I Miss Jamie When She’s Gone
Ashley Thompson
Two estranged sisters return to the suburbs of Chicago ten months after their father’s sudden death to clean out their childhood home.
Smart Nightmares
Marisa Tolomeo
Hannah narrates her nightmares while her family argues about who's to blame for her creepy Internet searches.
Hall of Fishes
Jennifer Boles
An immersive archival film about the limits of visual knowledge and the webs of power and violence behind our desires to see, contain, and consume the ocean.
Sheebop! Shebopp! Sheebopp!
Jiayi Chen and Cameron Worden
An edited-in-camera, hand-processed super 8 film grown out of a conversation about Florida and Disney World. To one, it is unfamiliar terrain. To the other, it is impending homecoming. Part of an ongoing experimental home movie series.
Scaling Quelccaya
Meredith Leich
A surreal exploration of a melting glacier in Peru and an altered future in Chicago, weaving together 3D animation, satellite imagery, archival NASA footage, and speculative math about climate and snow.
Exodus: Sounds of the Great Migration
Lonnie Edwards
Told through live performance, dance and spoken word, Exodus looks into how the Great Migration gave birth to many artists that influenced and empowered black culture.
Palenque
Sebastián Pinzón Silva
Guided by motifs of life and death, Palenque is an ode to a small town that has greatly contributed to the collective memory of Colombia: San Basilio de Palenque, the first town in the Americas to have broken free from European domination.