Meredith Zielke

The arrival of a stray horse triggers a series of events in Bernicia’s life that alters her world as she slowly takes on the persona of a cowboy. Through her journey, she must overcome several obstacles that threaten her newfound desires.

In this wildly inventive hybrid documentary, the feature debut from experimental film and installation artists Yoni Goldstein and Meredith Zielke, viewers are transported to the space-age city of Brasília. A modernist architectural marvel, the city is a sparkling wasteland of machine dreams and aging monuments to a utopian future. Highlighting the sacred geometry of triangles and symmetry of lines, this sci-fi flick interrogates the semiotic structures that undergird the Martian outpost. With striking visuals and a thumping, electronic soundtrack, A Machine to Live In is a transcendent, transcendental voyage through Brazil’s cosmic capital.

A fashionable odyssey that follows a circus's ringleader and crew as they venture across the Atlantic Ocean. Tragedy strikes as a storm sweeps the ship off its course, and the members of The Grand Applause question if they will arrive at their destination in one piece.

A series of collective dreams of a transworldly being visits a myriad of characters, revealing their subconscious desires.

After Dallas’ relationship with her girlfriend Avery takes a turn for the worse, she discovers something living beneath the cushions of her newly thrifted couch.

Locations: 1) a family-oriented parade in Chicago 2) Facebook 3) Alexander Calder’s Flamingo sculpture in Chicago 4) an ambulance and a car wash 5) somewhere in between our mind and the on/off line public space. A Holy Orders deals with reality and representations and is shaped as an absurdist collage of bizarre interventions against the much loved, determinative structures of faith, conservatism and capitalism in the USA.