Emma D. Miller

Teacher Wang works as a 'mistress dispeller' in China, hired to break up affairs by any means necessary. Through one of her cases, we explore the ways class, capital, and culture collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.

When a retired theater director begins creating videos featuring intimate conversations with ventriloquist dummies, his daughter attempts to repair their relationship by exploring the psychological possibilities of his strange new hobby.

At a unique training program in Southern California, people heal dogs and dogs heal people.

At the age of 89, Julián Moreno takes one last bus ride to El Paso, Texas, to visit his daughters and their children – a lengthy trip he has made without fail every month for decades. After returning to rural Mexico, he quietly starts building a house in the empty lot next to his home. In the absence of his physical visits, can this new house bridge the distance between his loved ones?

Teacher Wang works as a 'mistress dispeller' in China, hired to break up affairs by any means necessary. Through one of her cases, we explore the ways class, capital, and culture collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.

When a retired theater director begins creating videos featuring intimate conversations with ventriloquist dummies, his daughter attempts to repair their relationship by exploring the psychological possibilities of his strange new hobby.

When a retired theater director begins creating videos featuring intimate conversations with ventriloquist dummies, his daughter attempts to repair their relationship by exploring the psychological possibilities of his strange new hobby.

At a unique training program in Southern California, people heal dogs and dogs heal people.

At a unique training program in Southern California, people heal dogs and dogs heal people.

At the age of 89, Julián Moreno takes one last bus ride to El Paso, Texas, to visit his daughters and their children – a lengthy trip he has made without fail every month for decades. After returning to rural Mexico, he quietly starts building a house in the empty lot next to his home. In the absence of his physical visits, can this new house bridge the distance between his loved ones?