Exploring Joy as Resistance and Our Natural Connections

Take a deep breath. As you exhale, imagine that in about three years, anywhere you would go on the planet you will find molecules that were inside you in this moment.

Over 150 years after suffering the worst massacre in U.S. history, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has purchased their ancestral homeland — called Wuda Ogwa, or Bear River — with a vision to return it back to nature.

Low vision dancer Renata Mara meets with the musical duo O Grivo for an artistic experience where sound is the element that unites the characters. The film documents the dimension of sound in the life of each individual, highlighted by the particularities of a dancer who, deprived of the sense of vision, attributes other values ​​to the sound universe of urban everyday life, connecting her inner world to the livable world in the city where she lives.

Organic Network follows Flint in summer 2024, now in recovery from the water crisis and COVID-19 Pandemic, and the state of urban farming and food sovereignty within the city. Organic Network serves as an epilogue to two previous MSU documentaries: Kings of Flint and Flint River Farm.

Inspired by a true story, a widowed air raid warden in the midst of World War II struggles to overcome grief and rediscover joy in her life—until she finds a dying sparrow she hopes to save.