Kate Solar

After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a lifeguard, a job that becomes increasingly challenging as she descends deeper into despair.

Susan, a xenophobic woman, has married into a Polish family through her college sweetheart Michal. When Michal's family visits unannounced to celebrate Wigilia, the newlyweds are pushed to confront their expectations of each another. Set in the early 80s in Canada.

Sydney is a directionless 32-year-old living with his overworked mother in a rental home marked for demolition. After a string of small humiliations, he stumbles upon a broken TV left on the curb and decides to sell it online.

Roads fall into the sea and a travelogue breaks against the landscape.

Digital footage of the river near the filmmaker's childhood home is laser-printed directly onto 16mm film, creating a shifting, liquified halftone. Memory dissolves into the texture of time. The printing bleeds onto the optical sound strip, the image obscuring the soundtrack. The landscape is impossible to return to.

Traditionally feminine materials and processes—nail polish, glitter, hand-painting—convert cinematic wilderness spaces, and the filmstrip itself, into representations of girlhood.

I wept, and thought I turned towards you to weep / But you were gone

In the last gentle breaths of bacchanale, two lovers are told the tale of the great god Pan’s violent pursuit of the forest nymph Syrinx. The film refracts the myth through layers of song, identity, and performance: at once a ballet, a trans fantasia, and an exploration of love and power.

After their friend and roommate abruptly moves out, microbiology student Darcy becomes mesmerized by a telescope left behind. Moving between details too small to see and a cosmos too large to understand, an absence still remains.