
Friday, October 10, 2025
9:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
CAMlab Harvard University
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Program Info

The Journey Is The Destination
Program 02:
Co-Programmed by Doug Urbank & Rick Shepardson
Friday, October 10, 2025
9:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
RSVP info
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138
This program, The Journey Is The Destination, brings together a collection of eight experimental works.
From rephotographed cityscapes and repurposed found footage to intimate autobiographical reflections and ecological inquiries, each film engages with the material and emotional textures of image-making. Shot on formats ranging from 16mm to Super 8mm and digital video, the works traverse continents, generations, and sensory registers—forming a layered cinematic experience grounded in the physicality of film and the poetics of presence.

The Visible Material - Ryan Marino
8:00, 16mm color, 2025
Wherever Street Piece - Panu Johansson
8:49, 16mm Found Footage Film, 2025 Color
Rotating Signals - Chae Jung Yu
9:45, Color 2025 16mm to digital
I kept following until I realized what was true - Fanxi Sun
3:46, Color 2025 Super 8mm
The Outsider - Eftychia Iosifidou
8:30, Super 8mm, Color, 2024
what it felt like - Jena Burchick
19:31, Digital and Super 8mm Color 2025
in place of a hollow tree - Eislow Johnson
8:00, Color 2024 digital
Alpine Tundra - Kathleen Rugh
5:35, Color 2025 16mm to digital
Total: 71:16

The Visible Material - Ryan Marino
8:00, 16mm color, 2025
Through means of rephotography and refracted projection, the movements and luminescent surfaces of Berlin's Alexanderplatz are transformed into vibrant fields of moving color.
Ryan Marino is a filmmaker whose work explores the relationship between materiality and perception in experimental cinema.

Wherever Street Piece - Panu Johansson
8:49, 16mm Found Footage Film, 2025 Color
"Wherever Street Piece" is a found footage film that describes impersonal and fragmented memories that cannot be directly linked to the life of one particular individual. Simultaneously the film documents the way these past realities - forgotten people in forgotten situations - blend together from the perspective of the present. Obviously not everything can be stored and passed on, but If we neglect the lessons of the past, are we also bound to repeat its mistakes?
Panu Johansson is a media artist and an experimental filmmaker from Finland. He works with moving image, photography and sound. His works have been exhibited in various festivals, exhibitions and microcinemas since the year 2000.

Rotating Signals - Chae Jung Yu
9:45, Color 2025 16mm to digital
In between cities, I think of home. But I wonder if there's even such a thing. One day, two ladybugs stopped on my index finger. I let them stay for a while.
Chae Yu is based in Seoul, South Korea, and is interested in experiencing different expressive positions in sound and image. Her films trace the rhythmic continuity of bodily gestures, exploring how they connect with transient places where relationships between individuals dissolve. Her films have been presented at Image Forum Tokyo, Ji.hlava IDFF, EXiS, SIFF Seoul, Kyocera Museum Kyoto, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Asian Artist Moving Image Platform, Crossroads SF, New York, among others.

I kept following until I realized what was true - Fanxi Sun
3:46, Color 2025 Super 8mm
The loneliness that a man feels living in an impersonal metropolis, where one is indifferent to the other, often leads him to the refugee settlements, where people have developed stronger bonds with each other.
Fanxi Sun (b. Huzhou, China) works with moving and still images, sound, installation, and performance. Through constructing her own mechanism in an experimental narrative style, Sun studies the body, the mind, and the subjectivity. Sun's works have been shown at film festivals and exhibitions across the world, including Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival (Charlottesville VA), VIDEOAKTION #4 (Berlin, Germany), SPE Combined-Caucus Exhibition (Denver CO), Three Shadows Photography Art Centre's "Unbounded" (Xiamen, China). She is the awardee of the 2024 MAP Fund, the jury award winner of NEXTGEN 11.0, the finalist of the 21st Trawick Prize at Bethesda Urban Partnership, and artist-in-residence at Alex Brown Foundation, Craigardan, and Mudhouse. Sun holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

