Emulsion peels off filmstrips and spray paint peels off walls. A flying saucer piloted by a Swedish movie star crashes in the Nether Lands. If Plan 9 fails, what’s our Plan B?

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Corrie Francis Parks, Daniel Nuderscher, 2024
RT: 07:00 minutes
A 40-year old graffiti wall becomes an archaeological site and a sgraffito sculpture as long-gone layers of paint are uncovered and transformed into fireworks of color and shape. The combination of stop motion animation with visceral sounds compresses decades of artistic, political, and cultural expression into a new audio-visual dimension. Driven by frustration with the global rise of toxic ideologies, the artists created this street art metaphor in an earnest attempt to know and understand the past and the present.

Grounds, Premises

Bram Ruiter, 2025
RT: 17:02 minutes

Grounds, Premises takes the opening scene of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space to consider intention and failure. What emerges is a treatise on the creative process with the emphasis on process rather than result. This film was made while teaching a film production course at a castle in the South of the Netherlands, and is dedicated to our fleeting time together.

Interwoven Intervals

Laura Kraning, 2026
RT: 06:00 minutes

A material hybrid of film and textile, as the intermediary device of a laser printer transcribes weaving patterns onto strips of 16mm clear leader, connecting the material process of handmade films with hand-crafted textile production. Pattern drafts are the graphical score for weaving – grids of light and dark representing the over and under of weft threads between the warps. The printer strains to align the image, as powdered toner smudges and fibers peel away like stray threads. The graphic repetition of grids, lines, and squares assert a structural form that is fragile and vulnerable to erasure. In the archeological record, textiles are often lost to time. Here, a new form emerges – grids of ink and plastic, flickering projected light and dark.

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Jesse McLean, 2026
RT: 12:13 minutes

Amid a pandemic and the breakup of a marriage, loneliness sparks new forms of escapism. A film star becomes a companion and pop culture a way of coping, as the lines between reality and fantasy dissolve.

Friends, Shopping, & Food

Michael Lopez, 2025
RT: 15:00 minutes

A solitary character sips coffee and ruminates in his haunted basement apartment. A pensive woman wanders suburban streets. A beautiful person smokes, and is unable to change their face at a  Christmas party. A picnic descends into a bacchanalian nightmare. A state-of-the-art mall is explored, while another character is drawn into an ever-tightening surreal trap.

Intercut with experimental interludes, Friends, Shopping, and Food blends frenetic 2D animation with eerie early-3D aesthetics, creating an experimental journey through memory, consumerism, and creeping horror.

Acetone Reality

Sara Magenheimer, Michael Bell-Smith, 2025
RT: 12:32 minutes

Images cascade and collide in Acetone Reality, as animation, found images, and the artists’ own video recordings crash against a dialogue between computer-generated voices exploring the wonders of acetone and the nature of meaning.