Films

Aggregate

If an artificial intelligence were to learn to desire, what path would it take to bridge the space between intimacies? Aggregate is a collective process requiring a large number of players to take turns and experience reinforcement learning (punishment/reward) as they progress through the uncharted territory of machine learning and queer desire.

Distraction / France / 2024 / World Premiere

Constantinopoliad

Constantinopoliad is a handmade book, read collectively by the audience inside of a sound installation. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the work is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic”, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing archives through time;  and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.

Sister Sylvester & Nadah El Shazly / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere

Girlfriend Experience

Girlfriend Experience is an interactive video installation that explores emotional distress in our hyper-connected society.
 

Ugo Arsac / France / 2024 / International Premiere

Huk, The Jaguaress

An ancient jaguaress deity from the Amazon, reborn through artificial intelligence, calls on humanity to confront their role in her rainforest's destruction and the future of our shared world.

Violeta Ayala / Australia, Canada & Bolivia / 2025 / World Premiere

NATURAL CONTACTS

NATURAL CONTACTS is a piece of malware designed to arrest control over its host machine for 24 hours, transforming it into a dynamic virtual garden. 

Mark Fingerhut, Matthew D Gantt, Bridget DeFranco & Peter Burr / United States / 2024 / International Premiere

Songs of Travel

An animated graphic novel exploring the unique stories of five migrants seeking new beginnings in Europe. Together, these stories paint a mosaic of themes such as our hopes, dreams, and identities; home; and the things we treasure most.

Ben Wahl, Lisley Viraphong & Jack Gutmann / Austria / 2024

Tarang

'Tarang' is a multimedia artwork by Kinnari Saraiya exploring colonial surveillance and indigenous dreamworlds. Using textiles, interactive tech, and dance, it reclaims dreams as a decolonial archive.

Kinnari Saraiya / United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere

The Alluvials

The Alluvials is a four-level video game set in a near-future version of Los Angeles. Players take on the agency of conventionally non-playable and nonhuman characters, including wild fire, the LA River, a Yucca Moth and Joshua Tree, and a pack of wolves.

Alice Bucknell / United States / 2024

The Caring Machine

In the artwork The Caring Machine, we are invited to imagine that we are lying on our deathbeds, our loving digital companion 'sitting' by our side, watching over us, and speaking to us in a soothing human voice.

Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2024 / International Premiere

The Forest that Breathes Us

A VR journey immersing participants in the sensory lives of a Douglas fir, a coyote, and a humpback whale, inviting reconciliation with the more-than-human world as active collaborators in life.

Jennifer Abbott / Canada / 2025 / World Premiere

Truth Bears No Scandal

With my installation, I explore three well-known Sudanese songs with hidden backstories—songs written by males for their male lovers, and females for their female lovers. These stories, often concealed to obscure the queer side of our culture, are presented here as I believe they should be, direct and unapologetically queer.

Ahmed Umar / Norway / 2024 / European Premiere