official program

May 7 2026

Thank you to Lifeworld for hosting this event!!


		
	

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PART ONE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Striking Distance _ Anna Remus

2024, English subtitles

Echoes of home, the sun warming your skin, and the realization that you never belonged.

turning point

까치 눈 / Magpie Eye _ Jonathan Seungjoon Lee

2025, Korean/English

Magpie Eye is an analog film work that explores the immaterial realities of our world through the lens of Korean dream journey traditions (monguyrok). Using a 16mm handmade pinhole camera, the work captures ritual sites, sacred trees, and activist sites in Jeju Island. Like the magpie's iridescent blue that appears beneath its seemingly black and white feathers, the film reveals what is invisible or dismissed as unreal, offering an alternative way of seeing and understanding the spirit world around us.

magpie eye

Triptych _ Ulla Reiss

2026, English / Russian (Film 3) w/ English subs, 8mm

A series of three short experimental films exploring shifting states of self. Presence. Fragmentation. Motion.

triptych

Softer Skin _ Will Haydon

2025

A macro film charting an enigmatic transformation that sweeps through a human landscape, and a meditation on the desire to change without knowing what you will become.

softer skin

Blue Transcendence _ Erica Schreiner

2022

Filmed on VHS in Erica's apartment, Blue Transcendence takes us on a psychedelic journey with blue butterflies, a performance in blue, and a time-lapse of a candle burning during a magical spell. The film reflects on real friendship and the importance of being silly.

Blue Transcendence

Noise to Signal _ Guan Huang

2024

Filmed in a single zoom-out shot by a DV camera. As the tone of the background noise gradually falls, the filmed object transitions from the flicking pixies on a display screen to the actual spatial context of the screen.

Poor Mr. Nixon _ Julia Cooke

2023

The true story of Richard Nixon.

Nixon

Absolute Divinity _ Joslyn Crocco

2025

Absolute Divinity is an audio / visual project that connects themes of nature & technology through the synthesis of generative visuals & the human spirit.

divinity

On Ye Monkey’s Branch (or pink sands unlimited) _ Walter Smits

2026

After crash landing on a fantasy jungle island, two puppets discuss sexuality and intimacy.

monkey

Green Moon _ Rebecca Shenfeld

2026

Green Moon is an experimental animation that moves through different corners of the brain at work: impulse, control, fantasy, repetition. It uses gaussian splatting to capture the main character in different outfits made and designed from scratch by Rebecca.

green moon




Part one runtime : 57 mins

***_intermission_***





~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PART TWO~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

peasant refreshments available after the intermission to accompany the film 536 by Lydia Kuzak

536 _ Lydia Kuzak

2024

Hag horror meets grotesque mukbang in Ireland circa 536 AD (referred to by medieval scholars as “the worst year to be alive”) in this psycho-biddy period piece about three paganesses, a foreign man lost in the forest and a feast appalling enough to shock a Visigoth. Among the many secluded pagan tribes of pre-Christian Ireland, a particularly nasty trio of maiden, Celtic hags encounters a seemingly aimless Anglo-Saxon explorer in their isolated neck of the woods. This unexpected instance of first contact between paganism and Christianity ignites a never-before-kindled fire within the wenches’ untouched loins. Overcome by their newfound libidos, the two stupidest women in medieval Ireland (Isabelle Molnar & Kellen MacGregor) decide to forgo their offering for the Imbolc celebration in exchange for a taste of their manly visitor. Disgusted by these dolts’ foolishness, the smartest woman in medieval Ireland (Violet Webster) conjures Brighid, a highly revered and fearsome deity, to punish her simple underlings for their lecherous folie-à-deux. As the most wretched women in Irish history yearn, glut, bicker, scheme and repent altogether, the future of Ireland’s sovereignty and its pagan traditions rests in their sordidly corrupt hands. As the most wretched women in Irish history yearn, glut, bicker, scheme and repent altogether, the future of Ireland’s sovereignty and its pagan traditions rests in their sordidly corrupt hands.

PT.2 RT : 28 mins




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