SAT SEPT 6 - SUN SEPT 7
2025
Saturday Sept 6
11:00 - 12:30 If the Light Had a Skin / 1h 7m
International short films
This programme is a luminous meditation on summer’s rhythms, where sunlight becomes both subject and collaborator. Sensorial intimacies and tenderness of remembered moments are weaved into a study of relationships through interactions with nature and light.
Write Your Sunlight On My Skin
Billy Palumbo | 4min | United States
The elements collide to make serenity out of turmoil, and anxiety gives way to a new normal. Point the way and I will follow.
Ashes of Roses
Sasha Waters | 11min | United States
This movie is about loving things that are embarrassing and people who are inappropriate. It's an essay film reflection on popular trash; football parties; older men; adolescent desire and the outrageous yet mundane humiliations of being a teenage girl in the 1980s.
Sunny 16 Helsinki
Eve Le Fessant Coussonneau | 7min | France
On the border between Finland and Russia, lazy summer vibes become stifling. Under the burning sun, on an island, two beings rave. Tender wander or anxious waiting on a sensorial experience.
Four Times
Jeff Sermon | 28min | Belgium
Four Times is an experimental meditation on the cyclical nature of seasons, landscapes and relationships.
Serene Hues
Rita Tse | 4min | Canada
Serene Hues, hand-processed, solarized, tinted, and toned, is a meditative journey into the tranquility and vibrant beauty of nature.
Fjord Time
Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson, Carleen Maur | 4min | United States
Two young sisters guide us through a meditation on time, play, and nature—using the present moment as a spell against acceleration.
Midsummer
Masha Vlasova | 3min | United States
Midsummer is a cyanotype, sun-printed film. The film was conceived during Juhannus, the celebration of the longest day of the year in Finland, when the sun doesn’t set for 24 hours. The light of the sun is both material and collaborator in creating this film-poem.
Light’s Return
Kathleen Rugh | 3min | United States
Before all magic was lost, the sun awoke to meet me on the surface of the river. The film captures an in-camera edit of this fleeting encounter.
pressing
stephanie barber | 3min | United States
A performance and exercise in the prosaic as mythologized through memory. Concision and the infinite that is always entwined with remembering and forgetting.
