I Made A Camera: One Day is theoretically part of a larger project with the goal of self expression through various homemade recording tools. Pretentiously inspired by Vertov, Solanas, and Getino, I wanted to make my own camera eye that does not adhere to normative video aesthetics. The imperfections in my kino-glaz are unique to me and perhaps represent my perspective better than the clinical quality of a mass manufactured camera and lens.
Runtime: 3:12
Directed By: Lee Emmerich
Lee is a documentary filmmaker based in New York City and the Hudson Valley with a particular interest in auto-ethnography and the avant-doc.
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My body is a machine that carries me.
Runtime: 3:12
Directed by: Kaye Hurley
Kaye Hurley is a writer and multimedia artist working in performance, video, and sound. She is currently an Exponential Festival Fellow and her multimedia performance piece :/secondplace will premiere in the 2026 Festival. She is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer Director Lab (with Kedian Keohan), and also sound designs and performs in Amando Houser’s DeliaDelia! The Flat-Chested Witch! khurley.info @a_femme_url
Extra Credit Going to school was hard for Angel. She was shy, quiet, and had not had a good handle on the English language yet. This stop-motion reveals all her childhood memories of school and everything in between.
Runtime: 5:44
Directed by: Angel Yau
Angel Yau is an award-winning comedian, storyteller, and filmmaker from Queens, New York. She founded Asian American Film Thing, a yearly screening celebrating all Asian American filmmakers and artists. She was recently featured in a BBC documentary about being a comedian dealing with anxiety and OCD. She also did a TEDx talk about comedy at Columbia University.Angel's stop-motion animations are where she explores her childhood in comedic but heartfelt ways, dealing with solitude, rejection, and alienation.
The Man Cave A childhood memory re-enacted through a mixture of publicly sourced photos, staged scenes, and stop motion animation, “The Man Cave” is a brief, bewildering journey inside two young girls’ shared vision of manhood. It’s an irreverent child’s eye view of male sexuality, seen through a proto-feminist lens: the male “safe space” of the “man cave” invaded by girls, culminating in absurd, exuberant fantasy.
The music in the film, a cover of “You’ve Got Something There” from the 1930s musical “Varsity Show,” is used with the permission of Warner Chappell.
Runtime: 2:05
Directed by: Sarah Legow
Sarah Legow (b. 1982, Youngstown, Ohio, USA) is a sculpture, video, text, and installation artist living in Porto, Portugal. She has had screenings, exhibitions, and site-specific projects shown internationally. Her festival record includes FUSO Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Lisboa, VideoBardo, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Bideodromo, GRRL HAUS CINEMA, and Mientras Tanto CINE, while her video installations and sculpture have appeared in exhibitions + public art projects with Media Art Friesland, the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Grizzly Grizzly, and ArtSpace Bremerhaven. She earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (2016), BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2011), and BA in Art History from Grinnell College (2005).
1-Day Adult So, essentially, from what I can glean, the “Minions” are a series of films are about these little yellow creatures, a sickly old man and also his wife (?). They sing and dance to popular songs and they have all been very friendly to me. This is a film about a theme park in Singapore.
Runtime: 5:00
Directed by: Elias ZX
Elias ZX is a filmmaker, producer and curator based out of Brooklyn, New York. Their work has been featured in film festivals around the world including the Academy-Award qualifying Athens International Film & Video Festival and Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. Their work has screened online as part of NoBudge, Film-maker's Co-op, Do Not Research and Troma Now. In 2020 they founded the Long Distance Film Festival, a quarantine project meant to unite filmmakers around the world beyond genre lines. After winning the audience award in 2021 for the film REBIRTH.jpeg, they served on the jury for Drunken Film Festival Oakland in 2022 as a judge of U.S. Narrative films. They have a very kind heart and you should really stop yelling at them. Please.
OCD: of course death Irrationally intrusive night thoughts, rituals and dreams centered around one highly rational fear: death.
