In Excess – 2026

Monday, April 13, 5:30 PM
Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 PM

In Excess
Director: Melissa Langer, Documentary, USA, 72 min
In Excess examines labor, capital, and displacement in modern America through the lens of one city’s trash — in sewers and streets, waterways and workplaces. It’s a gritty dive into the inner workings of a city’s infrastructure that embraces different formats, weaving newly digitized archival material together with surveillance footage and contemporary vignettes of people at work, communities in flux, and waste in motion. Observational and off-beat, the film finds harmonies and dissonance in patterns of creation, consumption, and renewal.

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Not To Be
Director: Melissa Lorraine, Documentary, USA, 20 min
Formed in 2018 at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, IL, the Incarcerated Mass was more than just a theatre troupe of men serving de facto life sentences. It was a community where movement, storytelling, and study made possible—collective dreams of liberation.