Oil refineries bloom into nocturnal infernos, swallowing darkness with hideous hypnotic grace. In the quiet fractures of community and the melancholy of spaces once brimming with possibility, these works ricochet between aspiration and collapse. Beneath drought-stricken wells and coal-scarred fields, specters inhabit our abandoned territories, living among the remnants of a society consuming itself.

Program:

The Blob (2024, US, 3’)

Mahda Purmehdi and Cesar Herrejon

The Phalanx (2025, US, 13’)

Ben Balcom

Guardian of the Well (2025, TD/US, 6’)

Bentley Brown and Tahir Ben Mahamat Zene

Lime Kiln Workers (2025, RS, 10’)

Nevena Micić, Katarina Micić, and Filip Marojević

Burn Ceremony (2025, US, 17’)

Alexander Girav

Las Animas (2025, US, 14’)

Matt Feldman

Foot to Ground (2024, US, 9’)

Christopher Thompson