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
Amid Portugal’s disappearing rural villages, an aging couple, Adelaide and Manuel, remain—tending to their land, their animals, and each other. Observed with patience and reverence, their lives unfold in quiet moments: hands worn by labor, songs sung to the wind, the unspoken wisdom of a lifetime shared. With intimate observation, this film attempts to capture the significant beauty of a world slipping away, offering a meditation on time, resilience, and the spiritual weight of a vanishing way of life.
- Year2024
- Runtime20 minutes
- CountryPortugal
- DirectorJake Bellew
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
Amid Portugal’s disappearing rural villages, an aging couple, Adelaide and Manuel, remain—tending to their land, their animals, and each other. Observed with patience and reverence, their lives unfold in quiet moments: hands worn by labor, songs sung to the wind, the unspoken wisdom of a lifetime shared. With intimate observation, this film attempts to capture the significant beauty of a world slipping away, offering a meditation on time, resilience, and the spiritual weight of a vanishing way of life.
- Year2024
- Runtime20 minutes
- CountryPortugal
- DirectorJake Bellew