Portals (United States) by Kathi Hendrick, Benjamin Henretig, Cornelia Hodges

PORTALS explores the body, nature, and heart as doorways into deeper dimensions of self and our inherent interrelatedness. Through movement, imagery, and original music, the film enters the liminal space between inner and outer worlds, where the body becomes a threshold into feeling, knowing, interbeing, and transformation. PORTALS traces two journeys from disconnection toward reconnection, inviting viewers to question the boundaries of self and explore the possibility that we are not separate from one another, from nature, or from the larger web of life.

Running time: 00:08:32

Dowsing (United States) by Tim Feeney

Ten repetitive sonic interventions within the eroded landscapes of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. These occur at sites of local “anti-monuments:” a kilometers-long, natural limestone pavement high above Galway Bay; stone farm walls and remnants of circular structures on hillsides; cairns near a shoreline; a field of glacial boulders interrupted by a road smashed from the surrounding stone formations, in forced public work by the starving during the Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852. These structures speak to both the passage of geologic time, and the care and efforts of human survival beginning in the Neolithic period and tended through the present, though local history at each site may be lost, or unrecorded.

Running time: 01:38:30

Long night alone (United States) by Adam E. Stone

Using intertitles, elements of slow cinema, the absence of an audio track, and other experimental filming and editing techniques, long night alone explores complex grief, depersonalization/derealization, the creative process, and hope.

Running time: 01:15:30

The Last Day (Italy) by Michael Fantauzzi

A man who has long withdrawn from the world realizes that no sign of human presence reaches him anymore. He decides to seek the reason for this silence and discovers that the world is now deserted. After wandering for some time through this disorienting landscape, he begins to perceive unexpected manifestations—gradually becoming more and more evident—of a presence. In the end, he comes face to face with another self, observing and being observed. This unfolds in a paroxysmal crescendo.

Running time: 00:15:08

Natal Kick, Cosmo Ground (South Korea) by Jaeik Kim

Under the occupied shadows, floating cosmo ground, xenoliths, and the breaths perceived from all beings are increasingly coarsened by humanity’s collective experiments. This work considers all existing entities as pioneers of a sentient cosmos, thinking not only from Earth but from the universe at large, and positions both human and non-human elements as agents jointly adventuring through this unknown space, while exploring the ecological emergencies of the present.

Running time: 00:12:37