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shareThe natural world as provider and witness – where sunlight is a luxury good, insect sounds infect art utopias, humans adopt bird language, an unusual fish pond tells a painful history, and squirrels conspire to help war victims.
Screening to be followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.
Co-Presented by James Wicks, Ph.D., Professor of Media & Film Studies at PLNU and Bionic Sisters Productions.
In this program
Invasive Species
Directed by: Annie Ning | 13 mins
An Asian American artist’s imposter syndrome clashes with communal eating in the singular world that is an artist residency.
Tracing History
Directed by: Jalena Keane-Lee | 13 mins
From an unlikely catfish pond to household shards of another time, a mother and daughter find their family’s hidden history as Chinese laborers in the land around them.
Carpenter
Directed by: Xelîl Sehragerd | 14 mins
With a quiet connection to woodcarving, squirrels, and the land around him, carpenter Hussein Mahmood creates wooden legs for those who have lost them to landmines.
Reality
Directed by: Xixi Xie | 2 mins
Minatures in protective gear face harsh landscapes affected by microwaving a cake.
Birdsong
Directed by: Omi Zola Gupta, Sparsh Ahuja | 18 mins
Both a form of speech and a musical form, a look at the dying whistling language of three Hmong men in northern Laos and their closeness with nature in the face of modernity.
Through Sunless Ways
Directed by: Katelyn Rebelo, Kira Dane | 24 mins
A documentary illuminating the complexities of light in New York City as it relates to gentrification, surveillance, and celebration.
