From Within – 2025

Monday, April 7, 1:00 PM

Whispers of Colors
Director: Sujin Kim, Animation, South Korea, 4 min
Born and raised as a mixed-race child in the aftermath of the Korean War Junho Kim, recounts his feelings of being out of place and his longing for the American father he never knew.

Unraveled
Director: Holly Ittel, Experimental, USA, 4 min
We prepare for motherhood, collecting our fears and anxieties for the journey ahead, but the postpartum experience can shatter everything we thought we knew, pushing our psyche to its limits.

Anotc Ota Ickwaparin Akosiin
Director: Catherine Boivin, Documentary, Canada, 6 min
A woman shares memories with her mother, and awakens the deep wounds that have been passed down from generation to generation.

Motherboard Symphony: Interlude
Director: Natasha Maidoff, Experimental, France, 6 min
The human robot, the motherboard, sets out on a journey through France to express the tasks of domestic parenting.

Anything With a Switch
Director: Charli Brissey, Experimental, USA, 5 min
A short movement study on sapphic longing and obsession.

Hey Little One
Director: Sarah L’Hérault, Animation, Canada, 7 min
Hey Little One explores the intensity of the bond of attachment between a hospitalized baby and a pair of friends of her parents who regularly go rock her in the hospital.

Impossible Journey
Director: YUCA, Animation, USA, Brazil, 6 min
The journey of two storks on an ordinary workday reveals the urgent crisis in maternal health care in the USA.

Shed
Director: Josh Brainin, Documentary, USA, 7 min
A refractive gaze on the director’s series of surgical hair transplants centering a struggle with one’s own reception and desirability.

Mother’s Child
Director: Naomi Noir, Animation, Netherlands, 9 min
Mary can’t catch a break. Fusing motherhood with being a full-time carer for her disabled son has her up to her ears in red tape, barely keeping afloat. A surreal situation is looming.

Beyond Failure
Director: Marissa Losoya, Narrative, USA, 9 min
In avoidance of the nagging fear that she has spoiled her life’s potential, a woman begins hip thrusting a lot and obsessing over her ass. While reflecting on her childhood dreams unfulfilled and hyper-focusing on what a toned ass would enable her to do, she loses sight of the present moment and pushes herself too far.

Despite
Director: Kate Raney, Experimental, USA, 11 min
Exploring the delicate balance between the wonder of motherhood and the anxiety of illness, the work examines the environments that nurture life while also harboring disease.

I Really Wanted to Love Today
Director: Russell Sheaffer, Narrative, USA, 15 min
A parent and child’s camping trip to an uninhabited, seagull-ridden island turns into a tense, metaphysical journey. As the trip deteriorates, both are forced to examine the animalistic impulses within themselves.

Forgotten
Director: Madeline Rose McSteen, Documentary, USA, 18 min
With spotty memory, the filmmaker confronts her childhood in an attempt to understand herself as an international adoptee.