Ways of Seeing

Name: Ways of Seeing
Released: 2026-10-23
Duration: 1 h 28 min

<div>These documentary and experimental films each engage the formal qualities of cinema to explore the nature of observation and the limits of perception. Curated by David Dinnell.</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>Filmmakers scheduled to attend a post-screening Q&A.</i></b></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Land of Enchantment</b></div><div>Jack Cronin | USA | 2026 | 10 min</div><div>A meditative short film that explores the quiet majesty of northern New Mexico.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Beneath the Surface of Everyday</b></div><div>Alex Morelli | USA | 2026 | 16 min</div><div>A portrait of artist Deb Sokolow, who transforms her observations of quotidian strangeness into semi-fictitious drawings and books commenting on architecture, politics, and pop culture. Filmed on 16mm in the style of 70s paranoid thrillers.</div><div><br></div><div><b>A Flower Falling Back Into the Earth</b></div><div>Rajee Samarasinghe | Sri Lanka, United States | 2026 | 16 min</div><div>In examining the testimony of a mother whose son was disappeared during the Sri Lankan civil war, this film confronts cinema’s limits in bearing witness.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Totality</b></div><div>Mathilde Lavenne | France | 2025 | 15 min</div><div>A community of artists and friends, mostly women, gather to experience a total eclipse of the sun from the roof of a former Odd Fellows Lodge in a small town of Texas. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Forever…Forever</b></div><div>Johann Lurf | Austria | 2026 | 21 min</div><div>Over twenty-two months, a specially developed 65mm camera takes in a single fragment of the world—the Ottenstein Reservoir—in this quiet observation of nature that gradually transforms into a monumental image of cosmic motion. </div><div><br></div><div><b>The Sick Sense 2026: The Year We Make Kontakte (or, My Friend Flicker)</b></div><div>Brent Coughenour | USA | 2026 | 24 min</div><div>Part 3 of an ongoing series using custom-built software systems to explore the limits of the perceptual system, presented in a special live performance. Photosensitivity Warning: Contains flickering images.</div></div><div><br></div>PT1H28M2026-10-23Ways of Seeing"Ways of Seeing"

Showtimes

October 23, 11:45 am