I WAS HERE – COME WITH by José Cruzio and The June Carriers [Francisco Silva] | Portugal | 2024
Duration: 00:05:00
With the I WAS HERE project, a set of short videograms was built as reports of the visits of the author by the “non-places”/” places”, or passing points, circumstantial or not.
FATA MORGANA by Hannu Nieminen | Finland | 2026
Duration: 00:05:16
An experimental study of memory, images and filming, and how memories can transform, rust and disintegrate.
HURRICANE SEASON by Michelle Trujillo | Canada, USA | 2026
Duration: 00:06:20
Hurricane anxiety takes a visceral form as the image searches for an escape route.
EXP #1 by Pierre Ajavon | France | 2024
Duration: 00:03:12
An analog experience in a digital world.
A PLAYFUL SHORT by Cristian Santafé Madueño | Spain, USA | 2025
Duration: 00:01:48
A hybrid experimental film built from fragments of 16mm found footage and a single Bolex shot recorded by the filmmaker.
NAPA / NAVEL by Mox Mäkelä | Finland | 2026
Duration: 00:14:30
Who is this outcast girl who swims to the shores of an important island and what does she think she’ll get there?
JUST A DREAM by Gordon Culshaw | UK | 2021
Duration: 00:01:34
A range of iconic movies which use the Lincoln Memorial as a backdrop are edited together. The protagonist in each film suddenly realizes that Abraham Lincoln has been removed and just an empty chair remains.
HOLDING TIME GENTLY by Sarah Choo Jing | Singapore | 2026
Duration : 00:10:58
Holding Time Gently unfolds within a composite shophouse where seven characters from different decades coexist across intersecting timelines.
Jennifer Hardacker is an experimental filmmaker and professor of film based in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Her work SIGHT/SEEING is streaming in the program PUNCTUATED ROADS of the Summer 2026 edition.
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