Official Selection Experimental
1. Time(s) to Breathe
Switzerland, 3:09
Director, Stan Adard
Time(s) to Breathe is an animated experimental film which takes the attentive viewer/listener on an immersive journey from where your thoughts are controlling you to where your breathing is calmer and more conscious--similar to our journeys as we grow older. Whatever your stage of life, who doesn’t need to take time to breathe?
Director, Stan Adard
Stan Adard is a Swiss filmmaker and digital artist from Schaffhausen, Switzerland. After high school, he graduated from the University of Zurich with a master degree in Education and Social Psychology. He has always been extremely interested in the interplay between man and machine ever since he obtained his very first computer, a Tandy Radio Shack that he bought with his older brother in 1977. As the owner and director of an international software company, Stan has been privileged to create and realize new ideas in the field of digital art and software since its advent. Learn more about Stan and his art at https://stanadard.com/
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2. You and Me
United Kingdom, 3:34
Directors, Karni and Saul
You and Me is an experimental dance music video by Karni and Saul for Micah P Hinson’s song, “You and Me.” Inspired by home isolation, connection, dance, and zoom culture present in the world, Karni and Saul collaborated with 9 dancers from around the globe to create choreography for one x 9. This film highlights our craving for connection and contact, while hoping that we will dance again together soon.
Directors, Karni and Saul
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3. Daydreaming
USA, 4:15
Director, Peter Litwinowicz
Original score, Jerome Lindner
Daydreaming is an abstract exploration of cityscapes, clouds, and emotions through dance.
Director, Peter Litwinowicz
Pete Litwinowicz is a choreographer and filmmaker who concentrates on combining both art forms. Pete is a visual effects software developer and artist for the motion picture and video industries. Pete has won several awards including an Academy Award©; an Emmy®, an Ars Electronica Golden Nica (Austria); and an Imagina Award (Monaco) for Best Visual Effects and Visual Innovation. Pete has worked with Lizz Roman and Dancers as the filmmaker for their shows in 2017 and 2019, and has worked as co-artistic director of Dance Continuum SF from 2007-2012, and danced for Company Chaddick from 1996-2006.
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4. Walls of Limerick
Ireland, 7:31
Director, Arturo Bandinelli
Original score, Andrea Boccodoro & Roberto Bengini
Walls of Limerick is a lyrical dance film exploring the psychological effects that harsh political borders have on people. It offers the viewer a window into the dancers’ internal worlds, where they go to escape from their bleak, oppressive reality, where their only way out is up the wall that both divides and supports them.
Director, Arturo Bandinelli
Originally from Italy, Arturo is a freelance filmmaker working in London where he studied at London College of Communication, graduating in 2013 with a first class honours degree. He is constantly looking for new challenges, aiming at the creation of unique and valuable content for a range of different video formats, and trying to learn something new from each project. From adverts to drama, from music promos to live events and corporate videography, his goal is to communicate the key message clearly, by means of a sharp concept and an engaging visual style. He has worked as a film director and videographer for Dream Pix UK, Richard Jolly TV and Haymarket LTD. His music video experience includes working on ‘King of the Street People’ by Kolo, ‘Walking the Magic Hour’ by D.A.T.E and ‘Blow’ by Kaisei. Awards include Lycamobile Advert Award (2014), Best Drama and Best Direction Award for ‘Someone you used to know’ Campus Movie Festival (2011). Learn more about Arturo and his work at https://abandinelli.com/
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5. Rainslide
France, 5:03
Director, Ariel Neo
Rainslide is a narrative experimental film about our quest for meaning, the freedoms we seek, and the unconscious prisons of our minds. Incorporating original oil paintings on circular canvases by Ariel Neo, the scenes that follow underscore the title card statement: the moment we learn to let go, birds soar, horses fly, and the path to freedom finally unfolds.
Director, Ariel Neo
Ariel Neo is a multifaceted french artist from Brittany who creates oil paintings on large circular canvases. When finished, she then photographs them in nature, composing surreal images. Her art is deeply rooted in nature and the vivid colors evokes our original state, bold and wild. A film director and producer for the past three years, Ariel now incorporates her paintings inside her short films. The viewer can discover the source of her inspiration, as well as the story behind each painting as it unfolds thoughout the film. Her paintings are regularily exhibited in France as well as in Europe and her short films are becoming recognized in international festivals worldwide. Her artistic endeavor, unique in its kind, abolishes the frontiers of painting, photography and film, allowing the viewer to be carried into a multidimensional work of art. See more of Ariel's work at https://www.theartofarielneo.com/
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6. Five Elizabeths
USA, 16:59
Director, Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Key Cast, Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Five Elizabeths is an experimental art film about family legends, matrilineal mythology, and the psychic shadow of the military industrial complex. Filmed on the shore of Fort H.G. Wright on Fishers Island, New York, this “autofictional performance piece” uses moving image, movement, and music to explore five female archetypes passed down through Wagner’s family.
