Shorts Block: Sensory Experience

Name: Shorts Block: Sensory Experience
Start: 2026-11-07T11:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-11-07T13:00:00-08:00
Location: Vogue Theatre

Amid shifting landscapes, fading memories, buried histories, and threatened communities, six films explore how attention can reveal what is hidden, preserve what remains, and keep what matters from being forgotten.

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Guests Expected

Directors and film teams from Chuuraa, Listen, Pelo Lindo, Still Standing, They're Here, and You Do Not Exist are expected to attend for a post-screening Q&A.

Directed by Evgenia Arbugaeva UK | Short Film | 18

A Sakha scientist journeys into Siberia’s melting permafrost, where the past emerges alongside ancestral beliefs.

Chuuraa

Directed by Taliesin Black-Brown USA | Short Film | 15

As memory fades and nature changes, an Alaskan sound recordist listens closely to what remains.

Listen

Directed by Josue Garcia Prado Guatemala | Short Film | 24

Decades after her son’s forced disappearance, a Guatemalan mother’s enduring faith keeps his memory alive.

Pelo Lindo

Directed by Victor Tadashi Suárez, Livia Albeck-Ripka USA | Short Film | 10

After the Eaton Fire, Altadena residents confront toxic contamination in homes insurers insist are safe to inhabit.

Still Standing

Directed by Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Mueller USA | Short Film | 25

When masked ICE agents descend on Minneapolis, neighbors mobilize, tracking the movements of officers to protect one another.

They're Here

Directed by Dwayne LeBlanc USA | Short Film | 8

Beneath passing planes, a man reflects on memory, belonging, and the paths not taken.

You Do Not Exist

Program Description

This cinematic collection of six films explores the act of sensing as a way of connecting with the world around us. Through immersive soundscapes, close observation, and distinct points of view, these filmmakers turn attention into revelation, drawing us closer to what might otherwise remain unseen, unheard, or forgotten. Moving between intimate memory and collective experience, they listen closely to the vanishing sounds of nature, look beneath what appears intact, uncover what has been buried by time, and bear witness to what can be taken or erased. As the world keeps moving, these films reveal what persists and how holding onto what remains can become an act of resistance. —Mariana Finelli

Films are in alphabetical order rather than order of play. Total runtime 100 min

Chuuraa
Evgenia Arbugaeva (UK 2026, 18 min)
A Sakha scientist journeys into Siberia’s melting permafrost, where the past emerges alongside ancestral beliefs.

Listen
Taliesin Black-Brown (USA 2026, 15 min)
As memory fades and nature changes, an Alaskan sound recordist listens closely to what remains.

Pelo Lindo
Josue Garcia Prado (Guatemala 2026, 24 min)
Decades after her son’s forced disappearance, a Guatemalan mother’s enduring faith keeps his memory alive.

Still Standing
Victor Tadashi Suárez, Livia Albeck-Ripka (USA 2026, 10 min)
After the Eaton Fire, Altadena residents confront toxic contamination in homes insurers insist are safe to inhabit.

They’re Here
Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Mueller (USA 2026, 25 min)
When masked ICE agents descend on Minneapolis, neighbors mobilize, tracking the movements of officers to protect one another.

You Do Not Exist
Dwayne LeBlanc (USA 2026, 8 min)
Beneath passing planes, a man reflects on memory, belonging, and the paths not taken.

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