FLORE
FLORE
Emily Sasmor
Linden Beer
Eden Attar
"Linden Beer" tells a story of queer trans friendship around the seasonal act of collecting linden flowers. This film is a live recording of a reading of the story's text, written in Orca---an esoteric programming language for generating musical MIDI signals, in which every capital letter of the alphabet is an operator. Stretching the intended use of the language, "Linden Beer" is a story whose words create their own sonic and visual accompaniment.
Zoonomia
Yeon Jin Kim
Zoonomia proceeds from the notion that if the rules that govern our universe and determine how it develops were altered, what we see around us would be profoundly different. Efforts to understand and represent foundational premises have driven humankind and are ongoing - explorations involving the Fibonacci sequence, the Riemann hypothesis, Feynman diagrams, Quantum physics, Hadron colliders, Darwinian evolution, etc. Zoonomia represents an imaginative investigation into how things might have evolved if events had followed a slightly different trajectory, allowing for hybrids of existing organisms, the return of extinct species and unpredictable motivations, interactions and outcomes. All the inhabitants are monsters in a sense. None of them belong comfortably in their environment or with each other. Interactions are charged, outcomes unpredictable. Meaning is elusive or non-existent.
The Gatekeepers
Zen Cohen
This eco-mythological video project was made in collaboration with performance artists who created visual personas based on the intersections of their own trans-cultural, and spiritual identities. The culmination of this footage as an installation is an attempt to magnify and illuminate these personas—to create a mythology inhabited by new idols and archetypes wherein these personas, or gates, are seen as symbolic figures at the threshold between the human and non-human world. Performers appear enacting rituals that merge body and land juxtaposed with layers of visual and auditory symbols. In other moments, the performers directly confront the viewer, staring towards the fourth wall. This convergence of projection and viewer initiates an awareness that Nature is not something outside the Self but inherently linked to persona.
THE STIGMA FOG SAINT Wards Off Extinction
Angie Jennings
THE STIGMA FOG SAINT Wards Off Extinction, documents THE STIGMA FOG SAINT engaging with tapestries representing the natural elements of fire, water, aether and earth in a Southern Californian backyard in hopes of saving us from destruction and doom.
Field Dances
Muyassar Kurdi
Field Dances is a short experimental 16mm dance film exploring embodiment, space, and anatomy. Contrasting sweeping fields with intimate close-ups, it captures a woman's frenzied, hysterical running amidst barren apple orchards, alongside nuanced studies of the human form. Recontextualizing hysteria through a woman's lens, the film weaves together ecology, movement and the body.
I Get to Have My Own Private Hope
Yue Nakayama
Fish and Pigeon go on a quest in search of the meaning of “work” prompted by the news of the extinction of bananas, and rent that’s passed due. The piece questions today’s work conditions and societal structure through the precarity of Fish’s life and disappearing bananas.
Fleeting but Prolonged
Yueting Wu
Fleeting but Prolonged is a video project capturing my body in a heightened state of transformation and becoming. Being in front of a camera, I tried to synchronize my eye movements with those of various animal species. A light was put in front of my eyes to change my pupil dilation to simulate the different species. Through durational exhaustion and subversion of my body’s automatic function, I seek a new form of existence and the unity of being.
Mad World 24
Claywoman, Esther The Bipedal Entity, Untitled Queen, and Jessamess
Claywoman: Thoughts on Earth
Claywoman
Claywoman & David Aliperti
Claywoman