Join Scott, Alexis & Daniel for a screening of six recently-produced short films.
🎉 Snacks, drinks and fun included. 🎉
Honey & Smoke (15 Min)
Two commercial beekeepers in Malta discover an unlikely culprit tainting their bees' honey.
A film by Daniel Quintanilla
Can Art ease the flooding of venice? (18 Min)
An environmental engineer and visual artist uses public art installations - informed by scientific data - to bring awareness to sea level rise in the Venice lagoon.
A film by Alexis Iammarino and Scott Sell
Rights to Ritual (5 min)
As commodification overtakes the memory of tarantismo - the spider bite possession ritual linked to the cult of Saint Paul in Galatina, Italy - contemporary artists, dancers, musicians, and academics are redirecting how this phenomenon is remembered, retold, and practiced internationally.
A film in-progress by Alexis Iammarino and Scott Sell
Two Stories of Spinalonga (17 min)
Maurice Born, a French researcher, arrived in the 1960s to the tiny Greek island of Spinalonga, a former leper colony. Since then, he has witnessed the "official" story of the island change and become more catered to the tourism industry. Maurice is on a mission to tell the "unofficial" story told to him directly from the survivors of the island.
A film by Daniel Quintanilla
Dance for camera // choreographing for the picture plane (6 min)
A screen dance created to play with movement and perspective in a defined space.
A film by Alexis Iammarino and Scott Sell
Hairless and beautiful (19 min)
In November of 2008, president-elect Obama gives his first press conference and announces that his family is on the search for a dog. Because of his daughter Malia’s allergies, the dog has to be hypoallergenic. Advocates of the Peruvian Hairless Dog in Lima see this as an opportunity to promote the breed and show up at the U.S. Embassy in Lima with a gift. A young big-eared puppy called Machu Picchu. Overnight, this pre-Inca breed goes from being obscure to a household name. This sudden change in fortune creates a demand and a black market for the Peruvian Hairless Dog.
A film by Daniel Quintanilla
4 of the 6 films listed above were produced by Compass Light for the ReelEarth collection.