Director/Screenwriter: Victoria Strouse, Producers: Dylan Sellers, Chris Parker, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey
After studying their youngest sister has joined a touring cult, three estranged siblings should come collectively to seek out and convey her again. Forged: Hannah Einbinder, Justin Theroux, John Paul Reynolds, Griffin Gluck, Justine Lupe, Greg Kinnear (World Premiere)
The Solar By no means Units
Director/Screenwriter: Joe Swanberg, Producers: Jake Johnson, Ashleigh Snead, Joe Swanberg, Dakota Fanning, Cory Michael Smith
Wendy’s life is thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack, who’s older and divorced with kids, insists they take area to judge the connection. Throughout their break, Wendy runs into her ex, Chuck, forcing them right into a risky triangle. Forged: Dakota Fanning, Jake Johnson, Cory Michael Smith, Debby Ryan, Anna Konkle, Lamorne Morris, Karley Sciortino (World Premiere)
Their City
Director: Katie Aselton, Producer: Mary Budd, Screenwriter: Mark Duplass
When Abby’s boyfriend drops out of the highschool play, she finds herself serving to a faculty outlier step into the position reverse her. They spend a protracted night time wandering round their city, analyzing their futures and unearthing surprises from their previous. Forged: Ora Duplass, Chosen Jacobs, Will Parker, Kim Shaw, Jeffery Self, Daveed Diggs, Leonardo Nam, Annie Henk, Brad LaBree (World Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Unbelievable options receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.
Adam’s Apple
Director: Amy Jenkins, Producers: Brit Fryer, Amy Jenkins, Screenwriter: Adam Sieswerda
A transgender teen and his mom chronicle their lives, artistically weaving a uncommon and intimate portrait of a household in transition. 20 years of footage hint a boy’s path to manhood and his dad and mom’ vulnerability as they reckon with change. (World Premiere)
Wonderful Dwell Sea Monkeys
Administrators/Producers: Mark Becker, Aaron Schock
From her crumbling property on the Potomac, Yolanda Signorelli battles to wrest management of her late husband Harold’s iconic toy Wonderful Dwell Sea-Monkeys from the company males who stole them from her and from the stain of her husband’s darkish legacy. (World Premiere)
Black Zombie (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Maya Annik Bedward, Producers: Maya Annik Bedward, Hannah Donegan, Kate Fraser
From the flickering screens of Hollywood horror, to the haunted cane fields of colonial Haiti, Black Zombie finds the buried origins of the zombie, reclaiming it as an emblem of survival and non secular resistance. That includes Yves-Grégory Francois, Anderson Mojica, Erol Josué, Mambo Labelle Déese Botanica, Slash, Tom Savini, Tananarive Due, Zandashé Brown (World Premiere)
Capturing Bigfoot
Director: Marq Evans, Producers: Tamir Ardon, Marq Evans, Nick Spicer
A reel of 16mm movie locked away for over 50 years turns the Bigfoot debate on its head. That includes Clint Patterson, Bob Gimlin, Bob Heironimus, Larry Lund, Greg Lengthy, Vaile Thompson, Sandy Collier, Invoice Munns, Teresa Brooks, Jeff Meldrum (World Premiere)
Ceremony (Canada)
Director/Producer: Banchi Hanuse
At ramshackled Nuxalk Radio in Bella Coola, an inquiry into the vanished ooligan run unravels a buried historical past of erasure and ignites the quiet revolution of a Nation that refuses to vanish. Featuring Megan F. Moody, Qwaxw Siwallace, Snuxyaltwa Deric Snow, Nuskmata Jacinda Mack, Q’umulha Schooner, Sunhwrna Schooner, Jason E. Moody, Snxakila Clyde Tallio, Kmalsuuncw Orden Mack, Tom Swanky (World Premiere)
Drift
Director: Deon Taylor, Producers: Roxanne Avent Taylor, Deon Taylor, Inbal Lessner, Kaitlin McLaughlin, Screenwriters: Kaitlin McLaughlin, Martine Biehn, Kevin Hibbard
Isaac “Drift” Wright, a self-taught photographer and Military veteran haunted by trauma, finds therapeutic by breathtaking, unlawful climbs of the world’s tallest constructions. However his pursuit of artwork sparks a high-stakes battle with regulation enforcement on this intimate portrait of threat, resilience, and freedom in fashionable America. That includes Isaac Wright (World Premiere)
My Brother’s Killer
Director: Rachel Mason, Producer: Dion Labriola
Impassioned members of the LGBTQ group band collectively to attempt to clear up one of the crucial ugly and mysterious murders in Los Angeles historical past. That includes Christopher Rice, Eric Shaw Quinn, Clark Williams, ChiChi LaRue, Kevin Clarke, Krystal DeLight, Phil St. John, Sabin Gray, John Lamberti, Wendi Berndt (World Premiere)
#Skyking
Director: Patricia Gillespie, Producer: Chris Cowen
#Skyking tells the story of Richard “Beebo” Russell, a floor service agent who stole an airplane belonging to his employer, and took off on a flight that might come to embody the hopes, goals, and despair of the American working class. (World Premiere)
The Means We Transfer
Administrators/Screenwriters: Vanessa Dumont, Nicolas Davenel, Producers: Hubert Cornet, Mathieu Belghiti, Arnaud Le Guilcher, Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette
Amber Galloway, a trailblazer in ASL interpretation, takes us on a journey into the deep bond between the Deaf world and music. We comply with her as she teaches struggling recruits who she hopes may have what it takes to hitch her at ACL music competition. That includes Amber Galloway, Julian Ortiz, Angela “AV” Villavong, Joshua Goertz (World Premiere)
MIDNIGHTER
Thrilling after-dark options for style lovers and the terminally curious.
“The 2026 SXSW Movie & TV Midnighters symbolize so many alternative issues of what we love about style filmmaking,” mentioned Peter Corridor, SXSW Senior Movie & TV Pageant Programmer. “They’re scary, however nonetheless wildly entertaining. They’ve bought darkish senses of humor with out sacrificing coronary heart. They’re artistic, surprising and usher in a brand new spherical of filmmakers we’re going to be proud to name alums.”
