6 Short Documentaries

Run time: 86 minutes

Q+A to follow

Sodium Light Years

Sodium Light Years, an ode in video form to the nightscape of New York, contemplates the shift from sodium vapor to LED street lights in the city.

Directed By: Nicole Galpern

The Clockmaker

A clockmaker in a small Ohio town reflects on work, art, and life while fixing clocks in his studio.

Directed By: Michael Kortlander

Chao Carbon

Mr. Aes Gener is a greedy mega-entrepreneur in the energy business. Through his story we get into the dirty business he has done in Chile and the world with coal, while we see, through archival footage, the damage to people and nature of this obsolete and polluting fossil fuel.

Directed By: Ladislao Palma Irarrázaval, Sebastián Fernandez Palumbo

Sedentary

Widespread and culturally enforced sedentarism is a relatively recent phenomenon, at the evolutionary scale, and a mounting volume of research since the 1950s consistently shows that "too much sitting" is – big surprise – bad for our health.

Directed By: E.J. Rosen

parklunchgod

An extraterrestrial visitor explores San Francisco's Privately Owned Public Spaces and the hidden power structures that exist within them. 

Directed by: Julia Mendoza Frieman

Homegrown

Homegrown explores family cycles, parental expectations, and the connections between filmmaking and farming.

Directed By: Lee Emerich