aDifferent Program 2 | Infrasonic Projections
3:00 PM | Saturday, July 19th 2025 | Woodland Pattern
720 E Locust St | Milwaukee, WI, 53212
Young man with a leather jacket, Muriel Montini, 5 min 30 sec
Synopsis |
Young man with a leather jacket
He dreams. I dream in his dream.
Artist Bio |
Muriel Montini studied cinema. She lives and works in Paris. Since 2000, she has made several films screened in different international important institutions (Musée du Jeu de Paume, Anthology Film Archives New York...) and festivals (Hamburg International Short Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Ji-hlava International film festival, European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck...). She currently works on different projects.
Texas Switch, Darren Dominique Heroux, 9 min 16 sec
Synopsis |
Texas Switch plays with the mechanics of cinematic sleight-of-hand, where subjects appear and vanish at a moment’s notice. The film explores themes of visibility and presence – who remains, who disappears and what lingers between the frames. Blurring documentary and experimentation, Texas Switch questions the act of looking itself: how we see and what escapes us.
Artist Bio |
Darren Dominique Heroux is a filmmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia, committed to an accessible experimental practice that invites viewers to engage on their own terms. Blending documentary with a sense of play, his work explores
themes of visibility, perception, and the ways we construct meaning
rom what we see — and don’t.
Old World, Roland Cartagena, 8 min 20 sec
Synopsis |
A taciturn poacher on the hunt for pitcher plants heeds an unexpected ringing emanating from within the forest. Curiosity lures him to the source and he eventually finds himself lending an ear to someone grieving about their hair. Elsewhere, vignettes of the forest reveal its modest luster, all the while the poacher, or perhaps we, continue to attend to the brooding stranger.
Artist Bio |
Roland Cartagena (b. 1998, Zamboanga) is an emerging Filipino filmmaker based in Metro Manila, Philippines. He studied at the University of the Philippines Film Institute and completed his bachelor’s degree at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Primarily working with short form, Cartagena’s practice spans cinema, animation, and moving image-making. His works, bound together by an emphasis on concept, imagery, and experimentation, deal with wide-ranging subjects interpreted in ways that reframe the familiar.
Los pájaros y yo, José J. Martinez, 7 min 30 sec
Synopsis |
After observing from my window a bird entangled in barbed wire, inspiration for this short film arose. Through a compilation of personal images, filmed with a handycam, I explore the subtle connection between my identity and the world of birds. This work reveals simple but unexpected parallels and the hidden beauty in the small, inviting us to rethink the interrelation between human beings and nature.
Artist Bio |
Also known as Romina Montero, José J. Martínez is a filmmaker and photographer from Medellín, Colombia; a student at the ITM's Film program and member of Angelis Novis Network from by the MCFF. Working mainly with lo-fi digital tools and gritty soundscapes, he embraces the raw aesthetics of early-2000s consumer cameras and recorders, where the machines and its imperfections become part of the final result. His work prioritizes texture and subjectivity over traditional narratives and conflicts, exploring the accidental beauty of the unpolished.
A Shifting Pattern, Isaac Sherman, 5 min 56 sec
Synopsis |
A collected geography of local flowers; appearing, disappearing, reappearing. Afterimage becomes before-image, physiology and pathology at play. An ode to the neighborhood, an entrapment that offers small moments for escape. The will to walk aimlessly is rejuvenated as stasis turns to movement and back again
Please note: This film contains strobing images.
Artist Bio |
Isaac Sherman is a filmmaker, projectionist, composer and performer currently living in Los Angeles, California. His film work is informed by direct engagement with the medium; dissecting frames, manipulating and obscuring the lens, rephotographing, and hand processing. He focuses largely on his immediate surroundings, preferring subjects and topics that feel inherently close. His work has been exhibited at festivals including Prismatic Ground (NYC), Lightfield (San Francisco), Engauge Film Festival (Seattle), Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Crossroads (SF), Milwaukee Underground Film Festival and more.
E Blok, Daire 5 (Block E, No. 5), Çağla Gillis, 12 min 55 sec
Synopsis |
Çağla moves to Austria for university, facing the loneliness of a temporary dormitory, a liminal space that shapes her emotional journey. Meanwhile, her family in Istanbul struggles with the uncertainty and frustration of living in a rented apartment. Their home, demolished due to aggressive urban policies under the guise of earthquake risk prevention, remains incomplete for years. Through intimate yet online conversations, they share their longing for belonging, the weight of waiting, and the mundane tasks of daily life. In these cold, fractured spaces, time seems to blur, and memories echo as voices.
