Solace

World premiere

Seeking solace in the Highlands of Scotland, she struggles to belong.

Glenna Morrison, Scotland, 2025, 6 min, in English

The Legend of Tibrogargan

US premiere

On a trip to pay homage to her ancestors—with one of her grandfather’s orchestral compositions, “The Legend of Tibrogargan,” and a radio recording of his voice telling the legend in tow—the artist films the Australian landscape, threading the sounds, smells, and images that form the backbone of her vision of this formerly colonized and flood-torn country.

Anna Doyle, Australia, 2025, 12 min, in English with hardcoded English text

[water] acknowledgement

[water] acknowledgement stands witness to the history of phosphate mining in Florida.

Josh Corson, United States, 2024, 2 min, in English with hardcoded English text

Who Has Seen the Wind?

This impressionistic short film captures a decade of life beside a 170‑year-old forest at the Arctic Circle in Northern Finland—a vivid and forested tableau vivant.

director: Panu Johansson, poet: Christina Rossetti, Finland, 2023, 5 min, in English

The Idealist

A poem film about love, fear, hope, and courage in the face of the rising threat of fascism, featuring original footage from Taiwan and Japan, and archival footage from the United States.

Adam E Stone, United States, 2025, 3 min, in English

Nocturne for a Lighterman

Overlapping emotional undercurrents between an ancestor and an artist on the River Thames in Victorian England. Written in Neo-symbolist mode, with contemporary footage from the same point of view as the painting.

Sarah Tremlett, United Kingdom, 2025, 5 min, non-verbal with hardcoded English text

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

already dead (déjà morts)

The words of the first fragment of the collection of poems “La fin du monde a déjà eu lieu” (“The End of the World Has Already Occured”) resurface in the images of a building, that of Électricité du Liban, an edifice in decrepitude, just like the institution it represents, long before the 2020 explosion that precipitated its decline.

Ghada Sayegh, Lebanon, 2024, 7 min, in English & French with English intertitles