Name: Screening: aCinema Screening Series—Sunday 7 PM
Start: 2026-05-17T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Woodland Pattern

Screening: aCinema Screening Series—Sunday 7 PM

Woodland Pattern

Join us for aCinema’s Annual Screening Series, featuring a weekend of six programs curated by Takahiro Suzuki and Janelle VanderKelen!

Join us for aCinema’s Annual Screening Series, featuring a weekend of six programs curated by Takahiro Suzuki and Janelle VanderKelen! We are thrilled to welcome them back to the gallery for this special, condensed presentation, which comprises <a href="https://www.acinema.space/" title="https://www.acinema.space/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">aCinema</a>’s Season 10.The first two screenings will feature works selected from the aDifferent Program open call held this winter, which received over 300 submissions from around the globe. The weekend will then progress to four curated screenings featuring works by Curtis Chin, Clara Jost, Chester Toye, and many more!Screenings will take place at 5 pm and 7 pm CDT on Fri. May 15, Sat. May 16, &amp; Sun. May 17. Sunday 7 PM | PROGRAM SIX: the clouds contain multitudes
 Sylvie Denet | Contes du lac Dian (Tales of lake Dian)SYNOPSISThe village of Haiyan near Lake Dian (Yunnan, China) has its feet in the water but can no longer dip its hands in it; it is polluted and must remain at rest for 10 years. The village no longer has fishermen, but stories and tales permeate its mud brick walls.BIOGRAPHYSylvie Denet has various artistic professions; on and off as a set designer at the Comédie-Française, she paints, draws, and animates. After an artist residency in Guangzhou (China), she created an animated film, “Ou vas-tu?”, which circulated around festivals and exhibitions. Since then (2008), all of her animated films (about fifteen) have had their own journeys in France and abroad.Miglė Križinauskaitė | Does the Sea Have a HeartSYNOPSISA poetic essay, an ode to the sea, which has no human figure at its centre, but only traces in the sand, echoes, and presence through absence. It is through this absence that the essence of the human spirit is best revealed. As Kahlil Gibran wrote: “There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”BIOGRAPHYMiglė Križinauskaitė is an experimental filmmaker and audiovisual artist from Lithuania, working with analogue media across moving and still images. Drawing on embodied perception, the poetics of place, and the textures of memory, her practice explores how the flow of movement, attention, and perception shapes image-making. She holds an MA in Film Directing from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and is currently pursuing a PhD in practice-based artistic research titled “Travelogue as Dreamscape: An Experimental Analogue Film Practice”. She has directed eight short films, which have screened at numerous international festivals, including 25 FPS Festival, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Experimental Film Festival Process, Kinoskop – Analog Experimental Film Festival, and OBSKURA – Analog Film Festival, among others.Mariana Caló + Francisco Queimadela | Águas e Espelhos (Water and Mirrors)SYNOPSIS“I plunge in myself, so I can spring from myself.” G.Bachelard, L’Eau et les rêves – 1942“Águas e espelhos” (Waters and Mirrors) was filmed in Buçaco forest in contact with the plant, animal, hydric, and architectural heritage of this national park. Through the freshness of the springs, we took a mirror and dipped it into a fountain.Between the oscillating effect of the glass and the mirror of the water itself, we see a merman position itself at the surface. We follow the shadows of the Arboretum, the Valley of Ferns, and the Relic Forest. We waited by the staircase, next to the watercourse, as living beings were reflecting in moving images.BIOGRAPHYMariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela started their sharing and collaboration during their studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Porto and have been working as an artists duo since 2010. Their practice is developed through the privileged use of moving images, crossing installation and site-specific environments, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and cinema.Pathompon Mont Tesprateep | The Eternal RecordSYNOPSISThe Eternal Record re-imagines Lao-Isan traditional music, performed as a simulated ritual of renewal for trauma. The composed music and lyrics interweave two narratives: one of a fictional invention that extracts collective memory and consciousness, projecting it as a spectral human form; the other, a wound from history—one that, in another time or place, might already have undergone collective repair or been officially acknowledged.BIOGRAPHYPATHOMPON MONT TESPRATEEP was born in Bangkok and raised in Isan, northeastern Thailand. His films employ cinematic poetry to explore the layered nature of memory and consciousness, tracing how personal and collective histories intertwine and persist. Built from layered sound, image, and texture—from celluloid to digital—they evoke trance-like immersive experiences, revealing residual traces of trauma, ideology, and forgotten histories. Often described as a poetics of disappearance, Mont’s practice considers the political and social imprint of memory, positioning his work in contemporary Southeast Asian cinema.Mont has been working on a series of hand-processed 16mm and S-8 films, including Endless, Nameless (2014) – winner of the R. D. Pestonji Award at the Thai Short Film Festival – Song X (2017), and Confusion Is Next (2018). He also made Pleng-Krom-Dek (Lullaby) (2019), Fatimah &amp; Kulit (2019), and The Eternal Record (2025), which are part of an ongoing film project “VOIDS” (2019-present). His works have been presented at film festivals such as Locarno Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Les Rencontres Internationales, BFI London Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, London Short Film Festival, and Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, as well as in contemporary art contexts including Biennale Jogja XV and Migration–Speaking Nearby at ACC, Gwangju, among others.Mont is currently developing his debut feature film, Tremble Like A Flower (working title), which has received script and project development support from the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF). The project was awarded the Grand Prize at SEAPITCH, part of the Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival (BAFF), and was recently selected for La Fabrique Cinéma, Cannes 2024, and received production support from the Thailand Creative Content Agency (THACCA).Chester Toye, Marion Tanis, Dorian Tocker | (cries happily) | 10 scenes on a feelingSYNOPSIS10 Scenes on a FeelingBIOGRAPHIESCreative Director/Executive Producer Chester Toye is a filmmaker, creative coach, artist, and producer from South Orange, NJ. Most recently, he produced The Monophobic Response (2024), a multi-channel short film by American Artist that premiered at LACMA. As a director, his films—including Hangtime (2023), Ruby (2022), and I’m So Sorry (2021)—have screened at festivals such as the Atlanta Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and Indie Memphis, and been featured by Short of the Week and Vimeo’s “Black Artistry in Film” collection. Chester holds an MFA in Photography from UCLA and splits his time between Los Angeles and Oregon.Executive Producer Marion Tanis turns ideas into experiences. He blends strategy and storytelling to make magical concepts clear and memorable.Director Dorian Tocker (b. Brooklyn, NY; lives in Los Angeles, CA) is a filmmaker and image-maker whose work captures the transcendent emerging through the cracks of contemporary life, a sensibility shaped by formative personal loss. His work moves between cultural forms and has been shown by The Criterion Channel, MTV, SXSW, and at Art Basel Miami Beach presented by Playboy. His short film THE DAY THAT (2018), a meditative reflection on the sublimity in grief, was broadcast on PBS, following Palm Springs International ShortFest, Mill Valley Film Festival, and Short of the Week. He holds an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute.

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