Cloudwards: Waiting is a Dreaming ascends through various spaces of anticipation––pauses between strikes of lightning, a bus full of passengers nodding off, city alcoves in a downpour, reality TV elimination rounds, or the instructional stage of an indoor skydiving facility. Each work dreams in such spaces, steadfastly aspiring toward flight, progress, inflation, chance encounter, the taste of winning, dry ground, or a truer sleep. Documentarian sensibilities intermingle with found footage free-form experimentation and infrared interludes. By way of bats and pilots, rockets and space dogs, earthquakes and birds, the works of this program always tilt cloudwards.

Program:

Laika – Deborah Stratman (2021, 4:33 min)

Helianthus Corner Blues – Jem Cohen, (2013, 2:48 min) 

Lightning – Paul & Marlene Kos (1976, 1:23 min) 

ADARNA – Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan (2017, 1:00 min)

ROCKET – Katharina Bayer (2024, 5:00 min)

Somewhere only we know – Jesse McLean (2009, 5:15 min) 

All Days Make Their End – Julian Flavin, (2023, 13:30 min) 

Life Without Dreams – Jessica Bardsley (2022, 13:30 min) 

Total runtime: 46 mins

Going on it’s third year, Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival is a yearly, non-competitive experimental showcase, which serves to highlight contemporary works of experimental film, as well as screening significant historical works for the purpose of expanding awareness and appreciation for the experimental mode of filmmaking and its contemporary practitioners, both international and domestic.