Borders

A recently discovered monarch butterfly subespecies ("Danaus plexippus eclipsis") possesses strange toxins in its scales that cause powerful sensorial alterations to its predators. Intertwining vivid colors and textures of microscopic footage with the sway of the human body, this is a speculation ab

Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.

In the northernmost part of Sweden and Norway, a conflict over land and borders seems to be eternally ongoing. Simon and Beatrice Marainen and their three kids are a part of an indigenous Sami semi-nomadic community of reindeer herders, that have traditionally always moved freely across northern Sca

A lucid dream leads to a dance with Death. Photographed on 16mm, Repertoire of Death blends found sounds with rarely heard music from the personal archives of Yma Sumac "Queen of Exotica" in order to blur the boundaries between dead/alive and dream/waking.

Pays de Gex, on the French-Swiss border. P.A. and his homies are in their last year of high school. One hundred metres beneath their feet, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator in the world is crashing protons into each other to recreate the energy conditions of the

In Costa Rica there are no street addresses. Or they may exist in some government office, but the people have steadily resisted any effort to develop a centralized system. Instead, an address contains a series of directions in reference to various landmarks. In this film, a Costa Rican woman who has

One hour drive from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, everyone has to pass a strict border control, when leaving the "Free West" towards Belarus, "the last dictatorship in Europe". Crossing this border is a time consuming and almost absurd performance. However, there are people who are confronted wit

A lone cyberflâneur stumbles upon a hidden corner of Google Maps, a forgotten place unfolding in the static. Shadows pace aimlessly, paths dissolve into nowhere, and figures flicker in and out of existence, fragments of untold stories.

The second film in a trilogy of works which observe ecosystems bordering urban San Diego. A flock of Cliff Swallows oscillates between their nest along the Interstate 5 Freeway, and the San Dieguito River. The video is made up of triptych compositions of the birds' flight, their nests on the freeway

Swimming Lessons is a machinima film unfolding within Google Maps. Through confessional verse, the narrator maps the sites of a former relationship and its aftermath, using digital cartography to revisit and process desire and shame.

Exploration between the characters and the filmmaker. A quest into a universal existential problem, how to inhabit the world. Members of a family leave their home and in the middle of the Cuban Sierra Maestra struggle to find a new one. During this process, they inhabit scenes of routine life in the

On the road to spiritual transcendence, a voice over artist gets lost in the forest. He makes some commercials along the way.

This film contends with the impact of environmental collapse on interpersonal relationships, disability, and an "unknown future". Inspired by Feminist, Queer, Crip author, Alison Kafer, and her rebuttal of Lee Edelman's "No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive" - this hybrid speculative fiction

"Enter Corridors" investigates the interspatial and intertemporal connections of marine habitats, tracing the entanglements between human and non-human organisms, natural and built environments, and the ecologies that bind them. Through a multiscalar approach to space and time attuned to the corresp

Words of advice on contagious viruses from the mouths of a generation past, and the eyes of today. The concrete jungle seems less active than it once was, and filled with more bricks than cement.

On July 22, 2017, in San Antonio, Texas, police found a truck in a Walmart parking lot with 39 illegal immigrants in its bed. A tractor had been transporting them undetected from the border town of Laredo to San Antonio. Because the cooling system inside the truck failed, resulting in extreme heat,

Directed by Andrés Caballero and Alexis Joy Hagestad 2026 This two-channel video installation examines the San Rafael Valley, an untouched wildlife corridor for endangered species that faces imminent destruction following the current administration's construction of a 30-foot steel wall. With

This diptych installation confronts two opposing yet complementary perceptions of a single place: the sea.Through two videos projected side by side, the same scene is presented, divided into contrasting interpretations, each carried by a distinct poem. These images engage in a dialogue, creating an

Tan/Vatan -Body/Homeland- is a collaborative experimental film. It is a conversation between two women and their intimate experiences of love and life. The film embodies a symbolic form borrowed from the origin cultures of the artists, in India and Iran. Tan and Vatan are mutual words in Hindi and P

The history of the Galata Bridge is embedded in its layers...

In southeastern Utah, home to stunning landscapes and among the last major wild places remaining in the continental United States, adventurous nature lovers flock to appreciate the wonder of the wild. Now these lands teeter on the precipice of rampant industrial development. Greedy efforts to usurp

The story unfolds on the Eve of Midsummer: on the day when the threshold between worlds is porous, and an idle gesture can tempt fate. Inspired by Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth (1671), this work takes the outward form of a nature film. But observation gives way to illusion and the surface gi

Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall.

