Dollar Slice
Dollar Slice
Mad World 26
Dollar Slice performs a piece displaying a body of water personified, exploring the various hardships and experiences through the world as a limited and finite resource. The performance follows the Water as it moves through pollution, filtration, utilization, and ultimately overconsumption. The backbone of the piece is the emotion displayed during each phase of treatment, as if the Water mirrors the consumer. This piece aims to remind the viewer of the immense privilege of having running, potable and drinkable water, in excess. Without this natural resource, survival is unfeasible. The viewer must take the message of appreciating and taking care of Water, as it does for them.
alyxåndra ciale, Gia Abucejo, and Benja August
Mad World 26
(ᐧᐧ - - ᐧᐧ) / IMI aka “I will now repeat the last word sent” is an expanded cinema performance collaboration using queer macho-dancing and catastrophe-clowning to disrupt imperialist mythologies of pearl-diving, typhoon mitigation, and conquest. What are Mother Earth’s coveted truths? Who is entitled to Her treasures? How can a true return back-to-land empower us to move towards regenerative ecologies with unequivocal accountability? We seek to lay bare the ways history fabrication and government corruption work hand-in-hand to exotify and extract natural resources–natural resources we hope to re-imagine as natural resistors against invasive forces (much like a pearl protecting herself in layers and layers of mollusk). Based loosely on the “history” of the Filipino Pearl of Lao Tzu and merging resistance poetics from CHamoru human rights lawyer, Julian Aguon’s “The Ocean Within”, (ᐧᐧ - - ᐧᐧ) / IMI tests the waters of our imagination to contend with the (un)natural disasters ravaging our (not-so) distant homelands.
Linda Felcher
Mad World 26
Drawing inspiration from anime and science fiction, Linda channels personal narratives of trauma, erasure, and dysphoria into her work. This performance commemorates the recent passing of David Lynch and the profound impact he has had on queer artists and performers.
Esther The Bipedal Entity
Mad World 26
Esther US-Mexico Border + Esther USA S1 E5: America: An Origin Story
Notes from Silences
Alexandra Kumala
Notes from Silences' gathers fractured memories from Vieques and Bali, two islands on opposite ends of the world that seem like "paradise fantasy" on the surface, but conceal a common buried history. Unplanned footage, photographs, and snippets of voice recordings intertwine with the sounds of nonhuman kin that bore witness when humans choose to forget. Beneath what seems to be banalities of everyday life, lies the loudest echo of violence: the silences people continue to keep.
Wildlife Leaflets
Anna Dossmann
A three-episode mini-series (3 x 2 min) that subverts wildlife documentaries. In these videos, it is as if animals were learning to communicate with humans: they hack the documentaries they are the subject of, to claim the right to speak for themselves. The videos are both a critique and an invitation to see the world differently.
The Insufferable Whiteness of Being
Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo + Emily Martinez)
As crypto-rich investors relocate to Puerto Rico to build a new crypto-utopia called “Sol” (formally, “Puertopia”), The Insufferable Whiteness of Being considers their utopian vision within the larger historical context of colonialism and exploitation on the island. The video combines text drawn from online, comment-thread arguments about the island’s future with images of Puerto Rico from Western art history, travel and tourism videos, U.S. military training documentation, luxury real estate tours, and post-hurricane Maria drone footage.
(null)
Lilian C. Scheuer
(null) is an audiovisual translation of contemporary existential questions and the overwhelming identity crisis of the post-modern age. Screenshots and screen recordings of various websites, QR codes, memes and GIFs—consisting entirely of digital footage, it explores the conflicted perspectives between digital nihilism and post-ironic god complex, reflecting the cryptic contemplation on our desperate search for a purpose.
Someday It Will Fall
Maté Vargas
From the mouth of the Rio Bravo in the Gulf of Mexico to the beaches of Tijuana along the Pacific Ocean, two girls play on separate ends of the U.S. Mexico border thousands of kilometers apart.
Rock Work
Maya Nguyen
Rock Work is an experiment in staging ephemeral, non-imposing encounters with natural environments. It documents the artist's action of covering a single natural rock formation on the edge of Mietoinen Bay in Southwest Finland with pop rocks -- a manufactured sugar candy that creates tiny bursting fizzy sensations and comes in various colors. The pink pop rocks visually camouflage into the naturally pink-colored rocks and create their distinctive popping sounds that make up the sound of the video (together with the crowds of geese that come to rest at the Bay on their spring migration route).
Golf Course
Sam Nguyen-Jones
A film about a golf course, labor, and leisure. Shot in Bar Harbor, Maine, in the spring of 2025.
To Know Me Is To Know You
Leah Byck
To Know Me Is To Know You is about the disabled community, the mentally ill, and the neurodivergent individuals that all feel part of this community. The film is told from real perspectives and viewpoints of the community.
Life Touching Life: Episode 5
Dakota Gearhart
Life Touching Life is an animated and collaborative variety series created by Dakota Gearhart.
Mad World 24
Claywoman, Esther The Bipedal Entity, Untitled Queen, and Jessamess
Claywoman: Thoughts on Earth
Claywoman
Claywoman & David Aliperti
Claywoman