The works span documentary, archival, and digital modes, tracing themes of colonial memory, ecological fragility, digital identity, disability, and transpecies kinship. Each film was selected through an open call for video art shared online.

The Insufferable Whiteness of Being by Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo + Emily Martinez)

12:30 min

As crypto-rich investors relocate to Puerto Rico to build a new crypto-utopia called “Sol” (formally, “Puertopia”), The Insufferable Whiteness of Being considers their utopian vision within the larger historical context of colonialism and exploitation on the island. The video combines text drawn from online, comment-thread arguments about the island’s future with images of Puerto Rico from Western art history, travel and tourism videos, U.S. military training documentation, luxury real estate tours, and post-hurricane Maria drone footage.

Genesis (Egging) by Aya Bundurakis

4:40 min

A short film about birthing, nurturing, and offering the body as a site of nourishment and yuminess —for others. Genesis explores how it feels to be an egg, or to give birth to one, through demonstrative, scientific, culinary, and ethnographic lenses. Eggy worlds unfold across land, sea, and vertebrate holes where yolk, placenta, and cream, converge in a sensorial cycle of life & transpecies labor.

To Know Me Is To Know You by Leah Byck

12:23 min

To Know Me Is To Know You is about the disabled community, the mentally ill, and the neurodivergent individuals that all feel part of this community. The film is told from real perspectives and viewpoints of the community.

Swimming Lesson by Vardit Goldner

5:12 min

Swimming Lesson is a mockumentary film in which Bedouin girls are taught to swim in a waterless "pool." The work deals with the lack of swimming pools accessible to Bedouins in Israel — a product of institutionalized racism that stems from colonialism — which denies them swimming lessons and causes frequent cases of drowning. There are over 200,000 Arab-Bedouins living in the Negev region of Israel today, with access to one single swimming pool inaugurated in the Bedouin town of Rahat in 2018. Bedouins are not allowed to enter swimming pools in Jewish localities. The film raises awareness of this discrimination as an example of a much wider system of apartheid, while also looking toward a future world where a shortage of water due to global warming, drought, and evaporation compounds these injustices further.

Exquisite Corpse by Karl Kaisel

7 min

Inspired by the surrealist game of "exquisite corpse," the film pieces together the story of a Harris mud crab who is a new species in these waters since 2011. This lone crab becomes an entry point into a layered story of “invasive species”, their role in disrupted ecosystems, and the questions they raise about human values in a world of constant environmental flux.

Notes from Silences by Alexandra Kumala

14:15 min

Notes from Silences' gathers fractured memories from Vieques and Bali, two islands on opposite ends of the world that seem like "paradise fantasy" on the surface, but conceal a common buried history. Unplanned footage, photographs, and snippets of voice recordings intertwine with the sounds of nonhuman kin that bore witness when humans choose to forget. Beneath what seems to be banalities of everyday life, lies the loudest echo of violence: the silences people continue to keep.

Sebastian by Jihyun Lee

8:30 min

Sebastian follows Jihyun Lee's time residing in Mexico City, where the artist found herself encountering people first as searchable names rather than as embodied presences, and opening digital maps before walking through the city. Relationships began to form through search functions rather than through conversation. Mexico City, like Korea, is shaped by layered histories of colonialism and development, as well as by informal economies, migration, and environmental precarity. Yet within Google Street View, the city is stabilized and flattened into a vehicle-centered archive. In this recorded landscape, the artist repeatedly searches for "Sebastián," one of the most common male names in Mexico. What begins as an attempt to locate a single individual gradually dissolves into a traversal of images, infrastructures, and environmental traces. The video opens with "I'm looking for him," and ends with "I found them" — a shift marking the moment a singular gaze disperses into multiple presences, human and nonhuman, embedded within urban ecologies.

(null) by Lilian C. Scheuer

3:42 min

(null) is an audiovisual translation of contemporary existential questions and the overwhelming identity crisis of the post-modern age. Screenshots and screen recordings of various websites, QR codes, memes and GIFs—consisting entirely of digital footage, it explores the conflicted perspectives between digital nihilism and post-ironic god complex, reflecting the cryptic contemplation on our desperate search for a purpose.

Someday it Will Fall by Máte Vargas

15 min

From the mouth of the Rio Bravo in the Gulf of Mexico to the beaches of Tijuana along the Pacific Ocean, two girls play on separate ends of the U.S. Mexico border thousands of kilometers apart.