Artist Bio |
Çağla Gillis (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the University of Arts Linz, Austria. Her research explores the more-than-human world through experimental ethnography. As a filmmaker, her work investigates women's experiences, everyday life, and imaginary topographies. She actively engages in work aimed at exploring the links between her personal life experiences and broader historical and contemporary movements. Her films, blending experimental and documentary forms, have been screened at various film festivals and galleries internationally, including Crossing Europe, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Diagonale, Millennium Film Workshop, Ars Electronica, Maerz Gallery,
CinemaNEXT, Labocine, Arts, Letters, and Numbers Gallery,
The Wrong Biennale, 6th International Women Filmmakers
Festival, and Documentarist 16th Istanbul Documentary Days.
Roberto Baggio, Henrique Cartaxo, 6 min 24 sec
Synopsis |
The childhood memory of Brazil's victory in the football World Cup of 94, hosted by the United States, serves as trigger for a hauntology of the 1990s, its culture and its politics in the context of the end of the USSR and the Cold War. In this short autobiographical essay documentary, the filmmaker investigates how he, as a seven year old Brazilian boy, began to construct his perception of the world, recovering images that were broadcast on television in Brazil during that period and that became part of the collective memory of an entire generation.
Artist Bio |
Henrique Cartaxo - Video artist, experimental documentarist and film editor from Brazil. Henrique has had film editing works presented in competition in festivals such as Cannes, Sundance and Clermont- Ferrand. As a director, he ventures into autobiographical documentary and videoart, with films exhibited at festivals such as DocLisboa, True/False, Fubar, Film Diary NYC, Uppsala ISFF and Stuttgarter Filmwinder.
0911 WARSCHAUERSTR, Carolina Soltmann and Boromir Bogumil, 8 min
Synopsis |
Somewhere in between the two stations of Warschauerstr. in Berlin, at 6:57am on November 9th, 2024
The diffuse trace of a ruined landscape. A voice wanders through the introspective journey of an identity condemned to disappear.
A dreamlike walk in search of fragments and past voices amidst the subtle memory of the loss of oneself, memory and the present.
Artist Bio |
Carolina Soltmann is a Chilean-German actress, producer, and screenwriter currently based in Berlin. Throughout her career, she has distinguished herself across various areas of theatre and film, actively participating in independent projects spanning both cinema and documentary. Soltmann served as Executive Producer for the feature film “Educación Física” directed by Pablo Cerda; collaborated on the cinematography of the short film “Augurios, el cantar de las aves” (Spain-Chile) alongside artist Daniela Gallardo; and as General Producer and Screenwriter of the documentary “Había una vez un pueblo” (Chile-Brazil), an emotional ensemble portrait of a rural community threatened by mining and its relationship to the passage of time.
Her debut feature, 0911WARSCHAUERSTR. (Germany-Chile), co-directed with French filmmaker Boromir Bogumil, is a reflection on identity and displacement, told through an introspective visual narrative filmed in the city of Berlin. With a constantly evolving career, Carolina Soltmann continues to explore new ways of telling stories through the cracks of language — stories that connect cultures and geographies from a visually poetic perspective. Her latest project, the short film “El silencio de la corchea” is currently in pre-production.
Boromir Bogumil is a French Berlin-based film director and producer whose work spans documentaries and narrative films, focusing on the relationship between people and places. He holds a diploma in film directing from the ESRA school in France. His documentaries include Açaí Parau, filmed in the Brazilian Amazon, exploring the socio- economic impact of the açaí industry, and Dona de Roça, a portrait of traditional farming communities in the region. His short films and documentaries have been showcased at numerous international film festivals.
As Creative Director of the cultural NGO Skatesencia Berlin, he fosters creative communities through filmmaking workshops and inclusive skateboarding events in public spaces. In 2023, he co-led a workshop with indigenous communities from Venezuela and Brazil alongside Santiago Burelli, sharing communication tools with people affected by illegal mining and often excluded from global narratives.
Since 2024, Boromir Bogumil has been developing his first feature film set in Berlin, continuing his exploration of socially relevant stories rooted in cultural and environmental themes.
Pidikwe (Rumble), Caroline Monnet, 10 min 11 sec
