacies within urban infrastructure and landscapes, in a poetic and anthropological combination.

A World in the Evening - Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino
HD | Color | 2023 | 9min 00s | Stereo | USA

A World in the Evening offers visual and literal poetry—poetry that cannot be reconciled with the brutality of history, with the death of a poet and the sleep of reason. Inescapable nightmares of the past are reflected in the present.
Cities at night, the rebuilding of a fire-devastated fourteenth-century cathedral, a lonely eighteenth-century New Mexico mission, and the poetry and theatre of Federico García Lorca are among the inhabitants of A World in the Evening.

Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino have been collaborating since 1990. Their video work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley; and ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.

ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pong - Daphne Xu
Film to Digital | Color | 2024 | 8min 37s | Stereo | USA

The ping pong table at Seward Park in New York City and the in-between space of a Cold War. An immigration lawyer advises on how to tell the truth.

Daphne Xu explores the politics and poetics of place through film, video, photography, and printed matter. Her practice engages observations of the everyday and of contested landscapes. She is working on a series of films in Xiong’an New Area, Hebei Province, a rural area slated to become a megacity; the first film A Thousand-Year Stage (2020) premiered at Visions du Réel.

The Interior Frontier - Justin Clifford Rhody
Film to Digital | Color | 2024 | 19min 00s | Stereo | USA

The Interior Frontier operates in a confused time-state of period dress and modern society, between fact and fiction; dealing with silence as sound, the invisible war of female life, tornado as existence, and the world's largest hand dug hole.
Shot on 16mm and Super-8mm film, The Interior Frontier references and was created in the same small town in Kansas as Barbara Loden's final directorial work; a 16mm educational short titled The Frontier Experience (1975).

Justin Clifford Rhody is a filmmaker, photographer, curator and sound artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, film festivals, universities, books, and records. He has been organizing underground film, art and music events for over 20 years. Rhody is a co-founder/operator of No Name Cinema, the Cinema Director at the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, he runs the Physical media imprint, and performs in various free-improv music ensembles and expanded cinema groups.

To Alexandra - Yi Cui
HD | Color | 2025 | 72mins 00s | Stereo | USA & China
Note: Private Event/Screening Only
- Not Open to Public

Two travelogues intertwined.
A collage.
A correspondence.

Through text, the journey of the researcher-writer Alexandra David-Néel across the Himalayas a century ago is narrated via her letters home. In audiovisual spaces, the filmmaker's experiences in eastern Tibet are reflected through her own lenses and those of the native Tibetan people.

Meandering between image, sound and text—and between past and present—the film invites the viewers into a meditative space within the cinema, where they could contemplate life, death, nature, the self, and more.

Yi Cui is a Chinese filmmaker who works between her homeland and North America. Her practice embraces a process-driven methodology, allowing her to explore the intersections of diverse cinematic forms. She has developed a body of work centred on the theme of 'Migrating Cinema,' delving into the connections between Indigenous cinema, auto-ethnography, traveling film projection, and ancient screen arts such as the shadow theatre.

Her work has received accolades, including the Grand Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the Libraries’ Award at Cinéma du Réel, the Best Short Film Award from the American Anthropological Association’s Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival. Several of Yi’s films have been screened at exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Images Festival, Viennale International Film Festival, Short Film Week Regensburg, Message to Man, and Iran International Documentary Film Festival Cinéma Vérité, among others. Yi was a Flaherty Seminar Fellow in 2024.