American Dollhouse
Director/Screenwriter: John Valley, Producers: David Axe, Samuel Butler, Shane Greb
Caught between a grotesque Christmas fantasy and her personal childhood trauma, a girl’s seek for a recent begin in her residence city is violently interrupted by a psychopathic neighbor. Forged: Hailley Lauren, Kelsey Pribilski, Tinus Seaux, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Richard C. Jones (World Premiere)
Drag
Administrators/Screenwriters: Raviv Ullman, Greg Yagolnitzer, Producers: Jake DeVito, Lucy DeVito, Danny DeVito
A routine theft at a rural home turns right into a nightmare for 2 beginner burglars when one in every of them throws out her again. Issues spiral uncontrolled as they attempt to escape earlier than the house owner returns. Forged: Lizzy Caplan, Lucy DeVito, John Stamos, Christine Ko (World Premiere)
Fifteen(Argentina, Mexico)
Administrators: Jack Zagha, Yossy Zagha, Producers: Jack Zagha, Yossy Zagha, Elsa Reyes, Valentín Javier Diment, Vanesa Pagani, Screenwriters: Andrzej Rattinger, Ricardo Álvarez Canales
A Mexican woman’s quinceañera spirals into chaos when supernatural rumors and small-town gossip collide, forcing her to face maturity before anticipated. Forged: Greta Marti, Macarena Oz, Aminta Ireta, Martha Claudia Moreno, Enrique Arreola, Mercedes Hernández, Malena Sandy, Cloe Juresa Furgan, Andre Fajardo, Silvia Villazur (World Premiere)
Grind
Administrators: Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, Chelsea Stardust, Producer: Chelsea Stardust, Screenwriters: Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty
4 interconnected tales of office horror deal with essentially the most terrifying facet of recent life: making a residing! With a wild tone as darkly comedian as it’s related, Grind is essentially the most enjoyable you’ll have in a late stage capitalistic hellscape. Forged: Rob Huebel, Barbara Crampton, Vinny Thomas, Jessika Van, Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette, James Urbaniak, Courtney Pauroso, Jon Gabrus, Ify Nwadiwe, Aubrey Shea (World Premiere)
Imposters
Director/Screenwriter: Caleb J Phillips, Producers: Thomas Bond, Sara Seligman, Joe Bandelli
After a pair’s child boy is taken, the determined mom learns of a option to carry him again. Nonetheless, her husband begins to suspect that what she returned with isn’t their son. Forged: Jessica Rothe, Charlie Barnett, Yul Vazquez, Bates Wilder, Luisina Quarleri, Thomas Parobek, Ian Lyons, Taylor Karin, Lee Bennett, Declan Bennett (World Premiere)
Monitor
Administrators/Screenwriters: Matt Black, Ryan Polly, Producers: Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Isaac Klausner, John Fischer, Adrian Guerra
A social media moderator unleashes a lethal terror when she refuses to publish a cryptic video. Forged: Brittany O’Grady, Taz Skylar, Viveik Karla, Ines Høysæter Asserson, Gunner Willis, Sara Alexander, Camila Wahlgren (World Premiere)
By no means After Darkish (Japan)
Director/Screenwriter: Dave Boyle, Producers: Dave Boyle, Kento Kaku, Kosuke Tsutsumi
A medium travels deep into the Japanese countryside to carry out a routine exorcism, the place she is compelled to confront essentially the most terrifying enemy of all: the residing. Forged: Moeka Hoshi, Kento Kaku, Kurumi Inagaki, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bokuzo Masana, Tae Kimura (World Premiere)
FESTIVAL FAVORITE
Acclaimed standouts from festivals all over the world.
The AI Doc: Or How I Turned an Apocaloptimist
Administrators: Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell, Producers: Jonathan Wang, Daniel Kwan, Shane Boris, Diane Becker, Ted Tremper
A father-to-be tries to determine what is going on with the AI madness, exploring the existential risks and beautiful promise of this know-how that humanity has created. (Texas Premiere)
Erupcja
Director: Pete Ohs, Producers: Pete Ohs, Charli xcx, Luke Arreguin, Jeremy O. Harris, Josh Godfrey, Screenwriters: Pete Ohs, Charli xcx, Lena Góra, Jeremy O. Harris, Will Madden
Set in Poland, Erupcja follows two ladies as they complicate their romantic lives. Nel lives in Warsaw the place she works at a flower store. When her childhood buddy Bethany comes to go to with a brand new boyfriend, a volcano erupts. Forged: Charli xcx, Lena Góra, Jeremy O. Harris, Will Madden (U.S. Premiere)
Obsession
Director/Screenwriter: Curry Barker, Producers: James Harris, Haley Nicole Johnson, Christian Mercuri, Roman Viaris
After breaking the mysterious “One Want Willow” to win his crush’s coronary heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting precisely what he requested for however quickly discovers that some wishes come at a darkish, sinister worth. Forged: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter
See You After I See You
Director: Jay Duplass, Producers: Fred Bernstein, Jay Duplass, Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, Adam Cayton-Holland, Screenwriter: Adam Cayton-Holland
With the assistance of his household, a comedy author battles PTSD after the tragic demise of his sister. Forged: Cooper Raiff, David Duchovny, Kaitlyn Dever, Hope Davis, Lucy Boynton, Ariela Barer (Texas Premiere)
VISIONS
Audacious, risk-taking artists who exhibit innovation and creativity.
And Her Physique Was By no means Discovered
Director: Polaris Banks, Producers: Polaris Banks, Mor Cohen, Hilarion Banks, Screenwriters: Polaris Banks, Mor Cohen
A pair treks deep into the wilderness to make a film about their troubled relationship, however takes the chance to kill one another as a substitute. Forged: Mor Cohen, Polaris Banks, Grae Drake (World Premiere)
Daughters of the Forest: Mycelium Chronicles (Mexico)
Director/Screenwriter: Otilia Portillo Padua, Producers: Paula Arroio, Elena Fortes, Otilia Portillo Padua
Deep in Mexico’s forests, this immersive sci-fi doc follows the weird, fungi-driven paths of two indigenous mycologists as they search to reconcile the previous and current whereas reimagining the long run for themselves and the altering world they inhabit. That includes Eliseete Ramirez Carbajal, Julieta Serafina Amaya, Julia Dolores Raimundo, Zenaida Perez, Magdalena Martínez, Olivia Ayala (North American Premiere)
24 BEATS PER SECOND
Vibrant movies showcasing the sounds, tradition and affect of music and musicians.
