PROGRAM 1: MASS EXTINCTION PSYCHODRAMA
Streaming June 9 – 13, Artist Q&A on Wednesday, June 9 at 9:00 pm

The families we choose and the families we are born into carry their own sense of time. Using a mixture of found footage and original images, these works capture the infinite permutations of the family time in the face of political and economic projects intended to render them meaningless. Throughout the program, filmmakers weather personal crises, celebrate the revolutionary potential of love, and recognize the time passing.

This Isn't a Conversation

Humour and misery are juxtaposed as a response to the current political climate, and environmental catastrophe.

Kathryn Mockler
Canada, 2020, 06:00 mins

Animal Trials

Sifting through blurred images, animal attacks, and survivalist fever dreams, two friends discover true-crime connections between the owl theory and the origin of evil on election night. 

Drew Durepos
United States, 2021, 19:00 mins

Passage

A foley artist creates sounds for a film featuring a dressage horse and dissolves into their own imitation. Featuring Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau.

Ann Oren
Germany, 2020, 13:00 mins

Civil Twilight at the Vernal Equinox

What would another world look like, one that is carried by this feeling of empathy, of mutual love between humans and animals, between species? How would our relationship with a largely domesticated nature and environment change? How would established relationships of power and strength be redefined with this thought? —Tasja Langenbach

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
United States, 2021, 12:00 mins

Birdsaver Report Volume 1

The audience encounters a report in blue pages discussing the death of wild birds caused by collisions with transparent soundproof walls. While birds fly towards a transparent wall, what is the audience colliding with?

Heehyun Choi
South Korea/United States, 2020, 08:00 mins