There’s an insurgency brewing among the birds and the Bradford pears. Listen closely. Breathe in to receive. Exhale sharply through the nostrils to send.

in place of a hollow tree

Eislow Johnson, 2024
RT: 08:00 minutes

Migrating from the Amazon basin across northern Illinois, a flock of chimney swifts flutter without perching, using a natural form of radar to navigate. The pulse of infrasound from deep ocean waves vibrates the ground and emanates up, guiding the birds amid disrupted air.

Open space heard becomes turbulent, resonant space. Various forms of tuning elicit a strained acoustic ecology between altitudes.

The Call

Kelly Sears, 2025
RT 07:06 minutes

A rebellion has been building for decades. The Call is an eco-revenge film featuring unlikely instigators who were observed and filmed over three years at airports across the United States.

This is a call to action.

Fall Wind

Alina Taalman, 2025
RT: 4:30 minutes

A fall wind arrives with cold, dense air and covers the landscape below.

Living Containers

Kara Ditte Hansen, 2025
RT: 14:00 minutes

Aided by machine learning, a bioengineer creates a mutant enzyme inspired by larvae capable of digesting plastic. Insects, sapiens, models and machines are consumed by extraction, ingestion, excretion, and an unconscious drive to return to a state of matter before life.

I think  I said “yes”

Pere Ginard, 2025
RT: 04:17 minutes

I think I said (I…insect…scare…bird…eye…tear…thing…heartbeat… centaur…dream…mylove…) yes.

According to Plan

Bren Vienrich-Felling, 2025
RT: 08:50 minutes

Once planted across suburban America as a symbol of ornamental beauty, the Bradford pear tree now stands as a controversial relic. According to Plan is a Southern Gothic take on the tangled legacy of this once-beloved tree species. Through a mix of interviews, animation, time lapse cinematography and archival elements filmed and recorded with 16mm sound stock film, this narrative follows the Bradford pear’s journey from a landscape darling to an ecological pariah.

A Telephone for God

Nicky Tavares, 2025
RT: 11:24 minutes

Breathe in to receive. Exhale in a sharp burst through the nostrils to send. Quartz is the medium—amplifier, transducer, archive. Inspired by the teachings of Marcel Vogel—IBM research chemist turned spiritual scientist—A Telephone for God oscillates between past and present, tuning into frequencies of human-plant communication and energetic healing. The film follows Drew Tousley, one of the few crystal cutters trained by Marcel Vogel before his passing in 1991, as he creates a four-sided Vogel crystal, modeled after the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Alongside him, Carly Tousley reflects on the use of crystals in healing. Award-winning artist Merik Goma stars as Vogel’s present-day assistant.