Niches | Codes of Dreamsoil | Mimesis Documentary Festival

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In between childhood wonder, idle reverie, and planetary grief, a meditation emerges on what it means to tend the subtle pulse that binds species and generations. Through disappearing rituals, spells against catastrophe, and the renewed power of aging bodies, these works inhabit the delicate spaces where intimacy meets enormity. How do we belong to our lives when our lives belong to something infinitely more vast?

Program:

Hojita de tamarindo (Tamarind leaf) (2023, EC/PA, 6’)

Christian Obando

FLOWERS (2024, EC, 29’)

José Cardoso

Fjord Time (2025, US/SE/NO, 4’)

Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson, Carleen Maur

Niches (2024, US, 7’)

Janelle VanderKelen

As I Belong to my Life (2025, US, 4’)

Sarah Bliss

Why Does The Nightingale Sing? (2024, PT, 20’)

Jake Bellew

Not all teachers are human in a bustling Spanish farmhouse. While instances of interspecies care are enacted beneath the cool stone arches of this rambling structure, the ecological niches (or roles) of various beings shift along with their unexpected environmental relationships.