Dir: Sasha Svirsky
11 min
Russia

War for our attention has become an actual war. Information technologies, not just as a means to an end but as having their own agency– just one of the acting forces rendering horrific events. We have no control over it and are doomed to scroll through the newsfeed.

Dir: Rhiannon Jolie Marquis
(CPH Student)
5 min
United States

"We live in a zoo!" Different forms of freedom and captivity play out through three vignettes dipicting human, animal, and space.

Dir: Kamila Kuc
12 min
United States

Filmmaker Kamila Kuc steps into the emotional stream of inherited family history as the lines between documentary, testimony, and fiction blur. Performing acts of bearing witness for herself and on behalf of her grandmother, the two women testify to their experiences and the reverberations life stories have over time.

Dir: Leo Pickard
4 min
United States

An animated retelling of the directors personal journey with his body as a transgender man from Texas.

Dir: Natalie Peracchio
4 min
United States

The “Story of The Cricket Queen” recreates digital media tropes, trends, and aesthetics with analog film techniques.

Dir: Junyan Gao
8 min
China

Xiaogao stumbles through love and self-delusion as social pressure mounts and the fear of dying alone becomes impossible to ignore. Not simply “looking for love,” she struggles against societal pressures and the unbearable possibility that love may never arrive in the form she longs for.

Dir: Diane Nerwen
5 min
United States

Filmmaker Diane Nerwen weaves together found and shot footage to reflect on her father’s creative work, his decline in health and the disorientation of losing a parent.

Dir: David Baeumler
8 min
United States

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Dir: Leonardo Martinelli
15 min
Brazil

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