SINGLE FRAME 2025
April 6, 2025
5:30pm
Datura's Aubade by Jean-Jacques Martinod + Bretta C. Walker
2021 / 15:00
A farmer discovers a fallen meteorite in the high Chihuahua Desert. The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade.
Landforms by Laura Kraning
2024 / 11:15
LANDFORMS unearths the physical remains of past and future geological strata. The film explores two landscapes, an industrial rock quarry turned recreational fossil hunting park, in which 380-million-year-old fossils were discovered beneath the rocks where once flowed a shallow sea, and a public waterway whose shore is dispersed with brightly colored fragments of consumer waste in the form of microplastics. Both landscapes reveal a process of digging and gathering, of collecting evidence of earth’s pre-historic past, or intervening in humanity’s toxic futures. The forms, of ancient sea creatures and broken plastic, mesh and intertwine into a meditation on deep time and a reflection on extinction.
Chronotope Earth 1985 to Future by Georg Koszulinski
2024 / 10:00
In 1938, the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin coined the term 'chronotope' to describe the role time and space plays in literature. In 1985, the American astronomer, Carl Sagan testified before congress on the subject of the greenhouse effect and the need for the world's governments to work together to address the issue. Bakhtin's literary theory applied to specific locations in a story that indicate aspects of time. But what if we considered the Earth itself the 'setting' for the story, and how might that alter our conception of time?
Coywolf by Lucy Adams
2025 / 11:43
In the bustling chaos of New York City, coyotes lurk in the shadows, hidden in plain sight and largely unknown to their human neighbors. As coyote populations have spread across the country, New York City has become home to these urban scavengers.
no more room in hell by rebecca shapass
2023 / 23:10
Reanimating text culled from the archive of horror director George A. Romero (Dir. Night of the Living Dead), no more room in hell takes a reflexive, non-linear approach to zombie apocalypse narratives to consider the American cinematic zombie in relation to the place of its birth: Pittsburgh. Riffing on familiar living-dead themes of material transformation and suspended decay, the film examines zombiehood by considering how shifts in industry impact the ways humans consume the world around them.
Poem for three voices by Lananh Chu
2023 / 2:44
The film weaves “Poem for Three Voices” by Bhanu Kapil and dropped frames of a VHS tape of “New York: A Documentary Film” by Ric Burns to comment on the tape’s decaying state and somatic experience of living in New York.