


ALL WEEKEND // LOUNGE THEATRE
Here, we have specially curated films on a loop all day, waiting for you to drop in, and let them wash over you. It’s a bit like stumbling into a video installation at a museum. Fine art cinema, unfolding in its own time. These works are singular, challenging, and absolutely worth the detour from the main programs. Stay for five minutes or an hour… then come back anytime for more.
Here, we have specially curated films on a loop all day, waiting for you to drop in, and let them wash over you. It’s a bit like stumbling into a video installation at a museum. Fine art cinema, unfolding in its own time. These works are singular, challenging, and absolutely worth the detour from the main programs. Stay for five minutes or an hour… then come back anytime for more.
Here, we have specially curated films on a loop all day, waiting for you to drop in, and let them wash over you. It’s a bit like stumbling into a video installation at a museum. Fine art cinema, unfolding in its own time. These works are singular, challenging, and absolutely worth the detour from the main programs. Stay for five minutes or an hour… then come back anytime for more.
FILMS IN THIS PROGRAM (ALPHABETICAL ORDER):
Director: Dylan Simon
Country of Origin: United States
WORLD PREMIERE
Synopsis: An experimental video shot and edited on VHS video about gender identity and transformation.
Director: Masha Vlasova
Country of Origin: United States / Finland
Synopsis: Midsummer is a cyanotype photogram film, where the sunlight, along with plants, insects, and water, are all employed in the process of filmmaking. The production of the film began in Finland, during Juhannus, the celebration of the longest day of the year in, when the sun doesn’t set. Blank 16mm film strips are coated in cyanotype emulsion and exposed to sunlight with natural materials, capturing the fleeting moments of nature's cycle. The landscape is both material and collaborator, where its physicality is literally imprinted into the filmic surface. The film explores the ephemeral nature of life, the swift passage of time, and the interplay between humans and the environment. Each frame captures not only the landscape but also the transient and dynamic processes of nature, creating an image that is at once tangible and elusive, grounded in the physical world yet imbued with a sense of mystery.
Director: Jeffrey Sundin
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: A body of water, a blind date, and an '84 Chevrolet in the year of a musical collective's debut release.
Director: T.J. Masters
Country of Origin: United States
WORLD PREMIERE
Synopsis: Taking inspiration from classic genre films made on 16mm, this music video short features one mad scientist's frustrated attempts to break through to his own home-brewed Large Language Model that communicates via sign language (viz., "talking with hands"). The classic and by-now expected twist once the machine gains its sentience does not end well for the protagonist.
Director: Ioannis Papaloizou
Country of Origin: Cypres
Synopsis: An experimental documentary in which the narrator evokes his childhood memories of Cyprus, and his connection to an indelible friendship defined by separation. Through vivid recollections of their lost bond, he explores themes of longing, belonging, and the enduring pull of his homeland that shaped them both. "Waves Won’t Stop" is an intimate look on a long journey of return.