Los Lobos Native Sons
Administrators/Screenwriters: Doug Blush, Piero F. Giunti, Producers: Robert Corsini, Doug Blush, Piero F. Giunti, Flavio Morales, Rafael Augustin, Patricia Harris DiLeva
Los Lobos Native Sons is the definitive chronicle of the worldwide Latin rock ’n’ roll legends Los Lobos, providing an unparalleled 50-year musical journey by unique entry to the band’s private archives and extraordinary legacy. That includes Cesar Rosas, Louie Perez, David Hidalgo, Conrad Lozano, Steve Berlin, Linda Ronstadt, Tom Waits, George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Danny Elfman (World Premiere)
We Are The Shaggs
Director/Screenwriter: Ken Kwapis, Producers: Reynolds Anderson, Jeremy Seifert
We Are The Shaggs is a music documentary about The Shaggs, an all-girl band that created among the most provocative and polarizing music in rock-and-roll historical past. That includes Dorothy Wiggin, Betty Wiggin (World Premiere)
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“The SXSW World program has all the time showcased audacious, fearless creativity from a global perspective and this yr isn’t any exception. These first three options embrace a world premiere from Mexico by a World alum and debuts from France/Lebanon/Germany/Qatar and the Dominican Republic, mentioned Jim Kolmar, SXSW Consulting Movie Programmer. “Every of those documentaries paint nicely outdoors typical strains, taking daring creative dangers to convey deeply private tales with vibrant conviction. It’s a privilege to introduce this primary wave of worldwide titles.”
Do You Love Me (Lebanon)
Director: Lana Daher, Producers: Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Lana Daher, Screenwriter: Lana Daher, Qutaiba Barhamji
Welcome to Beirut. Disorientation is a part of the journey. (U.S. Premiere)
Mickey (Mexico)
Director: Dano García, Producers: Dano García, Indira Cato, Joceline Hernandez, Alejandra Guevara Castillo, Christian Giraud, Screenwriters: Dano García, Tonatiuh Israel
A journey by self-perception and the anti-punitive confrontation of the previous. That includes Mis$ Mickey, Jesse Sakeri López, Arturo Cundapí Bustamante, Angélica María Bustamante Andrews, Loreto Pozos Trejo, Javier Lizárraga Contreras, David Allegre (World Premiere)
Scarlet Women (Dominican Republic, Germany, Mexico)
Director: Paula Cury, Producers: Paula Cury, Samuel Didonato, Screenwriters: Claudia Galeano, Paula Cury
What does it imply to be a girl in a rustic the place abortion is banned in all circumstances? (North American Premiere)
TV PROGRAM
TV PREMIERE
World premieres of status TV sequence premieres from acclaimed showrunners and administrators.
The Audacity
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Jonathan Glatzer, Director: Lucy Forbes, Producer: Gina Mingacci
A would-be tech titan and his therapist play harmful video games with privateness whereas looking for happiness. Forged: Billy Magnussen, Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg, Rob Corddry, Meaghan Rath, Paul Adelstein (World Premiere)
Margo’s Obtained Cash Troubles
Showrunner/Screenwriter: David E. Kelley, Administrators: Dearbhla Walsh, Kate Herron, Producers: David E. Kelley, Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Matt Tinker, Brittany Kahan Ward, Per Saari, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rufi Thorpe, Eva Anderson, Boo Killebrew
Margo’s Obtained Cash Troubles is a daring, heartwarming, and comedic household drama following current faculty dropout and aspiring author Margo as she’s compelled to make her means with a brand new child, a mounting pile of payments, and a dwindling quantity of how to pay them. Forged: Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, Thaddea Graham, Nicole Kidman, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Homosexual Harden, Michael Angarano, Rico Nasty, Lindsey Normington (World Premiere)
Monsters of God
Showrunner: Jeremy McBride, Director: Eric Goode, Producers: Tom Petersen, James Liu, Callie Barlow, Lissa Rivera, Charles Divak, Adrienne Gits, Daniel Johnson, Screenwriters: Jeremy McBride, Eric Goode, Tom Petersen
A gaggle of reptile fanatics builds a world smuggling empire, whereas a scrappy workforce of animal cops dangers all the pieces to cease them. (World Premiere)
INDEPENDENT TV PILOT COMPETITION
Uncover new pilots from indie expertise.
Are We Nonetheless Married?
Showrunner/Director/Screenwriter: Equipment Steinkellner, Producer: Barry Galperin
Over the course of 1 night time Laura should resolve if she is going to invite her husband Jack, who has lately been changed into a vampire, again into their home. Forged: Taylor Misiak, Dustin Milligan (World Premiere)
Delivery is For P*ssies
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Hannah Shealy, Administrators: Hannah Shealy, Celine Sutter, Producer: Celine Sutter
A rookie doula is thrust into her first start with a mom she’s by no means met. After a rocky begin, she shortly learns supporting ladies by labor is messier, funnier, and extra profound than any coaching might have ready her for. Forged: Hannah Shealy, Madeline Clever, Danny Deferrari, Evelyn Howe, Peter Jay Fernandez, Sohina Sidhu, Katherine George, LA Head
(World Premiere)
Codependent
Showrunners/Screenwriters: Wade McElhaney, Weston McElhaney, Director: Caitlyn Phu, Producers: Emily Ince, Rosie Cummings, Emily Partida
After getting fired, dysfunctional twin brothers secretly apply for a similar place and fly to New York to compete in opposition to one another, solely to have their crippling codependency sabotage their probabilities. Forged: Wade McElhaney, Weston McElhaney, Riley Sigler, Rhoda Bell, Josie Totah, Lola Berry, Payson Mitchell, Alex Tobias, Eliot, Edgar Garcia (World Premiere)
Chilly Name
Showrunner/Director: Elise Kibler, Producer: Manon Blackman, Screenwriter: Emma Lenderman
Chilly Name is a twisted darkish comedy a couple of cult of workplace employees trying to return to their residence planet by scamming strangers out of bank card data, and Penny, the workplace famous person, on the day a caller threatens to drive her off script. Forged: Emma Lenderman, Gabriel Ebert, Daniel Pearce, Amelia Workman (World Premiere)
In My Blood
Showrunner/Director/Screenwriter: Alex Bendo, Producers: Alex Bendo, Yumeng Han, Elias Putnam, Max Wilson, Jorge Sistos Moreno
Determined to dwell as much as his father’s expectations, a gifted however inconsistent minor league baseball participant turns to steroids, igniting a harmful transformation of physique and thoughts. Forged: Daniel Diemer, Will Chase, Ian Blackman, William Hill (World Premiere)
Son of a Bikram
Showrunners/Screenwriters: Ash T, Johnny Rey Diaz, Director: Johnny Rey Diaz, Producers: Johnny Rey Diaz, Christian Rose, Ash T
After discovering he’s the illegitimate son of yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, an workplace employee is thrust right into a heated identification disaster, determined to attach with the daddy he by no means knew. Forged: Ash T, Carlos Santos, Jeffrey Nicholas Brown, Vee Kumari, Anwar Molani, Zhaleh, David Chernyavsky, Melanie Johnson, Max Cutler, Matthew Peschio (World Premiere)
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“This yr’s shorts program displays how absurdity has turn out to be our shared language for making sense of the world,” mentioned Francis Román, SXSW Senior Movie & TV Pageant Programming Supervisor and Gabe Van Amburgh, SXSW Senior Supervisor Movie & TV Programming. “When actuality appears stranger than fiction, these filmmakers flip to the surreal to seize what it actually feels prefer to be human proper now. We’re extremely proud to champion these storytellers as they lean into the weird, and typically uncomfortable, taking you on a wild trip the place our bodies revolt, identities fracture, and intimacy will get redefined. By means of all of it, these movies dig at deeper truths and assist us discover connection within the chaos.”
