Oil refineries bloom into nocturnal infernos, swallowing darkness with hideous hypnotic grace. In the quiet fractures of community and the melancholy of spaces once brimming with possibility, these works ricochet between aspiration and collapse. Beneath drought-stricken wells and coal-scarred fields, specters inhabit our abandoned territories, living among the remnants of a society consuming itself.
Program:
The Blob (2024, US, 3’)
Mahda Purmehdi and Cesar Herrejon
The Phalanx (2025, US, 13’)
Ben Balcom
Guardian of the Well (2025, TD/US, 6’)
Bentley Brown and Tahir Ben Mahamat Zene
Lime Kiln Workers (2025, RS, 10’)
Nevena Micić, Katarina Micić, and Filip Marojević
Burn Ceremony (2025, US, 17’)
Alexander Girav
Las Animas (2025, US, 14’)
Matt Feldman
Foot to Ground (2024, US, 9’)
Christopher Thompson
An unsanctioned observation of [redacted]’s largest oil refinery, which processes 440,000 barrels of crude oil a day. At night, the complex erupts into flame and fog as we watch from afar, accompanied by a hypnotic score by UK experimentalist Loraine James, where dread turns to awe.
- Year2025
- Runtime17 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorAlexander Girav
Oil refineries bloom into nocturnal infernos, swallowing darkness with hideous hypnotic grace. In the quiet fractures of community and the melancholy of spaces once brimming with possibility, these works ricochet between aspiration and collapse. Beneath drought-stricken wells and coal-scarred fields, specters inhabit our abandoned territories, living among the remnants of a society consuming itself.
Program:
The Blob (2024, US, 3’)
Mahda Purmehdi and Cesar Herrejon
The Phalanx (2025, US, 13’)
Ben Balcom
Guardian of the Well (2025, TD/US, 6’)
Bentley Brown and Tahir Ben Mahamat Zene
Lime Kiln Workers (2025, RS, 10’)
Nevena Micić, Katarina Micić, and Filip Marojević
Burn Ceremony (2025, US, 17’)
Alexander Girav
Las Animas (2025, US, 14’)
Matt Feldman
Foot to Ground (2024, US, 9’)
Christopher Thompson
An unsanctioned observation of [redacted]’s largest oil refinery, which processes 440,000 barrels of crude oil a day. At night, the complex erupts into flame and fog as we watch from afar, accompanied by a hypnotic score by UK experimentalist Loraine James, where dread turns to awe.
- Year2025
- Runtime17 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorAlexander Girav