Unfolding Visions presents recent film, video, and moving image work from CalArts faculty working across different mediums and approaches: Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, Janie Geiser, Annapurna Kumar, Yaloo Lim, Wendell McShine, Julie Murray, Charlotte Pryce, and Abigail Severance. 

Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin’s Nearest Neighbor (2023) stages a timely inquiry into the relationship between technology, humans, and consciousness. Janie Geiser’s Sudden Tourniquet (2025) questions how we see when the boundaries between scientific representation and Cartesian understandings of our humanity break down. Annapurna Kumar creates a micro-speculative history on consumerist image-making in Mirror Products Catalog (2023). Yaloo Lim’s Shininho Docking (2025) consolidates familial and communal history into a story of an elder pirate whose existence questions sentience. Wendell McShine’s observational film, XING PED (2025), is both about his new home and his internal world. In ESTUARY (tidal) (ebb) (2025), filmmaker Julie Murray creates space to understand our ways of seeing. Charlotte Pryce approaches Anthropocenic uncertainty with a metaphorical approach in The Gloaming (2025). Abigail Severance’s film YOU RECALL THE NIGHT TRAIN (2025) contends with our apocalyptic anxieties with intimacy and care.

This program includes an introduction by Program in Film & Video faculty Irina Leimbacher and a post-screening conversation with film programmer Jheanelle Brown and the filmmakers.

Presented in English and Portuguese with English subtitles. 

Please note: Unfolding Visions contains strobe lights and flashing lights.