Lineup

Full Out | Sarah Ballard

A 16mm dérive through the tacit embodied knowledge of mass hysteria, bending an arc-in-circle posture across time from a 19th century Parisian medical stage to contemporary cheerleaders on the gymnasium floor. 

eyes closed see stars | josh brainin

Shot on Hi8 and VHS tape, a surreal coming-of-age dance is cloaked in lace and datamosh, staggering under the influence of a mysterious cordial and crawling into Lake Michigan. 

The Act of Not Seeing with One's Own Eyes | Markus Maicher

The real and undulating journey of a swallowed camera through the filmmaker’s gut, seeking out clairvoyant flickers and hypnotic agitation in the throes of chronic gastritis. 

True Colours | Matthew Berka

A fragmentary essay combining Super 8 and digital footage, X-ray imagery, and medical animation to exorcize a portrait of the soul caught somewhere between the viscera and their subjection to electromagnetic forces.   

Eurydice in the Underworld | Felicity E. Palma

Restaging Kathy Acker’s volume of the same name, this 16mm essay renders scanned landscapes and burning light leaks to contemplate the social isolation, psychosexual crisis, and interior reckoning precipitated by terminal breast cancer. 

Intruders | Jan Locus

A slow panning experiment in video-composited landscape uncannily stitches together foggy mountain footage and digitally altered mid-century UFO photographs to generate a tableau of wildlife in eerie motion.

Sinking Feeling | Zachary Epcar

A speculation on the tender and abject fantasies that could burst into life when a San Francisco train grinds to a no-signal halt in a transbay tunnel. White collar commuters wax existential from the sterile corners of their high-rise offices as they reminisce on a fleeting sense of intimacy turned orgiastic state of exception.