Saturday, October 11, 2025
4:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
CAMlab Harvard University
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Program Info
Built Environment
Program 04:
Co-programmed by
Ariel Hou, Sara Jordeno and Homa Sarabi
Saturday, October 11, 2025
4:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
RSVP info
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Built environments represent not only physical structures but also the social, psychological, cultural, and biological forces that shape them and, in turn, the lives and bodies of those who inhabit them.
The films in this program grapple with themes of surveillance, control and (im)mobility and the relationship between the structure of a house and the concept of home.
Buseok (부석) - Kyujae Park
17:40, 16mm, B&W and Color, 2024
Capitol Limited - Lily Ekimian Ragheb, Ahmed T Ragheb
2:00, Super 8mm, 8mm tape, Color, 2024
Clear - Hogan Seidel
6:20, 16mm color 2024
Like a spiral - Lamia Chraibi
28, 16mm color 2024
The Call - Kelly Sears
Digital, Color 2025
Ndu´na, sketches for building a home - Isay Peña
10:28, Black & White, Super 8 2025
Total: 64:08
Buseok (부석) - Kyujae Park
17:40, 16mm, B&W and Color, 2024
A man searches for memories of his family's past, alternating between Geomeunyeo, Buseok Temple, and his grandmother's house, all of which are located along a straight line on the map. Geomeunyeo is a rock located in the reclaimed area of Buseok, Seosan, South Korea. It was originally a reef that was exposed above sea level, but is now above ground. The name of Buseok, which means floating rock, is said to be derived from Geomeunyeo.
Park Kyujae is a South Korean filmmaker who primarily works with analog film media, exploring visual perception, materiality, and poetic imagery through 16mm filmmaking. His works have been screened internationally, including at Pesaro Film Festival, ARKIPEL (Jakarta), Prismatic Ground (New York), and EXiS (Seoul). His films are distributed by Light Cone in Paris, France. He also translates films for festivals and cinematheques and organizes screenings and events.
Capitol Limited - Lily Ekimian Ragheb, Ahmed T Ragheb
2:00, Super 8mm, 8mm tape Color, 2024
A wedding day, a tragedy, and an Amtrak train route are intertwined in this personal exploration of marriage and contemporary America.
Ahmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb are a married experimental filmmaking duo based in Pittsburgh, PA. Lily – American, Russian and Armenian – grew up between Washington, D.C.,
and Cairo, Egypt. Ahmed – Egyptian, Dutch and American – was born and raised in Cairo. Their films emphasize identity, feminism, cultural
dislocation and domestic relationships, and are noted for their use of voiceover and mixed media. Their work has screened at world-renowned and
Oscar-qualifying festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam (Tiger Short Competition), Cairo International Film Festival,
Uppsala Short Film Festival (Nominated, Ingmar Bergman Award) and Athens Int'l Film + Video Festival, as well as the Arab American National
Museum and the Mattress Factory Contemporary Art Museum. They have received artist residencies at the Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center
(Buffalo, NY, Summer 2024) and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE, Fall 2025), and were awarded the Gift to America 2.0 Artist
Commission (Millvale, PA, 2025-26) by the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka. Together they own the independent production
company Studio Ragheb.
Clear - Hogan Seidel
6:20, 16mm color 2024
Clear is a visceral confrontation with the illusion of "safety," where altered 16mm footage and layered audio reveal the quiet violence surveillance imposes on trans and gender-nonconforming bodies.
Hogan Seidel is a Boston-based artist working in the traditions of experimental film, photochemical abstraction, and botanical collage. Their current artistic research,
framed through poetic, political, and personal lenses, delves into contemporary queer discourse, queer history, and queer ecology.
Hogan currently teaches experimental analog filmmaking courses at MassArt, and darkroom photography at Simmons University.
Like a spiral - Lamia Chraibi
28, 16mm color 2024
Like a Spiral is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system.
Lamia Chraibi is a French-Moroccan filmmaker based in Montreal. She is particularly interested in the themes of social justice, identity, family and territory. She also deals with subjects related to body language and social art. The human being is at the heart of her approach. Her studies in social science (Sorbonne, Paris) and in documentary (INIS, Montreal) have shaped her sensitive and committed vision of the world. Her art is nourished by her identity questions, her migratory journey and her travels. Lamia's cinema is based on time and the trust established with the protagonists. With a poetic approach, her camera gives a voice to the forgotten from diverse backgrounds.
The Call - Kelly Sears
Digital, Color 2025
"A rebellion has been building for decades. The Call is an eco-revenge film featuring unlikely instigators who were observed and filmed over three years at airports across the United States.
This is a call to action."
Kelly Sears is a filmmaker whose work explores communication, connection, and the relationship between built spaces and human interaction.
Ndu´na, sketches for building a home - Isay Peña
10:28, Black & White, Super 8 2025
During the construction of a house, my father reflects on family, belonging, the notion of "home" and the search for his place in the world.
Filmed in Super 8, this documentary seeks to evoke nostalgia and the impermanence of memories while exploring the relationship between physical space and human identity.
Isay Peña is a Mexican director and cinematographer graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City.
In 2012 he completed the Diploma in "Digital Cinematography" at Golem Film School and in 2014 he was accepted in the Diploma
in "Literary Creation" at the School of the General Society of Writers of Mexico, SOGEM.
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