2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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You heard it here first! Check out the latest Capital City Film Festival announcements below.
POSTED: Feb 20, 2025

The Forgotten: Sustainable Clean Energy for the Brazilian Amazon

“The Forgotten” is a documentary short showcasing the hard work and research of the team behind The Convergence for Innovative Energy Solutions project funded by the National Science Foundation under their Growing Convergence Research (GCR) program. Headquartered out of the Michigan State University in Michigan, the convergence team’s goal is to deliver transformative advances in […]

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The Invisible Mammal

Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-woman team of biologists set out to save bats from a deadly fungal disease, but when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts their work, they are sent down a path of discovery that illuminates the connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease.

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The Life and Times of G

The Life and Times of G is a single channel version of an immersive four screen video installation that explores the tension between two opposing modes of technology and cognition. Inspired by Ursula Franklin’s concepts of holistic and prescriptive technologies, the piece examines how adaptive, individual-centered processes contrast with rigid, conformity-driven systems that increasingly shape […]

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Toxic Art

Acid mine drainage is a pervasive problem, poisoning streams and killing wildlife, in American Appalachia. The technology and funding to remove these pollutants and bring life back to streams just didn’t exist, that is until fine art painter, John Sabraw rallied a team to address the issue in their local stream and develop a breakthrough […]

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Shaped

“SHAPED” is an animation about modern life phenomena. The protagonist, Shanshan, enters a glass cup, experiencing various degrees of influence and uncontrollable changes. After a brief escape, he still chooses to return to this cycle

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Le Cosmos

A letterbox searches for the meaning of life.

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Do Not Feed the Pigeons

An orgiastic mutant monster post-modern pop art pigeon-fueled horror apocalypse!!!