INDIFFERENCE ENGINE by Randolph Bird | USA | 2025
Duration: 00:01:30
Indifference Engine centers on the environmental impact of the thousands of data centers that power digital technology.

DEADEYE by Ian Gibbins | Australia | 2025
Duration: 00:07:10
During 2025, large areas of South Australian coastal waters were devastated by a harmful algal bloom, leading to mass mortalities of uncountable numbers of fish, invertebrates and other marine life.

외주 / Outsourcing by Jun Seok Yoon | South Korea | 2026
Duration: 00:08:50
A struggling film set slowly collapses into absurdity as an AI assistant begins replacing human decisions, emotions, and eventually the meaning of the work itself.

ACCUMULATE by Lisa Birke | Portugal, Canada | 2026
Duration: 00:04:55
Accumulate is an “anthroposcenic” film, one that demonstrates the impacts of human industrialization on the landscape in picturesque style.

TRACK 8 by Yasmina Chavanne | France | 2026
Duration: 00:08:15
In a flooded subway, a young woman drifts through hallucinatory visions before helping her mute, fragile mother perform a simple task: buying a metro ticket.

INTERVIEW by Michael Mersereau | USA | 2025
Duration: 00:04:28
“Interview”, utilizes a webcam side by side with my cloned voice and image as a performance in
which one witnesses the displacement of the original into the superficial copy.

JOURNAL OF A SELF IMPROVEMENT by Sylvie Boisseau, Frank Westermeyer | Germany, Switzerland | 2026
Duration : 00:14:12
Journal of a Self Improvement captures in four short videos the development of the character ƒ’s coexistence with various smart companions and digital relatives.

SOCKALYPSE by Ruby Toolan | USA | 2025
Duration 00:02:51
A seemingly normal phone call between two friends quickly reveals itself as something much more sinister, yet the darkness isn’t quite what it seems.

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Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved. Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.

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Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved. Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.