After the initial live event, the program will be available for on-demand viewing until 12am midnight EDT on 3/31 These recent experimental, documentary, and animated films feature questions of postcolonial history and identity, a daughter who wants to flee, a world where the deepest thoughts emerge, strange conditions, a community founded by volcano eruption refugees, and an astronomical record.﻿

Koly, a textile worker from Mali, confuses his search for identity with his desire to marry a European woman. The film documents migrant housing estates in the Northeastern suburbs of Paris. They have been constructed since the late 1960s and recently underwent vast transformations in the course of the urban planning project, Grand Paris.

Honest Money

The mother cares for seniors in their homes, where the ticking clock counts down the working day, between the frightening sounds of the heavy breathing that increase the fear of emptiness ...

Bad Mood

“Light has no tongue but it is all eye.” – John Donne. A series of short films about how the night immerses us in a world where the deepest thoughts emerge. Shot frame-by-frame with long exposure times and developed by hand before dawn.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/85223873fd46926eba272be729eba8db.png" width="200">

Night Reflection (IV)

The film takes place within an architectural, painterly world. Interior structures, shapes, and colors form the unusual spaces within which three women are suspended. Their mobility remains bound to their surroundings, and time moves slower than the speed of life. A glowing red exit sign teases and perturbs its cold, taciturn surroundings, never pointing to a clear way out.

Sometimes a little Sin is good for the Soul

This ethnographic excursion is a feast for the eyes paced by the quotidian chorus of sounds in a Chiapan village. Gradually, political themes arise. As it relates to the legacy of co-director Saúl Kak’s refugeed forebears, (((((/*))))) aka Echoes of the Volcano gives voice to the Zoque struggle for Indigenous sovereignty, against the neoliberal state.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/3374fb425154b0248aa520bf4cab20fb.png" width="200">

( ( ( ( ( /*\ ) ) ) ) ) aka Echoes of the Volcano

This film was shot using continued interval shooting and multiple exposures of the setting sun from the same position and same angle on 16mm film. The shooting period extends to five years. No digital copy-paste was used—the sun that appears was shot on film. This is both a record of the days and a creative act of personal image, neither of which can be determined. It is just like painting a picture.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/1e5613e1ee6cff2088d1b7d9944dedfa.png" width="200">

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