The politics and economics of space here on earth, through images.

The film presents the perspective of the Mỹky people on 50 years of contact with the non-Indigenous population, reflecting about their way of life and the changes experienced in the last half century.

Hosts for Half a Century (Anfitriões há meio século)

Returning to the Berber villages in southern Tunisia where a colonialist propaganda film from the 1940s was shot.

Images de Tunisie (صور من تونس)

A poetic documentary exploring Abenaki ancestral memory and connection to Allen Island, the site of first contact with the English in 1605, which was bought and curated by the wife of American painter Andrew Wyeth three centuries later in hopes of enticing her husband’s inspiration.

Otherworld

An interdisciplinary multimedia survey into Singaporean domestic and communal space, injecting a science fiction interpretation of Chinese folklore to parse its spiritual, technological and architectural threads. Content Warning: Flashing lights - 01:35, 01:38, 02:44, 04:35

spaces as traces

Terrain Shorts

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