Passion (DIR/SCR/PROD Hyonok Kim, SOUTH KOREA, 2023, 8:54 min). Mourning the loss of a beloved one is depicted by dance movements inspired by Italian Renaissance paintings and the Pietá. A woman on the edge of madness proffers lamentations. A man is supporting and watching over for to keep her from falling.
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm
Medusas (SCR/DIR Nataša Prosenc Stearns, SLOVENIA, 2017, 3:07. Experimental) A caryatid is an architectural column in the shape of a standing female figure, with the most celebrated found in the Acropolis of Athens. Caryatids represent women’s power and endurance, a motif used by artists and architects throughout history. Nataša Prosenc Stearns brings caryatids into our time with silhouettes of women layered against elements of contemporary Los Angeles architecture and progressing from individual figures to archetypal forms to semi-abstract shapes, suggesting androgyny, imperfection, even disfigurement. Once immobile female pillars now beam with turbulence, wind in their hair and clothes.
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm
The Lost: existence before essence (SCR/DIR s/n, USA, 2024, 10:47. Experimental.) A fairytale of the Anthropocene, with no place left unaltered by human life. This surrealist spin on the Hansel and Gretel story begins with feral children living in the abstracted forest scratching out their survival and gathering food. They awaken the Cavern Yōkai (Cave Spirit) by taking her resources without asking. Is this vengeful spirit an absent parent, stressed and filled with anger and regret waking up from her endless virtual meetings and remote work? Most versions of the tale have a dangerous or absent parent and a threatening witch. What if these characters are the same? Or neither? Every fantasy reflects the era in which it was born. This is a legend for a new era that has outgrown dark tales of survival and revenge in favor of collaboration and restoration.
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm
Unconditioned Opposites (DIR/SCR Ángel-Manuel Torres, Jr. USA, 2023, 7:20 min). Day and Night have a conversation that depicts their very nature, displaying the Yin-Yang of one's consciousness.
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm
‘The Sprayer (SCR/DIR Farnoosh Abedi, IRAN, 2023, 09:00. Sci-Fi War) The story of a contaminated land occupied by the Sprayers army, where no one is permitted to grow any kind of plant, in public or private. To do so is considered a seditious act punishable by death. But when a soldier finds a plant sprouting from the earth, his humanity sparks something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary.
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm
Nuyulu (SCR/DIR mónica alfaro, EL SALVADOR, 2024, color, 4:41. Fiction). NUYULU is inspired by the lost painting “The Christ of Corn” 1946 by Noé Canjura. With a strong symbolic charge, "NUYULU" is a visual story that explores brutality, resistance and hope in the midst of oppression, the historical struggles of peoples, courage and sacrifice. NUYULU, the heart, conceived as the essence of life, was the most valuable gift that humans could give back to the gods.((U.S. premiere)
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm
Cherry On Top (SCR/DIR Mark Cabaroy. USA, 2014, color, 04:00. Animation, comedy.) After being gifted a cherry a man loses it and goes to great lengths to get it back.
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm
Late Afternoon (SCR/DIR Savvina Alimani, USA, 2024, drama. 07:00.) One afternoon in New York City, Edith discovers a truth that Gabriella has been hiding from her for a long time.
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm
Caryatids (SCR/DIR Nataša Prosenc Stearns, SLOVENIA, 2017, 4:37. Experimental) Portraits of concrete women who captivate with the intensity of their presence. The squinting eyes, accentuated lips and rich, vibrant hair reveal the metropolitan image of the artist as global citizen, yet this is as far as the author allows us to peek into the intimate. We do not know what these medusas have been through or survived, and yet the artist intertwines the images: they communicate with their looks, voice and hair, and together they create a network.
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm
Moment in the Sun (SCR/DIR Nataša Prosenc Stearns, SLOVENIA, 2019, 2:33. Experimental) Shot in Venice, California during the sunset hours, this is part of my Haiku videos series, which originate in daily unstaged recordings. Like in Haiku poetry, the images of Haiku videos are based on directly observed everyday occurrences and created spontaneously, when a real-life circumstance gives rise to an idea.
Sat. April 25 @ 6:00 pm