Director, Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Jasmine Dreame Wagner is an American multimedia artist working in film and video, music composition, poetry and lyric essay. She the author of On a Clear Day (Ahsahta Press), a collection of poems and lyric essays. Her multimedia work has been presented at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (Cambridge, MA); New Ohio Theatre (New York, NY); Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (Fisher's Island, NY); The Poetry Project (New York, NY); and Poetic Research Bureau (Los Angeles, CA). Her writing has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Beloit Poetry Journal, BOMB Magazine, Colorado Review, Fence, Guernica, Hyperallergic, Indiana Review, New American Writing, Verse, and in three anthologies. Learn more about Jasmine and her project at http://www.songsaboutghosts.com/fiveelizabeths.html
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7. Safira (Sapphire)
Brazil, 9:45
Director, Romy Pocztaruk & Livia Pasqual
Original music, Caio Amon
Safira begins with digitally-colored found footage images of the galaxy, and explores the feeling of one who witnesses a disaster of another planet. The original music, composed as a voice that sings the hecatomb, announces the next end of the world. Safira braces viewers for the next explosion, albeit perhaps not physical, in particular view of increasing fragmentation in Brazil.Having a big sale, on-site celebrity, or other event? Be sure to announce it so everybody knows and gets excited about it.
Director, Romy Pocztaruk
Romy Pocztaruk is a Brazilian filmmaker who has a master's degree in Visual Poetics by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Pocztaruk’s photography and vídeo work deals with simulations and the positions from which the artist interacts with diferente places. She has participated in such exhibitions as 31ª Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo; BRICS (2014), OI Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; and much more. She ha salso taken part in artist-in-residence programmes in China (Sunhoo Creatives in Residency), Berlim (Takt Kunstprojektraum) e Nova York (Bronx Museum), sponsored by the Iberê Camargo grant for artist residencies. Learn more about Romy at
https://www.romypocz.com/about
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8. We are All on the Same Bus
Portugal, 2:00
Director, Nuno Serrão
Key Cast, Luis Daio
We are all on the same bus is a film which implies that while we are all on the same bus, some of us are more awake than others. A visual expression of Serrão’s interest in dialogue between science and contemporary art, this experimental film featuring a young man dancing to sculpture artist and musician Lonnie Holley’s song “I Woke Up in a F###ed Up America”, explores the “Arrow of Time” concept coined by Sir Arthur Eddington in 1927 and related questions about reality and our agency within it.
Director, Nuno Serrão
Nuno Serrão is a Portuguese photographer, filmmaker, and creative director, interested in the dialogues between science and contemporary art. Each of his images considers how information is handled, shared and perceived, framing scenarios as micro-narratives, demonstrating a sensitivity and a curiosity for the planet and its inhabitants.
Aesthetica Magazine, 2019. Learn more about Nuno and his work at https://www.nunoserrao.com/
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9. Do You Love Me?
USA, 19:29
Directors, Maison Kwame & KC Simms
Key Cast: Maison Kwame, KC Simms, Kobi Green & Aasiyah Williams
Do You Love Me? is an experimental narrative with elements of animation which portrays the effects of love, betrayal, revenge, and rebirth. In the words of the filmmakers, “We don’t ask that you understand it; let it understand you.”
Directors, Maison Kwame & KC Simms
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10. Quantum LOGOS (vision serpent)
Singapore, 10:30
Director, Mark Chavez
Original score, Tate Egon Chavez
Quantum LOGOS (vision serpent) is an Art/Sci abstract animated film which uses images as poetry to represent the quantum world. Initially created for an immersive experience, this experimental film uses cultural icons to create visual metaphors to explore, discover and communicate the counterintuitive and contradictory beauty of quantum physics.
Director, Mark Chavez
Mark Chavez is an animation industry veteran who has worked at major animation studios on more than 15 award-winning feature films and innovative interactive titles. He is a founding faculty member for the animation area at Nanyang Technological University Singapore’s School of Art, Design & Media. He is chair of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 conference’s Art Gallery in Hong Kong and for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Educators Program in Singapore. As a Primary Investigator, he was granted significant funding from the National Research Foundation/Media Development Authority of Singapore to establish research in the School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University. Mark’s current work explores Quantum Theory with cultural archetypes. Learn more about Mark and his projects at http://giantmonster.co/wordpress1/
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11. Reign of the Umbrella Men
USA, 8:59
Director, Eric Fisher
Reign of the Umbrella Men is an animated, visually-altered experimental narrative which creates a colorful scenescape, comprised of clones of a two-dimensional man who finds himself altered in the end.