NARRATIVE SHORT COMPETITION
Distinctive storytelling that captivates, surprises, and excites.
Achiever
Director: Charlie Traisman, Producers: Katherine Romans, Sarah Whelden, Elizabeth Valenti, Chelsea Tempo, Screenwriter: Claire McFadden
When Alexa finds she will be able to now not orgasm resulting from her new Lexapro prescription, she embarks on a determined journey to get off by any means attainable, solely to seek out herself “getting shut” by an surprising connection. (World Premiere)
Finest Mates with the Satan
Director/Screenwriter: Hugo De Sousa, Producers: April S. Chang, Vicki Syal, Sarah Whelden, Kelly Wilcox
Lola’s on the lookout for her finest buddy. A stranger presents to assist. One lie adjustments all the pieces. (World Premiere)
Buah (Singapore)
Director/Screenwriter: Jen Nee Lim, Producer: Ke Ning Lee
In a time and place the place abortion is prohibited, a pregnant girl’s repeated makes an attempt to finish her being pregnant fail till she crosses paths with a wierd bus driver. (Texas Premiere)
Can I Put You On Maintain
Director: James Cutler, Producer: Jack Hessler, Screenwriter: James Cutler, Matthew Cutler
A person struggles with the crushing paperwork of immigration as he waits on maintain along with his immigration lawyer, attempting to maintain hope alive for his future along with his fiancée, solely to face a devastating setback that forces him to rethink all the pieces. (World Premiere)
Copy, Save
Director/Screenwriter: Alyssa Loh, Producers: Katherine Romans, Charlie Traisman, Jessica Li
When two teen sisters uncover one another’s secret web money schemes, they’re compelled to confront the murky morals of their digital lives. (World Premiere)
Dua Ji
Director/Screenwriter: YuHan Tsai, Producers: CheKuei Chang, YuHan Tsai
At her mom’s funeral, the eldest daughter challenges the patriarchal traditions of her rural Taiwanese household, confronting loss and the quiet burden of responsibility. (World Premiere)
Gamberra (Spain)
Director: Marine Auclair March, Producers: Cristina Bas, Sergi Casamitjana, Screenwriters: Marine Auclair March, Lucía G Romero, Dante Schmitz
Marta lives in a spiritual pupil residence affiliated with the far-right. Sexual misinformation leads her to hunt the morning-after tablet, whereas her colleagues put together an unforgettable hazing. (World Premiere)
Gender Research
Director/Screenwriter: Jamie Kiernan O’Brien, Producer: Kirsten Pasewaldt
When a trans faculty pupil learns the woman she idolizes is sleeping with their instructing assistant, she takes drastic steps to emulate her. (Texas Premiere)
I Noticed You In The Flood
Director/Screenwriter: Kevin Xian Ming Yu, Producers: Shayan Ajmal Farooq, Camila Grimaldi, Kevin Xian Ming Yu
As their grandfather’s well being worsens in Northeast China, Kai, a genderqueer Chinese language-American in Queens, is visited by a well-recognized ghost whereas serving to their mom, Li, cope with a heavy storm. (World Premiere)
Imago
Director/Screenwriter: Ariel Zengotita, Producers: Juan J. Arroyo, Colt Kozal, Sonia Rivera
When Ana’s mother begins reworking right into a bug, their codependent relationship reaches its boiling level. (U.S. Premiere)
Marga en el DF
Director/Screenwriter: Gabriela Ortega, Producers: Karla Luna Cantu, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Natalia Gonzalez, Eugenio Valero, Glenn Kiser, Amanda Schneider
A Dominican girl’s life unravels at 21 weeks pregnant throughout a shock go to to Mexico Metropolis within the aftermath of Selena Quintanilla’s homicide. (Texas Premiere)
A Shot at Artwork (Netherlands)
Director/Screenwriter: Ilke Paddenburg, Producers: Layla Meijman, Maarten van der Ven, Marcelle Bartels
When two seasoned volunteers at a global artwork competition begin taking part in a extremely controversial artwork set up, the state of affairs spirals fully uncontrolled… however who was truly crossing the road right here? (North American Premiere)
Memento (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Renée Marie Petropoulos, Producer: Yingna Lu
Whereas caught on a household trip, a younger closeted teen should confront the unnerving maintain her girlfriend has over her after she takes unwarranted images of her throughout intercourse. (North American Premiere)
Stairs
Director/Screenwriter: Riley Donigan, Producers: Anton Vicente Kliot, Sam Callahan
A girl’s life unravels after she turns into hooked on throwing herself down flights of stairs. (Texas Premiere)
Supper
Director/Screenwriter: Savannah Braswell, Producers: Mariah Christian, Savannah Braswell
A lonely man’s obsession with a web based mukbang livestreamer results in a tense confrontation with an unsuspecting dinner visitor. (World Premiere)
Speak Me (Spain)
Director/Screenwriter: Joecar Hanna, Producers: Joecar Hanna, María Belén Poncio, Patricia Picazo, Mai Batalla, Lina Badenes, Ana Camacho
In a world the place phrases exchange intimacy, an area outsider in a Spanish village should select between a loveless marriage and the promise of true reference to a kindred stranger.
