A series of short personal narratives and documentaries from around the world inspired by the theme RADICAL NATURE.
On Rotation.
Curated by Sara Goodman
FILM INFORMATION
AFTER MY GARDEN GROWS
Megan Mylan
India 2014
9:37 minutes
The story of Monika Barman, a teenager from rural West Bengal, India, growing food to feed her family and the seeds of her own independence in a tiny garden.
AUGUST SKY (Céu de Agosto)
Jasmin Tenucci
Brazil 2021
16 minutes
As fires rage in the Amazon hundreds of miles away, Lucia, a young nurse, senses something off, and begins to have doubts about her pregnancy. A reluctant favor to her ailing grandmother brings Lucia to a neo-Pentecostal church, where she is drawn by a charismatic young parisher and to her faith.
FÁR
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Iceland 2023
5 minutes
A bird hits the window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.
NADA DE TODO ESTO
Francisco Canton and Patricio Martinez
Argentina, Spain, United States 2023
15 minutes
While a mother drives with her daughter through the wealthy suburbs of her home city, eyeing the houses of the rich, she accidentally drives her car into a flower patch in the front yard of a mansion and gets stuck. The daughter searches for a solution, before her mother’s visceral fascination with the house and its owner drives them both to a point of no return.
PERPETUAL PLASTIC
Eric Ebner
United States 2021
9:54 minutes
A data artwork in Bali visualizes the fate of all plastic ever produced, using beach debris.
POVERTY OF WORDS
Aleksandra Orbeck + Paula Romeu
Kenya 2023
8:39 minutes
A look at the intertwined fate of nature and the disappearing language of the Yaaku people, one of the world’s smallest indigenous tribes in the world: As words vanish, so do the trees.
SHIRAMPARI: LEGACIES OF THE RIVER
Lucía Florez
Spain, Peru, United States 2022
16 minutes
In one of the most remote places in the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using only a hook to start his journey as an adult.
