Silvia Turchin

Through the use of 16 mm macro cinematography and the cameraless technique phytography, Jones Street portrays latent beauty in "the unremarkable", amidst what was steel mill workers' housing, in a constantly transforming urban landscape. Can we settle into the existential mystery in our daily surroundings, finding connection to something beyond our human ambition? Jones Street explores this question through visual and sonic textures.

Bobby served in the United States Army for 10 years in a Criminal Investigation Division (CID) unit. During that time, he was deployed once to Iraq in September 2006, where he developed PTSD.

Scott Castle served in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years. While assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division he served three combat tours in Iraq, including the First and Second Battles of Fallujah.

Julie Mendez was a 17 year old teenager when she saw the "be all that you can be" Army recruiting messaging and decided to enlist. Her life would change forever when she was deployed to serve in the Iraq War. Her experiences changed her and she returned home to face feelings of isolation and depression. Always a creative person, Julie turned to art to help her process her experiences and begin to heal her PTSD.

A poetic documentary that calls attention to beauty found in the details of the anachronistic and declining, and suggests that this particular variety of melancholy beauty is born of a withdrawal from the world's forward push. The protagonist of the film is a large 80-year-old food manufacturing/co-packing factory in San Francisco.

Maria Zoe Dunning is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and gay rights activist. She is known for being the only openly gay person remaining on active duty following a series of lawsuits against the U.S. Military and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy during the 1990s. This is her story.

Through the use of 16 mm macro cinematography and the cameraless technique phytography, Jones Street portrays latent beauty in "the unremarkable", amidst what was steel mill workers' housing, in a constantly transforming urban landscape. Can we settle into the existential mystery in our daily surroundings, finding connection to something beyond our human ambition? Jones Street explores this question through visual and sonic textures.

Bobby served in the United States Army for 10 years in a Criminal Investigation Division (CID) unit. During that time, he was deployed once to Iraq in September 2006, where he developed PTSD.

Scott Castle served in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years. While assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division he served three combat tours in Iraq, including the First and Second Battles of Fallujah.

Julie Mendez was a 17 year old teenager when she saw the "be all that you can be" Army recruiting messaging and decided to enlist. Her life would change forever when she was deployed to serve in the Iraq War. Her experiences changed her and she returned home to face feelings of isolation and depression. Always a creative person, Julie turned to art to help her process her experiences and begin to heal her PTSD.

A poetic documentary that calls attention to beauty found in the details of the anachronistic and declining, and suggests that this particular variety of melancholy beauty is born of a withdrawal from the world's forward push. The protagonist of the film is a large 80-year-old food manufacturing/co-packing factory in San Francisco.

Maria Zoe Dunning is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and gay rights activist. She is known for being the only openly gay person remaining on active duty following a series of lawsuits against the U.S. Military and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy during the 1990s. This is her story.

A garden symphony of sorts, a tribute to the light and beauty, and an effort to reconcile with death.

"Oh Christmas Tree" dives into the disposable fate of one of society's principal symbols of joy and unity, the beloved Christmas Tree.

The Little Pianist explores the life of a frog marionette that plays piano on the streets of Barcelona. What qualities does a marionette possess to make its audience forget – albeit fleetingly – this frenetic modern-day life? To take them back through their memories and recall their dreams? In this documentary, almost narrated by the frog’s creator, the presence of the marionette predominates, making the puppeteer virtually invisible.