Fossilver Collective Presents Cinema{null} I: Soft Recoil

Fossilver Collective presents Cinema {null} I: Soft Recoil

​FULL PROGRAM:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s5RgMp_QFZUoiu1ZiCb18WVygDmtKJKg/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=106822190673126898401&rtpof=true&sd=true

​We are honored to bring together the work of Calum Walter, Zachary Epcar, Johann Lurf, Utkarsh, Leonardo Pirondi, and Guangli Liu—filmmakers and artists whose practices register, with unusual precision, the symptoms of our hyper-mediated age. Their films trace a charged continuum: from the human gaze and desire caught in the uncanny domestic space; to machines that slip beyond their functions and graze the thresholds of pure being, triggering a distinctly supra-human vibration; to the pursuit and reconstitution of a political and humanistic memory that has frayed at its edges. Across ten experimental shorts, followed by an ending marked by unresolved questions, these works form adjacent stations in the dark—yet taken together, they cohere into an unending, interwoven journey shaped by collective disquiet.

​As the climate of disaster permeates our lives through a pervasive plague of images, the index of the real drifts away even as technological simulacra draw it paradoxically nearer. To imagine the end, to stare into it, to walk its terrain—these reflections carve out a space that extends beyond the aesthetic concern alone. Here, the apocalyptic is not a terminus but a prevailing condition. Within it, the image persists as both ruin and seed.

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The Program includes:

​1. SEJA BEM-VINDO AO LAR

​2. Billy

​3. Terrestrial

​4. Sinking Feeling

​5. EMBARGO

​6. Remote Occlusions

​7. Meridian

​8. Relief

​9. When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest

​10. Epilogue

​(Total Runtime: 131 min)

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​From within this unstable visibility, we also wish to highlight the ongoing atrocities in Sudan, notably the mass killings and systematic displacement across the Darfur region, with the current crisis centered in El Fasher (North Darfur). Entire communities remain at risk and in need of greater global attention.

For more details and donation links supporting relief efforts for Sudanese civilians:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16rXlxeVYsLIe2xgMBCYJHUK6-cdT5tex/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=106822190673126898401&rtpof=true&sd=true