SAT SEPT 6 - SUN SEPT 7
2025
Sunday Sept 7
11:00 - 12:30 | What the Body Knows | 1h 18m plus Director Q&A
International short films
Own body, foreign body — a meditation on perception and the shifting boundaries between body and mind.These films explore how vulnerability deepens connection, weaving together themes of illness, grief, and identity.
Full Out
Sarah Ballard | 14min | United States
In 19th century Paris at the Salpêtrière Hospital, patients were hypnotized on stage to reproduce the symptoms of hysteria for public audiences. Over a century later, high school cheerleaders are fainting en masse.
Something Went Click
Caryn Cline | 4min | United States
The origin story of my mother's struggle with manic-depression (aka bipolar disorder): the rural prairie in the 1950s, an old boys’ club of “deciders,” a puzzling disease about which little was known.
Duet
John Muse | 11min | United States
Illness, treatment, recovery, conversation. This experimental short presents stories of illness and disfunction, bringing together but also separating two performers, their stories, their bodies.
Clear
Hogan Seidel | 6min | United States
It explores the tension between past and present through the edges, the traces that emerge from the representation of bodies in a sensory and emotional journey.
Self Portrait with Ants
Jean-Francois Reverdy | 4min | France
After an extremely stressful situation, I developed skin hypersensitivity: a nervous eczema. The darkroom of my camera welcomes ants that wander on its sensor. They are the involuntary companions of this introspective journey where my body and the camera are the sensitive elements of this experience.
Dreams Not Remembered
Dominick Michael Rivers | 23min | United States
Dreams Not Remembered, an experimental film in four parts, explores grief from four modalities- historical constructivism, embodied experience, memory and forgetting, and survival and destruction.
Prelude to a flash
Nicolás Onischuk | 5min | Argentina
It explores the tension between past and present through the edges, the traces that emerge from the representation of bodies in a sensory and emotional journey.
Listening In, Resounding Out
Eislow Johnson, Dominic Bonelli | 11min | United States
Through the ears of an acoustic engineer, the film explores how in the near silence of the anechoic chamber, listening is a straining toward understanding and connection. It engages with cinema as a body — one given presence and depth through sound — and a body as a resounding instrument, which listens to its own vibratory depths and amplifies its feedback.
