This screening showcases the award-winning short experimental films and video artworks from Pebbles Underground Winter 2025 edition. Despite vastly different geographies and aesthetics, the artists share a commitment to cinema as a means of exploring personal, political and historical spaces.

A preoccupation with time as something elastic and contested recurs throughout the program. Personal memories of fathers, grandparents, childhoods, lost homes, and inner crises unfold alongside historical and political environments shaped by war, empire, colonization, patriarchy, incarceration, ecological disasters and technological acceleration. History persists in bodies, landscapes, language, labor, and everyday objects, resurfacing through gestures of care, resistance, humor, and refusal.

Surrealist film and performance, archival and found footage, animation, analog film processes, microscopic vision, and hybrid documentary strategies are not deployed as stylistic excess, but rather as ways of thinking through systems of power and perception. Several works interrogate infrastructures that claim to organize life, such as prisons, hospitals, schools, malls, galleries, and algorithms. These works reveal how these infrastructures shape subjectivity while inevitably producing cracks, leaks, and unexpected solidarities. Others turn toward non-human perspectives, ecological entanglements, and ritualized labor, challenging human-centered narratives of control and progress.

The artists encourage viewers to confront their own discomfort, acknowledge their involvement in existing systems, and envision different approaches to interacting with one another, memory, and the world.

Live stream: https://www.visualcontainer.tv

Program and films' descriptions: https://pebblesunderground.art/visualcontainertv-w/