Lineup

Extra Life (and Decay) | Stéphanie Lagarde

The everyday, the planetary, and their shared symphony tangle together to form an overgrown house, finding an “oikos” in “ecology” and taking into consideration family and labor politics that might escape calculability.  

in place of a hollow tree | Eislow Johnson

A flock of chimney swifts migrate from the Amazon basin across northern Illinois, interacting with infrasonic pulse from deep ocean waves as they feel their way.

Serene Hues | Rita Tse

Underwater and above for air, movements of flora are choreographed in a hand-processed whirl, solarized effects spreading like algae. 

Lacuna  | Carlo Nasisse, Shirley He

A free-flowing documentary that wades in the remembered waters of California’s ancient Tulare Lake, now drained to dry valley and residual wetlands, observing industrial processes that shape the land and the living beings that call the area home. 

Distant Early Warning | Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli

Archival 8mm footage documents Bell Telephone’s 1955 construction of a nuclear warning system at the far reaches of the earth––Alaska’s Aleutian Islands––where machinery swings wide, laborers hack the ice, fish glisten like wet tallies in the snow, and digital manipulation tips the filmmaker’s hand.

A Light Unseen | James Sansing

Camera and spider form a bond through intricate light manipulation, splaying open a new way of seeing.