Películas
Laida Lertxundi | 2025 | Spain | 6’ | 16mm | sound
With Películas (Spanish for “films” or “movies”), Lertxundi continues her project of playfully deconstructing the filmmaking process, laying bare the parts that constitute a film and positing cinema as a social, collaborative, hand-made practice. Two friends sketch the horizon somewhere in the Basque country, where the sky meets the mountain and the sea. Later, in a dark room, film reels from a previous project (8 topaketa) are projected onto a body that acts as screen. Originally conceived as an installation work, with props from the film and the film’s 16mm cans exhibited as well, Películas is here presented in a cinema setting for the first time.
Jacob’s House
Lucas Kane | 2025 | USA | 22’ | digital | English spoken
Jacob Gayle, painter, neighbour and twelve-year-resident of his Brooklyn home, has resisted eviction ongoingly since 2021. Contra the deliberate neglect and surveillance of the property’s putative owner, his composed voice bears witness to what it means to inhabit and tend for a place and its spirit, and the indispensability of a home of one’s own for making art.
Woven (Utkane)
Maria Oblicka & Alexander C. Trigg | 2026 | Poland | 28’ | digital | Polish spoken, English subtitles
Woven places us behind the loom of Krystyna-Wojtyna Drouet and on the walks that serve as source material for the expressive, dappled tapestries she weaves there. Versed in natural dyeing methods, her landscape – gilded and lush – becomes her colour palette and the silent witness to the poetry she recites as she traverses it. A member of the Polish School of Textile art, and its last survivor, at 99 she remains deft and assured in her craft but unsure of her memory, paging through photos from decades past, confronted with the passages she no longer recognises.
Rojo Žalia Blau
Viktoria Schmid | 2025 | Austria | 10’ | 35mm | sound
Extending her experimentations into historic analogue colour systems that began with NYC RGB (2023), Viktoria Schmid films the wooded landscapes of Spain, Lithuania, and Austria thrice through a Bolex camera, exposing light separately through red, green, and blue filters. Three layers, carrying three distinct moments in time. As the images settle, unexpected geometries emerge from organic forms through a practice of extreme noticing, with human and machine eye.
Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.