View from Here – 2025

Thursday, April 10, 3:15 PM

ESP
Director: Laura Kraning, Experimental, USA, 3 min
A brutalist monument to the Empire State as manifested by a malfunctioning inkjet printer. Chroma and luminance are made audible as architectural and printed lines converge and dissolve into pattern and noise. Photographed in the Capitol City of Albany, New York.

Foot to Ground
Director: Christopher Thompson, Experimental, USA, 8 min
Minimalist frontiers proliferate from acquisition. Larping utopia, shedding skins, forging new luxury amidst shards of past lives. Embracing shadows, sculpting stagnant futures in the flicker of ancient flames.

Fainter Echoes
Director: Brady Lewis, Experimental, USA, 7 min
Image and sound memory and dream fragments define a man, a place and a relationship in rural Pennsylvania.

High Street Repeat
Director: Osbert Parker, Laurie Hill, Experimental, UK, 5 min
Told through the changing face of Britain’s high street, the manipulation of photographic cut-outs, create a continuous transition between the past and present.

Buses Don’t Stop Here Anymore
Director: Penny McCann, Experimental, Canada, 8 min
A chronicle on Super 8 of the closure, abandonment, and demolition of the Greyhound bus station in Ottawa, Canada. Once an important site for coming and going, an emotive epicenter, dismantled by machines that writhe in the dust of demolition.

Stroad Movie
Director: Pablo Garcia, Experimental, USA, 10 min
Part “street”, part “road”, all disaster. A kaleidoscopic portrait of the landscape designed to be everything.

Landforms
Director: Laura Kraning, Experimental, USA, 11 min
An industrial rock quarry and a public waterway reveal earth’s pre-historic past, and humanity’s toxic futures through a meditation on deep time and a reflection on extinction.

How Now, House?
Director: Tess Martin, Experimental, Netherlands, 13 min
Using archives, personal memories and the philosophy of time, we ask whether a space can ever really belong to one person, or time period, at all.

Dirty Eye
Director: Keng U Lao, Experimental, Macao, 13 min
This is a tale of a Joker, an eye, and an illusion. A kid blacklisted by the casinos wanders through the city’s dazzling lights, uncovering the King’s secret in a forgotten landfill and a cosmic connection to a mystical tree that holds the fabric of reality.

Fake
Director: Stephen Crompton, Documentary, USA, 23 min
A lone man travels to universities bearing a message that the moon landings were staged and warning that the earth is not what it seems.