Program 07:
Co-programmed by
Sarah Keller & Natalie Minik
Sunday, October 12, 2025
2:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP

CAMlab Harvard University
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138

Listen to the Wind gathers six films that move across physical and psychic terrains—weathered communes, haunted coastlines, gestures of reclamation, and whispers from the past. These works trace the fragile boundary between the seen and the felt, the real and the remembered.

Monument - Jeremy Drummond
17:24, Super 8mm/Digital, 2025 Color

Rain - Vasilios Papaioannu
6:01, 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, HD, 2024 Black & White and Color

Intruders - Jan Locus
6:05, Black & White, Digital 2025

The Phalanx - Benjamin Balcom
13:30, 16mm color 2025

In the Maritime Frequencies - Greta M Snider
15:00, 16mm color 2025

Sulfur - Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes
14:44, Digital, Color 2024

Total: 78:24

Monument - Jeremy Drummond
17:24, Super 8mm/Digital 2025 Color

Beginning in ghostly abstraction and accumulating texture by texture into a droning meditative trance, Monument deepens to a visual and sonic intensity, mixing Super 8 film with video footage to create a complicated, multilayered encounter with the tension of protest and reclamation. A vivid and energetic durational experience of collective resistance and celebration.

Jeremy Drummond is an artist, filmmaker, field recorder, and film/video programmer who was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew-up in Vancouver, British Colombia and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Drummond currently lives in Richmond, Virginia where teaches experimental film, video art, and alternative media at the University of Richmond. Rooted in single-channel film and video, Drummond's work is positioned between documentary and experimental media and extends across photography, sound, and installation. At the core of his practice is interdisciplinary research and a commitment to sustained, first-person fieldwork that explores cultural, historical, and socio-political relationships between people and place.

Rain - Vasilios Papaioannu
6:01, 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, HD, 2024 Black & White and Color

Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people.

Vasilios Papaioannu is a filmmaker, photographer and mixed media artist currently based in Washington, DC. In his work Papaioannu explores the fleeting dreamscapes of reality using noise, movement and disturbance. He hybridizes different modes of filmmaking, unifying variegated media, primarily 16mm film, digital video and archival footage. His works have been shown in various venues around the world, such as Crossroads at SFMOMA, Anthology Film Archives, Athens International Film + Video Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Festifreak, Analogica, Cámara Lúcida, Engauge Film Festival, EXiS, L' Alternativa, Antimatter [media art], Montreal Underground Film Festival, Revelation Perth Film Festival and Sharjah Film Platform. Papaioannu holds an MA in Communication, Text Semiotics and Cinema from the University of Siena in Italy and an MFA in Film and Cinematography from Syracuse University in New York. Papaioannu is currently an Assistant Professor at the Cathy Hughes School of Communications, Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Howard University.

Intruders - Jan Locus
6:05, Black & White, Digital 2025

In an elongated pan, mountain landscapes and misty images of animals are presented in an ethereal, ghostly way. Locus uses found footage black and white photographs of UFO observations from the 1950s and 60s. The UFOs are removed from these photos to seamlessly merge the remaining landscapes. Unforeseen animal death, often reported in UFO sightings, serves as a metaphor for human influence on nature. Intruders explores the boundary between science fiction and reality, investigating themes of reverse colonization, ecology, and human environmental impact.

Spanning the mediums of experimental film, photography, and sound, his work often revolves around landscape as a tool in the creation of national and social identities, landscapes altered by extraction and industrialization. His films have been shown at film festivals such as Asolo Art Film Festival (IT), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (DE), Crossroads, San Francisco (US), Underneath the Floorboards, Media Art/ Experimental Film, London (UK), FIFA, Montreal (CA), IFFR Rotterdam (NL), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (FR/DE) and ANTIMATTER [Media Art], Victoria (CA) among others.

The Phalanx - Benjamin Balcom
13:30, 16mm color 2025

Filmed on the former site of Ceresco, a 19th-century agrarian commune in Ripon, Wisconsin, this lyrical, experimental film revisits the utopian aspirations of a community striving to live "in association," guided by principles of harmony and shared ownership. Founded in 1844 and disbanded in 1851, Ceresco was one of several communes across North America inspired by the writings of French philosopher Charles Fourier. These fleeting but potent attempts to imagine alternative ways of living now serve as a lens to explore the fragility of collective ideals.

Benjamin Balcom is a filmmaker whose work explores formation, structure, and the relationship between individual and collective movement.

In the Maritime Frequencies - Greta M Snider
15:00, 16mm color 2025

We'll remember the earth as if it were a dream. For the past year, I have been working on a project exploring the coastal landscapes of San Francisco, using darkroom developers made from the solutions of our times - bay water, hand sanitizer, and "safe" detergent. The resultant movie is a conversation about how we internalize our climate emergency, letting mortalities large and small emerge only when the night puts our guard down. Inspired by the San Francisco Bay, dreams, and novelist Octavia Butler's vision of a future California. This film embraces the aesthetics of a crumbling society – expired and cast off film, backyard developing, hand cranked camera – because it is a premonition, a goodbye, and a last look over the shoulder.

Greta M Snider is a filmmaker whose work explores maritime environments, frequencies, and the relationship between sound and oceanic space.

Sulfur - Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes
14:44, Digital, Color 2024

I am the dead. I am the living.

Karen Akerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes work together since 2010, with film and video, mixing fiction, documentary and experimental. Karen works mainly as a film editor [films and series], Miguel as a screenwriter and analog collage artist.