Shorts Block #3 - COSMIC SPARKS -12 SHORT FILMS from Canada/Mexico/Latvia/Indonesia/USA
Schedule
Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Midtown Cinema | Harrisburg, PA
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Shorts Block #3 - COSMIC SPARKS (73min)"solar wave" by Christina C Nguyen/16mm/USA/3min
---sun light, sun set, sun rise, sun ray. a hand processed in camera roll shot on Kodak 3383 color print stock.
"TRANSFORMATION BY FIRE" by Jake Parker Scott/16mm/Indonesia, Canada/21min
---This film explores 'transformation by fire' as a process central to Javanese bronze gong smithing and the volcanic origins of the Indonesian islands. It was made in collaboration with Indonesian experimentalists Senyawa, and is a composite of film shot on a bolex in Java, 16mm found footage collage, direct animation, and optically printed material.
"leavings" by Lindsay McIntyre/16mm/Canada/1min
---Lindsay McIntyre is a film artist from Edmonton of Inuk/European descent.
"Aeon" by Dominic Angerame/16mm/USA/12min
---Reflections of images past. New perspectives on the urban areas, superimposed over cosmic energies. A spiritual path emerges, journey into an unknown universe. The search for new meanings, new revelations, new visions for the future.
"Manifesto of Feeble and Bitter Love"
by Abinadi Meza/16mm/Mexico, USA/6min
---The screen is a wound. A lamentation field. A camera-less direct animation. Worked through staining, layering, and physical distress, the film generates a haunted field: an environment of deeply saturated, glowing color and chromatic rupture. Its score is constructed from two seconds of air from a Gaza news clip: the negative space between cries of anguish. Like a shadow, that charged air is summoned to retain the outline of what cast it. Air inscribed with lives dismissed and abandoned by imperial power. From these two seconds, a six-minute polyphonic sound mass is conjured. Bypassing the photographic window and the documentary gaze, the film refuses the spectacular image economy that circulates atrocity without feeling.
"Cross"
Sandy McLennan/16mm/Canada/1min ---What makes you cross?
"Summer School"
Josh Weissbach/16mm/Latvia, USA/3min
Along the banks of the Salaca River in rural Latvia, a haven emerges where analog film wizards and aspiring apprentices unite. At this pop-up school, the art of filmmaking intertwines with botany, folklore, and magic, weaving a tapestry of creativity and tradition.
"Wetland Impulse" by Jimmy Schaus/16mm/USA/2min
---Single frame exposures were taken while walking through wetlands surrounding my home, alternating between image and no image at a rate of two frames each on black and white reversal film. In the unexposed black frames, I made quick observational etchings from the preceding images directly into the emulsion. Projected, the photographic images and my subsequent renderings appear superimposed rather than sequential, unifying the indexical and interpretive.
"Midsummer" by Masha Vlasova/16mm/USA/2min
---Midsummer is a cyanotype, sun-printed film. The film was conceived during Juhannus, the celebration of the longest day of the year in Finland, when the sun doesn’t set for 24 hours. The light of the sun is both material and collaborator in creating this film-poem.
"In Paintings, All Emotions" by Will VanKoughnett/16mm/USA/9min ---A reenactment of the birth of color photography, within the birth of landscape as a site of recreation: a conversation between technologies at the dawn of imagery. If the sun gives consent, places exchange their distances in phrases of forgetfulness, through wormholes of iteration. The skies are dark, smooth without many people. Photographs erase other photographs, the clouds depart the truth, I sharpen my pencil; a lot of things happen.
"we always wanted to move to the country" by Billy Tucker/8mm, 16mm/USA/3min
---This is a film where a single mother and child process their experiences during the year 1990.
"Suspicions About the Hidden Realities of Air" by Sam Drake/16mm/USA/9min ---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.
12 SHORT FILMS:
3PM, Saturday May 30th: Midtown Cinema.
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