Director, Eric Fisher
Eric Fisher is an artist, animator, illustrator and filmmaker from the Chicago area. He studied film and video at Columbia College in Chicago and has been freelancing in illustration, design, animation and film/video for 20 years. He works in traditional and digital media, ranging from traditional cel animation to paper cutout to digital animation in Toon Boom Harmony, After Effects and TVPaint. He has illustrated numerous children’s books for indie publishers, school and library publishers (Abdo Publishing) and educational publishers (McGraw-Hill). He is also a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Learn more about Eric and his work at https://www.ericscottfisher.com/about-1
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12. The Man Who Traveled Nowhere in Time
Canada, 5:00
Director, Vincent René-Lortie
Choreographer, Kyra Jean Green
The Man Who Traveled Nowhere in Time is an experimental screendance narrative. Through the eyes of Eytan, a man who only exists in the dreams and unconscious minds of others, we question what is “real”, what isn't, and how we each perceive time differently.
Director, Director, Vincent René-Lortie
Vincent René-Lortie is a Montréal-based film director. Having directed festival renowned short films and music videos for Canada’s top artists, his dream-drenched work spans a wide range of genres including fiction, sci-fi, and dance. With his attention to the poetic and his obsession with the intimate, Vincent’s narratives continue to offer surreal journeys coated in high-value execution. Learn more about Vincent and his work at https://www.vincentrenelortie.com/about
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13. I Am He Who Created Himself
USA, 3:35
Director, Emma Penaz Eisner
I am He Who Created Himself is a visual interpretation and re-telling of the human origin story from ancient times. This surrealistic film intermixes stop motion animation, time lapse photography, and live action sequences to re-imagine the Heliopolitan creation story, one of the paradigmatic creation myths recorded in antiquity.
Director, Emma Penaz Eisner
Emma Penaz Eisner is an independent filmmaker and visual artist from San Francisco. She has created short films and moving image art that have screened worldwide in galleries and at over 250 international film festivals. Earning more than 60 awards, her work is in experimental filmmaking, live action combined with animation, and stop motion animation.
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14. Transmitting and Receiving
USA, 3:39
Director, Dee Hood
Transmitting and Receiving is an experimental visualization of possible frequencies that exist between our world and other worlds, based on the director’s experiences and her desire to connect to them.
Director, Dee Hood
Dee Hood ‘s experimental videos have shown in over 30 countries around the world. She has received numerous awards for art videos and her political videos have been featured in The Nation Magazine’s Opp- Art section. She is a Professor Emerita, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota Florida where she taught a range of art courses including time based media. Hood received an M.F.A. in Visual Art from the University of South Florida, Tampa in 1990. She is also known for work in painting, sculpture and installation. Learn more about Dee and her work at https://www.deehood.net/info
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15. Initiation
Poland, 18:00
Director, Iwona Pasińska
Original score, Jacek Sienkiewicz
Dancers: Polish Dance Theatre
Initiation is an experimental, musical dance film which rotates perspective between black and white vignettes, whose storylines advance upon returning to a given scene. Looking into the human habitats, toxic relationships and untamed fears we can see that demons, with whom the characters struggle often exemplify social problems, the cycles of which are difficult to escape.
Director, Iwona Pasińska
Iwona Pasińska is a choreographer, movement dramatist, theatre theorist, artistic director of Movements Factory and co-founder of the Movements Factory Foundation. Director of the Polish Dance Theater. Learn more about Polish Dance Theater and Iwona at
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16. Slipping By
USA, 7:57
Director, Eric Limarenko
Original score, Jay Batzner
Key Cast: Judi Swartz, Brad Swartz, Maya Isabella, Michael Richards, Sara Orcards, Emma McCowan & Garrett Johnson
Slipping By is a look at the memories that reside within one house despite the passing of time and varying couples.
Director, Eric Limarenko
No information Available
https://www.ericlimarenko.com/
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17. The Water of the Earth (L’eau de la Terre)
France, 4:11
Director, Romain Claris
Original score, Suraj Nepal
The Water of the Earth is an experimental, paint animation narrative which tells the tale of an ordinary little frog who just wants to become extraordinary and, for some, an allegory which cautions the consequences of excessive capitalism. Freely inspired by some thirty paintings by great masters of painting such as Qi Baishi, Gao Xingjian, Shoda Koho, or Katsushika Hokusai, Chloé Guêze paints and narrates this tale of Oceania.
