Strange Perspective – 2025

Wednesday, April 9, 5:30 PM

Floodline
Director: Sophia Feuer, Narrative, USA, 20 min
Due to mysterious circumstances, two sisters are left with an estranged relative in a rural town that seems out of place, out of time, and full of unspoken secrets.

The Instability of Clouds
Director: Zazie Ray-Trapido, Documentary, USA, 15 min
Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, a continuous home development creeps into nature’s threshold, and a community celebrates freedom. The Instability of Clouds navigates an ecosystem in decay and growth while traversing across its spaces of comfort, spectacle, and disaster. Through the observation and construction of facets within a suburban neighborhood in Southern California, connections between landscape, neighbors, and environment ruminate on the American Dream and its resonances.

Bad For a Moment
Director: Daniel Soares, Narrative, Portugal, 15 min
A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying.

1:10
Director: Sinan Taner, Narrative, Switzerland, 19 min
An elementary school sports day gets out of hand. A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers. The collective overload shakes an entire society and unfolds into a microcosm of chaos. Cause and effect of violence echo in a fragile social construct. A distant view of the everyday.

Perfectly a Strangeness
Director: Alison McAlpine, Documentary, Chile, 15 min
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.