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
Letters from the Ceresco community trace the fragility of harmony, the dream of life in association, and the frictions that give way to fracture. Members of the phalanx drift apart, lingering in private corners, suspended in speculative time.
- Year2025
- Runtime14 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorBen Balcom
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
Letters from the Ceresco community trace the fragility of harmony, the dream of life in association, and the frictions that give way to fracture. Members of the phalanx drift apart, lingering in private corners, suspended in speculative time.
- Year2025
- Runtime14 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorBen Balcom