Director, Romain Claris
Romain Claris is a French filmmaker, photographer, and poet, who began directing very short films in 2000. Having graduated with honors in 2005 from the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français at Paris, he then joined Claris Image Builder in Bordeaux as head of the video department and is responsible for the production of around 250 films for the luxury industry: yachting, vineyards, architecture, culinary, etc. In parallel to his agency work, Romain continues to make personal films, short and medium-length films, which have been selected or awarded at international film festivals. He also directs documentary portraits of creators, which have included: Bernard Varvat, marble sculptor, Gilles Jonemann, jewel and object designer, and Tomas Bagackas, fashion designer. Learn more about Romain at https://romainclarisfilm.com/romain-claris_uk.php
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18. Upwell
USA, 6:03
Director & choreographer, J’aime Morrison
Original score, Karam Salem
Key cast: Rachel Whiting & Kassia Meador
Upwell follows a woman who, after a devastating loss, receives a vision of surfing, embodied by pro surfer Kassia Meador, which inspires her to return to the water. Surrounded by a diverse group of female surfers, she paddles out and they perform a ritual of connection to each other and to the ocean that is a refuge for them all.
Director, J’aime Morrison
J'aime Morrison is a theatre director, choreographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She is a Professor of Theatre Movement at California State University, Northridge where she stages multi-disciplinary experimental productions.
Ms. Morrison is an associate member of Women in Film.
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19. Alive
Canada, 1:49
Director, Wai Sun Cheng
Writer & narrator: Marisa Antoinette Gold
Key Cast: Marisa Antoinette Gold
Alive, set to a poem by Marisa Antoinette Gold, is experimental, fast-paced visual poetry about life.
Director, Wai Sun Cheng
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20. Via delle dolci acque (Sweet Water Way)
Italy, 11:30
Director, Samuele Bergamini
Original score, Silvia Parma & Adriano Zerulo
Key Cast: Federico Petrucci, Luna Iacobini & Zaira Prencipe
Via delle dolci acque is an experimental narrative which follows a naive primitive man as he finds his way out of an unsettling dream before getting stuck in it.
Director, Samuele Bergamini
Samuele Bergamini was born in 1994 in Garbanate Milanese. After an artistic high school, he became interested in cinema and decided to attend Emerson College in Boston, where he received his bachelor's degree in Film Production. He has worked on many commercial projects, producing "BarrenTrees", a film made with Project 10K distributed in China. After settling in Italy, Samuele directed "Via Delle Dolci Acque" (Sweet Water Way). He's currently working on his first feature.
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21. Boneline
United Kingdom, 9:30
Director, Christopher Lewis-Smith
Original score, Davey Ray Moore
Key cast, Jane Ford
Boneline is a slice-of-life poetic film which follows an aging woman’s journey through a beautiful, yet isolated landscape and her increasing awareness of the transient nature of our existence. The film connects the human body, and the earth and stones of a landscape, to suggest an inescapable relationship between them.
Director, Christopher Lewis-Smith
Christopher Lewis-Smith is a UK-based choreographer, filmmaker, photographer, writer and Course Director for Postgraduate Dance at Bath Spa University, UK, where he works in the areas of screendance and choreography. He is interested in the language and design of movement, the language and design of landscape, and the relationships between them. The designing of movement, for Christopher, is both choreography in a conventional sense, constructed for and in ‘live’ performance, or it can be other things, especially choreography created for, and by, the camera, and in the editing of film and video. In an urban environment, he is interested in architecture, by the less considered chance relationships between structures, and the aesthetics of decay. In rural landscapes, he is especially drawn to design by agriculture. Learn more about Christopher and his work at http://www.chrislewis-smith.co.uk/
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22. Walkscape
Portugal, 5:26
Director, Vasco Diogo
Original score, Welcome to Silkeborg
Walkscape, filmed during several walks in Lisbon as an aesthetic practice, uses image processing and time-lapse techniques to experience a visualization of improvised music as free as the music itself.
