Leafcutters

A unique collaboration with millions of wild ants. Focusing on four supposedly unique human traits — language, ritual, war, and art — the narrative aims to blur the boundaries between […]

Even In Paradise

This experimental documentary takes an unblinking look at California landscapes bearing the scars of wars fought elsewhere. Serene forest groves and opaque Silicon Valley windows provide the visual framework for […]

Eating Up Easter

In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people, who risk losing everything to the globalizing effects […]

Collapsing Time

Zoe Keller is a graphite artist creating large-scale, highly detailed drawings. Using the traditions of scientific illustration, she weaves complex visual narratives about at-risk species and wild places. Collapsing Time […]

Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes

The film follows award-winning public garden designer Lynden B. Miller as she explores the remarkable life and career of America’s first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959). Farrand was responsible […]

animistica

This film opens with the viewer awakening as if inside a restless dream, transformed into a strange vermin. The camera assumes the perspective of an insect burrowing through the dark […]

Mori, The Artist’s Habitat

Co-Presented with the Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan and The Freer Gallery of Art He lies among the shrubs and trees in his garden and observes the […]

Manufactured Landscapes

This feature-length documentary presents the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes” — quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s […]