Cosmic Rays Film Festival

2025 FILM PROGRAM 4

2025 FILM PROGRAM

Chelsea Theater

1129 Weaver Dairy Rd Suite AB
Chapel Hill NC 27514
United States

Saturday March 22 @9PM

Program 4: Near Nowhere

Films about cities that are evolving and animals that are going extinct (or maybe it’s the other way around). In-between architectures, repetition, and isolation. At the other end of the transbay tunnel, heaven awaits… or is that an office cubicle?

A dark cave interior with scattered rocks and faint light streaming in from a small opening above.

Near Nowhere

Nora Zubizarreta, 2024
RT: 05:56 minutes
Near Nowhere plays with the fragmented but continuous nature of the experiential, examining the lively tension present in both the landscapes and human relationships with nature.

Illustration of passenger pigeons with vibrant colors and dynamic movements, depicting the concept of extinction and evolution.

Speculative Speciation: Passenger Pigeon

Jacklyn Brickman, Sharon Gill, 2024
RT: 05:28 minutes

Since the 1600s, more than 160 species of birds have gone extinct. Not only are those extinctions profound losses in and of themselves, but they also represent devastating losses of what could have been. Over time, would these species have changed, evolving into new species not yet seen? Would these species have diversified into many more different and wonderful forms increasing biodiversity? Pigeon Sound Sourced from Xeno-Canto.org: 303691, 145944, 636592, 133004.

Species of Analogy

J.M. Martínez, 2023
RT: 13:00 minutes

A field guide. Flora evolving with environmental changes, and pollinators utilizing biomimicry. Natural objects are gathered, and sculptures of and from the landscape cast reflections of nature being infinite, self-knowing, and alive.

Go Between

Chris Kennedy, 2024
RT: 06:30 minutes

Looking down at the Brisbane River–a play of masking and superimpositions.

Aeon

Dominic Angerame, 2024
RT: 12:00 minutes

Searching of the artist soul of a filmmaker. First reflections of images past films that were created and then camera goes into the water to seeking the dark and bright side of visual soul. What emerges is new perspective on the urban areas being superimposed over the cosmic, creating a balance for a brief moment.

ESP

Laura Kraning, 2024
RT: 02:45 minutes

A brutalist monument to the Empire State as manifested by a malfunctioning inkjet printer. Chroma and luminance are made audible as architectural and printed lines converge and dissolve into pattern and noise. Photographed in the Capitol City of Albany, New York.

Mary Bauermeister: light and stone

Baba H Hillman, 2023
RT: 03:45 minutes

Remembering my last visit with Mary in her garden at Rosräth.

Sinking Feeling

Zachary Epcar, 2024
RT: 20:00 minutes

Three white collar commuters recall an experience of getting trapped on a train in San Francisco’s Transbay Tunnel, each drifting into fantasies of sex, death, and intimacy between strangers.