Whether a train spotter or ordinary passenger, all can acknowledge the striking impact railways have had on the modern world. Filmmakers have sought to capture many of the aspects that hold an enduring aesthetic appeal through different audiovisual techniques within the medium of short film.

Japanese experimental filmmaker Kaori Oda uses her camera as a navigational tool, feeling her way through unfamiliar worlds, particularly subterranean terrains, in her “underground” experimental non-fiction features. These films are dazzling visual and sensory experiences that at first seem preoccupied with remote, unlivable landscapes. Yet within even the most extreme locales, Oda reveals a strikingly syncretic world – one in which nonhuman landscapes converse with human memories, desires, and cosmologies.

Glenn Sonnie Wooden is one of the most provocative radical thinkers and artists in the Chicago art scene. His works Guillotine and Godspeed, both previously curated by Fugue State founder, M. Woods, directly confront a real more real than real, operating within the slippage of a media's capturing of Blackness, as critic and practitioner of the convex mirror of digital communication.

On the 50th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's death, artist-filmmakers Cathy Lee Crane and John Di Stefano present a meditation on Pasolini with a series of video-based works presented at NYU’s Casa Italiana.

'Pasolini: Durations' proposes a poetic and experiential approach to Pasolini’s radical social critique and aims to recontextualize his work within the contemporary moment.

NOVEMBER 3 - 13, 2025 (10:00 am - 6:00 pm)

OPENING: MONDAY NOVEMBER 3 (6:00 pm - 8:00 pm)