Cole Greenberg

Over the course of one fateful Christmas night, a woman named Helena is virtually revisited by a key figure from her past, as old memories are provoked through an archive of elusive and cryptic video logs. In the process, emotions that have long been dormant rise to the surface.

Through green and brush, a search is commenced. Through personal archive, exploration, and excavation, we search for a clearing - for Sanctuary, for an Oasis, for Pavilion.

In sound, a man recounts his on-foot migration across the United States of America. On screen, candid photographs & findings of terrains, settlements, and conditions from the present moment. Together, testimony and documentation construct a damning series of events from within domestic borders, but is it all to be believed?

The summer my dad died, I rediscovered the last birthday card he ever wrote for me.

And, still, the birds sang on.