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.
- Year2024
- Runtime7 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorJanelle VanderKelen
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.
- Year2024
- Runtime7 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorJanelle VanderKelen