Thursday | Oct 22 | 6pm
Screening @ Deluge
Land of Enchantment
In-Person Screening: Land of Enchantment
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below the ghost forest, volume I
Mike Andrew McLean | 2026 | Canada | 10 min | World Premiere
A time-based study of the changing nature of an industrial cut block on Pacheedaht Traditional Territory.
Originally from Lethbridge Alberta, Mike Andrew McLean holds a BFA in Media Arts from NSCAD University and an MFA from the University of Victoria. McLean's work, which draws upon research into the historical and contemporary uses of photography, has recently been shown in solo and group exhibitions at galleries including Vancouver's Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Richmond Art Gallery, Open Space, Southern Alberta Art Gallery and Gallery 44 in Toronto. With the assistance of Canada Council and BC Arts Council production grants, McLean is currently investigating the earliest forms of production within the medium through his projects Latent Image and Debris.
Redwood Understory
Adele Horne | 2026 | USA | 5 min | Cdn Premiere
Redwood Understory is an exploration of the flora, fauna and fungi of the redwood forest. Filmed in 16mm in extreme close-up, in short bursts, the film gives the feeling of exploring the forest floor on hands and knees, blinking at the wonders illuminated by the shifting light.
Adele Horne makes documentary, essayistic and experimental films. Her work has screened internationally at Rotterdam Film Festival, Images Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Flaherty Seminar. Her film The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on P.O.V. and won the "Truer than Fiction" prize in Film Independent's Spirit Awards. She was faculty at California Institute of the Arts 2006–2017 and now lives on the Mendocino coast of Northern California, running a handmade ceramic tableware business with her wife Colleen Hennessey. Redwood Understory was funded by a 2024–25 grant from Canada Arts Council.
∞An Archive of Disappearing Sounds∞
Michaela Michalak | 2026 | Morocco/USA | 12 min | W Cdn Premiere
An Archive of Disappearing Sounds is a meditation on environmental grief by evoking a contemplative cinematic space through listening as praxis. As light and sound pollution from settler cities encroach, what inaudible sounds might be heard in the disappearing silences of the land? By considering what can be learned from listening to the land, this film reflects on Indigenous critiques of increasing scales of ecocide resulting from settler colonialism through tracing genealogies of extinction.
Michaela Michalak is an LGBTIQ filmmaker and activist-scholar who researches the politics of memory in relation to sound and silence through cinema, performance and archival practices. After being an Assistant Professor in the Visual Studies Department at the State University of New York, Buffalo, they were a Visiting Researcher at the University of Barcelona and an Artist in Residence at Hangar.org in Barcelona. They currently reside in Montreal, where they are a Doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University and a guest filmmaker at Double Negative Film Collective. Their artistic work has been exhibited at Galleria Can Felipa, Hangar.org, Casa Velazquez in Spain, Fonds Regional D’Art Contemporain Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Gallery Memoire de l’Avenir, Cite Internationale des Artes, International Festival of Choreography in Paris, Lisbon Architecture Triennial, 2nd Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Gallery in Titanik, Lopez Museum in Phillipines, Bronx Museum of the Arts and Subtle Technologies in Toronto. They have screened at festivals in Mexico, Brazil, USA, Canada, France, Spain and Portugal. Their recent article “Rereading Paul B. Preciado’s An Apartment on Uranus through Latin American Decolonial Transfeminism(s)” was published in Paragraph Journal of Modern Critical Theory Volume 46, Issue 1, with recent and upcoming contributions to the Francophone online film journal Hors Champ.
Oeil de chat [A Cat’s Eye]
Florence Audet | 2025 | Canada | 3 min | W Cdn Premiere
A day in the garden through the eye of a cat.
Florence Audet is an emerging filmmaker and editor based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal, Québec. Through her artistic practice, she explores the sensitive relationship between human and ecology. She recently obtained a Master’s degree in research-creation from the University of Montreal.
Land of Enchantment
Jack Cronin | 2026 | USA | 10 min | Cdn Premiere
Land of Enchantment explores the quiet majesty of northern New Mexico. Inspired by the legacy of early landscape photographers, the film approaches the region not as a travelogue but as a visual study of light, land and time.
Jack Cronin is a filmmaker and educator. Working in both analog and digital formats, his practice often combines documentary and experimental techniques to explore urban and natural landscapes, the cycles of the seasons, along with poetic interpretations of place. He received a BS in Film from Eastern Michigan University and an MFA in Film from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His films have been exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries, including Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro), Anthology Film Archives, Antimatter, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Austin Arthouse Film Festival, Dennos Museum Center, Thomas Edison Film and Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Public Space One, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Tacoma Film Festival, among many others.
Mother Nature
Cooper | 2026 | Canada | 5 min | World Premiere
Mother Nature is an abstract exploration of the natural world and its ongoing struggle for survival. Shot on 16mm, the film uses texture, movement and form to express the tension between resilience and destruction within nature’s fragile ecosystems. The film has been physically altered through a series of material interventions—baked in an oven, bleached, hand-painted and scratched—transforming the celluloid itself to mirror the erosion, violence and beauty found in nature’s own processes. The experimental soundtrack was created by capturing the hidden sounds of plants through sensitive microphones, amplifying the subtle vibrations and internal rhythms of organic life.
