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A director making a documentary about fossil fuel extraction is consistently subverted by an agent that wants to tell a generic love story. Made in collaboration with Gen Z film students at Cal Poly Humboldt, the film looks at generational responses to the climate crisis through an absurdist lens, connecting the extraction of natural resources to the extraction of our human data and the extraction of our attention in this post-information era.

A Vegas showgirl wanders into the desert while performing her routine. ​Shot entirely alone in the desert, the film exposes complicity in spectatorship, presenting the hazards of both self-consciousness and self-liberation.

In Gloria Mundi's world, the real and the virtual are collapsed into one. In a society of partial attention, where bodies occupy physical space yet minds are plugged into devices, social networking gives statistics to adolescent competition.

Blending personal narrative with shared pop cultural experience, the artist makes manifest a long-held childhood fantasy set within the love scene from "Dirty Dancing" (1987).

With their language facing extinction, the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation in Northern California is working against time to bring it back. Loren Me'-lash-ne Bommelyn is leading the charge towards language and cultural revitalization for the Tolowa Dee-ni' people with support from fellow Elders, knowledge keepers, ancestors and the tribal community.

Two Texas sisters fled to the metaverse at the onset of the pandemic, creating The Enclave, a cyber-haven for ‘like-minded women’. Years later, the suburb is on the verge of bankruptcy, and owner Moni Calvioni is crowdfunding to save her digital utopia. With no awareness of online culture, she and her sister Blair turn to Twitch and Reddit to pitch their idealized vision only to fall prey to a slew of internet trolls who write profanities on their street signs and graffiti their walls with sexual imagery. The rapidly encroaching digital mountainscape only further unravels the delusion of The Enclave’s pursuit for the white, suburban ideal and exposes the baggage we bring to online spaces if we don't fix our very real IRL problems.