An experimental detective film made in remembrance: keeping a diary, footnotes of film history, and the puzzle of depression. (Mary Helena Clark)

“A hypnosis-inducing pan-geographic shuttle built on brainwave generating binaural beats, Deep Sleep takes us on a journey through the sound waves of Gaza to travel between different sights of modern ruin. Restricted from to travel to Palestine, I learned autohypnosis for the purpose of bilocating. What results is a journey recorded on super 8mm film to the ruins of ancient civilizations embedded in modern civilization in ruins, to a site ruined beyond evidence of civilization. Deep Sleep is an invitation to move from the corporeal self to the cinema space in a collective act of bilocation that transcends the limits of geographical borders and plays with the fallibility of memory.” (Basma Alsharif)

A performance film in which Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the “post-civilization” of the Gaza Strip while under self-hypnosis.

Much of my work as a historian has been devoted to exploring the nuances of the Southern black voice—its pregnant silences, its powerful whispers, and its eruptive rage. The genesis of Sugarcoated Arsenic can be traced to my discovery of rare archival materials (reel-to-reel audio of Professor Vivian Gordon, discarded photographs, local newspapers) at the University of Virginia that revealed the institution’s deep though largely undocumented connection to the cultural and political revolutions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film captures not only the spontaneity of our subjects’ lives but also the improvisational spirit guiding my collaborative work with Kevin. (Claudrena Harold)

O, Persecuted turns the act of restoring Kassem Hawal’s 1974 Palestinian militant film, Our Small Houses, into a performance possible only through film. One that involves speed, bodies, and the movement of the past into a future that collides ideology with escapism. (Basma Alsharif)

An ill wind is transmitting through the lonely night, spreading deception and myth along its murky path, singing the dangers of the mediated spirit. (Michael Robinson)

Filmed on the Central Florida “Space Coast”, site of NASA’s launch pads. Dormant spacecraft, arcane text, activated landscape, and the surface of the image work towards a future-past shot reverse shot. (Mike Stotz)

A horror nature film. Primitive savagery meets the brutality of the modern world in Ruggero Deodato’s timeless slice of visceral horror. Cannibal Holocaust is revived deep in the New Hampshire woods where apathy and violence are blurred. (Basma Alsharif)