Series 4

A poetic examination of the wetlands, forests, and ecosystems of the Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere.

Diez Horas con Alberto García-Alix

editing experiments with a walk in the woods

A look into modern society, sex work, and faith in America.

poem. trees. fragments. fritz. movement.

Mira inherits a building full of secrets and mysterious new friends. Will she survive long enough to uncover her family's dark past, or will her friends draw her deeper into her new fate?

To free their poetic minds, Guillaume Marin and Ariane Caron-Lacoste have created, through an audio testimony, a video poem where verses on the screen act as counterpoints, initiations, and endings. The rich visuals answer the speech to constitute its body.

Movimentum

Lumière synthèse

The work of taxonomists hides more secrets than can be perceived.

the franklinia flower, now extinct in the wild, appears here as a printed image (a drawing from 1782) pinned against a kitchen wall. hand and figure move disjointedly. the light of day gives way to electricity, to darkness, and to morning. recorded on a video camera built in 2002: an obsolete image tracing some accidental gestures and capturing a form of life existent only in cultivation. some fragments of vermeer, general electric, and chiquita brands international.

Bradley Eros is at the forefront of the NYC underground and experimental cinema movement, blending the boundaries of experimental film, expanded cinema, and performance art. Whether it be by himself or through one of his many collaborative groups, Eros reutilizes the visual language we all know in a sensory engaging and thought provoking way. Experience Eros and the Optipus Group collaborate on a piece that celebrates the life and death of celluloid.

A sleeping man’s fading memory of his late Mother unravels through a recurring, hypermnesic dream that reverberates and transforms throughout his life, tracing from his final dream back to his first.

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

Feedback and religious radio noise

A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.

Against all odds, Dolorès Marat quietly built a personal body of work on the fringes of fashion and the world of contemporary art. Timeless images, evanescent but persistent, like so many interior landscapes bathed in solitude. Working through an alphabet primer from Avignon (at the blue hour) to Ventoux, from the apartment-studio to hanging the "Cascades" exhibition, the director follows in the footsteps of the frugal Dolorès, shy yet bold, always sincere.