The Outsider - Eftychia Iosifidou
8:30, Super 8mm, Color, 2024
The loneliness that a man feels living in an impersonal metropolis, where one is indifferent to the other, often leads him to the refugee settlements, where people have developed stronger bonds with each other.
Eftychia Iosifidou was born in Thessaloniki in 1992. She studied at the Department of Theatrical Studies of Philosophy (EKPA), at the New School Athens (Digital Filmmaking) and holds a master's degree in the field of "Philosophy and Arts". In 2012 she directed her first short film. Since 2015, she has been working as a director and editor for independent productions. In 2020, she starts her first feature-length documentary. Her podcast, "My grandmother Maro", participates in the 1st Competition Podcast Section of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. In 2021, she gets a scholarship from the ARTWORKS program (Stavros Niarchos Cultural Foundation). She lives and works in Athens. Her new short film "Memorabilia", now in development was selected for the Short Form Station on the 2025 Berlinale. Eftychia is also a Berlinale 2025 Talent.

what it felt like - Jena Burchick
19:31, Digital and Super 8mm Color 2025
On June 18th, 2022, I took a test and found out that I was pregnant. Nearly one week later, the Supreme Court reversed the Roe decision ending the Constitutional right to abortion. As my pregnancy began to face critical challenges and the term "termination" became a very real consideration, my experience lived in parallel with the equally weighted guilt and privilege of living in Maryland; a state that would allow me to make the decision to keep or end my pregnancy. "what it felt like" is a short, self-reflexive documentary chronicling an autobiographical year in four trimesters through the visceral experience of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in a post Roe V. Wade era. With emphasis on reproductive autonomy and the storing and processing of trauma in the body, the film urges viewers to engage in the critical discussion of how we process our own experiences; what we encounter in silence and what we seldom speak truth to. The film guides viewers through a linear year-in-the-life, poetic verité paired with intimate and raw imagery which explores the convergence of digital smartphone applications (apps) and analog super 8mm celluloid film. The merging of these mediums reveals an intimate portrait of the often fragmented romanticization of memory and how we psychologically process our experiences.
Jena Burchick is a two-time regional Emmy award winning filmmaker, artist and educator from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a recipient of the 2025 University of Film & Video Association Excellence in Teaching Award, which celebrates and honors members who ignite a passion for learning among students through innovation, commitment to inclusive teaching, and demonstrate creative pedagogy for student engagement.

in place of a hollow tree - Eislow Johnson
8:00, Color 2024 digital
Migrating from the Amazon basin across northern Illinois, a flock of chimney swifts flutter without perching, using a natural form of radar to navigate. The pulse of infrasound from deep ocean waves vibrates the ground and emanates up, guiding the birds amid disrupted air.Open space heard becomes turbulent, resonant space. Various forms of tuning elicit a strained acoustic ecology between altitudes.
Eislow Johnson is a filmmaker, sound designer/mixer and educator based in Chicago. His practice engages with cinema as a sound art and as a way of navigating and responding to the world's vibration and instability. His films have screened at Prismatic Ground, L'Alternativa, Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Antimatter Media Art, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Light Matter Film Festival, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, and Cosmic Rays Film Festival, among others. He is currently an Arts Fellow in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University.

Alpine Tundra - Kathleen Rugh
5:35, Color 2025 16mm to digital
At an elevation of 14,264 feet above sea level, the peak of Mount Blue Sky is too harsh for trees and common vegetation. Instead, the ground is covered with fragile tundra grass, weak soil, and rock. In this harsh climate exists the highest paved road in North America, that allows visitors traveling by car to partake in striking views and a sense of awe in the extremes of nature.
Kathleen Rugh is a filmmaker and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her film and photographic work has been exhibited in screenings and galleries throughout the US and internationally, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Images Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Rugh is an Assistant Professor of Film at Kean University in Union, NJ. She has received funding for her films through the New York State Council on the Arts.
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