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Akerman Director: M. Dianela Torres Mexico, 2020

Video essay about two fragments from Chantal Akerman's films " D’Est" (1993) and "No Home Movie" (2015). The footage was remixed for analysis purposes and to make the viewer recall the travelling left in these two sequences.

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Excruciatingly Endless and Dishearteningly Tedious Tale of The Creator Who Cannot Create: A Journey into Lifelessness Director: Urja Vakta USA, 2020

Artist’s block. We’ve all been there before, right? You know the feeling when you have to try so hard to do the one thing you’re supposed to be good at? The film gives you a glimpse of an artist's process while making art and addresses issues of mental health. The protagonist, Abel, is struggling with the impending doom of a deadline, inducing the ever-familiar anxiety attack.

Handshake Director: Katerina Sigala Greece, 2020

The handshake nowadays has become so typical, so impersonal. Do you speak without a soul? Has virtual reality taken the place of the real? Did you stop talking to the eyes? A handshake equals 1000 words and feelings. Yours?

Present day, Present time: a 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown) moment USA—2020 Director: John Cates

Siera Begaye, indigenous artist, actress, and activist from the Diné (Navajo) Nation, speaks from her experience in this stylized portrait. The experimental music of MORHER (Ambrosia Bartošekulva) creates soundscapes that accompany and define the glitch landscapes of the film, from the construction of the transcontinental in the 1800s to the meanings of technologies today. As Amy Beste, Curator of Conversations At the Edge, writes: " 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown) disrupts the Western's most pernicious tropes with glitches and noise, connecting yesterday’s traumas and technologies to those of today." Independent film curator Patrick Friel writes that " Ghosttown as a whole is a provoking and visually striking reworking of the Western form, infusing it with a more inclusive sensibility and a contemporary, digital/computer-centric aesthetic."

Rebirth Garments Directors: Eloise Sherrid, Sky Cubacub, and Lauryn Welch USA, 2018

A series of cinemagraphs exploring the idea of “radical visibility” in an ongoing collaboration between filmmaker Eloise Sherrid, the queercrip fashion collective Rebirth Garments, and painter Lauryn Welch. Cinemagraphs are artistic GIFs: shot with intentionality and featuring a mostly still image that has pockets of moving video that loop infinitely. Queer, disabled bodies (also known as “queercrip” bodies) are systemically erased from public discourse. By investigating and then deconstructing ideas of visibility and camouflage with color and repeated movement, this series makes queercrip bodies unavoidable and impossible to ignore. They live online in GIF form, without beginning or end, following the idea that digital life permits queercrip people to live beyond oppressive limitations of society, and enter a plane of digital transcendence.

Saudade Director: Matthew Esquivel USA, 2020

"a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia"