Watching and Being Watched – 2025

Tuesday, April 8, 1:00 PM

Eight-Minute Romp Through SAIC’s Sandin Image Processor
Directors: Monica Panzarino, James Connolly, Experimental, USA, 8 min
An homage to Chicago artist and toolmaker Dan Sandin’s video in which he demos a modular analog video synthesizer he built.

The First Sequel
Director: Nino Mancuso, Animation, USA, 7 min
Throughout history, our earliest ancestors told stories around the campfire. The same stories, over and over again. Until one day, one of them stumbles upon a new concept; the world’s first sequel.

The Unpredictable Character
Director: Suzan Noesen, Documentary, Canada, 4 min
A young woman seeks a stage inside.

The Spectacle
Directors: The Small Worlds Collective, Yasmin van Dorp, Documentary, Sweden, 21 min
The Spectacle is a short reflective documentary that explores the world of modern tourism. Filmed in various locations across Europe, the documentary unveils the transformation of serene landscapes into tourist attractions. What remains truly seen and felt amidst the curated snapshots of our adventures?

Adrift Potentials
Director: Leonardo Pirondi, Experimental, USA, 12 min
A film started by a Brazilian artist under a pseudonym while living in exile in Los Angeles, ruminates on Brazil’s colonial past, North American Imperialism and the military dictatorship of the time.

Breaking Plates
Director: Karen Pearlman, Documentary, Australia, France, 25 min
A raucous look into the not so silent women of the silent film era, defiantly asserting that if we want to tell different stories, we have to tell stories differently.

Razeh-del
Director: Maryam Tafakory, Experimental, Iran, Italy, UK, 28 min
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.