Films about hiding places and the things we hide in them. Plastic soldiers, pacemakers, pantyhose, and letters from mom. Is that a rock or a woman camouflaged as a rock?

Evacuation

Lilli Carré, 2025
RT: 07:07 minutes

Painted formless figures haunt recent photos of emptied-out public spaces. As cel-animated smear frames, they perform various repetitive acts in these settings, with movements expressing the helpless, frantic energy felt in our current moment. Earth and organs are emptied, situations are fled. The figures become displaced from their locations, as their environments dissolve and their printed record evaporates.

Army People

Sean Zou, 2025
RT: 05:00 minutes

Army people is a five‑minute audiovisual collage staging a silent standoff. Soldiers emerge in black‑and‑white, nature responds in vivid color; ambient sound only, narrative stripped away, yet senses are pulled into an unseen rupture.

Hiding Places

Magdalena Bermudez, 2025
RT: 12:22 minutes

Women pretend to be rocks. Military operations masquerade as art education. One woman deserts to pursue a more radical act of unselfing.

On the Second Floor

Neil Ira Needleman, 2025
RT: 05:03 minutes

This work is part of a video series that was shot in an apartment building that provides subsidized apartments for residents who are mostly elderly and infirm. Each of the videos in the series explores the spaces and characteristics of a different floor of the building (“On the Second Floor,” “On the Third Floor,” “On the Fourth Floor,” “On the Fifth Floor,” and “Fade Out in Color”).

explant / implant

Josh Weissbach, 2025
RT: 03:16 minutes

a lifetime of surgeries continues with an upgrade in battery life and a downgrade in scar tissue when the filmmaker has his original pacemaker replaced after sixteen years.

pressing

stephanie barber, 2025
RT: 03:18 minutes

Pressing 
a woman washes her hair in the kitchen sink while telling her friend about a memory of sitting in a bathtub and watching her aunt get ready to go out. 
a narrative fragment, 
a very short story,
a performance and exercise in the prosaic as mythologized through memory.
concision and the infinite that is always entwined with remembering and forgetting.
this film is in a camp with work i make about dialog and conversation as literary forms. 

Api (April, 1949)

Harper Stone, 2025
RT: 11:00 minutes

Too often, we forget what and who has come before us. Do we exist because of our corporeal forms, or have we long existed in our ancestor’s dreams and prayers? 

Api (April, 1949) is a one-take recorded translation of a man’s proposal letter and firm vision of life through love. Penned after my paternal grandfather’s time in a forced labor camp during WWII, Api (April, 1949) is a reconstruction of his bid for agency during a time of oppression and destruction. Both an homage to his dreams and prayers and a critical interpretation of values and authority, this film is an interpretation of generational inheritance and reclamation.

The Next World 

RT 11:00 minutes
Grau Del Grau, 2025

An estranged parent attempts to record their memories, only to discover that the past may not be as reliable as it once seemed.