Directed by Meriem Bennani • 2018–2021 • Morocco

Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona a...

Directed by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa • 2018 • Uganda, Austria

PROMISED LANDS is a fragmentary, essayistic meditation on (among other things) art, fact, fiction, memory, rights to land, place, and displacement that marks the culmination of a substantial body of work by the late artist Emma Wolukau-W...

Directed by Søren Lind and Larissa Sansour • 2022 • United Kingdom, Denmark

AS IF NO MISFORTUNE HAD OCCURRED IN THE NIGHT is a three-channel video work featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning, and inherited trauma, performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish and accompanied by arc...

Directed by Paul Shemisi, Nizar Saleh, Rob Jacobs, and Anne Reijniers • 2022 • Congo, Belgium

Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for a screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they’re stopped at the airport because the ...

Directed by Lawrence Lek • 2022 • United Kingdom, South Korea

In the abandoned smart city of SimBeijing, a self-driving police car confronts their existential troubles with their built-in AI therapist in this Sinofuturist exploration of identity, surveillance, and empathy.

Directed by Adam Piron • 2022 • United States

YAANGNA PLAYS ITSELF is an ode to the memories of El Aliso, the sycamore tree that once stood at the center of Yaangna, the Indigenous Gabrieleno village that Los Angeles grew out from.

Directed by Miryam Charles • 2023 • Canada
Starring Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain Mbaye

Following the shooting of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on her own life and especially on the passing of time.

Directed by Sofia Theodore-Pierce • 2023 • United States

A year of stormy weather and temporal rupture is recalled in fragments in this collage of seizure dreams, horses, long-distance conversations from bed, and loose reenactments from Marguerite Duras’s BAXTER, VERA BAXTER.

Directed by Esy Casey • 2023 • Philippines, United States

In this contemplation on the meanings of movement in the experience of migration, the grace and skill of a Filipina domestic worker are juxtaposed with devotional dances to the Santo Niño statue that Magellan brought to the islands in 152...

Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2023 • United States

The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (The Ark) has been a legend in Los Angeles’s avant-garde jazz community for over sixty years. But since the death of its founder, pianist and composer Horace Tapscott, the band has spent the last three decades ebbi...

Directed by Carl Elsaesser • 2021 • United States

“Stretching and blurring the boundaries of video essay, experimental film, and home movie, traces of a 1950s homemade melodrama by amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin intermingle with a mournful homage to the author’s grandmother and her vacat...

Directed by Rhea Storr • 2021 • United Kingdom

MADNESS REMIXED examines the fetishization of Josephine Baker’s body through data-moshing analogue film. What unfolds is a questioning of which images of Black bodies should be reproduced and on what terms.

Directed by Tulapop Saenjaroen • 2021 • Thailand, Singapore
Starring Anongnart Yusananda, Aacharee Ungsriwong, Brett Burgs

SQUISH! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary ...

Directed by Rajee Samarasinghe • 2022 • Sri Lanka, United States

“This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s long-delayed reunion with Kamala, the aunt she lived with as a child. Kamala was living a life of solitude at this point and has now sin...

Directed by Tiff Rekem • 2022 • United States

A fragmentary rumination on an aging father figure and his nearness to the gender-reveal-party fire that scorched the San Bernardino foothills in 2020.

Directed by Alexis McCrimmon • 2022 • United States

HERON 1954–2002 is a visual eulogy that taps into the phenomena of makeshift memorials and small gestures of mourning. Honoring the life of a loved one who died due to an accidental opioid overdose, the film materializes the process of overdue ...

Directed by Ayanna Dozier • 2022 • United States

MAMAN BRIGITTE stitches together the intimacy of a private ritual involving the Voudou loa Maman Brigitte (who governst the barrier between the living and the dead) with the sounds of the body (spitting, running, vomiting, etc.). These “interior” ...

Directed by Ryan Clancy • 2022 • United States

This film enacts an attempt to regain attachment following a period of heroin addiction, near-death experiences, and oxytocin deficiency. The camera shifts between moments of fragile devotion as it searches for a higher power in threads of shared su...

Directed by Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne • 2022 • United States
Starring Zakaria Almoutlak

A portrait of Zakaria Almoutlak, a sculptor and media activist from Homs, Syria, who fled the civil war in 2015.

Directed by Younes Ben Slimane • 2021 • France, Tunisia

At night, a stranger digs graves, buries the dead, and watches over them. In the dark, he reveals the personal belongings of the deceased to us. These objects, separated from their owners, bear their scars and story, while others melt until...

Directed by Anita Thacher • 1986 • United States
Starring Catherine Lloyd, Owen Roth, Jeffree Clapp

Like the challenges to our assumptions posed by “Alice in Wonderland,” issues of scale, materiality, and relationships are raised within a child’s “game-like” structure in this film/installation w...

Directed by Christopher Harris • 2004 • United States

Taking its name from the Jim Crow–era prohibition against Black men looking at white women, this hand-processed, optically printed amalgam is a hypnotic inspection of sexual desire, racial identity, and film history.

Directed by Alison Nguyen • 2021 • United States

This video work by visual artist Alison Nguyen centers on a computer-generated woman raised by the Internet in isolation in a virtual void. From the apartment where she has been placed, Andra8 works as a digital laborer, surviving off the data fro...

Directed by Fox Maxy • 2020 • United States

Unfolding as an exhilarating stream-of-consciousness collage of phone videos, found footage, computer games, and digital detritus, MAAT is an at once playful and pointed exploration of Indigenous identity and activism.