SAT SEPT 6 - SUN SEPT 7
2025
Saturday Sept 6
14:00 - 15:30 | Places Under the Lemonade Sea | 1h 19m
International short films
Historical, imagined, and re-imagined landscapes meet in this programme across sites of ruins, relics, and archival echoes that speak to both utopian dreams and colonial wounds. Interactions of memory and place are challenged through experimental forms and layered narratives.
The Phalanx
Benjamin Balcom | 13min | United States
Filmed on the former site of Ceresco, a 19th-century agrarian commune in Ripon, Wisconsin, this lyrical, experimental film revisits the utopian aspirations of a community striving to live "in association," guided by principles of harmony and shared ownership.
Wherever Street Piece
Panu Johansson | 9min | Finland
"Wherever Street Piece" is a found footage film that describes impersonal and fragmented memories that cannot be directly linked to the life of one particular individual. Simultaneously the film documents the way these past realities - forgotten people in forgotten situations - blend together from the perspective of the present.
The Letter From Tomorrow
Nataliya Bek-Gergard | 6min | Canada
This film is a dedication to all victims of totalitarian regimes.Can a single image tell a story of the invisible thread that interweaves past and present tragedies together?
Houses & Hills
Crimson DM Lily | 6min | United Kingdom
Tai a mynyddoedd is the culmination of three years research into how heritage can contribute to identity: Welsh heritage, Welsh clothing, Wales’ relationship with England and how class and gendered roles have contributed to the country’s patriotism, yet, English controlled identity. Thus, reflecting on how ancestry, birthplace and heritage contributes to personal identity; why one desires to showcase, or hide, the culture and geography of one’s belonging.
Cathedral Ledge
Justin Clifford Rhody | 0.5min | United States
2025 / 30 seconds / Color / Silent / Standard 8mm
Elefsina Notre Amour
Mahdi Fleifel | 9min | Greece
Deserted landscapes, ancient ruins and abandoned shipwrecks at sea. Elefsina’s archeological sites don’t come close to being as hauntingly beautiful as these dead ships.
Ghost Protists
Sasha Waters | 4min | United States
In a mesmerizing frenzy of images and text, this animated short transforms her images into a protest of the historical erasure of the colonial violence that enabled their creation.
Old World
Roland Cartagena | 8min | Philippines
While hunting for pitcher plants, a taciturn poacher encounters an unexpected object in the middle of the forest and finds himself listening to someone grieving about their hair.
Monolith
Teri Carson | 14min | United States
Part essay film, part videopoem, Monolith braids found footage, documentary, experimental, 3D animation and narrative filmmaking devices to explore notions of collectivity, dissent, indigenous knowledge and time as a series of folds, splits, ruptures, loops, clusters, drifts, ascents, descents, vortexes, pulses, rhythms, linkages, aberrations, burials, and unearthings. This shape-shifting film addresses ongoing legacies of nationalist archives, archeology, and coloniality.
To cut a tree on a green moon
Felipe Esparza Perez | 9min | Peru
From the diary of Christopher Columbus, October 15, 1492: "And deviated from the land by two lombard shots, there is in all these islands so much depth that one cannot reach it. These islands are very green and fertile and have very sweet airs, and there may be many things that I do not know, because I do not want to stop to go through many islands to find gold". They had only been on land for four days. The gold never existed. It is only possible to suppose the sweetness of the air. The islands are still green.
