Ben Balcom

Filmed on the former grounds of Black Mountain College, LOOKING BACKWARD is a brief elegy to the legacy of a utopian college and other impossible...

Wandering through the city, wondering about the potentialities of space, wishing and wanting a full experience of the virtual. These thoughts are...

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...

Here are the playful recordings of a naturalist—the observations of a difficult object. As the studio accelerates and numerous cinematic...

Filmed during a visit to the Duntulm Castle on the Isle of Skye, composed in-camera, frame by frame. The soundtrack is a rendition of the earliest...

Filmed in Jackson Park in Milwaukee during summertime, 2020. Featuring the Statue of Commerce by Gustav Haug, 1881.

A mirrored discourse. The object we see is that which craves articulation, but is never said quite right. We are looking at speech from both sides of...

Growing Up Absurd is assembled from interviews conducted remotely with key members of the Tolstoy College community – Alex Van Oss, Peter...

Prior to leaving Hampshire College in 1980, Tom was working on a 16mm film inspired by Jose Arguelles' book, The Transformative Vision: Reflections...

Wandering through the body puzzling out a system of symbols. The trouble is, affect resists signification outright. The inside and outside become...

An affective portrait of place. An exploration of the city as abstraction.

A feeling of forgetting rendered with first-person camera work, lens play, and image stabilization. I am old where I was born. It must have been...

One sunny afternoon in the middle west, suspended in a time between, two commuters daydream of a life lived otherwise. Adapted from a letter written...

Two slow pans across a public park in Milwaukee. Words from Bernadette Mayer imagining the possibility of a perfect summer day.

Letters from the Ceresco community trace the fragility of harmony, the dream of life in association. Members of the phalanx drift apart, lingering in...