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ARTIFICIAL HORIZON

DIRECTOR: ELIZABETH WEBB

Artificial Horizon chronicles the complex and layered racial histories of a tract of former plantation land in eastern Alabama, an origin point for the filmmaker’s family members who continue to live on both sides of—and sometimes crossing—the “color line”. During westward settler colonial expansion and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples in the mid 19th century, the government used trees as reference points to create property boundaries, but root networks below ground continue to defy these borders, providing a liberatory model for how our bodies might also subvert similar and related structures of power and control.

2026 / 4K & 16mm / United States

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ONE-HUNDRED YARD UNIVERSE

DIRECTOR: BRETT KASHMERE AND SOLOMON TURNER

A feature-length audiovisual essay, One-Hundred Yard Universe examines football’s impact on a single Black family across multiple generations; juxtaposed with the NFL’s rise in popularity beginning in the 1960s. Through a personal exploration of the game’s emergence as an omnipresent feature in American life and culture, One-Hundred Yard Universe reveals how larger systems of structural inequality, patriarchal masculinity, and identity are at play in shaping America’s most popular pastime

2026 / HD VIDEO & 16mm / United States

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YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE

DIRECTOR: RAJEE SAMARASINGHE

Your Touch Makes Others Invisible infuses allegorical magic realism into an investigation of missing persons within a small community where memories of tortured interactions between the Tamils and the Sinhalese still linger in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.

2024 / 4K / Sri Lanka & United States

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DIRECTOR: BEN NEUFELD

A documentary filmmaker attempts to imagine, along with his father, his grandmother's experience at a labor camp during the Holocaust. As the two get drawn into a world of the grandmother's romance, they begin to lose control of their imaginations.

2017 / HD VIDEO / TRT 71 min / United States, Ukraine, Poland, Germany

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