Unorthodocs Shorts

Cardinal
(Kevin Jerome Everson, 2019)

Mansfield, Ohio, native and past Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Kevin Jerome Everson films birdwatchers looking for the state bird of Ohio. (2:30 mins., digital video). Please note that this film is silent.

Huntsville Station
(Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone, 2020)

Every weekday, inmates are released from the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. (14 mins., digital video)

Spit on the Broom
(Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich, 2019)

This surrealist documentary explores the African American women’s group the United Order of Tents, a clandestine organization formed in the 1840s during the height of the Underground Railroad. The film uses excerpts from the public record, over a century's worth of newspaper articles, and a visual tapestry of fable and myth as a way to introduce a secret history. (12 mins., digital video)

Practice
(Iyabo Kwayana, 2018)

Filmed near the Shaolin temple in Henan, China, Practice moves from the mundane realm of repetitious rehearsal to fantastic fulfillment. Told nonverbally and without a main character, the film is an immersive guided meditation into a simple moment in time, conveying the diverse experiences of a group of students engaged in a collective process. (10 mins., digital video)

(((((/*\))))) (Echoes of the Volcano)
(Charles Fairbanks and Saúl Kak, 2019)

Charles Fairbanks (a former Antioch media arts professor) and Saúl Kak (a Zoque artist and activist) capture the sounds of the Zoque community in southern Mexico as they build a network to return to their ancestral lands. The community was displaced by a devastating volcanic eruption in 1982. (18 mins., digital video)

Apiyemiyekî?
(Ana Vaz, 2019)

Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in the 1970s when, during the Brazilian dictatorship, Indigenous lands were invaded for the construction of a national road and the installation of a mining company. An archive of illustrations about the period made by the Waimiri-Atroari reveal a traumatic history that continues to superimpose itself on the present. (29 mins., digital video)