Friday, October 11, 2025
2:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
CAMlab Harvard University
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Program Info
Flying Land
Program 03:
Co-programmed by
Ariel Hou, Sara Jordeno and Homa Sarabi
Saturday, October 11, 2025
2:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
RSVP info
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138
In human geography, flying land refers to a territory that belongs elsewhere while existing within or apart from another, disrupting fixed boundaries of belonging.
It embodies liminality, symbolic space, and constrained mobility, revealing how boundaries and belonging are never permanent but constantly negotiated.
The films in this program explore fractured landscapes, unstable infrastructures, and atmospheric thresholds, each staging an enclave of perception where the relation between inside and outside is reimagined.
La Colle Falls - Mike Rollo
10:40, 16mm, B&W and Color 2025
Study for Structure/ Dialogues, Surnames - Micah H. Weber
22:21, Digital, Color
Suspicions About the Hidden Realities of Air - Sam Drake
9:07, 16mm, B&W and Color 2025
This Immeasurable Sea - Alex Broadwell
13:42, 16mm to Digital, B&W and Color 2025
I Carry the Universe With Me - Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
21:20, 16mm, B&W and Color, 2024
Total: 77:10
La Colle Falls - Mike Rollo
10:40, 16mm, B&W and Color 2025
At the turn of the 20th century, a hydroelectric dam was partially built and later abandoned on the North Saskatchewan River near the city of Prince Albert. A century has passed and the concrete structures from this industrial folly continue to frame the surrounding river and forest. Through visual and sonic layerings of water, reflective surfaces, and transparency, this film mediates the consequences of colonial activity over time in a specific, ancient place.
Mike Rollo's photochemical practice explores alternative approaches to non-fiction cinema. His films are place-based, focusing on landscapes, rural industries, and communication cultures, incorporating ecological thinking and mindfulness regarding shifts, conflicts, and negotiations related to themes of obsolescence, age, and decay. Mike has exhibited films at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Los Angeles Film Forum, San Francisco Cinematheque, and Rotterdam International Film Festival. Mike teaches film production at the University of Regina.
Study for Structure/ Dialogues, Surnames - Micah H. Weber
22:21, Digital, Color
Pensive signs of life, the demolition of a historic hotel, and the hum of a nearby steel mill, permeate this quietly crushing essay film on class relations, mental illness, and institutional violence. Where the impersonal is pervasive, the personal is a discursive study of image and sound; dissolving narratives of progress/collapse; drawing on the (in)compatibilities between images of refusal and their respective representations. This is the story of a protracted shipwreck that is both labyrinthine and foreclosing.
Micah Weber (b. 1985 - they/them) is an independent artist and filmmaker based in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Their work in moving images has screened at the
European Media Art Festival ('24); International Film Festival Rotterdam ('24); FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter ('19 & '22); the Ann Arbor Film Festival
('16 & '22); Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival ('19); the London International Animation Festival ('21); and the Ottawa International Animation Festival
('21); as well as many other wonderful places around the world.
Suspicions About the Hidden Realities of Air - Sam Drake
9:07, 16mm, B&W,and Color 2025
Fragmented records reveal a concealed history of Cold War–era human radiation experiments, surfacing through a haze of manipulation and embedded studies. Desert dust settles into teeth, inscribing a residual record. Contaminated images conjure the unseen.
Sam Drake is a filmmaker whose work explores atmospheric phenomena, invisible forces, and the mysteries of air and space.
This Immeasurable Sea - Alex Broadwell
13:42, 16mm to Digital, B&W and Color 2025
An author finishes one book and plans another, aiming to convey her disillusionment with common understandings of time. An interleaved puzzle-box collage of literary and cinematic echoes, amid fluid landscapes of a western coast.
Alex Broadwell is an American filmmaker originally from Farmville, North Carolina working in both analog and extremely digital formats in hybrid genres.
His film/video works explore the tangled quality of time and the dialectic of experience and reflection.
I Carry the Universe With Me - Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
21:20, 16mm, B&W and Color, 2024
In a future dominated by technological images, how will human culture be rewritten? Will history be reset? Is the land beneath my feet still habitable? Is the sky the same sky? I was curious about how artificial intelligence described the images I took of the world. Here a cow is seen as a horse, and a boat is seen as a vase. Realities and hyperrealities are woven together as if this is the prototype of the myth of modern life.
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work is grounded in experimental literature, the conceptual avant-garde, and philosophy.
Liu's works are concerned with materiality in different contexts and eras, as well as its transformation, symbolism, decay, and emotional resonance.
For Liu materiality includes both living and inanimate matter. Through film, poetry, painting, sculpture, and other media,
she reflects the light and darkness of the world she lives in. Her films have been shown at international film festivals and museums,
including Edinburgh International Film Festival, Helsinki Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Tokyo Image Forum,
Women Make Waves Int'l Film Festival, Taiwan, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, The Museum of Kyoto, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
among others.
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