Ten repetitive sonic interventions within the eroded landscapes of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. These occur at sites of local "anti-monuments:" a kilometers-long, natural limestone pavement high above Galway Bay; stone farm walls and remnants of circular structures on hillsides; cairns near a

This documentary charts a trip around Baja California to the Tropic of Cancer line on the summer solstice. Largely photographed in-camera, the film develops its narrative drive through the rhythm of shot length and composition. Aided by an original score from Beth Custer and a wicked sound design by

The Golden Cage (2022) video is part of a media installation based on the northern bald ibis (a.k.a "kelaynak" in Turkish), the most endangered migratory bird in the Middle East. When Palmyra fell to ISIS, the kelaynak colony, which migrates from Northeast Africa to Birecik (a small town near the Tu

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.

Dakar 2009. At the heart of the night, three friends gather around a fire. Serigne tells for the first time to Cheikh and Alpha his epic journey to Spain which he has just been repatriated. He has only one idea in mind, jump in the first boat and go to sea again. His friends try to convince him to s

I realized the sun was out and it was cloudy. But the sun had already come out. Something seemed strange so we got off the motorbike and had a look around. I went around a well that was there, and I noticed that there was a dead Chinese inside. I thought so and that is also what my dad said in the n

Neither Here Nor There But Just As Important is originally a multimedia work consisting of photographs, videos, and text woven into a photo set and a silent five-channel video installation. It was created in 2020 as an expansion of Here, Here , a short film that I made in 2019, centered on a town in

Closure (2025) examines the relationship between epigenetic trauma and nostalgia through a sustained look at the historic Gillian's Wonderland Pier, an amusement park in Ocean City, New Jersey, which is now closed and being converted into a luxury hotel. To aid in the home video aesthetic and serve

(16mm > 35mm, 16 minutes, sound, color, Brazil, USA, UK) The great voyages to the "New World" were seen as expanding the frontiers of the visible and displacing those of the invisible, therefore, maps from that time render the real and imaginary. The film follows a voyage of the Brazilian Militar

The film takes the viewer on an embodied journey moving through a space in which its existence in the real or imagined is debatable. Alike how the alleyway is a physical bridge between two main streets, the film presents a series of juxtaposed images that might seem opposing at a glance – the

Cartografías invisibles explores a territory shaped by invisible lines connecting bodies, plants, animals, and landscape. Based on an Amazonian origin myth, the film unfolds a world where branches become rivers and leaves become fish. In contrast to a cartography drawn by established borders,

In Venezuelan Guayana, large gold reserves lie beneath "moriche" palms, attracting multitudes of miners from across the region. A fictional narrator travels from far-flung mines in the jungle to the banks of the Orinoco River, trying to understand the uncertain fortune of the informal miner immersed

Aquí y allá is an essay film that studies what being at home means. The filmmaker uses photographs, maps and Google Earth to connect places around the globe; not just from her own past, but also from the complex migratory history of her family that stretches back to Hitler-era Germany

The film revolves around Rubel, a young boy who wants to attend school, but whose financial circumstances force him to become a smuggler from India to Bangladesh. Every day, he has to cross a river that forms the border between the two countries. He stays at an island named Char which is a no-man's

Made at the turn of the spring season, this cameraless 16mm film was created over several visits to X̱á7elcha (Lynn Creek), submerging strips of film beneath the river's surface and exposing them from above to capture ever-shifting light refractions. Developed using site-specific plant-based

The end of History, they say. Every summer, thousands of tourists flock to the foot of the Pont d'Arc armed with beach towels, coolers and plastic buckets. The mouth of the Chauvet cave overlooks the landscape, below float a parade of canoes as groups of speleologists search for the slightest crevic

Liberland tells the unusual history of a territory located in the Balkans, a micronation proclaimed by the Czech Vít Jedlička. Does this fanciful gesture conceal the willingness to construct a communitarian ideal, or the desire to build an empire of pernicious interests with impenetrable cont

When the embers settle, silence is advised. Beware of the veil if contact is critical. There are no threats visible; no ground assured.