(U.S. Premiere)
Them That’s Not
Director/Screenwriter: Mekhai Lee, Producers: Charles Hopkins, Redd Coltrane
A sudden jail furlough unexpectedly bonds an estranged father along with his emotionally avoidant daughter at their matriarch’s repass. (Texas Premiere)
Guests
Director/Screenwriter: Minnie Schedeen, Producers: Zola Elgart Glassman, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, Gilana Lobel, Sarah Yarkin
A younger girl within the throes of early being pregnant begins to query her personal actuality when unusual issues start to occur to the folks closest to her. (World Premiere)
Vomit
Director/Screenwriter: Roi Cydulkin, Producers: EJ Argenio, Roi Cydulkin, Miles Skinner
Wildcard addict on the run from hassle reveals up bloodied and battered on the door of his residence well being aide ex-girlfriend, turning each their lives the other way up on this tremendous darkish comedy about love, demise, medicine, and ferrets. (World Premiere)
We Had been Right here (India)
Director/Screenwriter: Pranav Bhasin, Producer: Yash Gonsai
In a crumbling Indian city, three retired males stage a protest in opposition to machines taking up human jobs, by pretending to be family home equipment. (North American Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT COMPETITION
Genuine storytelling that captivates, surprises, and excites.
Air Horse One (Belgium, Switzerland)
Director/Screenwriter: Lasse Linder, Producers: Philipp Ritler, Valentin Leblanc, Delphine Duez
Coaching, Take-Off, Grand Prix. Legacy is among the most useful and celebrated horses in present leaping. In pursuit of victories, she is flown between competitors venues throughout the globe. (North American Premiere)
Divorce Resort
Director: Coby Becker, Producers: Marco Meily, Alana Saad, Coby Becker
Married in a rustic the place divorce is prohibited, a 72-year-old lovelorn man finds a authorized loophole requiring a seven-day keep on the island of Guam. As he wanders by this tropical limbo, he reckons along with his loss and newfound freedom. (World Premiere)
Eructation
Director: Victoria Trow, Producer: Jeremy Schneier
The world document for loudest feminine burp is 107.3 decibels. Kaylee desires to beat it. (World Premiere)
Glacier’s Requiem (United Kingdom)
Director: Saddiq Abubakar, Producers: India Lee, Tarquin Ramsay, Screenwriters: Saddiq Abubakar, Collins “Colloboh” Oboh
Amid Iceland’s melting glaciers, modular synthesis artist Colloboh information the dying rhythms of ice and sea, uncovering a residing language inside nature itself – a requiem for the planet and for us. (World Premiere)
He’s Out There
Administrators/Producers: Kurt Andrew Schneider, Sam Davis
An Autistic Bigfoot hunter meets his heroes. (World Premiere)
How To Catch A Butterfly(Netherlands)
Director/Screenwriter: Kiriko Mechanicus, Producer: Ilja Roomans
Filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus writes letters to a younger mass shooter to seek out the basis of their mutual obsession for each other. (World Premiere)
I Obtained My Brother
Director: Victor Okay. Gabriel, Producer: Rachel Earnest
Two brothers replicate on their candid and sometimes humorous reminiscences of surviving the foster care system and jail, realizing alongside the best way that their path to therapeutic has all the time been one another. (World Premiere)
Within the Morning Solar (Canada, Philippines)
Director: Serville Poblete, Producers: Nicole Dane, Serville Poblete
A Filipino mom finds consolation in her Alexa — climate updates, love songs, and the time again residence turn out to be a magical hyperlink to the Philippines, gently reflecting the quiet struggles of immigration and the comforts that maintain us. (World Premiere)
A New Inferno
Administrators/Producers: Nita Blum-Reddick, Jonathan Pickett
Filmed throughout the hottest days of Phoenix, Arizona’s summer time heatwave, A New Inferno follows paramedics as they race to save lots of the lives of heatstroke victims utilizing a radical new therapy: ice immersion remedy. (World Premiere)
Not Scared, Simply Unhappy (Bulgaria, Lebanon)
Director: Isabelle Mecattaf, Producers: Kamen Velkovsky, Atilla Yücer, Diane Daccache
November 2024, because the warfare escalates in a close-by suburb, a household in Beirut tries to dwell as usually as attainable. (U.S. Premiere)
A Wolf within the Suburbs (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Amélie Hardy, Producer: Rosalie Chicoine Perreault
Welcome to Mississauga the place lawns are clipped, neighbors are watchful and no blade of grass dares misbehave. Besides at Wolf Ruck’s place. His garden grows wild, and so does the difficulty. (World Premiere)
Yiyíistsʼą́ą́ʼ (Hear)
Director/Screenwriter: Malakye Zaayin Tsosie, Producer: Kaitlyn Sanchez
The Navajo language is spoken much less typically throughout generations. Nonetheless, its resilience continues by a small Navajo radio station, the director’s relations, and the folks of the Navajo Nation. (Texas Premiere)
ANIMATED SHORT COMPETITION
A whirlwind tour of hand drawn, stop-motion, and digital revelries.
Hag (United Kingdom)
Director: Anna Ginsburg, Producer: Becky Perryman, Screenwriters: Anna Ginsburg, Miranda Latimer
One girl’s seek for love and that means in a hellscape of waning fertility, courting apps and the rotten stench of the patriarchy. In a world the place being your self makes you monstrous, what’s the price of compromise and repressing your genuine self? (World Premiere)
Im Auto Tapes und Butterbrot (Germany)
Director/Screenwriter: Kiana Naghshineh, Producers: Henrik von Müller, Antoine Liétout, Ivan Zuber, Kiana Naghshineh
Within the face of her physique fading into stardust, Shari realizes what actually issues to her. (North American Premiere)
In The Starting (Poland, Portugal, Spain)
Director: Ala Nunu, Producers: Bruno Caetano, Bruno Simões, Carlota Pou, Marcin Podolec, Screenwriters: Ala Nunu, Sophie Colfer
A spaceprobe known as Beresheet, legless birds of paradise, hamster cull and humanity attempting to make the world make sense. (World Premiere)
Paper Path
Director/Producer/Screenwriter: Don Hertzfeldt
A life, seen by paper. (Texas Premiere)
Praying Mantis (Taiwan)
Director: Joe Hsieh, Producer: Yonfan, Screenwriters: Joe Hsieh, Jie Zhan
A praying mantis mutant seduces and preys on males out of desperation to save lots of her little one. A failed mission led to revelations of her previous and darkish secrets and techniques because the story unfolds.
