Through the Woods – 2025

Thursday, April 10, 1:00 PM

Another Rapid Event
Director: Daniel Murphy, Experimental, USA, 8min
In 1859, two telegraph operators communicate using the radiant energy from a massive solar storm as their sole power source and in 2012, the radiation from a comparable solar storm narrowly misses the earth.

Full Out
Director: Sarah Ballard, Experimental, USA, 14 min
In 19th century Paris at the Salpêtrière Hospital, patients were hypnotized on stage to reproduce the symptoms of hysteria for public audiences. Over a century later, high school cheerleaders are fainting en masse.

Flow of Being
Director: Helen Unt, Animation, Estonia, 11 min
A person is in the flow. They make a decision and keep flowing until all becomes one.

Bright White Light
Directors: Henna Välkky, Eesu Lehtola, Documentary, Finland, 14 min
Five narratives explore near-death experiences unveiling how they profoundly impact the essence of life and blur the boundaries between the existence and mysteries of the afterlife.

Asset. Everything used. All as it used to be.
Director: Sophia Ioannou Gjerding, Experimental, Denmark, 15min
An examination of collecting, highlighting the intertwined relationship between people and things.

The Garden Sees Fire
Director: Kiera Faber, Animation, USA, 15 min
A mystical tale of cloaked identities, systemic traumas, and insatiable consumption.

This Werewolf Complex
Director: Heather E Andrews, Experimental, UK, 15 min
A portrait of the aura; seizures in focused parts of the brain that result in sensory, physical and emotional disturbances, told through the voices of individuals who experience this phenomena.

Translation Please
Director: Rankin Renwick, Experimental, USA, 16 min
A film about people trying really hard to listen and people hardly listening.