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Alex Morelli
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NRA refugee's dinner routine is transformed when she begins to hear the voices of those she has lost. Based on a short story by Syrian writer Jehan Sayed Issa.
The Dead Die Once
2018
NRDuring a trip to Italy, a relationship falters. An autofictional travelogue unearthed from neorealist landscapes.
Viaggio
2018
NRAs the US ramps up border enforcement during summer 2019, a formerly undocumented activist prepares for her naturalization test. In impressionistic scenes that link North Carolina with the Arizona borderlands, the film playfully interrogates the paradoxes of citizenship.
Becoming
2020
NRAn observer of quotidian strangeness, Deb Sokolow creates semi-fictitious drawings and books commenting on architecture, politics, and pop culture. Shot on 16mm and adopting the style of 70s paranoid thrillers, the film traces the evolution of Sokolow’s speculative ethos, detailing a shadowy encounter at McDonald’s and her fixation with Rocky Balboa. Part of "4x4: Contemporary Art in Chicago" - Season 1
Beneath the Surface of the Everyday
2026
NRThough he is long gone, buried on the Greek island he left behind as a teenager, John remains a painful mystery to his former wife, children, and grandson. On rediscovering his home movies, they begin to reconcile the troubled man they knew with the person he might have been. A film about memory, loss, and being caught between two homes.
The Island Man
2018
NRSomething is awry with Greece’s COVID-19 tourism ads—is it the virus itself? Or is the invitation to #visitgreece not as open as it seems? With a little help from datamoshing, the ads begin to offer glimpses of new anti-migrant measures and reveal the contradictions of travel.
ALL YOU WANT IS GREECE
2021
Behind the camera
NRA refugee's dinner routine is transformed when she begins to hear the voices of those she has lost. Based on a short story by Syrian writer Jehan Sayed Issa.
The Dead Die Once
2018
NRDuring a trip to Italy, a relationship falters. An autofictional travelogue unearthed from neorealist landscapes.
Viaggio
2018
NRAs the US ramps up border enforcement during summer 2019, a formerly undocumented activist prepares for her naturalization test. In impressionistic scenes that link North Carolina with the Arizona borderlands, the film playfully interrogates the paradoxes of citizenship.
Becoming
2020
NRAn observer of quotidian strangeness, Deb Sokolow creates semi-fictitious drawings and books commenting on architecture, politics, and pop culture. Shot on 16mm and adopting the style of 70s paranoid thrillers, the film traces the evolution of Sokolow’s speculative ethos, detailing a shadowy encounter at McDonald’s and her fixation with Rocky Balboa. Part of "4x4: Contemporary Art in Chicago" - Season 1
Beneath the Surface of the Everyday
2026
NRThough he is long gone, buried on the Greek island he left behind as a teenager, John remains a painful mystery to his former wife, children, and grandson. On rediscovering his home movies, they begin to reconcile the troubled man they knew with the person he might have been. A film about memory, loss, and being caught between two homes.
The Island Man
2018
NRSomething is awry with Greece’s COVID-19 tourism ads—is it the virus itself? Or is the invitation to #visitgreece not as open as it seems? With a little help from datamoshing, the ads begin to offer glimpses of new anti-migrant measures and reveal the contradictions of travel.
ALL YOU WANT IS GREECE
2021
NRThe fate of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke has preoccupied historians, archeologists, and writers for centuries—many obsessed with recovering a white European origin story that predates Plymouth and Jamestown. In the age of YouTube conspiracy theories, it has never been easier to participate in American myth-building.
Truth or Dare
2019