(U.S. Premiere)
Inform Me When You Get House
Director/Screenwriter: Tshay, Producers: Sydney Rodriguez, Jackie Payton, Patrice Worthy
Throughout a reggae home occasion, 15-year-old Trustworthy Cardamom encounters the spirit of a misplaced liked one. (World Premiere)
What We Go away Behind (Canada)
Administrators/Producers/Screenwriters: Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte
Dan has a gaping gap in his neck that gained’t heal. Why? He can’t bear in mind, nor discuss it. Again within the sinister area of his childhood, he should discover the a part of himself he as soon as left behind that stops him, now an grownup, from being entire. (U.S. Premiere)
MIDNIGHT SHORT COMPETITION
Indulge your cravings for horror, gore, and darkish comedy.
Jealous Folks Are Ugly Folks (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Theo James Krekis, Producer: Isabel Pritchard-Smith
Consumed by his jealousy of his finest buddy’s sudden profession success, Vasilly’s resentment festers, feeding a darkish, supernatural drive inside him. (Worldwide Premiere)
Man Consuming Pussy
Director/Screenwriter: Emily Lawson, Producers: Emily Lawson, Lucy Belgum
A dying man seeks the last word launch: start in reverse. (World Premiere)
Mantis Stream! Like & Subscribe
Administrators/Screenwriters: Lincoln Robisch, Sarah Maerten, Producer: Mark Neil
A livestreamer’s boyfriend chokes to demise on an egg. His pals, household, paramedics and the police performatively revenue off of his struggling as his life fades away. (Texas Premiere)
The Seeing Eye Canine Who Noticed Too A lot
Director/Screenwriter: Eric Jackowitz, Producer: Colton Mastro
A blind violinist ascends to first chair on the Rome Symphony, simply as a black-gloved killer begins stalking the orchestra. The one witness to the murders is her loyal seeing-eye canine. (World Premiere)
A Secure Marriage
Director: Josephine Decker, Producers: Kristin Slaysman, Josephine Decker, Sean Drummond, Screenwriters: Kristin Slaysman, Josephine Decker
A girl’s sexual fantasy is fulfilled – with stunning ramifications. (World Premiere)
Tongue (Korea, Republic of)
Director/Producer/Screenwriter: Lim Da Seul
After enduring her husband’s incessant chatter, a spouse lastly decides to chop out his tongue. (North American Premiere)
Wax (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Alexandre Forgues, Producer: Hanna Donato
With finals approaching, a college pupil ignores a rising ear an infection, spiraling into psychological misery because the strain mounts. (World Premiere)
TEXAS SHORT COMPETITION
Vibrant work filmed in, impressed by, or related to the Lone Star State.
Forcefield of Love
Administrators: Liz Moskowitz, Riley Engemoen, Producer: Liz Moskowitz
Doris and Dan’s lives are filled with dancing, intercourse, and different intimate pleasures as they defy conventional expectations of how we are able to embrace life, demise, and growing older. (World Premiere)
Freedom At Stake
Administrators: Raeshem Nijhon, Stacey Younger, Producers: Karlie Kloss, Phoebe Gates, Nicole Galovski, Carri Twigg, Lauren Cynamon
Activists in Texas combat again in opposition to Prop A, a measure focusing on those that assist others search abortions throughout state strains. As authorized dangers develop, so does their dedication to guard entry and bodily autonomy. (World Premiere)
Una Nave Fragil / A Fragile Vessel
Director: Samuel Díaz Fernández, Producer: Ái Vuong, Screenwriters: Samuel Díaz Fernández, Ái Vuong, Rafa V Fernando
Because the world round them scorches beneath document warmth, a household walks into the woods, asking what the long run holds on this thermal dystopia. Their conversations map survival in a world reshaped by warmth. (World Premiere)
Shut The Fuck Up When We Communicate
Director: Ryan Darbonne
5 Black musicians replicate on artwork, identification, and the novel act of constructing noise in a world that desires them silent. (Texas Premiere)
Stalin Boys
Administrators: Ora DeKornfeld, Bianca Giaever, Producers: Alejandra Vasquez, Ora DeKornfeld, Bianca Giaever
4 middle-school boys in a Texas border city have developed an uncommon obsession: Joseph Stalin. After they hear concerning the Texas State Historical past Truthful, they write a play concerning the Soviet dictator and his efforts to destroy all who opposed him. (Texas Premiere)
Winter Ceremony
Director/Screenwriter: Sidi Wang, Producers: Santiago Pacheco, Erik Skattum
In a Texas winter, a long-divorced Chinese language couple comes collectively for his or her daughter’s faculty commencement. (World Premiere)
MUSIC VIDEO COMPETITION
A dynamic mixture of creativity and trendy visuals the place music and storytelling collide.