By constructing an iron fence, right through the beautiful KUPA-region, Slovenia has made Croatia somewhat an unwilling buffer for the influx of the refugees coming from Bosnia, trying to reach Europe. Of cause of the fence, the usual way of life has collapsed and a new dynamic was generated. The re

Ground Effect is an investigation of the constantly shifting, 80km long line in Israel, where rainfall amounts to less than 200mm a year on average. This line, which aligns with the global desert belt, cuts from the east, near the West Bank, to the west, near the Gaza strip. It is where I grew up, a

Swannanoan Silt is a two-channel experimental documentary by filmmakers Isaac King and Tristan Turner examining how communities in WNC cope and rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The film documents Helene's destruction of Western North Carolina's landscape. In addition to containing image

Podhale, Poland, Winter of 1939. Magda (15) is an excellent skier. She joins the Polish Resistance and helps by bringing documents and fugitives across the mountains into Slovakia. One day she learns that the group of 23 pilots urgently need to cross the border, as Gestapo is on their heels. She com

Beginning with a historical painting of an idyllic March landscape, stored in an art depot, the film moves along the border river March, which with its Austrian-Slovakian section establishes one of Austria's oldest national borders. The film poses questions about image storage, escape, and the rever

In a lightless ocean, the first signs of life emerge. Lands and organisms are recorded by an analog camera. Between pixels and celluloid, creation is interrupted by the absurd footprint of humanity.

On each side of the border between Lithuania and the Russian exclave Kaliningrad, there is an ornithologic station, researching the migration of millions of birds crossing this border region. Today both ornithologic stations make a first attempt to cross borders through a common bird research projec

No Home to Go Back to is an experimental multimedia nonfiction short film rooted in the experience of forced exile, leaving a country and finding yourself without a home to return to. Moving through different stages, it traces displacement, transience, and the unreliable nature of memory. Built from

MEMBRANE is a sound and visual portrait of the growing border wall that separates Mexico and the U.S. This long metal barrier takes many forms and is made of many different materials, as it winds and twists several thousand kilometers through deserts, plains, and mountains, crossing Native American

Water and paths of migration converge to shape the borderlands along the U.S./Mexico boundary when staging actors in a politicized landscape leads to the rupture of fiction for fact.

Documentary essay, filmed during an Atlantic crossing aboard a cargo ship. A film about immensity and faith, about the uninterrupted movements of the waves and their power. And finally, perhaps most importantly, about the men aboard, witnesses and actors in this life between two shores, isolated in

Information is scarce around Heron 1, a longrange military drone patrolling the Mediterranean Sea and surveilling the borders of Europe. Starting as a desktop research into the drone, this investigation about the present and future of surveillance technology drops us at the crossroads of Frontex, th

Dedicated to Betty Gabriel and Tomonari Nishikawa Filmed in two parts: in Aspen, Colorado the day after my grandmother's passing, and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the weekend of her funeral. All scenes were created in camera using laserprinted mattes.

What do bugs and borders have to do with each other? In 2019, thousands of gregarious desert locust swarms flew across the India-Pakistan border and ravaged the fields of farmers. In the same year, Indian government officials described migrants as termites and infiltrators at right-wing political ra

Along the southern desert border in Arizona, it is estimated that only one out of every five missing migrants are ever found. Águilas is the story of one group of searchers, the Aguilas del Desierto. Once a month these volunteers—construction workers, gardeners, domestic laborers by tra

A panning shot follows a wallpainting. This ttrompe l'oeil' painting actually represents the landscape beyond the wall. Slowly it turns to life the concrete begins to tremble as if the plants were growing inside it. This part of the wall has been recently built in Jerusalem. The viewer does not know

A visual and poetic journey through the experience of chemotherapy for Large B Cell Diffuse Lymphoma. Dedicated to Bonita Doan, 2x cancer survivor.

Amnion (the innermost membrane enclosing an embryo) is an experimental short film on the essence of waste. Landfills on the fringes of cities function as complex and hidden anthropological archives, revealing everything about our culture, habits, fears and dreams. They brim with outdated fashion, le

A trip behind and beneath the street-level skin of the city on the hidden paths of industrial history and once-and-future transit. The Triboro Line is a 24-mile freight rail in New York City, spanning from the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Bay Ridge, to Co-Op City in the Bronx. Once largely a passenger

When does a city become a city? This was the question posed to six filmmakers across the world. Each of us were filming a planned city that was less than sixty years old. I made my film on Chandigarh. Chandigarh, a celebrated instance of modern city planning, was born out of a loss. Partition, in th

Solitudes' is a doc-fiction hybrid, exploring a burgeoning friendship, and blending familial with public memory.