Cooper is an Ottawa-based media artist. Their body of work includes films, HD videos, installations and live performances. Cooper’s practice is based on technical aspects of the filmmaking process and they use an array of techniques, including stop-motion, 2D and 3D animation, optical printing, film processing and cinematography. Thematically Cooper’s films are a reflection of their memories and are drawn from life experiences. Their work has been presented at festivals and art galleries across Canada and internationally.
See Through the Hollowed Blue Hellebore
Jiayi Chen | 2026 | USA | 18 min | NA Premiere
The summer light endlessly scatters across river rocks, moss and lichen, flickering on a land breathing under its own memory. Shot in the remote wilderness of southeastern Alaska, See Through the Hollowed Blue Hellebore draws from local oral narratives tied to glaciers and the land, intertwining echoes of Tlingit language. Floating, utterance stretches, repeats and resonates, summoning a sensory journey through flora and fauna. Beneath each surface: a glacier receding, a body remembering.
Jiayi Chen works in analog film, projection performance and time-based installation. Her works have been exhibited and screened internationally, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Cineteca Madrid, Spain; MONO NO AWARE, New York; he8fest, Toronto, Light Matter Film Festival, New York; Chicago Cultural Center, Antimatter, Victoria; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Fracto, Berlin and Anthology Film Archives in New York.
Thursday | Oct 22 | 8pm
Screening @ Deluge
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Seeing Thru Imperfect Glass
Rennie Taylor | 2026 | Canada | 3 min | World Premiere
Broken glass, plastic prisms and warped reflections are accented by a guitar and banjo soundtrack in Seeing Thru Imperfect Glass. The rigid control of cinematic sight is released with this in-camera edited double exposed film.
Rennie Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His practice focuses on nostalgic symbols and signs found in popular culture through the practices of filmmaking, photography, animation, collage and illustration. He investigates decay within technology which corresponds to his material manipulation of celluloid, ephemera and found objects. His experimental films have been screened across Canada and Internationally and have shown at festivals including Antimatter [Media Art], Dresdner Schmalfilmtage and Light Field. He is currently pursuing his MA in Cinema & Media Studies at York University, received his BFA in Photography Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University and an Ontario College Diploma in Fine Arts at Centennial College. Rennie is a founder of the artist collectives BUS and [UN]PROMPTU. His graduate research is focused on the trash of consumer capitalism.
Necropolis
Kevin T. Allen | 2026 | USA | 9 min | W Cdn Premiere
A Stone Tape film inspired by the yellow fever epidemic in 19th century New Orleans, using analog camera techniques and contact microphones to excavate the material traces of trauma.
Coined by archaeologist and parapsychologist T.C. Lethbridge, Stone Tape Theory posits that material objects record traumatic events of the past…and that they can be played back.
Kevin T. Allen is a filmmaker and sound artist who makes ethnographically imbued films in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, the Wild West, university laboratories and migrant farm worker communities. His sound work often employs extended recording techniques, such as contact microphones and hydrophones, to interrogate culture as not exclusively human, but also inherent in physical landscapes and material objects. His "sound films" have screened at festivals, including MoMA Doc Fortnight, Flaherty NYC, Margaret Mead, Berlin Directors Lounge, SFCinematheque Crossroads and Ann Arbor Film Festival. As sound designer and re-recording mixer, he frequently collaborates with filmmakers who tread the blurred boundaries between fiction, nonfiction, ethnographic and experimental forms.
Brown Butterfly
David Rodriguez | 2026 | USA | 4 min | Cdn Premiere
A temporal vivisection of a 1993 performance by Miami noise legends Harry Pussy.
Dave Rodriguez (he/him) is a media artist originally from Miami FL and currently based in Bloomington IN. His single-channel video, 16mm film and live expanded cinema work has been screened/performed in festivals and galleries across Europe and the Americas including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], FLEX Film/Video Festival, Cosmic Rays, Mono No Aware, Strangloscope, FONLAD, Onion City Film Festival, Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival, Florida Film Festival and others. His writing has been published in Found Footage Magazine, Islandia Journal and Miami Rail.
Ako počúvať fontány [How to Listen to Fountains]
Eva Sajanová | 2025 | Slovakia | 10 min | NA Premiere
This film is about public space. This film is about the destruction of culture. This film is about fountains that have had enough. What would happen if fountains could speak?
Eva Sajanová is a composer and documentarist from Slovakia. She’s currently finishing her master’s studies in documentary film direction at Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Her film How to Listen to Fountains, had a world premiere in the Nest section of the San Sebastian International Film Festival 2025, where it won the main prize—The Mediapro Studio Award. Currently Sajanová is developing a sound map of Bratislava’s fountains, preparing a composition for EFNI—Ensemble of Futurist Noise Intoners (DE/IT), commissioned by the Next festival in Bratislava and completing her thesis film, She just walked into the room and she doesn’t know why she did it, co produced with Ninja Film.