Bricknasty – ‘Vinland’ / Director: Hugh Mulhern
Chappell Roan – ‘The Subway’/ Director: Amber Grace Johnson
Confidence Man & Jade – ‘Gossip’ (United Kingdom) / Director: India Rose Harris
Doechii – ‘Nervousness’ / Director: James Mackel
Dzsúdló – ‘Presso’ (Hungary) / Director/Screenwriter: Viktor Horvath
Ed Sheeran – ‘Azizam’ / Director: Saman Kesh
FKA twigs – ‘Eusexua’ / Director: Jordan Hemingway
Humorous Climate – ‘Time Bandit’ (Sweden) / Director/Screenwriter: Limitless Time Solely
Nice Grandpa – ‘Doom’ / Director: Chamberlain Staub
Scorching Chip – ‘Devotion’ (United Kingdom) / Director/Screenwriter: Will Kindrick
Kendrick Lamar & SZA – ‘Luther’ / Director: Karena Evans
This Lonesome Paradise – ‘Blue For You’ (Canada, Mexico) / Director/Screenwriter: Sebastian Ortiz Wilkins
Lowswimmer – ‘IRL’ (United Kingdom) / Administrators/Screenwriters: Victor Nauwynck, Leo Villares
Mannequin/Actriz – ‘Cinderella’ / Director/Screenwriter: Nathan Castiel
OK Go – ‘”Love”‘ / Administrators: Aaron Duffy, Miguel Espada, Damian Kulash
Folks R Ugly – ‘Wake Up’ / Administrators: Joseph Larkin, Tristan Kevitch, Zak Dossi, Screenwriters: Zak Dossi, Tristan Kevitch, Nick Furlong, Invoice Biers, Julian Del grosso
Rawayana, Bomba Estereo – ‘Fogata’ (Colombia) / Director/Screenwriter: Paola Ossa
Tyler, The Creator – ‘Sugar On My Tongue’ / Director: Tyler Okonma
Woodz – ‘I’ll By no means Love Once more’ (Korea, Republic of) / Director/Screenwriter: Lafic
Xinobi – ‘Strides’ / Director: Ben Callner, Screenwriters: Ben Callner, Adam Callner
XR EXPERIENCE
The immersive arts improve and redefine how we expertise the world. These initiatives emphasize ingenuity and storytelling throughout numerous industries.
XR Expertise Competitors
World premieres of thoughts bending immersive artwork.
Ascended Intelligence (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Karen Palmer, Producer: Diane Knarr
Ascended Intelligence is an emotionally responsive XR expertise set in a 2030 Sensible Metropolis, the place your voice turns into the interface—translating tone into branching cinema and shifting AI from a system of management right into a mirror for human company. (World Premiere)
The Child Manufacturing unit is Closed (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Deepa Mann-Kler, Producer: Eva Robinson
You fall inside a physique that refuses to behave. The system desires obedience. Zoraan desires a riot. (World Premiere)
Physique Proxy
Administrators/Screenwriters: Danny Cannizzaro, Samantha Gorman, Producers: Yuxin Gao, J Noland
Human-as-a-Service: The AI does the pondering, you do the heavy lifting. (World Premiere)
Crafting Crimes: The Mona Lisa Heist (France)
Director: Chloé Rochereuil, Producer: Victor Agulhon
This immersive podcast allows you to reconstruct legendary crime scenes as miniatures in combined actuality. Relive the theft of the Mona Lisa on the Louvre and uncover how her disappearance turned absence into legend. (World Premiere)
Cycle (Netherlands)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Matunda Groenendijk, Amit Palgi, Producer: Amit Palgi
Cycle begins with three phrases: Endlessly, we repeat, alone. Relying on the way you organize them, you craft a personalised vr poem composed of music, recorded motion and interactive moments. (World Premiere)
A Deception of Senses (Italy)
Administrators/Screenwriters: John Volpato, Valentina Temporin, Producers: Extremely, Ferryman Collective
A Deception of Senses is a story expertise exploring humanity’s enduring fascination with the deception of notion as a gateway to alternate understandings of actuality. (World Premiere)
Escape The Web (Half 1)
Director/Screenwriter Lucas Rizzotto, Producers: Carolina Rizzotto, Esme Robinson
Think about you enter a movie show, however as a substitute of watching a film you & the complete viewers play a sport utilizing your telephones. A sport about escaping the web and discovering who the folks within the room actually are. Yeah, it’s going to be loopy. (World Premiere)
Fabula Rasa: Useless Man Speaking (Brazil)
Administrators: Luiza Justus, Marcelo Marcati, Producer: Erika Nakayama, Screenwriters: Eduardo Nicolau, Pedro Penna
An interactive VR expertise the place the story unfolds by real-time conversations with AI-powered characters. Every character listens and talks again with a novel character, creating an improvised storyline that unfolds in a different way each time. (World Premiere)
The Forgotten Warfare (France)
Director: Hayoun Kwon Producer: Jang Hyunhee
In June 1950, the United Nations despatched army forces beneath American command to help the South Korean military, attacked by North Korea and China. The Forgotten Warfare relies on the testimonies of the varied protagonists of this main warfare occasion. (World Premiere)
Frustrain: Trainman (Estonia, France)
Director: Pavel Pavlyukov, Producers: Georgy Molodtsov, Pavel Pavlyukov, Screenwriters: Pavel Pavlyukov, Anna Pimen, Kirill Komarov
A primary-person anti-utopian narrative mixing puzzles and psychological horror, set in a surreal Japanese European world the place a prepare turns into a gateway to fragmented reminiscences and distorted realities. (World Premiere)
The Nice Dictator: A participatory AI set up about energy, rhetoric, and reminiscence
Director: Gabo Arora, Producers: Prashast Thapan, Nishant Mohanchandra, John Clendenen, Yuval Shapira, Wilson Brown, Gabo Arora
Like Chaplin’s masterpiece, we use efficiency and cinema to look at the facility—and hazard—of rhetoric. (World Premiere)
Inter(mediate) Areas (Germany)
Director/Producer: Chloé Lee
Inter(mediate) Areas is a poetic mixed-reality encounter the place two strangers reshape a shared world by dialogue and proximity, transferring by collective reminiscences to ask whether or not AI can help deeper connection in an age of disconnection. (World Premiere)
Lionia Is Leaving (Slovakia)
Director/Producer: Volodymyr Kolbasa, Screenwriter: Lucas Abrahao
In war-torn Ukraine, an aged man should resolve whether or not to desert his lifelong residence or face destruction — an immersive mixed-reality drama primarily based on the true story of Lionia and his account of the warfare’s starting within the small city of Okhtyrka. (World Premiere)
loss·y
Director: Lisa Jamhoury
Located on the physical-virtual threshold, loss·y memorializes corporeal passing and digital rebirth. The work intertwines animated sculptural “dances” with interactive spatial audio, inviting audiences to navigate invisible thresholds as they transfer. (World Premiere)
Love Hen
Director: Cameron Kostopoulos
Welcome to Love Hen, the truth courting present the place YOU are the star. Win hearts, stir drama, attraction the nation—or crash and burn whereas attempting. (World Premiere)
Watsonville
Director: Cory McKague
On this immersive VR horror set in Nineteen Nineties Watsonville, navigate a surreal childhood haunted by generational trauma, vanishing identification, and monsters each actual and imagined—the place reminiscence itself turns into a maze. (World Premiere)
Winterover (Canada)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Nir Saar, Ido Mizrahy, Producers: Nimrod Shanit, Francois Le Gall, Marion Guth, Ido Mizrahy, Nir Saar
A groundbreaking discovery on Mars delays your return to Earth, sending your daughter right into a tailspin. Caught between saving her and finishing your mission, you will need to navigate these clashing paths in a gripping VR thriller. (World Premiere)
XR Expertise Highlight
Masterful immersive artwork from all over the world.