Mohammed, a young Palestinian, is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint. The driver, Farouk, discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross the checkpoint. Trouble begins.

Created alone in the desert, imaginary structures are built and destroyed through seeking out the edges of an unknown landscape. We keep finding ourselves at the center of something. Shot on a LomoKino, 35mm to digital

Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, a medieval Sufi poet, is an iconic figure whose poems are sung in Kachchh and across the border in Sindh (now in Pakistan). Umar Haji Suleiman is a self taught Sufi scholar. Mustafa Jatt sings the Bheths of Bhitai, accompanied by Usman Jatt, a truck driver, who plays one of

A woman stands alone at the railing of a passenger liner and gazes into the blue. She will remember for us an arrival in New York, the walk of a young couple through China-town, the house boats in Shanghai and the excited children who gather round the visitor with the obscure picture machine. Beneat

"It's the end of August. The air is sluggish. And it's hot." These last three sentences in the voiceover to August's Places , Valerie Pelet's cinematic travel journal, actually sum up quite well what to expect when you see it: in Super-16 reflecting the heat, Italian impressions of the mid-August ho

"Nuevos Trapos" takes place on the shores of the Río de la Plata, where the city of Buenos Aires meets the water, like a poem to the city that sails between reality and imagination. A documentary journey through the north waterfront of the city reflects the metamorphosis of Buenos Aires. Cart

Returning from a decade abroad, Komtouch Napattaloong meets the Ibrahim family in Bangkok, in exile due to the war in the Sudan. During their interminable six-year wait for a potential departure elsewhere, the director befriends the family, and together they create an uncommonly tender and lucid fil

Leonel Vasquez, along with carpenters and fishermen from the coast of Valparaíso, Chile, built a boat/sound installation following the almost extinct tradition of the artisanal wooden boats that still ply these waters. Through the wooden speakers on board, you can hear the voices of artisanal

Set in the misty mountains of southern China, a landscape shaped by tourism and natural spectacle, Vertical Dialogues follows the movement of mist as it gathers, disperses, and reshapes the land. Through a drifting journey back, the familiar landscape feels unfamiliar, caught between closeness and d

Inside the train from Wengen to Lauterbrunnen, the snow-covered landscape and the darkness of the tunnel, three windows offer serene yet ever-changing impressions.

The walk inhabits our being and governs our social space. Side by side or face to face, it implies an exchange. Alone, our footsteps go unnoticed. But when combining everyone's specific pace, a hidden harmony arises. Reconnecting with Eadweard Muybridge's work, this film projects us into the freneti

At night, a stranger digs graves, buries the dead and watches over them. In the dark, he reveals the personal belongings of the deceased to us. These objects, separated from their owners, bear their scars and their experiences, while others melt until they become enigmatic.

Building upon Bialowieza Forest's histories of repression, persecution and destruction, [paˈlʲit͡sʲ] considers common scars shared by its human and non-human inhabitants. It approximates borders as zones of transition and interaction and sees every living being as both indigenous and migrant. [paˈlʲ

Using animation, heat sensitive camera footage from US border patrol screens, military bombing drone monitors, and other collected footage, Maelstroms is a mediation on the dehumanizing use of image technology to control borders by land, air and sea.

The tiger has been stolen, or who let it escape? They deprive even the residents of water. Who should you pay attention to? To order, to one's own judgment, to fantasy? The tiger prowls the silent road, hides behind the golden mountains. This fable about the transition to adulthood, tells of lands,

Sleep Dealer, a cyberpunk thriller set on the U.S. / Mexico border, tells the story of Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando Peña), a young man from Mexico who dreams of coming to the United States. However, in this brave new borderland, crossing is impossible, and Memo 'migrates' in a new way — ove

To paint a stroke that bridges the sea and the sky, to blur the horizon or to usher in a new dawn. *The Sea Combs the Shore* seeks to imagine new geographies and to play, through visual art, with altering the filmed landscape.

