Natural Selections

meteors… is a silent found footage film composed of images from the Katsakh Mediterranean archive collection—a personal collection of non-fiction Super 8mm and 16mm films capturing cities and villages of the Eastern Mediterranean from the 1920s to the 1980s, initiated in 2020 by Chantal

Two lovers share their respective childhood memories through neural implants. At first the experience is intoxicating. A childhood summer, the smell of rain, waiting for mom, moving cities - memories pass between them as living sensations. The lovers begin to discover each other not through stories,

Synopsis : Between 2020 and 2022, Sophie Sherman films her loved ones in lockdown across France, Belgium, and England. Marked by a birth and a death, the film focuses on acts of care, human connection, and the grace and fragility of shared moments.

To win a research grant at one of the world's leading tech giants, gifted PhD Arturo "Rey" Reyes enters an unprecedented academic contest: the first-ever DUEL FOR THE LARGEST FINITE NUMBER. Facing his rival, PhD Daniel Evans, Rey must inscribe the biggest number he can conceive on a chalkboard. As h

Letters from the Ceresco community trace the fragility of harmony, the dream of life in association, the frictions that give way to fracture. Members of the phalanx drift apart, lingering in private corners, suspended in speculative time.

The Optimum Aquarium is a short film that interrogates who controls where people live in 21st-century Bushwick and Ridgewood: two neighborhoods on the border of Brooklyn and Queens that are experiencing the churn and change of gentrification. The Optimum Aquarium invites its viewers into the inner w

A sensorial attunement of the layered mysteries of oceanic zones oscillating between positive and negative 16mm black-and-white film. Abstracted studies and sonic traces of communicating species dwelling in the intertidal and midnight zones of the Pacific Ocean.

Every year they climb the Nivolet plateau to repeat the same measurements, collecting valuable data even in remote and difficult areas. At 2,600 meters, in the Gran Paradiso National Park, a team of researchers works in one of the planet's "critical zones": a global experiment that, from the Arctic

As urbanisation and fires close in on Bolivia's forests, a former orphan turned animal caretaker finds himself at a crossroads. While working to secure a new home for the monkeys at the sanctuary founded by his adoptive mother, his desire to complete his veterinary studies pulls him toward a life be

A coastal sand dune is transformed and reshaped into digital ether. The film focuses closely on sand as a material, which is composed of silica, the mineral that is a primary ingredient in manufacturing silicon chips, lenses, binoculars, microscopes and mirrors - devices that extend our vision. The

A poetic dissection of "this is that".

The Boys and the Bees follows a year in the life of a Black family on a small farm in rural Georgia. Through a patient, verité lens, the film moves at the pace of two young boys, alive with curiosity, as they wander fields, tend hives, and grow in their relationship with the land around them.

Flowers flicker along a 16mm strip, just before or right after the flames. You can hear them weep, scream, and resist. In response to this stridency, there is the burst of light from a black petal. Working from scientific audio recording, the film is designed as an act of appropriation and resistanc

Puerto Rico confronts crisis and change across the coral reefs that have ringed the island for thousands of years. A variety of voices and visions from its coastal seas explore modern-day strategies to encourage these animal forests to regenerate into hyperproductive havens of biodiversity. Un Puebl

An Uncertain Eternity follows the journey of icebergs that travel from Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland to the East coast of Newfoundland in Canada. Narrated by Greenlanders and Newfoundlanders, this film explores the political, social, and spiritual implications of the icebergs and how they are chan

The green ones share stories of change in this travelogue from the vantage point of plants. In a canyon where all things move, these ancient beings urge humanity to reconsider acts of interspecies and intraspecies relation during a current period of intense anthropogenic climate change.

In the distant future, the world of the eternal present is inhabited by bio-mechanical-digital-electronic beings. But one of these beings does not believe that it has always been like this and sets out on a journey of discovery in 3 stages. Such stages are made up of moving paintings, images corrode

Béni is the name of a ten-year-old girl from my neighborhood. It is summer, and she is not going on vacation. She collects sounds in space. According to Doreen Massey, space is the sphere of the possibility of the existence of plurality, of the coexistence of difference. It is the sphere of t

Winter of Machines juxtaposes the post-industrial landscape of Charleroi with the legacy of Futurism. Fascinated by Fernand Steven's mural Evocation de la chimie (1936–1938) in the Lycée Léonie de Waha in Liège, which celebrates science, industry and progress, Jan Locus ex

A personal documentary with space age flair which follows a filmmaker as he traverses the globe, and even the galaxy, trying to comprehend the elusive figure of his late grandfather, a pioneering neurobiologist of smell with whom he always sensed an affinity.

Pseudomorphs is a film about cephalopods, doubling bodies, institutional friction, hypnosis and disappearance. It is staged across three locations: a marine biology laboratory studying cephalopod cognition and skin camouflage; a beach home to giant ammonite fossils; and the mesopelagic zone of the s

A collection of trapped moments is discovered in a house by the sea in Poland. Amber, family albums and photographs of a woman on Mont Blanc. A myth passed down from aunt to aunt. As these objects defrost, we are taken on a journey across time between Europe's highest peak and the Baltic shore.