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up (Taiwan)
Director: Singing Chen, Producers: Singing CHEN, SUNG Chin-Hsuan, Screenwriters: Singing CHEN, LOU Yi-An
Guided by fragments of a misplaced voice, a person journeys by reminiscence and delusion to seek out what was left unsaid. (North American Premiere)
The Dollhouse (Canada, Luxembourg)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Charlotte Bruneau, Dominic Desjardins, Producers: Rayne Zukerman, Hélène Walland, Christian Newman
Within the unfolding paper world of The Dollhouse, just a little woman makes use of the facility of play to untangle her troubled reminiscences. (U.S. Premiere)
Fillos do Vento: A Rapa (Spain)
Administrators: Brais Revalderia, Maria Fernanda Ordonez Morla, Producers: Maria Fernanda Ordonez Morla, Alberto Jose Rey Basteiro
Within the hills of Galicia, the traditional Rapa das Bestas competition turns into a modern-day Quixote story, as villagers battle to protect their wild horses and cultural heritage in opposition to the looming “giants” of business wind farms. (North American Premiere)
The Nice Orator (Netherlands)
Director: Daniël Ernst
Guests be a part of the Nice Orator, as soon as a well-known TV preacher and now an AI, in a nonlinear VR Story World. Her followers be a part of her in a shared consciousness, the place a dwell information feed and their reminiscences feed her tales. The Nice Orator isn’t the identical. (North American Premiere)
Insider Outsider (France)
Director: Philippe Cohen Solal, Producers: Lucid Realities (Alessandra Bogi), Science & Mélodie (Philippe Cohen Solal), Grand Palais RMN, Centre Pompidou, CDA Enghiens Les Bains
INSIDER-OUTSIDER is an interactive digital actuality musical expertise impressed by the lifetime of Henry Darger, a world-renowned “outsider artist” whose work remained unknown till his demise. (North American Premiere)
Lacuna (Netherlands)
Administrators: Maartje Wegdam, Nienke Huitenga Broeren, Producer: Corine Meijers and Ilja Kok, Screenwriter: Maartje Wegdam
Sonja has no reminiscence of the essential second in her childhood that saved her life. The invention of three long-lost rings spark a riveting journey into creativeness. Wander by a deeply private VR documentary between what’s left and what’s misplaced. (North American Premiere)
Lesbian Simulator (Netherlands)
Director: Iris van der Meule, Producer: Corine Meijers, Screenwriter: Iris van der Meule
‘Lesbian Simulator’ is an interactive digital actuality paintings and videogame that immerses the person within the experiences of a lesbian. It’s an ode to sexual orientation and love with a severe difficulty: the discrimination that lesbians nonetheless face right this moment. (Worldwide Premiere)
A Lengthy Goodbye (Belgium)
Administrators: Kate Voet, Victor Maes, Producers: An Oost, Emmy Oost, Donato Rotunno, Richard Valk, Screenwriters: Kate Voet, Victor Maes
The center remembers. (North American Premiere)
Misplaced Love Hotline (United Kingdom)
Administrators: Niki Harman, Producer: Lee Nicholls, Niki Harman, Screenwriter: Niki Harman
An immersive XR expertise reworking private heartbreak right into a reverent, evolving audio archive, the place individuals go away a message for his or her heartbreak, misplaced, forgotten or imagined. Collectively, they type a collective mythology of longing. (Worldwide Premiere)
Out of Nowhere (Austria, Germany)
Administrators: Kris Hofmann, Andreas Wuthe, Producers: Kris Hofmann, Richard Pusch, Screenwriter: Ira Wedel
Our climate is getting angrier. All over the place. By defending nature, we are able to defend ourselves. What occurs if we fail to try this?(North American Premiere)
Spectacular: The Artwork of Jonathan Yeo in Augmented Actuality (France, United Kingdom)
Director: Jonathan Yeo
A novel creative expertise conceived by British artist Jonathan Yeo in collaboration with Snap AR Studio Paris. It presents a playful, futuristic imaginative and prescient of museum visitation and a personalised journey into the guts of Yeo’s pictorial universe. (Worldwide Premiere)
XR Expertise Particular Occasion
Celebrating thrilling, out-of-the-box methods artists are utilizing know-how to carry their artwork to life.
Layers of Place: Austin (U.S.)
Producers: MIT Open Documentary Lab, Sarah Wolozin, Akmyrat Tuyliyev, Courtney B. Cook dinner, Rashin Fahandej, Halsey Burgund
Layers of Place encourages exploration of typically unseen dimensions of Austin’s public areas—altering our relationship to position and one another by a co-created assortment of six location-based AR experiences. (World Premiere)
Tasks embrace:
The Founders Pillars
Administrators: Meghna Singh, Lesiba Mabitsela, Simon Wooden
Rework neoclassical pillars into memorials confronting histories of slavery by futurist AR
Humble Monuments
Administrators: Nadav Assor, Rashin Fahandej, Joanna Wright
Reimagine neglected city ecology as residing monuments to coexistence, resilience & local weather futures
Transferring Reminiscence
Director: Lori Landay
An AR expertise bridging reminiscence, nature, and know-how by layered public artwork ft. Kempelen’s Owls
Open Entry Memorial
Director: Yucef Merhi
AR memorial honoring Aaron Swartz, web pioneer, activist, and advocate for open entry
Oryza: Therapeutic Floor
Director: Tamara Shogaolu
AR set up utilizing Afrocentric AI to reimagine colonial archives, centering Black land stewards
Paper Boat
Administrators: Mathieu Pradat, Sahar Sajadieh
Playable AR paintings confronting sea stage rise by floods, melting glaciers & plastic waste