Armenia is a small country in the heart of the Caucasus. It is also my homeland. Like many Armenians in France, my great-grandparents lived in present-day Turkey and emigrated to France during the Armenian Genocide of 1915. I have been immersed in this culture since childhood. Ten years ago, I trave

Exo Zone is a speculative sci-fi documentary investigating radio quiet zones and satellite interference as lenses onto extraction, governance, and anomaly within emerging space infrastructures. The film traces a trajectory from existing terrestrial radio quiet zones to the possibility of extra-terre

An experimental documentation of the daily commute in Los Angles via automobile vs. bike/train

Gephyrophobia (2012) is an experimental short film by multidisciplinary Anishinaabe/French artist Caroline Monnet. Meaning "the fear of bridges," the film uses the concept metaphorically to examine the cultural, political, and linguistic tensions between French and English Canada, focusing on the co

Artist and engineer Joaquin Fargas blends art and science to confront the climate crisis, creating miniature sealed ecosystems that challenge humanity to recognize the fragility of our planet. Derived from the feature documentary Utopian (still in prodction) , Like Aliens is a visually striking shor

2 Channel Land is a north-western docu-fiction film exploring the history of analogue signals spilling across the borders of Ireland and Britain. Guided by a mysterious threshold deity, we take a journey through Ireland's borderlands in search of community.

A woman stands on top of a hill in Namibe desert in Angola, looking into an extensive horizon of a vast desert, she signals the hope of crossing these borders symbolizing the repossession of the land and the regaining of a lost identity. The landscape as pathology is explored through these images; h

16mm and hand processed film retracing movements between electric bills to coastal walks ending in almost more clarity than before.

Through a series of interactions with border dwellers (interviews, staging, observation), the film channels 14 US/Mexico border crossing towns in a mosaic of simultaneity. Border Dwellers (2025) is one of many cross-platform iterations from the series Drawing the Line.

'Fathomless' is a poetic and sensorial meditation on marine life and the human desire for revelation. For a human and a marine animal to meet, one of them must enter an environment hostile to their body and utterly foreign to their most fundamental ways of being. 'Fathomless' explores the connection

'Borderlands' brings together six characters whose lives are defined by personal and political borders, from across the Indian subcontinent. Through conversations and observations, the characters reveal their efforts to find meaning in a world beyond their control. Divided families meet, love blosso

Eight prototypes for a border wall stand on the US-Mexico border. To choose a winning design, Border Patrol officers and the military will attempt to climb, dig under, or breach the structures using techniques employed by immigrants and drug dealers.

A lyrical visual analogy. A poetic journey of a mysterious woman crossing seas who eventually encounters a city filled with political turmoil. Co-produced with Maria Niro.

"Dun/Home" is a short experimental video about the closed border between Turkey and Armenia and the fragile possibility of coexistence within a shared geography marked by silence and historical rupture. Although the two countries share the same air, mountains, rivers, and landscapes, channels of com

Lebanon has witnessed a number of violent earthquakes as a result of its geographical location on several fault lines. Through an investigation of the country's seismic history, The Disquiet explores the catastrophe in the making.

Filmed at Masonboro Island, an undeveloped barrier island in southeastern North Carolina, "Tides" contemplates the liminal space between the modern technological world and that more ecological dimension we label as "nature" or "the environment."

A toad is trying to cross a road that cuts through its natural habitat. Like many amphibian species, it is especially vulnerable because it lives at the edge of its natural range, where environmental conditions are already challenging. Music by Sulo Kuuler - Church alarm ambient

Three Venezuelan women cross the border into Colombia to buy a packet of pasta.

Antonio, a Mexican man living in Phoenix, feels an unseen presence stalking him, always near, yet invisible. Trapped in his room with nowhere to hide, he begins to lose control over his surroundings, slowly being pushed out, erased from the spaces he once called home. Video shot with different imagi

After the death of his grandmother, a Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown nestled in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán after many years. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his new hybrid identity, launching him on a person

In this speculative documentary about the future of housing, a citizen of Condo World loses her sister. A barrage of found footage, cell phone video, and Super8 conjugates temporalities, showing us the future of loneliness and the impotence of seeing.

Two immigrants recount the changes brought about by their journeys to the U.S., paralleling that of cells migrating in response to a wound. ISFF13 Symbiosis

To prevent their village from extinction, Mexican residents simulate an experience they all know: crossing the border illegally into the US. They disguise themselves as border police and human traffickers so that tourists can feel like migrants for one night.

