Letter from Blackhawk Island (2024) by Derek Jenkins
Sunday, August 31, 2025, 5:00 pm
CROSSROADS 2025 – program 7
for all the seasons of your mind
Fleeting seasons and persistent memories. Documentations of invisible threads, weaving between us, before us, around us and through us. Love in varying forms. An opening quartet of lush if melancholic lyricism gives way to a darker dreamscape of troubled interiorities and toxic landscapes.
SCREENING:
LOVER, LOVERS, LOVING, LOVE (2025) by Jodie Mack (US/UK); digital video, color, sound, 14 minutes. under the flower moon (2024) by craig scheihing (US); digital video, color, sound, 7 minutes. Letter from Blackhawk Island (2024) by Derek Jenkins (US/Canada); digital video, color, sound, 2 minutes. Bosco (2023) by Stefano Canapa (Italy) & Lucie Leszez (France); digital video, black & white, silent, 8 minutes. Exhibition file from Light Cone. I think I said “Yes” (2025) by Pere Ginard (Spain); digital video, color, sound, 4 minutes. Suspicions About the Hidden Realities of Air (2025) by Sam Drake (US); digital video, color, sound, 9 minutes. All said done (2025) by Micah Weber; digital video, color, sound, 22 minutes. TRT: 66 minutes
PROGRAM TICKETS: $12 General/$10 Cinematheque Members, Gray Area Members & students (with ID)
FESTIVAL PASSES: $85 General/$70 Cinematheque Members, Gray Area Members & students (with ID)
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CROSSROADS 2025
LOVER, LOVERS, LOVING, LOVE (2025) by Jodie Mack
From Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life (1794) by Erasmus Darwin:
The whole of nature may be supposed to consist of two essences or substances; one of which may be termed spirit, and the other matter. The former of these possesses the power to commence or produce motion, and the latter to receive and communicate it. So that motion, considered as a cause, immediately precedes every effect; and, considered as an effect, it immediately succeeds every cause. world premiere
under the flower moon (2024) by craig scheihing
everyday euphorias, may 23rd 2024 (craig scheihing) bay area premiere
Letter from Blackhawk Island (2024) by Derek Jenkins
From her home in Blackhawk Island WI, the poet Lorine Niedecker traded lively and impactful letters with numerous peers, most notably Louis Zukofsky and, later, Cid Corman. After a brief sojourn in New York, she lived alone in a one-room cabin for much of her adult life. Letter from Blackhawk Island assembles images and sound gathered on the small plot of land by the Rock River where Niedecker lived, along with ambient audio from the sole existing recording of the poet’s voice, into the filmmaker’s own condensed record of prismatic correspondences. (Derek Jenkins) bay area premiere
Bosco (2023) by Stefano Canapa & Lucie Leszez
Three filmmakers (L. Leszez, J. Lainé & S. Canapa) bring back images of the forest. They are reworked and destructured with the means of the photochemical laboratory. Bosco is a visual breakthrough punctuated by a contrasted and hypnotic black and white. bay area premiere
I think I said "Yes" (2025) by Pere Ginard
I think I said “Yes.”
I think I said (…I…insect…scare…bird…eye…tear…thing…heartbeat… centaur…dream…mylove…) Yes.
(Pere Ginard) north american premiere
Suspicions About the Hidden Realities of Air (2025) by Sam Drake
Fragmented records reveal a concealed history of Cold War–era human radiation experiments, surfacing through a haze of manipulation and embedded studies. Desert dust settles into teeth, inscribing a residual record. Contaminated images conjure the unseen. (Sam Drake) bay area premiere
All said done (2025) by Micah Weber
From the disordered-saying(s) of a lifetime, to the material tracings of an unstructured narrative, All said done is less a portrait of a person than an incomplete image of class relations and affective labor. This film is dedicated to the memory of my father, the one who laughed, “kill.” (Micah Weber) bay area premiere
Jodie Mack (US/UK) is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film, video and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Musical documentary or stroboscopic archive: her films study domestic and recycled materials to illuminate the elements shared between fine-art abstraction and mass-produced graphic design. The works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects and question the role of decoration in daily life.
Craig Scheihing (US) is an artist based in New York City. His work has been screened, performed and exhibited around the world in film festivals, museums, basements, bars, beneath bridges, in cinemas, vacant lots, galleries, garages, universities and yards.
Derek Jenkins (US/Canada) is a motion picture photographer born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1980. His practice is handmade, personal and documentary—sometimes all at once. His films have been exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries, including DocLisboa, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, McMaster Museum of Art, Antimatter Film Festival, the8fest, FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Media City Film Festival, Mimesis Documentary Festival, non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Microscope Gallery and Prismatic Ground among many others. Previously a technician at Niagara Custom Lab, he is Executive Director of Hamilton Artists Inc. and board chair at the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. He lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario.
Stefano Canapa (Italy) was born in Turin, Italy in 1977. Holder of a Master’s degree in History and Technique of Cinema, he has been making films since the late ‘90s. He was a member of the Groupe Zur, a collective of artists from different backgrounds working at the crossroads of the visual arts, theatre, music and film. For over twenty years he was part of the film-makers‘ collective L’Abominable, making shorts and features films, documentaries and experimental works as well as performances and installations with musicians from the field of experimental music. His work has been presented and awarded in numerous international festivals, exhibitions and alternative venues as Locarno, Rotterdam, Berlin, Oberhausen, Marseille and Paris.
Lucie Leszez (France). Began a PHD thesis in 2018 at the University of Grenoble on gestures in experimental and contemporary documentary cinema. Co-organizes at the ENS-Ulm the seminar “Gestures of documentary cinema” with Mariya Nikiforova and Lucile Combreau, and the film club “To film the social field.” Member of the review Documentaires. Member of artist-run film labs L’Abominable and MTK.
Pere Ginard (Spain) is an illustrator and filmmaker. His work explores notions of perpetual motion and gives rise to a melancholic motley collection of ghosts, monsters, wonders and mystical raptures. His drawings and artist’s books have been showcased at a number of art galleries and he has published several illustrated books. His films have been screened at Annecy (France), UnionDocs (New York), LIAF (London), Videoex (Zurich) and San Francisco Cinematheque, among other venues.
Sam Drake (US) is a filmmaker whose work has screened at film festivals and venues including the Museum of Modern Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Media City Film Festival, the Museum of the Moving Image, Courtisane Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, European Media Art Festival, CROSSROADS, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Antimatter, Non-Syntax Experimental Image and EXiS. She currently lives in Milwaukee, where she teaches and programs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Micah Weber (b. 1985; they/them) is an artist or filmmaker based in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Their work marks the seams where ideological imaginaries rupture under the weight of their own visual sustenance: every narrative is a site of contested collapse.