Split Horizon - Lauren Marie Dake
10:08, 16mm to Digital, Color, 2025

Split Horizon is an optically printed 16mm impressionistic handmade film. Using found home movies and travel films from the 1960’s, I respond to the material through collage, painting, and abstraction directly onto film, aiming to create a psychological traversal across a vast unknown. Landscape acts as a basis for exploration, and characters emerge and descend, representing the self or the other. The onscreen horizon is often literally split; the characters and places become a mirror for one another, meditating on our own ability to contain multiple versions of self, identity, and internal narratives about our own stories, paths and histories.

Lauren Marie Dake is an experimental filmmaker and educator from Seattle. Her practice centers on notions of escape, chaos, the uncanny, and the ethereal. She is fascinated with the world-building potential of handmade and cameraless cinema and experiments with direct animation onto 16mm films, where she engages in an ongoing attempt to create new realities within the dimension of the frame. Lauren’s short films have recently screened at the MicroActs Artist Film Screenings in London, the International Avant-Garde Film Festival in New York.

Catching One's Breath - Benjamin Stone
8:14, Digital to 16mm to Digital, Color, 2025

Displeasure in the colors. Discord in the hums and waves. The visual and material planes are not a sanctuary: Indeed they are a spotlight. What is sacrificed for our security and the comfort of a pleasing image? Images/Optical sound printed on clear leader.

Benjamin Stone is an experimental video maker, collagist, and expanded cinema whose works oscillate between the profoundly intimate and the emphatically militant. These disparate intentions demand the viewer to lean in and explore the image/soundscape

Sunspots - Abinadi Meza
5:47, 16mm to Digital, Color, 2024, Mexico/USA

A tactile 16mm direct animation. Sunspots is an elemental inquiry into the paradox of vision; it is the attempt to look at what cannot be seen. Created through camera-less direct animation on two 100-foot 16mm rolls, the work exists as a state of radioactive weather. Saturated oranges and solar yellows evoke the turbulence of a coronal mass ejection. This energy is countered by dense, branching vascular networks. Dark, necrotic apertures drift across a field of electric magenta and cyan. This optical intensity is met by a swarm of high-energy sonic particles. Bell-like tones ring out with a distinct "sonic heat." Charged with planetary electromagnetism, the soundscape operates as a granular, stochastic field. Sunspots is a total work. It is a cinematic meditation on the blinding proximity of the infinite.

Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous (Otomí - México) filmmaker, artist, and composer. His practice investigates the intersection of architecture, phenomenology, and the materiality of the moving image. His work is defined by a "Total Work" approach to 16mm film. He utilizes direct, cameraless processes to create non-representational sensory experiences. Meza is a Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Art. His work has been presented at leading international institutions including the Walker Art Center, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. His films have been showcased at premier international platforms including Vorspiel / Transmediale & CTM (Berlin), Kassel Dokfest, and the Beijing International Short Film Festival. He has screened at high-profile industry festivals including the New Orleans Film Festival and Atlanta Film Festival. His work has also screened at specialized experimental venues such as Anthology Film Archives, Crossroads, and Antimatter.

5-cent American Flag - Vito A. Rowlands
6:15, Digital, Color, 2024, Belgium/USA

A cryptopolitical forensic investigation of the JFK assassination through acoustic ballistics and signs embedded into 1963 5-cent American flag stamps.

Vito A. Rowlands is a Belgian filmmaker and scholar. He is an instructor at Brooklyn cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware and an Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His first feature is the Metamorphoses-inspired "Ovid, New York" (2024).

Torii - Martin Gerigk
12:00, Digital, Color, 2024, Germany

Torii 鳥居 is a short film in the form of an audiovisual composition about the traditional Shinto gates of the same name in Japan. The film uses these gates which symbolically mark the transition from the mundane to the sacred as representatives of a personal synaesthetic and spiritual journey through five levels of consciousness, traveling from existentialism to metaphysics, abstraction, and the Shinto deities called Kami, culminating in a final transition that weaves together these diverse philosophical threads.

Martin Gerigk is a composer of contemporary music. His repertoire includes compositions for orchestra and chamber music, as well as several solo concertos. His compositions are performed nationally and internationally including in Korea, Japan, USA, England, Finland, Austria and Switzerland. In this context he works together with renowned international soloists and ensembles

Analogy of Light - Elian Mikkola
9:00, 35mm to Digital, Color, 2025, Finland/Canada

A woman, once trapped inside a 35mm frame, is waiting to be seen. Light informs the image, reproducing a new form of life in this dance of pixels on analogue skin. By working through multiple facets of the cinematic apparatus, Analogy of Light is a transfeminist dissection of a single film frame.

Elian Mikkola is a Finnish Moving Image Artist (of Karelian descent), and a white settler currently based between Treaty 4, Regina, and Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), Canada. Originally from Turku, Finland, Mikkola holds a BA in Journalism from Tampere University. They completed their MFA in Media Production in 2019 at the University of Regina. Mikkola works closely with both analogue and digital mediums and explores themes such as memory, spatial dependencies and queer belonging. They’ve done extensive research in the field of eco-processed film since 2017.

Anime - Derrick Schultz
6:00, Digital, Color, 2025

Moving Manga. An experimental film made by contact printing tone texture sheets to 16mm film.

Abigail Smith is a collage artist, field recordist, experimental filmmaker, archivist and master librarian based in Santa Fe New Mexico. Smith is a co-founder of No Name Cinema and performs flute and percussion in the expanded cinema trio, K/S/R.

Memo - Brian Gray
12:00,16mm to Digital, Color, 2025

hyperbolic materialism, 16mm optical-printing, direct-to-film interrogation and found-footage assemblage.This is a digitization of a work that is intended for a live projection with an accompanying improvised modular synthesizer performance.Each screening changes the material conditions of the celluloid and each performance of the soundtrack is equally unique, creating a singular analog audio-visual experience with every viewing.

Super, Natural - Kyath Battie
7:24, 16mm/ Digital, Color, 2025, Canada

Vancouver Island, supernatural by construct and memory, is experienced though landscapes represented by colonial icons, mysterious brilliant fountains, and a curious peacock. A tableaux of sorts, each encounter is singular yet united by stunning and devastated beauty.

Kyath Battie’s work often explores nocturnal spaces and fictionalized encounters, examining the duality of realism and fantasy, through hybrid fiction and intimate non-fiction portraits. Working fluently in 16mm, photo-chemical processes, and digital forms, her work often embodies story elements such as tension and anticipation through acute site-specific cinematography and soundscapes.