Phantom Geography - Friday July 10 at 9:00 PM

Director John Dawson - USA - 1 min. - EXP Handmade

This is a100% hand made film by scratching and drawing directly onto 16mm stock. It comes to life with a pulse, fast rhythm and abstraction that moves. 

Director Bernadine Van Renne - Canada - 3 min. - EXP Music Video

Music Video, Song: Burnin' by Good Co.

Directors Sean Boyle, Donal O'Dea - Ireland - 3 min. - EXP Narrative

This film explores the subject of death by using the metaphor of a train departing the station.

Director Aro Hawsar Mahmood - Iraq - 1 min. - EXP Non-Narrative

A minimalist experimental film using symbolic imagery and color to reflect on Kurdish resistance, identity, survival, and rebirth through the enduring connection between people and land.

Director Mel Day - Canada - 3 min. - EXP Hybrid & Mixed Media

A meditative experimental work where painting, performance, and film converge to explore landscape, ritual, colonialism, and the fragile boundaries between spectacle, spirituality, and perception.

Director Martin Gerigk - Germany - 7 min. - EXP Music Video / Non-Narrative

A composer reflects on a recurring dream from his youth that inspired the slow movement of his first string quartet, Prayer of the Sea. In the dream, he peacefully dissolves into the sea and wind, a vision he came to understand as a symbol of mortality. Decades later, rediscovering a drawing from the quartet’s premiere that perfectly captured the dream revived its emotional power. Now older, he reflects on the dream’s message: a calm acceptance of life’s inevitable end.

Director Josh Thorud - USA - 2 min. - EXP Comedy

A lone figure drifts weightlessly through a vacant digital town, untethered from gravity. How did he get here? Where is he going? As he floats like a lost balloon, the town offers no answers—only the eerie logic of this emptiness. Above him, the sky waits, indifferent.

Director Jonathan Perry - USA - 10 min. - EXP Documentary / AI

Built from the photographs of Mike Brodie using generative AI, this poetic experimental film blurs the line between memory and motion, following the reflective voice of a father remembering a life spent riding freight trains across America.

Director Cecilia Araneda - Canada - 6 min. - Experimental Handmade

A boat trip through Western Brook Pond, an ancient fjord in the Long Range Mountains in Newfoundland, carved out over millions of years by tectonic activity and glaciers. Shot on video and 16 mm film hand processed with apples and coloured with turmeric and walnuts.

Director Janessa Clark - USA - 2 min. - EXP Non-Narrative

If you found a door to another dimension, would you enter?

Director Claudia Calabresi - Italy - 6 min. - EXP Narrative

A young woman explores herself through phantasmagoric hallucinations as she tries to overcome self-loathing and self-hatred, and forgive herself.

Director Tim Pepper - USA - 6 min. - EXP Music Video

A modern telling of the ancient Latin poem O Fortuna.

Director Matthew Buzzell - USA - 1 min. - EXP Non-Narrative

With a nod to the aesthetics of pioneer cinema, FANTASMI evokes the spirit world and the haunting, textured impermanence long associated with the physical decay of film.

Director Cody Bende - USA - 10 min. - EXP Narrative

Following a woman's death in a post-apocalyptic world where pollution has made much of the Earth toxic, a man ventures out to fulfill her last wish: spreading her ashes on the last remaining flowers.