This selection brings together two essay films that move between the binaries of space and body, language and image, science and colonialism. As they explore ecological memories and multi-species networks of life, this program invites viewers to rethink audiovisual modes of representing nature.

Featuring exceptional examples of found-footage filmmaking, the films in this selection trace personal, political, and cosmic histories while exploring both the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of reconstructing lost images. Emerging from the sediment of media archives, these works interrogate how collective memory is constructed and raise striking questions about the image’s capacity to bear witness, evoke the uncanny, register absence, and hold the potential for transformation.