Mythical like a dragon, but also real, we grew attached to ideas of what a dinosaur could have been. A gentle touch in a clay layer uncovers fossilised bones, the physical remains of what is left of the creatures that spark our imaginations are met with tenderness. 'You don't love me, you love the i

Underwater creatures—snapping shrimp, bearded seals, and more—populate the soundscape here, alongside the ghost voice of biologist Lynn Margulis, who rails against authority, societal amnesia, and easy answers. Margulis considers the genesis of complex entities, from maternally-inherited

In Fort Bragg, California, a former town dump that operated until the 1960s has become famed for its glistening coastline, scattered with thousands of pieces of colorful sea glass. For decades, the waves at Glass Beach have eroded shards of broken glass into smooth pebbles, transforming the landscap

Shot on Super 8, the film captures a walk around a precarious, low-lying sandbank island, where fleeting observations come into focus only to vanish again. Rotations and cycles ebb and flow through manmade wind vanes assembled from foraged sea drift, while sea-worn objects hint at deeper meanings be

A burned forest and the butterflies that signal its recovery. The mourning for my father and the absences intertwined with what remains, like a note from his trumpet. Collections, images, and sounds that are inherited. Letters written by birds that used to visit me as a child and now perch on our ba

"It was kind of a surprising, surprising event..." Abel Berumen, an accomplished Mexican-American photographer, woke up blind one day as a result of a rare disease called Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum. This film, made seven years after the unexpected event, reflects on the paradox of his disability: how

Plant matter is used to create finely detailed indexical traces on photochemical film. The traces are not only visible but also audible. By feeding botanical textures, patterns and rhythms into the optical sound system noise, cracks, pops and hiss is generated. Seeing is hearing. Such a cross modali

When you watch a particle it acts like a particle. But when you look away, it does a whole other thing. This story explores modes of experiencing the strange quantum basis of an everyday life. It journeys through split déja-vu, Schrödinger's hamster and the clouds of possibilities that a

Portrait of an urban marsh born from a human flaw, where life invents new forms of coexistence. Filmed in 16 mm at the Wiels Marsh in Brussels. A marsh that emerged after the water table was pierced during excavation work for a real estate project. Insects, birds, and humans coexist in this refuge,

In the heart of the Alta Guajira, 15-year-old Weinshi, a girl from the Wayuu people whose name means "Time", begins to hear an ancestral calling in her dreams: the earth must be healed through her people's sacred dance, the Yonna.

Shot on 16mm film using a handcrafted Time-Slice camera with 293 lenses—a modern reinterpretation of the original device built by Tim Macmillan in the early 1980s—toward a fundamental theory of physics offers a unique, tactile exploration of time and light as the raw materials and fundam

A Sense of Limit is an artistic essay film shot solely on Super8 which invites viewers to imagine the world as seen, heard and felt by other beings. Through philosophical narration, montage of natural imagery and immersive sound design, the film challenges us to recognise the limits of our own perce

The Interior Frontier operates in a confused time-state of period dress and modern society, between fact and fiction; dealing with silence as sound, the invisible war of female life, tornado as existence, and the world's largest hand dug hole.

Filmmaker Katy Scoggin is starting a project about evolution and geologic time, but disagreements with her father — a young-earth creationist who rejects the theory of evolution — keep getting in the way. She heads home, where he is completing his last year of teaching before moving with

Amid the stark landscapes of Pavagada in southern India, a fleeting UFO encounter draws two researchers and a local explorer into a journey that spans centuries. They retrace the path of a 19th century British surveyor whose meticulous records of prehistoric sites lend weight to his testimony of wit

A family of wild owls hunts, feeds, and raises their young. A camera in their nest captures every move. While online viewers monitor the owls 24/7, nature begins to defy its audience's expectations.

This film traces Arizona's desert as it is reshaped into a hub for data centres and semiconductor manufacturing. Moving through altered waterways, the film exposes tensions between technoutopian visions and drought-stricken ecologies. Guided by offscreen voices and Tohono O'odham poet Ofelia Zepeda'

From Something to Nothing is an experimental cinematic portrait of a forest in Upper Austria shortly before its destruction. Through thousands of photographs of individual tree barks, the disappearing forest is transformed into hypnotic frame-by-frame animations, abstract visual loops, and immersive

Environmental toxicologists on the California coast find dangerously high levels of mercury in local mountain lions. A hunt through the food web for the source of the mercury reveals a story of global pollution and the permeability of our shared environment.

A few seeds preserved in Madrid's Botanical Gardens are sent back to the south coast of Peru, where they were collected centuries ago. A sensual imaginary journey, a counter-narrative to colonial despoilment.

