Biker Rally
Janaye Brown, USA, 6 minutes
World Premiere

Bikers from across the United States descend upon Galveston, an island off the coast of Texas, for one of the largest motorcycle rallies in the nation.

The Dithering Veil
Rushnan Jaleel, India, 15 minutes
US Premiere

A silent evocation of perception and memory; an attempt to touch the flotsam of elliptical impressions, earthly phenomena and dreamed images that linger and interpenetrate on the surface of thought.

Focus and Sound
Marcella Kwe, USA, 6 minutes

This is a series of two short experimental films. They can be screened together, or apart. It reimagines mid-century 16mm educational films through a practice of deep listening and material intervention. Drawn from archival films once shown in American classrooms—many focused on Native American history and U.S. civics—the works are edited blind: the video image is physically obscured, and the structure assembled entirely through sound. Guided solely by listening, each film is built through cuts of the audio tracks only, without post-production manipulation or audio treatment—resulting in a sonic collage where meaning emerges from rhythm, tone, and interruption. Only after the edit is complete is the image revealed—becoming a kind of accidental score. 
 
Color was introduced during digitization itself: vivid hues of hot pink and yellow were projected onto the film in real time, bypassing digital editing. Some reels were digitized in reverse, invoking a material reversal of time. Each short is labeled using a cassette tape taxonomy, nodding to analog sound culture and archival methods of sonic categorization. 
 
The series is an inquiry into the intersections of music, noise, and pedagogy—exploring what it means to listen to history rather than watch it, and how sonic reassembly might unsettle the visual authority of mid century educational media. 

nearer to thee in a triptych
Matt Whitman, USA, 9 minutes
World Premiere

eyes set down 
 
lots love for a locked door 
 
the silhouettes are the same 
but the faces have changed 
 
you know I can’t go home this way 
 
came here to say the same

Full Out
Sarah Ballard, USA, 14 minutes

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. 
 
Full Out is the inaugural work in a suite of films investigating the intricate threads between historical accounts of mass hysteria, the body's capacity for knowing, and the ways collective resonance can both fracture and heal. This film seeks to explore how the body's uncontrollable impulses can act as both a site of vulnerability and an instrument of resistance. 
 
WARNING: ​This film contains stroboscopic images that can be potentially dangerous to people with health conditions that are associated with photosensitivity. 

Goodbye for Now
Valentin Caso Rosendi, Argentina, 7 minutes

A woman hides her face against a wall. 
Fireworks cover the night sky. 
A voice speaks to a friend who is not there.

It Has Me By the Throat and I Am the Fingerprint

Jordan Kaye, Australia, 19 minutes

in a dark room 
a flickering light 
your fingerprints marry to your hands. 
you look out a window 
mind spinning on the floorboards 
a fire place far hotter than a 1000 watt light bulb warms you 
you stare into it while 
for weeks you wait for the sun to appear 
and it does