Alberta's Room
| Belgium/Rwanda, 17:35, 2023 |
- Victoire Karera Kampire

Alberta's Room is a journey into the dreams and nightmares of Alberta Gay. The film looks back at a pop icon's tragic fate, exploring a female perspective on a tragedy that has been described as a man's business. Alberta's Room is an experimental film about absence and grief, straddling the border between documentary and fiction.

Victoire Karera Kampire is a Belgian and Rwandan filmmaker and sound designer. At the heart of her artistic quest is the notion of absence filling her films - places of hallucinated archives and experimentation at the border of documentary and fiction - with ghostly presences.

Second Notes
|United States, 4:26, 2024 |
- Julia Petrocelli

A film that is composed entirely from words found on notes app screenshots sent to me via Instagram DM. By taking the second note on each list, the words were compiled and arranged by the filmmaker. In many ways the film is a conversation between the artist and its participants. The film was printed on a LaserJet printer on clear 16mm leader.

Julia Petrocelli is a curator and artist based in Boston and NYC. She studied at Tufts SMFA with a focus in fine art and experimental filmmaking. She has curated shows at Bromfield Gallery and subcentral in Boston and her new film I-80 is being exhibited in the FluxusMuseum in Paros, Greece. She likes Natalia Ginzburg, root beer, and structural films.

Water Music for Ryōkan Taigu
| Canada, 3:57, 2024 |
- Luka Kuplowskys

An embodied sound-image response to the Zen poet Ryōkan Taigu. Dance by Noriko Yamamato and music by Germaine Liu.

Luka Kuplowsky musician, filmmaker, academic.
Luka Kuplowsky makes a music of contemplation, a music alive to the everyday possibilities of epiphany and revelation, an unhurried music that moves with the gentle and curving rhythms of thought.

Letter From A Madman
| China/United States, 6:46, 2024 |
- Runfeng Qiu

A digital translation of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman (1918), exploring the power dynamics of language (text—sound—image) and sound (noise—language—music).

Runfeng Qiu
Animator/filmmaker. His work tries to explore the psychological effects of information overload and the fragmented correlation between history, imagination, and perception. He received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Dinner Building
| United States, 3:54, 2024 |
- Carter J. Hiett

Inspired by the ramblings of 19th-century novelist W. Teignmouth Shore, Dinner Building is a microscopic meditation on gastronomic preparation.

Carter J. Hiett is an experimental filmmaker and cinematographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. His work is an aesthetic love letter to celluloid, using the medium's physical, chemical, and technical properties to take the viewer through strange, forgotten, and unnoticed places. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2024 with a BFA in Film Animation and Video.

Growing Up Absurd
| United States, 15:00, 2023 |
- Ben Balcom

Growing Up Absurd is assembled from interviews conducted remotely with key members of the Tolstoy College community that speak to the ethos and history of the college, from its founding in 1969 to its dissolution in 1985. College F, known colloquially as Tolstoy College, was an anarchist educational community which operated within the University at Buffalo between 1969 and 1985. At once a sweeping portrayal of the college’s meeting places and the state of the campus today, Growing Up Absurd layers memories and traces of history to convey the lived experiences of its participants.

Ben Balcom is a filmmaker and educator currently living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is the co-founder and programmer of Microlights Cinema, an artist-run microcinema which has been operating since 2013 and has hosted artists from around the world.