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
Birds looking anxiously at a threat beyond the frame, and then the threat arrives. Mixing a found footage educational film with sci-fi and horror traditions as well as hand-painted manipulation of the film stock, a familiar narrative is inverted, recontextualizing the fear of others through the anthropocentric eye.
- Year2024
- Runtime3 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMahda Purmehdi and Cesar Herrejon
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
Birds looking anxiously at a threat beyond the frame, and then the threat arrives. Mixing a found footage educational film with sci-fi and horror traditions as well as hand-painted manipulation of the film stock, a familiar narrative is inverted, recontextualizing the fear of others through the anthropocentric eye.
- Year2024
- Runtime3 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMahda Purmehdi and Cesar Herrejon