2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Feb 20, 2025

Virtual Phases

Virtual Phases is an experimental exploration of small and fabricated spaces with techniques often reserved for epic landscape studies and drone exploration. Discarded items such as old fabric, scrap metal, foil blankets, and crumpled paper created cave-like scenes that were filmed with a specialty probe lens to further enhance the unusual qualities of these imagined […]

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The Last Rhino

The last of the northern white rhinos is dead. Lili, a rather well-off 70 year-old grandmother, led a comfortable retired life until these news have her dive deep into eco-anxiety. What kind of world will she leave for her granddaughter Gaby?

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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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The Newcomer

*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* Amy forges an intense bond with the ghost in her apartment, risking the erosion of her own identity.

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The Wind Will Carry Her

Mother of a 6 year-old child, Camille runs away from her daily life, leaving behind her son and her husband Eric. When her car breaks in a small seaside town, Camille meets Léa, a young musician who sings at a restaurant at night. They develop a particular relationship after talking about their families and their […]

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Sweetsamsara

Every little piece of dough has the mission of becoming a donut from the moment it is born. Only donuts are good adults and a symbol of greatness! Under the influence of this kind of education, little dough Dobby and his classmates followed the teacher full of longing to participate in the “coming of age […]

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Sandra

“SANDRA” is a surreal comedy that follows Jane (Alison Banowsky) whose banal and predictable life with her boyfriend (Andrew Knox) is upended when she finds out that a mysterious and erratic woman has been living in her basement. The film is about getting unstuck, learning to trust your intuition, and most importantly, letting your freaky […]

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Strings

Sally joins a dream summer trip to Sicily with her childhood bestie Poppy, hoping to re-connect before they start university. Confronted with Poppy’s volatile new friend Alex, Sally is strangely drawn to the traditional puppets decorating their villa, and the strings that bind the two friends threaten to rip them apart. ‘Strings’ is produced by […]

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Planet Pleasure

A popstar performs on a distant watery planet, or is it all just moistbreezy’s fantasy?

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Telekinetik

A would-be vigilante, tortured by a telepathic shaman, learns a difficult lesson about justice versus bloodlust, as told through the intersection of hip-hop and opera.