Director, Vasco Diogo
Vasco Diogo, born in Lisbon, is an experimental Director, Performer, Video Artist, and New Media and Cinema Assistant Professor at University of Beira Interior. Vasco holds a degree in Sociology, a master's degree in social sciences, and a PhD in Communication Sciences by Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since 2008, Vasco has been a professor at the University of Beira Interior teaching mainly cinema directing, new cinemas and experimental cinema. He has created video art and experimental cinema around themes such as self-presentation, truth and manipulation, and has won several international awards (more than 40), especially with the film: "anexperimentalviralvlog - the movie remix # !". He has shown his works in several exhibitions and festivals in Portugal, Spain, Italy, USA, Canada, India, Germany, France, Cyprus, Poland, etc. Learn more about Vasco and his work at https://www.vascodiogo.com/bio
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23. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
USA, 5:17
Director, Caesar Pink
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is a music video that uses social satire to comment on prejudice in the Trump era.
Director, Caesar Pink
Caeser Pink is a multimedia artist best known for his work The Imperial Orgy artist collective. Caeser is also the founder of the
Arete Living Arts Foundation.
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24. Fireflies
Finland, 4:22
Director, Hanna Ojala
Fireflies is an animated experimental film set against a starry sky, portraying elusive, body-like shapes, moving to music. This piece is a declaration of love to the moment, to Life itself.
Director, Hanna Ojala
Hanna Ojala, 36, is a poet, a musician and a self-made filmmaker as well as a dance movement therapist from Finland who has finally found her way of creative expression through experimental dance, music and video poetry, and is keenly learning more every day. She savors verbalizing actual events in an abstract way as well as describing the visceral effects of inner emotions – making invisible visible and visible indefinite.
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25. Green Beetle
Republic of Korea, 2:09
Director, Blond Jenny
Green Beetle is a kaleidoscope journey portraying man, woman, goldfish, water, trees, and the sky becoming a green beetle. Surrounded by Mother Nature, our movements combine in beautiful harmony and give reason for us to take care of one another.
Director, Blond Jenny
Blond Jenny is a painter, photographer, and filmmaker. Her work is a mix of storytelling through her alter ego, cartoon character Blond Jenny, her self-portraits, found objects from nature, 360-degree photos and videos.
Her recent work is focused on nature and women’s rights. She uses video and self-photography with mix media to expand the range of expression in her photography. She continues to develop techniques so she can challenge the boundaries of her expression. She likes to explore new media and play with it as part of her overall story. Her intent is to show that with nature or flowers we can be more connected and happy. She has found freedom in nature and continues to explore the path between life, death, and beyond. Learn more about Blond Jenny and her work at http://blondjenny.com/#a
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26. Haiku
Germany, 17:17
Director, Martin Gerigk
Original score, Martin Gerigk
Key cast: Eri Uchino & Cauro Hige
Haiku | 俳句 is a symphonic audiovisual project for two Japanese performers, alternating percussion groups, soundscapes and rhythmicized video sequences. The film is an experimental approach to pay tribute to the extraordinary art of Japanese haiku poetry.
Director, Martin Gerigk
Martin Gerigk is a composer of contemporary music who moonlights as an audiovisual artist/filmmaker, inspired by great music, poetry, and culture. His repertoire includes compositions for orchestra and chamber music, as well as several solo concertos. In 2007 he was engaged as "Composer in Residence" of the Orchestra of Hagen. The commissioned work "Backlights" was broadcasted in the WDR radio. His compositions are performed nationally and internationally including in Korea, Japan, USA, England, Finland, Austria and Switzerland. In addition to his work as a composer, Martin is also in demand as an arranger of orchestral and chamber music of different eras. His latest films "Structures of Nature", "Rain" and "Energy" won several international prizes. Learn more about Martin's audiovisual art at http://martin-gerigk.de/audiovisual-art-ii/
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27. Where is Lotte?
Austria, 9:04
Director, Petra Zöpnek
Key Cast: Nicola Raunig & Herbert Nitsch
Where is Lotte? is a memorial to Lotte Hass (1928-2015), the “First Lady of Diving.” With fast-paced editing and most of the film underwater, the movements of the various divers blur, flicker, and portray a collective action. With the length of the film the exact length diver Herbert Nitsch can stay underwater without breathing, the film explores the deep and inspires courage and curiosity in us all.
Director, Petra Zöpnek
Born in Vienna, Petra Zöpnek is an editor for documentarys and feature films, photographer and musician. She is fascinated by the esthetics of chance and by the depth of the sea.
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28. Different Now
USA, 2:45
Director, Sonya Gray Redi
Different Now tells the story of classic paintings coming to life as a woman ruminates on her past.
Director, Sonya Gray Redi
Sonya Gray Redi is a writer and filmmaker from San Francisco, California. Her films have been screened at the
Sonoma International Film Festival, WAMMFest and elsewhere.
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