Dir: MaLo Sutra Fish
3:51
France

This music video is the second of a series started in 2022, consisting of capturing live musicians from the American Independent Scene. Using a specific experimental cinema technique for each, all these films are uniquely handmade: hand processed and edited by MaLo Sutra Fish. Performance at its core, may it be musically or cinematographically.

Dir: Nat Cruz
4:03
United States (local!)

A strange tape that details the rules and guidelines followed by a new religious community back in the 1980s has been discovered. At first, the guidelines seem innocent; be kind, respect, etc…. But as the list continues the instructions begin to get darker and more twisted, revealing the group's anti-environmental messages. Rules that outlaw recycling, encourage pollution, and praise certain celebrities for their particularly large carbon footprints. They welcome the destruction of the natural world with open arms.

Dir: Charles Dillon Ward
2:25
United States

An experimental short about a request to be forgotten, the messy deletion of bodies from photo albums, the faint remains of digital ghosts from the late 2000s, the impossibility of invisibility, and the permanence of the internet.

Dir: Narges Elahi
15:00
Iran

This film is narrated by a female painter who lives with her dead fetus in a remote house and tries to overcome this loss...!

Dir: Jesseca Ynez Simmons
6:06
United States

In 'Heaven in a Wild Flower' we immerse ourselves in a lyrical exploration of the perilous consequences of pesticides on bees and their intricate ecosystem. In a mesmerizing microscopic world, science meets artistry, fraught with danger and beauty.

Dir: Josh Park
13:45
United States

As she cares for her ailing mother, a peasant woman tells the story of three men who perpetrated Korea's national grief.

Dir: Vasilios Papaioannu
6:00
United States

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.

Dir: Bernhard Hetzenauer
30:00
Mexico

In breathtaking words, the Mexican Germán López Rosales describes his experiences of a human smuggling operation from the US border town of Laredo to San Antonio, Texas. Next to Germán, locked up inside the cargo area of a tractor-trailer, eight of the 39 migrants died that day due to the intense heat and lack of water. Two others passed away later in hospital.