Preston and Adam work together to deepen and share their know-how about living in a harsh northern climate. In a geodesic dome, they grow food that they offer directly to their community, while teaching the members food self-sufficiency.

Women pretend to be rocks. Military operations masquerade as art education. One woman deserts to pursue a more radical act of unselfing.

The search for La Flor de Irupé, a lost film by Guillermo Zúñiga, a Spanish pioneer of scientific filmmaking who was exiled in Argentina after the Spanish Civil War, triggers a journey into family histories and national archives. As we witness the slow growth of the yrupé

As the steelworks in Port Talbot, south Wales, fall silent, immersive listening walks connect men with nature, memory and mental health in a new way. 'A Spider's Lunch & Other Sounds' is a listening film; part documentary, part sonic experience.

Chiaroscuro is an experimental documentary essay that starts with the discovery of Rodolfo Galeazzi's vast artistic archive. From this an intimate journey connects memory, heritage, and the connection with the dead, building a bridge between past and present, in dialogue with luminaries and dreams.

In the Sibundoy Valley, Mercedes Cuatindioy cultivates her chagra as an act of resistance and remembrance. Between seeds and polyculture practices, her life embodies the transmission of Indigenous knowledge threatened by oblivion.

Set along the coast of Virginia and Maryland's barrier islands and NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, machines, humans, and non-human organisms interact with each other. In a region where encountering rocket launches and wild horses is typical for a local resident, Habitation provides a meditation on t

While studying abroad, a daughter recalls the magical herbal remedies her mother used to brew when she was young, drifting into a maze of memories across the glitches of a video call.

A mermaid stands abandoned at the water's edge, and the water remembers her. Images drift between a lake, the badlands, and a ferry crossing open water, trembling through mirrors and reflections as if longing had its own frequency. Fossils surface. Bones are carefully kept. The ocean sounds like an

Four young researchers in Big Sky Country begin to wonder about the vastness of the world and greater cosmos. If non-human presences were capable of harboring intelligence and communicating, what information could they pass along? Using the trees and wind as messengers, the researchers record and de

In this collaboration between Deborah S. Phillips, seasoned 16mm filmmaker, and Zuzanna Marczak, who encounters the medium with a fresh perspective, fragments and impressions of urban debris come alive through playful stop-motion and superimpositions. Scraps, ribbons, caps, paper, plastic, cans and

A handmade sculptural collage assembled from found footage, bodily residue, and chemical abrasion. Tape, ink, skin, semen, and corrosive processes accumulate across deteriorating 16mm film until the image itself begins to dissolve. What remains is a volatile archive of memory, intimacy, and physical

In the desert of the American southwest, scientists are simulating the colonisation of Mars. They follow protocols, record data and live according to precise schedules. During their breaks, day-to-day life takes on the appearance of a strange science fiction. How do we imagine life on a planet we've

A filmmaker uses Super 8 film to come to terms with his diagnosis of Young Onset Parkinson's Disease.

Gamespace becomes a therapeutic alternate reality in And If the Body, which examines the clinical use of technologies such as VR & electrical stimulation in the treatment of spinal cord injury & other neuromuscular disorders. In this strange new world of neurotechnology, the physical & the virtual b

With the help of thousands of women, the Isala citizen-science project of the microbiology lab at the University of Antwerp is going on a journey of discovery into the vagina: what microorganisms can be found there, what are they doing there and what can we learn from them? The social relevance of t

Kingdom Plantae is a science fiction novel that explores a future in which humanity has become extinct after irreversibly disrupting the Earth's equilibrium. Nature, marked by anthropization and contaminated by technology, reemerges in a hybrid form: ecosystems reconstructed through data and pixels,

Silva Incognita begins in the landscapes around the Fen Complex in Telemark, Norway, where a proposed mining development reframes forest paths, wetlands, seasonal rhythms, and memory as a "world-class rare earth deposit" and strategic resource. Emerging from ongoing fieldwork, the film approaches th

A Circle as the Center of the Whole approaches the city of Delhi as a site excavated by history, ideology, and the act of remembrance itself. Fragments from state records, mythic narratives, and personal memory construct a speculative archive that disrupts any attempts at fixing the city's identity

Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of soothing sound, Orbits journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine's memory, after losing her sight some years ago.

Now in his sixth decade and living on the outskirts of London in near-poverty on benefits and the products of his imagination, the supernaturally-inclined English writer Quentin S. Crisp (not to be confused with the other Quentin Crisp, author of The Naked Civil Servant) contemplates the value of li

The Colorado River is drying up. Reservoirs are falling to record lows and drought continues to ravage the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. The heavily engineered water systems of the American Southwest buckle under the strain of an expanding population. Life for those on the fringes beg

Follow herons, finches, and snow geese through hazy marshes and moonlit forests to trace the footsteps of renowned abolitionist Harriet Tubman and explore what it means for us to physically dwell with the ghosts of America's past. Traveling along the Harriet Tubman historical byway, Ghost Lands refl