Oscillations
Mark Franz, David Colagiovanni | 2026 | USA | 3 min | Cdn Premiere
Oscillations is an experimental animated short constructed from a filmed live oscilloscope performance combining synthesized sampling, live guitar and analog signal imagery. Continuing the tradition of visual music explored by pioneers such as Oskar Fischinger, the work transforms sound into shifting geometric forms and rhythmic electronic landscapes. Utilizing William S. Burroughs’ cut-up method, fragments of text derived from the “Pale Blue Dot” passage in Cosmos are recombined into evolving poetic structures. Through repetition, fragmentation and oscillation, the piece gradually shifts from cosmic reflection toward an inquiry into memory, place and the unstable idea of home.
Mark Franz’s work focuses on UX, Motion and Data and where each of these fields overlap. He received an MFA in Art + Technology from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and a MA in Electronic Art and Animation from Ball State University. Over the past two decades, Mark has provided creative leadership for clients such as Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Red Light Management. In addition, he has exhibited and discussed his work in over 100 exhibitions, invited lectures and artist residencies. Exhibition venues for this work include Leuphana Centre for Digital Cultures, New World Symphony, Currents New Media and the Rhode Island School of Design. Mark is currently a Full Professor in the School of Art + Design at Ohio University where he teaches courses in design.
David Colagiovanni is an artist and composer working with video, sound and space. He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, Morehead Planetarium, Small Craft Advisory Press and Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, India. His video and sound works have been exhibited in festivals and galleries internationally including British Ceramics Biennial, Neon Digital Arts Festival in Scotland, SNAP in Canada, File Hypersonica in São Paulo, Brazil, Zeiss Planetarium in Germany, Gallery SC in Croatia, Simultan Media Arts Festival in Romania, Maine International Film Festival and Immersive Film Festival in Portugal. Recent exhibitions in the USA include solo and collaborative shows at HereArt in NYC, Lump Gallery, Morehead Planetarium and Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh. Colagiovanni is a member of the North Carolina artist group Team Lump and a considerable amount of his practice exists in collaboration with artist Melissa Haviland under the moniker Haviland & Colagiovanni. He is currently Director of Athens Center for Film and Video and Athens International Film + Video Festival and teaches experimental film in the Film Division at Ohio University. Colagiovanni received his BFA from University of Maine, Orono and his MFA from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
co.loss..deus:
Antoine Goudreau | 2025 | Canada | 7 min | W Cdn Premiere
co.loss..deus: is an exploration of the limits of digital image denoising using Blender’s Cycles raytracing engine and NVIDIA’s OptiX denoising algorithm. By limiting the raytracing process to a single sample of the 3D scene, the denoiser receives too few pixels to reconstruct the image faithfully—producing raw materials that appear simultaneously blurry and sharp. Serving as a vivid analogy for digital decay, the work features a musical treatment reminiscent of vaporwave, video game cutscenes and plunderphonics.
A composer and performer of experimental music based in Montreal, Antoine Goudreau explores perceptual constructs of sound, movement and visuals to stimulate un/conscious thought in his audience. The concept of “jank” informs his approach to HCI and computer-assisted composition. Glitches in video games and their use in retro game speedruns are among his primary sources of inspiration.
Goudreau’s works have been presented internationally (CA, US, ES, MX, GB, BG, ID, IT), notably at Ann Arbor Film Festival. His multidisciplinarity stems from fervent creative explorations with Bizarre Love Triangle at Artengine (Ottawa). He regularly collaborates with composer Arya Deva Suryanegara, the Balinese gamelan ensemble Giri Kedaton, Dokter Gigi and improviser Rosalie Chretien. His next album, In Search of TV Gardens, is set to launch on isohyet in 2027.
Contact
Jonathan Walley | 2026 | USA | 28 min | Cdn Premiere
Contact is a documentary film that chronicles the transformation of an entire skatepark into a playable musical instrument, where skate, BMX, art and music scenes collide.
Heretic Culture Syndicate in Vestal New York has been many things: a skatepark, gallery, library, museum and stage; but, for one weekend, Derek Nelson—fabricator, activist, BMX pro and artist, has transformed his skatepark into an immersive sonic installation—part instrument, part playground—for the community to become co‑creators in a conflagration of sound. Small town. big sound.
Jonathan Walley is a documentary filmmaker fuelled by raw passion, a bike-obsessed explorer and an unapologetic lover of loud, visceral things. His true calling lies in capturing stories of craft, process and enduring legacy—those quiet obsessions that shape masters, movements and meaning. A fierce champion of unfiltered creativity in every medium and form, Jonathan rejects polish for truth, convention for courage, as he lives and believes, drawing from Arthur O'Shaughnessy's timeless ode “We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams."