Tuktuit : Caribou (2025) by Lindsay McIntyre

An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens and land use. Lichen developers help bring the images to life, while caribou hide is processed into gelatin to make handmade emulsion. Filmed primarily on the land in Nunavut where caribou struggle to maintain their lifeways amidst burn events, habitat disruption and changing conditions. (Lindsay McIntyre) bay area premiere

The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter’s Moon (2025) by Adam Piron

The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter’s Moon follows this temporal tradition in an interpolation of Kiowa lore in excerpts from N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), a reunion in Portugal between the filmmaker and their friend after twenty years and an historical attempt to decode a cryptic letter from 1890 with “hieroglyphic script” that arrived at Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School and which was sent from a reservation in the Oklahoma Territory to a Kiowa student named Belo Cozad. Shot on expired 8mm film, the film presents a collision of fragments of time and Kiowa memory. (Adam Piron) bay area premiere

I Carry the Universe with Me 我將宇宙隨身攜帶 (2024) by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu

In a future dominated by technological images, how will human culture be rewritten? Will history be reset? Is the land beneath my feet still habitable? Is the sky the same sky? I was curious about how artificial intelligence described the images I took of the world. Realities and hyperrealities are woven together as if this is the prototype of the myth of modern life. The work was inspired by the naturalist poet Alberto Caeiro. Slowly look at a flower; slowly listen to the flow of a river. Open the window, and the world is right before you, no matter what we call it. If you move, the world moves with you. (Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu) north american premiere

Black Glass (2024) by Adam Piron

Before his legendary proto-cinematic studies in motion, photographer Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned to document the United States Army’s war against the Modoc tribe in Northern California in a series of stereographs, many of them staged. Alternately unnerving, meditative and explosive, Adam Piron’s Black Glass examines the entangled histories of visual technology and the genocide and expropriation of Indigenous populations by white settlers through a violent collision of image and sound. (New York Film Festival) bay area premiere

Mines to Caves (2023) by Cauleen Smith

In Mines to Caves, Smith foregrounds how traditional capitalist structures like overconsumption and land development affect our relationships to each other and the environment and draws from work Smith developed during her residence with the Aspen Art Museum and Anderson Ranch in Spring 2022. The film, shot partially on location inside [Smuggler’s Mine], puts forth the artist’s research around geologic extraction in the United States. (Aspen Art Museum) bay area premiere