Zebra

When a zebra’s stripes start changing their patterns in unexpected ways, he learns that being unique is something to celebrate.   Directed and produced by Julia Ocker. 

Poker

Abstract patterns and morphing characters dance to the buoyant music of Shugo Tokamaru, building to a mind-bending peak of exuberance.   Directed by Mirai Mizue and Yukie Nakauchi.

Seer

From a hillside office in his native Henry County, Kentucky, Wendell Berry captures in writing the changing landscape and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture. […]

Art of Flying, The

Every night, all over Europe and North America, populations of Common Starling gather at dusk to perform a stunning air show in vast, amorphous flocks called “murmurations,’ majestically captured by […]

Heart of a Dog

For legendary experimental musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson, the life and death of her beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle serves as a portal onto a whole life’s worth of loss […]

Ever the Land

In the Te Urewara forests of northern New Zealand, the fiercely independent Tūhoe Maori tribe undertakes the building of a grand new meeting hall using radically sustainable methods. Their “Living Building” embodies the community’s deep and […]

Elephant and the Bicycle

An elephant working as a street cleaner takes up bicycling, vividly animated by Olesya Shchukina using real paper cutouts.   Directed by Olesya Shchukina.

Double Happiness

In China’s Guangdong province, a mining tycoon has built an exact 1:1 replica of the idyllic Austrian village of Hallstatt. Beyond the gimmicky appeal of “copycat” development, this phenomenon offers a provocative perspective […]

River of Grass

In the suburban backwaters of the Everglades, bored housewife Cozy longs to shake the swampy monotony that permeates her life. But even a crime spree with local misanthrope Lee Ray, […]

Creeping Garden, The

Plasmodial slime mold is like something out of science fiction: creeping right beneath our feet, its intricate living systems warp our perception of time and space and challenge our definitions […]