In the room of a seaside hotel, a man meets a woman in exile who is fleeing a nearby fire. The rhythm of the sea carries their dreams and troubles, all the while the outside slowly but steadily enters their space of refuge.

My hands have traced every line, the deep furrows, the curve of the shoulders, the path from the nape of the neck to the arch of her lips... a territory that is fragmented into thousands of islands. You suffer from archipelago, it is time to lay down your burden.

13-year-old Lola discovers a mysterious sea creature in her new seaside hometown. Their day spent together at the fun fair reveals questions of belonging. This fictional animated story, created collaboratively with secondary school students from an English as an Additional Language (EAL) program in

A spectre is haunting the city - a spectre of a cryptic ghost. In the liminal, neglected areas of Ljubljana, lurks the spectre of a striped hyena - a ghost of an animal that fled from the travelling menagerie in 1898. After her escape she managed to lurk around the periphery of the city for several

A projected moving image, visible only as a band of scattered light, color, movement, and sound, merges with other elements that evolve into the abstract subject of this non-narrative work.

The Roar of their Engines is a short documentary film set in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a territory that still bears the scars of an ongoing 50 years-old conflict, where peace talks are at a standstill. Meanwhile, the Turkish-Cypriot population is aging, silently and away from the spot

I Dreamt of Mountains investigates intangible memory, remembered landscapes, and navigating loss. Subconscious thoughts, expressed through poetic text, and performative dream-like interactions examine a longing to reconnect with an inaccessible past while trying to remain free of its entanglements.

Each day, the Carlingford ferry brings people over the border between Northern-Ireland and Ireland, in an era the debate on Brexit is predominant. Staying or remaining, both options create the same big question marks on the future. The short journey over the wide sea brings different thoughts and re

The first dive-in of a Monarch butterfly wing revealing the intricate scale structure, the pigmented scales, (fuzzy) borders. The borders of the wing evoke the borders between countries, notably between Canada, US and Mexico. The soundscape was created by director Alexis Gambis in collaboration with

The Duality of Nature is an experimental video that deals with the "duality of nature", in other words natural nature and technical nature. Nature is always a construction, whether in dynamic processes, dis-analog systems or physical, technical signals. "Nature" formulates the organizational forms o

The film follows an amateur photographer who enters a forest haunted by faint traces of those who once belonged there. When he finally encounters one, the boundaries between observer and observed begin to blur. He gradually abandons the urge to capture the world with his camera and surrenders instea

A cinematic diary from the West Bank and the Golan Heights – places caught between occupation, oppression, and a lived, collective experience.

A brief essay on the origin of four small towns in rural Kansas and Oklahoma, told through each town's respective water tower. Tall tales, public memorials, and roadside signage present in a region shadowed with settler-colonialism, imperial pursuits, identity fictions, and the threat of severe weat

signal communications proliferate across borders. incongruent shapes subtracted from form. fractal topographies without document.

A Line Was Drawn weaves together animated sequences, television archive footage, and two distinct voice-over narrations to explore how borders and boundaries structure our world, limiting movement, thought, questioning, and agency. Central to the maintenance of these divisions is the control of the

An undocumented immigrant recounts memories of his childhood home while telling the story of the handmade wallet tied to his journey across the border.

This film follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands. They travel 1,200 miles, from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico, on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes. Realizing the urgency of documenting the last remaining wilderness in Texas as the threat o

In the 1960s, Texaco named a small town in the Ecuadorian jungle Lago Agrio, a translation of "Sour Lake," the Texas town where the oil company was founded. This name forms the framework from which this short film was created, shot from the outskirts of this town to the Colombian Andes, where the ju

A bullring sits at the heart of the 16th-century Spanish town of Castellón. Around it has risen residential tower blocks. It's here that Borja lives. The boy's grandfather, who once had dreams of being a bullfighter himself, now places the responsibility on Borjas' shoulders, hoping he will c

Drawing inspiration from traditional weaving techniques, oral storytelling, and contemporary modes of production, Tiɣrist - The Threads of Exile invites reflection on textile as a language of resistance and a vessel of memory - a sensitive archive. This narrative is rooted in the migration of the ar

We tend to believe that symmetry exists in the world, that some things are naturally balanced, aligned, and centered. But what if symmetry is not something we find - what if it is something we impose? Axis is an experimental sensory film that investigates the psychology of symmetry and the human ten