Program 02:
Co-Programmed by
Mitch Davis & Michael Joseph

Saturday, March 28, 2026
4PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
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Kneed - Joel Katz
6:00, Digital, B&W Color, 2025

Using X-ray and MRI imagery of the filmmaker's knees taken in preparation for surgery, "Kneed" is an experimental short that explores links between physical and emotional injury.

Joel Katz is a filmmaker and educator who makes documentary, experimental, and memoir/essay films, which have been included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and Harvard Film Archive. Since 1996 he has been a Professor in the Media Arts Department of New Jersey City University. Joel has served on the Board of Directors of Third World Newsreel since 1999 and on the Advisory Board of the Thomas Edison Film Festival since 2011.

Passerby - Andrew Frangella
4:33, Digital, B&W, 2024

An engagement with the street and its fleeting inhabitants; the silent rumble of a crosswalk beep becomes synonymous with the tragedy of passer-being; the connection that could have been is a streakless window, undemanding.

Andrew Frangella is a media artist working primarily with moving image, sound, and expanded cinema. His work explores nuances of decay and the poetics of what lingers, what is inaccessible to the senses, and that which cannot be expressed alone in language.

Soft Sea - Sara N. Santos
15:00, Digital, B&W, 2024, Portugal

A man recalls his mother. She used to tell him about a mythical place, the beach. In Soft Sea, the bath man would immerse the children in the waves amid screams and laughter, lace and swimsuits were in fashion, and people asked the sea to make them live forever. Meanwhile, the photographer walked along the sand, attempting to capture a society on the brink of decay.

Sara N. Santos is a director, editor, and teacher. Her works intertwine themes such as Memory, Archive and Fiction. "Just Like The Films", Her first experimental short film was featured in festivals such as the Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, The Festival of (In)appropriation, New York Indie Doc Fest, Porto Femme, Family Film Project, and Porto/Post/Doc.

Hiding Places - Magdalena Bermudez
12:22, Digital, B&W Color, 2025

Women pretend to be rocks. Military operations masquerade as art education. One woman deserts to pursue a more radical act of unselfing.

Magdalena Bermudez is a filmmaker and educator whose practice examines the intricate relations between humans, nonhuman animals, plants, and technologies through essayistic film and video. Her work has screened internationally at film festivals such as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter, Kasseler DokFest, Mimesis Documentary Festival, and Science New Wave.

A Light into a Void - Lin Chen
14:17, H-8 & Digital, B&W Color, 2025, China & USA

“A Light into a Void” is a work rooted in my grief for my father, who passed away in 2007. It is also an exploration of memory—its instability, its fragile authenticity, and the ways it is shaped by the materials that record it.

Lin Chen is an filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. He focuses on observing and discovering the connection between the trivia of everyday life and memories.

Montreal- Bill Brown
3:30, 16mm to Digital, B&W, 2025

In 2003, I crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a freight ship. I shot mini-DV footage along the way. As the video record of this trip deteriorates, I transferred it to 16mm Tri-X reversal film to save it from extinction. A meditation on the (in)stability of archival media, memory, and bodies in motion.

Bill Brown is a filmmaker interested in geographies of memory and history. He is co-founder of the Cosmic Rays Film Festival. He lives in Marseille.

Torii - Martin Gerigk
12:00, Digital, Color, 2024, Germany

Torii 鳥居 is a short film in the form of an audiovisual composition about the traditional Shinto gates of the same name in Japan. The film uses these gates which symbolically mark the transition from the mundane to the sacred as representatives of a personal synaesthetic and spiritual journey through five levels of consciousness, traveling from existentialism to metaphysics, abstraction, and the Shinto deities called Kami, culminating in a final transition that weaves together these diverse philosophical threads.

Martin Gerigk is a composer of contemporary music. His repertoire includes compositions for orchestra and chamber music, as well as several solo concertos. His compositions are performed nationally and internationally including in Korea, Japan, USA, England, Finland, Austria and Switzerland. In this context he works together with renowned international soloists and ensembles

Memo - Brian Gray
12:00,16mm to Digital, Color, 2025

hyperbolic materialism, 16mm optical-printing, direct-to-film interrogation and found-footage assemblage.This is a digitization of a work that is intended for a live projection with an accompanying improvised modular synthesizer performance.Each screening changes the material conditions of the celluloid and each performance of the soundtrack is equally unique, creating a singular analog audio-visual experience with every viewing.

Aftertide - Kaiwen Ren
3:28, 35mm to Digital, Color, 2025, China/USA

Aftertide meditates on decaying 35mm negatives and their reprints, alongside ephemeral footage, to examine the entanglement of sound, the physical body, and time.

Kaiwen Ren is an artist and filmmaker. His recent works focus on the materiality of media, regarding distance, collective anxiety, and personal memories through 16mm/digital filmmaking, sound, and photography. His films have screened at Toronto International Film Festival, Beijing International Short Film Festival, RPM in Motion Film Festival.