This Immeasurable Sea (2025)
Alex Broadwell | 13’ 42” | USA | San Diego Premiere
An author finishes one book and plans another, aiming to convey her disillusionment with common understandings of time. An interleaved puzzle-box collage of literary and cinematic echoes, amid fluid landscapes of a western coast.

A DERAILMENT (2026)
Nathan Truesdell | 26’ | USA | San Diego Premiere
At 8:55pm on February 3, 2023, a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Told entirely through found footage and news archive, A DERAILMENT puts you in the center of disaster

Hollowgram (2025)
Laura Iancu | 7' | Romania/USA | San Diego Premiere
Hollowgram conjures varicolored clusters of swirling images and sounds from places real and imagined as if looking through a flip book in a dream. Narratively the film pilots the tension between the desire to share memories and possibilities with another and the failure of the attempt.

Air (2025)
Alexander Barancheyev | 3' 33" | Latvia, USA, Andorra | World Premiere
A selection of memories, dreams, and conversations from different places and of different people. A film-diary that jumps through space and time, and finds emotional connections between various sceneries and situations, which ordinarily would not exist together.

ESP (2024)
Laura Kraning | 2' 45" | USA | San Diego Premiere
A brutalist monument to the Empire State as manifested by a malfunctioning inkjet printer.

a film with sound (take three) (2023)
Josh Weissbach | 2' 57" | USA | San Diego Premiere
A father and daughter make a new movie after the daughter requests to make a film with sound after making a silent one the previous year.

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