COLORADO

Songs and prayers of the abyss.

A La Recherche du Pain Perdu

Silent Waltz

Silent Waltz follows Yasmin and Darcy, two strangers who cross paths at a train station. Too shy to speak, their unspoken connection comes alive through their shadows, which begin to dance, expressing what they cannot, until their train arrives and the moment quietly slips away.

Hands: A Preface to History

A behemoth portrait of an ordinary school teacher.

The Unconscious Collective

Inspired by the rituals elite athletes use to build focus, confidence, and a sense of control, this video explores how a homegrown concoction of repetitive ecstatic movement and light therapy can potentially release unconscious blocks and foster bodily autonomy, freedom, and collective healing.

Still Here, Still There

A Chinese woman in her fifties moves alone to the U.S., chasing an American Dream postponed for three decades. As she struggles between freedom and obligation, her pursuit reveals the quiet contradictions of migration—where sacrifice and obsession blur, and one woman’s journey reshapes the filmmaker’s own.

Rage Against the Archive

This experimental browser-based film investigates the networked afterlives of ethnographic photographs from the 19th-century colonial publication 'The People of India' as they circulate through the New York Public Library’s digital archive. Through performative interventions and acts of Electronic Civil Disobedience that corrupt the archive’s HTML code, the artist transforms the website itself into a site of protest.

Wetsitales: Agyu from Ayuman

Agyu from Ayuman is one of Pamulaw’s 3 sons. He heads the household and his family's livelihood of trading beeswax and honey. One day, they had a misunderstanding with the leader of Moros— sparking wars between them even when they travelled to the kingdom of Nalandangan. Each encounter, Agyu wins with his strategic leadership. In the end, they find peace in Nalandangan where his family and his people finally stayed.

Simon and the Harp

Inside a network of glass terraria is a blue dragonfly named Simon, who struggles with loneliness as he spends his days performing monotonous office work. Collapsing from exhaustion one afternoon, Simon discovers an old, abandoned harp by the river. He finds joy in playing the mysterious instrument, its harmonious tunes unknowingly becoming the key to transforming his formerly-isolated life through music.

Farol

The day before the lantern festival, a bearcub lost her mother along the way, he met a cynical and sleezy merchant in a sticky situation, will the bearcub ever find his mother before the festival ends?

Out of Eden

In search of deliverance in a post-apocalyptic Philippines, a distraught mother takes her reluctant daughter on a secret pilgrimage to partake in their god-king's divine ascension.

Love and the End of Romance in Czechoslovakia

After the birth of Czechoslovakia in 1918, a new architectural style flourished in cities such as Brno and Bratislava. The fate of the famous Tugendhat Villa, designed by Mies van der Rohe, mirrors the turbulent history of this short-lived nation-state.

Dance with Me

As the boundaries between past and present blur, Anya fights to hold onto Sasha, an elderly Holocaust survivor with dementia, as he struggles to distinguish memory from reality.

Figurehead

After winning the election, President Cornstarch randomly decides to go after "the homos," which spirals into "the vegans" marching the capitol, then an all-out war with King Archibald.