Refuse Room
Simon Liu, Hong Kong, 10 minutes

​Oscillating from moments of togetherness to disappearance, rising and falling, dwelling and fleeing, regret and acceptance, Refuse Room surveils spaces and beings during fragile in-between states in a desperate attempt to find pathways forward within altered landscapes. We may not be through with the past but the past is through with us.

Naturae Recordatus
Carvajal Jhonny, Vargas Florentino, Vasquez G.V, Forero Dennis. Colombia, 6 minutes
Argentina Premiere

Naturae Recordatus is the dystopian evocation of endangered two ecosystems: the tropical and subtropical forests. In the case of the Americas, especially Colombia, these forests are characterized by having a high rate of endemism. 
This video art piece is a node of the transmedia project “Naturae Recordatus”, also composed of an installation and a performance. Through images and sounds, Colombian endangered and endemic mammals and plants are evoked; their quality and clarity are affected by digital, analog, electrical and electromagnetic signals that lead to their total decomposition. It shows in a metaphorical and simple way that the manipulation of these ecosystems by humans is the cause of their extinction. 
It seeks to raise questions about the causes of the destruction of our ecosystems, “Naturae Recordatus” shows our fires, our deforestations, we don’t talk about the geological and morpho-physiological changes of South American ecosystems, changes caused by their overexploitation. These lands, from the south, are still considered to be virgin and magical, many inhabitants disperse this exoticizing discourse that prevents them from seeing the immense daily environmental problems. 

Portrait of a Forest
Minhyeong Kil, South Korea, 5 minutes
South American Premiere

A portrait of the forest drawn by ripping off the faces of the forest one by one and reconstructing them abstractly

Moonglade
Griffin Conner, USA, 5 minutes
South American Premiere

Light and water give way to a world of glistening gemstones hidden underneath the river’s surface.

[sun]film
Derek Taylor, USA, 3 minutes
Argentina Premiere

An arrangement of found image sources from the 16th Century onward, the film looks at the changing representations of the giant star at the center of the solar system. From celestial maps to telescopic photos, the film traces the sun as a natural constant, a mirror of human curiosity, and a radiant symbol of mystery.

Buseok (Floating Rocks Series)
Park Kyujae, 2024, 18 minutes
Buenos Aires Premiere

A man searches for memories of his family’s past, alternating between Geomeunyeo, Buseok Temple, and his grandmother’s house, all of which are located along a straight line on the map. Geomeunyeo is a rock located in the reclaimed area of Buseok, Seosan, South Korea. It was originally a reef that was exposed above sea level, but is now above ground. The name of Buseok, which means floating rock, is said to be derived from Geomeunyeo.

Geomeunyeo (Floating Rocks Series)
Park Kyujae, 2025, 3 minutes
South American Premiere

Geomeunyeo evokes the sea where no water exists and reveals forms where there is no light. When one sense closes, another opens in an endless cycle. Through the filmmaker's intervention, Geomeunyeo repeatedly sinks and resurfaces. Shot on 16mm black-and-white film and hand-processed, Geomeunyeo highlights the physical nature of film and the subtle traces naturally produced during manual development. This repetition creates a poetic rhythm that moves between presence and absence, appearance and disappearance. 
 
Geomeunyeo is a rock formation originally located in the sea off the western coast of South Korea. Due to land reclamation, this once-submerged reef now rests on dry land. It now stands as a silent witness to the shifting boundaries between sea and shore.

The Visible Material
Ryan Marino, USA, 8 minutes
South American Premiere

Through means of rephotography and refracted projection, the movements and luminescent surfaces of Berlin’s Alexanderplatz are transformed into vibrant fields of moving color.  

The Departing Images
Ana Edwards, Chile, 11 minutes
Buenos Aires Premiere

Between ethnography and reverie, the film enters the in-between spaces of dreams to explore how human and non-human social networks emerge through dreaming in a Mapuche family in the south of Chile.