Dreaming Ecosystems

World premiere

A collaborative botanicollage film poem by participants in the festival workshop, Dreaming Ecosystems, led by poet Mita Mahato and filmmaker Caryn Cline.

Samar Abdulhassan, Allison Avery, victoria blumenfeld, Argot Chen, Caryn Cline, Prince Jones, Madison Kearschner, Alexa Luborsky, Mita Mahato, Vitoria Ramos, Rana San, Paul Siple, Brianna Torres, Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, United States, 2026, English

what does it feel like to live inside of a pomegranate?

A young woman discovers a giant pomegranate in the middle of the forest and decides to live inside it.

Kamyar Mohsenin, US, 2025, 5 min, non-verbal

The Climate Change Volumes: Fall

World premiere

Following the changing seasons of the Mountain West, The Climate Change Volumes: Fall ponders fall’s delay as warmer summers extend and keep this transitory season from occurring during its normal time on our calendars.

director: Hugo Sindelar, poet: Travis Truax, United States, 2025, 5 min, in English with English subtitles

When You Left Me

Inspired by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and other large-scale traumatic events, this project uses the love-lost trope to examine how collective trauma impacts our connection to the land.

Kamari Bright, United States, 2025, 4 min, in English with hardcoded English text

Semaphore to the Sea

The artist uses semaphore—a maritime-based communication system that uses handheld flags to convey information at a distance—to transmit a message to the sea. Created at the end of an artist residency at the Sou’wester in Seaview, WA.

Amy-Ellen f Trefsger, United States, 2018, 1 min, non-verbal with hardcoded English text

NOTHING WILL COME OF NOTHING

World premiere

Nurture, nature, voicemails, photographs.

My Panelli, United States, 2026, 2 min, in English with English subtitles

Reach

World premiere

At the crossroads of intimacy, trails of invisible energy imprint as two wanderers maneuver throughout the landscape, leaving hints of mirrored action yet inverted perspective. Through the shifting shape, current, and conduit of water, Reach follows the journey of two people in search of the other.

directors: Luke Webster Brown & Emily J Mundy, poet: Emily J Mundy, United States, 2026, 6 min, in English with hardcoded English text

All ways.

World premiere

You could not have tried any harder.

wendy oberlander, Canada, 2025, 1 min, non-verbal with English intertitles

Remembering Tornado Season

World premiere

A visual poem reflecting on Missouri’s tornado season and the destruction left in its wake.

director: Jordie Simpson, poet: Emma Caplinger, United States, 2025, 1 min, in English with hardcoded English text

POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR “DAYS OF THE WEEK”

A collaborative video poem by participants in the festival workshop, Risograph Animated Poetry Workshop with Zine Hug, set to Dao Strom’s poem “POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR ‘DAYS OF THE WEEK’”. This poem was originally published in Instrument with Traveler’s Ode as a collaborative print book publication + cassette album release of Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records (2020).

directors: Liv Glascock, Neely Goniodsky, jade hawk, Alexander Kirshenbaum, Bea Mariano, Margot Murvihill, Natalee Ryan, Rana San, Hana Shiozaki, Ariana Simpson, Paul Siple, Chelsea-Werner-Jatzke, poet: Dao Strom, United States, 2024, 3 min, non-verbal with hardcoded English text

shadowtree

World premiere

An existentialist exploration of boundaries driven by nostalgia, and the derealization in searching for fragments of the past to imagine the future.

Livia Glascock, United States, 2026, 5 min, in English with English subtitles

Copper Oxidizing

World premiere

The gradual transformation of copper through oxidation reflects the spirit of deconstruction, turning material change into a metaphor.

Neely Goniodsky, US, 2025, 1 min, non-verbal

Spellbound Blue

World premiere

A mythical meditation on the blue decadence of earth, darkening as it deepens into the netherworld.

Angelica Urquizo, United States, 2026, 1 min, in English with hardcoded English text

Dream of a Seed

A poetic triptych of time, memory, and dance, this film moves between timelines to embody the dream of a seed: its potential, its dormancy, its growth. Through lush imagery and layered soundscapes, it offers a cinematic reflection on transformation, both internal and ecological.

Hannah Villanueva, United States, 2025, 4 min, non-verbal with English hardcoded text

Dear Mom

Through visual metaphor and personal address, this film meditates on the intergenerational connection between the filmmaker and maternal figures—both human and planetary. As the mother becomes a vessel for memory, care, and ecological grief, Dear Mom asks: what does it mean to nurture in a world unraveling?

Victoria Blumenfeld, United States, 2025, 4 min, non-verbal with hardcoded English text

Lost and [Somewhat] Found

A Palestinian woman turns the lens toward her grandfather’s legacy, exploring how stories, land, and ancestral wisdom are passed down through generations of forced displacement. Weaving archival materials with quiet observation, the film becomes a meditation on cultural survival and the ache of forgetting.

Diana Fakhoury, United States, 2025, 5 min, in English and Arabic, with English subtitles and hardcoded English text

Caring for a river

An intimate portrait of the Duwamish River becomes an act of witnessing and advocacy. Through poetic voiceover and observational imagery, the film explores the river as a living being—asking how naming, stewardship, and community connection shape the vitality and legacy of the place.

Nancy Kessler, United States, 2025, 2 min, non-verbal with hardcoded English text

We will learn to call ourselves new names

An examination of the politics of naming, belonging, and cartography. Maps blur and names shift as the filmmaker questions colonial logics of place and identity, asking: how do we rename ourselves in a world that has already named—and claimed—so much?

Emery Joan, United States, 2025, 4 min, in English with English subtitles

A Video Archive for the Year 20XX, when the last cat dies, marking the end of a species

In a speculative gesture toward a future without beloved species, this film places playful domestic imagery of cats interacting with historical artifacts of extinct animals against the backdrop of environmental collapse. At once surreal and deeply felt, it creates an imagined archive for a world on the brink, filled with humor, grief, and absurd tenderness.

Argot Chen, United States, 2025, 5 min, in English with English subtitles

Bloom

A lyrical and layered meditation on creation, destruction, and the desire to pass beauty forward. Through a painter’s gaze and a subtle whistling voice, the filmmaker reflects on flowers blooming amidst planetary grief, drawing connections between inherited trauma, ecological collapse, and the longing to create life in a dying and growing world.

Kate Clark, United States, 2025, 5 min, non-verbal with English subtitles