Split Horizon - Lauren Marie Dake
10:08, 16mm to Digital, Color, 2025

Split Horizon is an optically printed 16mm impressionistic handmade film. Using found home movies and travel films from the 1960’s, I respond to the material through collage, painting, and abstraction directly onto film, aiming to create a psychological traversal across a vast unknown. Landscape acts as a basis for exploration, and characters emerge and descend, representing the self or the other. The onscreen horizon is often literally split; the characters and places become a mirror for one another, meditating on our own ability to contain multiple versions of self, identity, and internal narratives about our own stories, paths and histories.

Lauren Marie Dake is an experimental filmmaker and educator from Seattle. Her practice centers on notions of escape, chaos, the uncanny, and the ethereal. She is fascinated with the world-building potential of handmade and cameraless cinema and experiments with direct animation onto 16mm films, where she engages in an ongoing attempt to create new realities within the dimension of the frame. Lauren’s short films have recently screened at the MicroActs Artist Film Screenings in London, the International Avant-Garde Film Festival in New York.

Catching One's Breath - Benjamin Stone
8:14, Digital to 16mm to Digital, Color, 2025

Displeasure in the colors. Discord in the hums and waves. The visual and material planes are not a sanctuary: Indeed they are a spotlight. What is sacrificed for our security and the comfort of a pleasing image? Images/Optical sound printed on clear leader.

Benjamin Stone is an experimental video maker, collagist, and expanded cinema whose works oscillate between the profoundly intimate and the emphatically militant. These disparate intentions demand the viewer to lean in and explore the image/soundscape

An Uncertain Eternity - Ella Morton
29:00, Digital to 16mm , Color, 2025, Canada

An Uncertain Eternity follows the journey of icebergs that travel from Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland to the East coast of Newfoundland in Canada. Narrated by Greenlanders and Newfoundlanders, this film explores the political, social, and spiritual implications of the icebergs and how they are changing as the planet warms.

Ella Morton is a Toronto-based filmmaker. Her expedition-based practice has brought her to projects across Canada, Scandinavia, Greenland and Antarctica. She uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes.

Analogy of Light - Elian Mikkola
9:00, 35mm to Digital, Color, 2025, Finland/Canada

A woman, once trapped inside a 35mm frame, is waiting to be seen. Light informs the image, reproducing a new form of life in this dance of pixels on analogue skin. By working through multiple facets of the cinematic apparatus, Analogy of Light is a transfeminist dissection of a single film frame.

Elian Mikkola is a Finnish Moving Image Artist (of Karelian descent), and a white settler currently based between Treaty 4, Regina, and Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), Canada. Originally from Turku, Finland, Mikkola holds a BA in Journalism from Tampere University. They completed their MFA in Media Production in 2019 at the University of Regina. Mikkola works closely with both analogue and digital mediums and explores themes such as memory, spatial dependencies and queer belonging. They’ve done extensive research in the field of eco-processed film since 2017.

Super, Natural - Kyath Battie
7:24, 16mm/ Digital, Color, 2025, Canada

Vancouver Island, supernatural by construct and memory, is experienced though landscapes represented by colonial icons, mysterious brilliant fountains, and a curious peacock. A tableaux of sorts, each encounter is singular yet united by stunning and devastated beauty.

Kyath Battie’s work often explores nocturnal spaces and fictionalized encounters, examining the duality of realism and fantasy, through hybrid fiction and intimate non-fiction portraits. Working fluently in 16mm, photo-chemical processes, and digital forms, her work often embodies story elements such as tension and anticipation through acute site-specific cinematography and soundscapes.