Featured Media Art:
클레어 기차
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by Claire Ko (she/her)
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Symbolized by a train, this piece reflects humanity’s departure from Earth’s natural landscape toward an unpredictable future. Glimpses of greenery mark what is left behind, while also offering a sense of hope—a sense that we don’t have to continue down this path.
Save Ourselves
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by Syante (she/her)
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Written after the LA wildfires, Save Ourselves is a moody, cinematic song reflecting on environmental collapse, human apathy, and climate urgency.
Segena Sol
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by David de Rozas (he/him)
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Segena Sol is a multi-dimensional experience that reflects on the connections between the past and present while imagining potential futures in the heart of California's most populous city: Los Angeles.
Cypress
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by Ivy Ercoli
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Shot on expired Kodak Tri-X 400 film, these photos feature Bald Cypresses located along Lake Bradford and Lake Hiawatha in Tallahassee, Florida—a foundational part of the wetland ecosystem and ecological heritage.
Radiant Center
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by Hans Kuzmich (he/him)
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A four-channel sound installation developed at Nida Art Colony on the Curonian Spit. Using radio receivers, hydrophones, and contact microphones, it captures vibrations moving through land, water, and border infrastructure—revealing how security apparatuses and environmental forces co-constitute this disputed terrain.
Rising Above the Melt
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by Avidha Raha (She/Her)
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This long-term documentary photo project follows young girls entering a remote Himalayan nunnery in Zanskar Valley, Ladakh, to access education. As climate change alters glacial cycles and weather, the nuns bear its impacts firsthand, adapting labor, food storage, and survival practices in an increasingly unstable environment.
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Video by Zeynep Abes | Audio design by Ellie Schmidt
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@tesellie @zabes93
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Macrocystis kelp is a giant of the ocean, growing over a foot a day from murky depths. These algal ocean forests have held critical habitat for fish, invertebrates, and marine mammals for thousands of years. kelp dreams is a portrait of Southern California kelp forests, woven from field photogrammetry scans and hydrophone recordings. Can immersive digital media visualize the constant movements of the ocean, interspecies dynamics, and our embodied human relationship to them?
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by Maia Orejudos (she/her)
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As the coastal pollution conversation frames oil drilling policy as mainly an environmental issue, this piece highlights how threats facing Arctic whale populations extend towards the Indigenous subsistence communities of Alaska.
Film Screening
Debt Collector
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by Jesse Pinho
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United States | University of Southern California
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A climate research institute director hosts a webinar to celebrate a climate activist's work. But the activist has other plans for their call…
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by Star Akhom, Olivia Armstrong, Allen Marin, Emily Mishoe, Ashten Royse, Dani Oliver
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United States | Middle Tennessee State University
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In a world devastated by climate chance, an oblivious influencer livestreams product reviews from her apartment, blissfully insulated from the devastation outside.
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by Maximilien Rolland
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Canada | UQAM
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On a restricted urban island, a 24-hour cleanup performance becomes a collective ritual where art and science explore our fragile connection to the living world.
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by Daria Mantsereva
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Russian Federation | VGIK
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Following the instructions in a mysterious letter, a young man arrives at the coast searching for his origins. Instead, he discovers a strange new world of fish people—why does it feel so familiar?
Society of Fearless Grandmothers
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by Elia Bongiorno, Samuel Leveille, Karli Korszeniewski
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@fearlessgrandmothers.film @focusinmotion.films @karlikorszen
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United States | University of California, Santa Barbara
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Through wisdom, courage, and grief, a group of activist grandmothers reflects on humanity’s fractured relationship with the environment. By spreading ideals, breaking down stereotypes, and forging community, they fight in the name of a better future.
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Rose Philander
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United States | Pitzer College
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In a post-apocalyptic world, the sea and sky have merged into seaspace. Humans attempt to understand new nonhuman species with their "astroaquanaut" initiative. They will not destroy the natural world again.
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by Curran Seth
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United States | University of California, Santa Barbara
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A community of activists, fishermen, and longtime residents haunted by decades of oil spills rises once more as Sable Offshore threatens to restart operations on a corroded pipeline in the Santa Barbara Channel.
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by Fikri Al Murtaky
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Indonesia | Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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Human ambition reshapes the earth through towering structures and endless infrastructure, concealing the wounds carved into the land. Our global capitalist system dictates progress as the domination of nature—a trajectory that leads not to balance and preservation, but to excess and destruction.
How to Love in a Mass Extinction
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by Anya Jiménez
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United States | University of Southern California
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Riddled with climate anxiety, a woman explores her grief for both her late mother and the planet in a dramedy.
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by Olivia Marie Hille
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United States | University of California, Santa Barbara
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A century after the California Grizzly was erased, the bear only remains on the state flag - until a bold question arises: will California resurrect its lost icon or leave it in the past?
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by Saloni Dhingra
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India | Indian Institute of Art & Design
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Personifying the Yamuna River as a grieving woman wandering Delhi, Kaalindi blends past and present to explore memory, environmental loss, and longing.
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by Okki Poortvliet
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Netherlands |Nederlandse Filmacademie - Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
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@okkipoortvliet on instagram
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With a light tone and open gaze, filmmaker Okki Poortvliet follows a hunting group in the Dutch countryside. She observes the hunt and follows hunter Geert as he prepares the animals days later. Through these acts, the film reveals the hunters’ relationship to death while touching on rural neglect, and the idea that no untouched nature remains in the Netherlands.
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by Talia Frank
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United States | University of California, Santa Barbara
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Crossing the Divide explores how roads fracture wildlife habitats, investigating current wildlife crossings and highlighting their promising potential to restore movement patterns and support ecosystem resilience.
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by Matias Racca, Lucía Cortez
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Argentina | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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Martín, a Pampas fox, sees his home threatened by the rapid advance of deforestation.
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by Collin Snyder
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United States | Syracuse University
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Passionate conservationist, John Crump, works on the preservation of heritage breeds of duck, chicken and most notably, the Cotton Patch Goose.
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by August Koskoff, Chloe Heath, Rachel Ma
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United States | Pitzer College
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William Roper, a musician who lived in Altadena, lost his home to the Eaton Fire. This documentary captures how he processes this catastrophe.