Program 05:
Co-programmed by
Robert Harris & Shira Segal

Saturday, October 11, 2025
7:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
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lessons on flight - Cecilia Araneda
4:27, 16mm color 2024

Redwood Souvenirs - John Winn
5:00, Digital, Color 2025

Gan Tang, The Lake (甘棠，湖) - Tianming Zhou
13:48, Digital, Color 2024

Shades of Blue - Antoni Orlof
12:38, 16mm, B&W and Color, 2024

Vigile - Pierre Lefrançois Vérove
12:28, Digital, Color 2023

Snow - Hai-Li Kong
10:22, Color

Resistance Meditation - Sara Wylie
4:58, Super 8mm Color, 2024

Dark Light - Gloria Chung
11:30, Digital, Color 2025

Total: 74:31

lessons on flight - Cecilia Araneda
4:27, 16mm color 2024

Shot on 16 mm film, eco-processed with olives and hand coloured on site in rural Chile, lessons on flight examines the flight patterns of the green-backed firecrown hummingbird.

Winnipeg-based Chilean-Canadian filmmaker Cecilia Araneda's works have screened at venues such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Reél, Ann Arbor, Images, Jihlava, TIFF Wavelengths, Anthology Film Archives and Maysles Documentary Center. Aesthetically, Araneda's art practice is strongly rooted in the examination of private and public memory as it connects to identity, consciously working against the idea of the fully controlled image. Most well-known her work in analogue film, Araneda works in experimental, documentary and fiction forms.

Redwood Souvenirs - John Winn
5:00, Digital, Color 2025

Time spent house-sitting for Fredric Jameson from 2020 until 2022. Assembled after his death as a memento for myself and others.

John Winn has screened his work at numerous festivals, galleries, and microcinemas, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Laterale Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, and Cosmic Rays Film Festival.

Gan Tang, The Lake (甘棠，湖) - Tianming Zhou
13:48, Digital, Color 2024

In the summer of 2023, the government of Jiujiang launched the Gan Tang Lake Cleansing Project. Within weeks, this ancient lake with over two millennia of history was drained. Nearby in Gan Tang Park, a boy wakes up in the rain. There, the destiny of Gan Tang awaits.

Tianming Zhou (Alaric) works with lens-based media. He explores the within, the beyond, and the in-between of the landscapes, both physical and conceptual. His works have been or will be showcased at Oxford Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Non-Syntax, Wide Open Exp. Film Festival, Leiden Shorts, etc. Tianming completed his undergraduate studies at The University of Hong Kong and earned an MFA from Duke University. He is also a recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant 2024.

Shades of Blue - Antoni Orlof
12:38, 16mm, B&W and Color, 2024

Taking a moment to look back, longing. These images, the cutouts of life. A quiet absence comes in with the light. Only my inabilities and a glimpse of hope remain.

Antoni Orlof, born in 2002, is a filmmaker based in Warsaw, Poland. His artistic practice explores the poetic and narrative possibilities of images, as well as complex editing structures, and their ability to create meaning. Driven by a fascination with light, time, memory and symbols his work delves into themes of memory, transience, and personal experiences.

Vigile - Pierre Lefrançois Vérove
12:28, Digital, Color 2023

When night falls, the city exists only in halos. Vigil or guardian, you must keep watch among the shadows, confusing tiredness with sleep, night after night, scrutinising the darkness even if it means opening a breach in it and stirring the invisible.

Pierre Lefrançois Vérove is a filmmaker whose work explores vigilance, observation, and the relationship between watching and understanding.

Snow - Hai-Li Kong
10:22, Color

Over the phone, my mother reads and explains the inspiration behind the poem, "Snow". As she speaks, family stories spill out illustrating our messy immigration path and the diversity of the Chinese diaspora. The result is an intimate glimpse into how a splintered family can still connect over the frosty element—snow.

Hai-Li Kong 邝海黎 is a filmmaker and editor who works mainly in the documentary space. She is passionate about stories involving immigration, Asian diaspora, and intergenerational narratives, as shown through her involvement with Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) and Think!Chinatown.

Resistance Meditation - Sara Wylie
4:58, Super 8mm Color, 2024

A meditation on crip time and resistance by a chronically ill filmmaker, shot on Super 8 and (mostly) eco-processed by hand. The work addresses conventional narratives around the nature of illness and instead posits disability and crip time as sites of resistance.

Sara Wylie (she/they) is a disabled filmmaker, producer and researcher from the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (aka Vancouver, BC). Her work focuses on archives and counter-archives, radical histories, embodied methodologies, disabled ecologies and crip intimacies.