Personal Archives - Friday July 10 at 7:45 PM

Director Eian Hazzard - USA - 1 min. - EXP Non-Narrative

An experimental vignette created to commemorate someone's birthday. It's meant to illustrate the warmth and intangible beauty of their essence.

Director Eian Hazzard - USA - 1 min. - EXP Non-Narrative

An illustration of the psyche in the midst of interpersonal connection. Through musical composition and visual curation, I aim to showcase the power of this process. 

Director Ryan Buyssens - USA - 2 min. - EXP Non-Narrative

feathers skim the pond
ripples distort the image
truth flows in the waves

Director Marja Viitahuhta - Finland - 5 min. EXP Documentary

This cameraless experimental work combines animated northern lights, archival imagery, and a traditional Sámi yoik to reflect on the displacement and reburial of Sámi remains taken from burial grounds for racist genetic research. Through fragmented visuals and haunting sound, the film explores memory, loss, and spiritual return.

Director Denver Dan - USA - 5 min. - EXP Narrative

Following a painful breakup, Denver is hurled through a series of surreal and painful dreams reflecting the depths of his subconsciousness and inability to let go.

Director Ben Baker-Lee - USA - 1 min. - EXP Narrative

In a workshop a transition box is being discovered as it is created.

Director MJ Desharnais - Philippines - 3 min. - EXP Documentary

Through fragmented imagery and restrained narration, Surrendered explores memory, control, and emotional unraveling, lingering in the fragile space between resistance and surrender where letting go becomes its own form of survival.

Director Kate Levy - USA - 10 min. - EXP Documentary

As ICE officials began detaining migrants at asylum hearings in 2025, a grassroots network of New Yorkers started accompanying immigrants into court to bear witness, share information, and show solidarity. Through the voices of these courtwatchers, the film explores witnessing, helplessness, and resistance within an increasingly repressive political climate.

Director Alan Pelz-Sharpe - USA - 7 min. - EXP Documentary

An experimental film drawing on people's memories of spending time on the iconic Atlantic City Boardwalk

Director Maggie Murphy - USA - 4 min. - EXP Hybrid & Mixed Media

Using printed frames from VHS home videos, this experimental short transforms childhood memories through crayons, glitter, stickers, and drawings, surrounding the filmmaker’s younger self with protective magic while exploring the idea of “screen memories.”

Director Eian Hazzard - USA - 5 min. - EXP Documentary

A dreamlike walk-through of my personal and anthropological understanding of Trinidad and Tobago's history. 

 Director Dylan Jagla - USA - 3 min. - EXP Documentary

Caught between a dream of the past and the tribulations of the present, a young woman must save her golden ankh from a mysterious cloaked individual before it, and herself, are lost forever.

Director Duncan Analco - USA - 6 min. - EXP Narrative

As the winter grows harsh, a woman pens a letter to a lover who has yet to write back.

Director Sogand Vatankhah - Iran - 4 min. - EXP Animation

A man gets lost in the desert with his dog. Suddenly, an accident occurs, and the man and the dog must find a way to save themselves.

Director Carson Brown - USA - 5 min. - EXP Documentary

A poetic doc on what we learn from loss.