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
A journey across the former coalfields of Las Animas County in Southeastern Colorado. After the decline of mining in the area, most former extraction sites were gradually converted into wilderness areas or flooded, but it is believed that the coal fires from that era still burn somewhere deep below the landscape.
- Year2025
- Runtime14 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMatt Feldman
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
A journey across the former coalfields of Las Animas County in Southeastern Colorado. After the decline of mining in the area, most former extraction sites were gradually converted into wilderness areas or flooded, but it is believed that the coal fires from that era still burn somewhere deep below the landscape.
- Year2025
- Runtime14 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMatt Feldman