Runtime: 3:03
Directed by: Sarah Bex Rice
Sarah Bex Rice is an enthusiast of experimental films, re-use of archival material and all things fine times. Much of Rice’s work remixes her and her family’s own archive to revisit personal nostalgia through a broader lens. She currently programs for Brooklyn Film Festival and Ceres Food Film Festival and also works in archival film/video licensing.
I can see the moon, and sometimes I wonder is a video essay addressed to my unknown birth mother. I use nineties camcorder videos layered with historical charts and iPhone videos to reflect on a relationship I may never have.
Runtime: 4:17
Directed by: Colby Lamson-Gordon
Colby Lamson-Gordon studies the contents and limits of embodied memory through video, image, and sound. Informed by transracial, transnational (dis)placement, they make from imagined memory and imperfect connection to place.Colby’s video work has been seen at the East Village Film Festival and Parsons School of Design. Their sound works and collaborations have been performed at Residency Unlimited, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Mannes School of Music, and Gallery ZXY. Colby’s images have been installed in pop-up exhibitions throughout Brooklyn. They received an MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design and a BA in Economics from Barnard College. Colby lives and works in New York.
Closure Through a visual poetic of interlaced archival imagery and spoken word, a soul reckons with the weight of disillusionment—grappling with lost hopes, the grief of harm endured, and the journey toward renewal.
Runtime: 3:08
Directed by: Sierra Francesca Enea
Rocco In the hustle of New York City, Rocco feels small, lonely and alienated. He harbors a big heart and an even bigger dream of finding true love. Will he ever find it? Wandering the maze of the big city, he discovers the importance of being true to oneself and the beauty of fleeting moments.
Runtime: 4:36
Directed by: Summayya Wagenseil and Lucia Buricelli
Lucia Buricelli is a photographer born and raised in Venice, Italy, currently living in New York City. With a keen eye for detail and a passion for urban environments, Lucia’s work captures the essence of daily life through a unique blend of street photography and documentary storytelling. Her distinctive use of frontal flash and vibrant color palettes brings an immediate, almost dramatic quality to her images, highlighting the often-overlooked details of everyday scenes. Her images offer a compelling exploration of human behavior and the intricate interactions within urban settings. Lucia creates narratives that reveal the subtle complexities of modern life. Her work has been published in the New York Times, New Yorker, Time, Vogue, Buzzfeed, Wall Street Journal and more. Rocco is her first film.
Summayya Wagenseil is a filmmaker based between New York City and Texas. She began her professional journey working in art institutions, igniting her passion for storytelling across various mediums. As an American filmmaker with a rich multi-racial and cultural background, her work seeks to explore and reclaim Americana tropes and locations in novel, untold ways. Her films delve into themes of community, identity, and displacement, connecting diverse audiences with timeless, transnational narratives. In 2023, she made her directorial debut with 'If You Don’t Love Me, Set Me Free', which won the “Best Experimental Short” award at the Manhattan Film Festival. Rocco is her second film.
And I’d Like to Be Famous Too A horrendous date with a 46-year-old comic.
Runtime: 6:01
Directed by: Sam Becker Levy
Sam Becker Levy is a 22-year-old writer, filmmaker, and media artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He recently graduated from The New School's Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts with a powerful degree in Culture & Media Studies. He also does comedy and theater work.
Getting To Know You Again A once-close bond now tinged with emotional distance. A 60-year-old father and 25-year-old daughter confront their changing dynamic and the challenges of reconnecting.
Runtime: 18:15
Directed by: Desirée Tolchin
Desirée's work explores the cyclical banality of the human condition through fictional and non-fictional lenses. Her body of work is a collection of intimate experiences portrayed through slow cinema, distant memories, and wandering narratives. The result being, an honest portrayal of the struggles within the fleeting present moments of the everyday.
Her work has screened at festivals such as Brooklyn Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, Sydney Women's International Film Festival, Fisura Film Festival, Defy Film Festival, Mystic Film Festival, and Still Voices Film Festival.