Program 6 | Haptic Auras From Cursive Choirs
7:00 PM | Sunday, July 20th 2025 | Woodland Pattern
720 E Locust St | Milwaukee, WI, 53212
Particular Waters, Su Yu Hsin, 18 min 30 sec
Synopsis |
Internationally sought-after semiconductors require tons of water for their production. But where does the water come from? The film follows a former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company worker who works as a truck driver tasked with transporting water from a local river to the factory - until she changes her mind.
Artist Bio |
Su Yu Hsin(b.1989) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She approaches ecology from the point of view of its close relationship with technology. Her artistic practice is strongly research-oriented and involves fieldwork where she investigates the political ecologies of water. Her work reflects on technology and the critical infrastructure in which the human and non-human converge. Her analytical and hydropoetic storytelling focuses on map-making, operational photography, and the technical production of geographical knowledge. Her video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and International Art Biennials: Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Taipei Biennial 2020 and 2023, ZKM Karlsruhe, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, among others. Her films have been screened at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul and e-flux.
Night Waters II, Cecilia Tyrrell, 4 min 20 sec
Synopsis |
A 5-part soundscape, Night Waters combines field recordings of waves, underwater shells, and sea birds blended with ambient strings and female voices, to create a landscape found between waking and dreaming.
To a distant shore I drift with the stars, Sweet dreams they whisper to me. Looking out across the water, I hear sister moon as she shines bright above. Shells converse with the sky, cascading as the night listens.
The air is alive with song, and so I hold on a little longer, Wandering amongst these, the night waters.
Artist Bio |
Cecilia Tyrrell is a sound artist and composer from London, UK. Her work combines field recording techniques, ambient voice and classical instrumental textures to create immersive soundscapes and compositions that explore hidden sonic landscapes of the natural world. Her compositions have been described as mindful and lucid, crafting dream worlds that escape reality. As an avid field recordist, Cecilia embraces a mindful approach to audio creation, traveling to unique locations to record sound and resonance that would otherwise go unheard. These recordings are used throughout her work, forming a space for nature and imagination to intertwine.
Cecilia’s work has been used for meditation and has been broadcast and exhibited in the UK and internationally, most recently on Night Tracks (BBC Radio 3). She has a socially engaged practise, leading sound walks (recent client: North York Moors National Park) and listening workshops (The School of Noise), to reconnect our bodies to the environment around us. Graduating with an MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation from the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2021, Cecilia was a BBC Open Music Trainee for 23/24.
Remembering the Taste of Avocados, Laura Alhach, 21 min
Synopsis |
Remembering the Taste of Avocados portrays the displacement memory of the macayeperos, the reconstruction of their homes and the harvest of the avocados after their return. The story is told through the eyes of the community as witnesses of violence.
Artist Bio |
Laura Alhach is a Colombian filmmaker, researcher, and archivist whose work explores memory, diaspora, and the intimate traces of historical conflict. She studied Anthropology at Universidad de los Andes, earned an MA in Ethnographic and Documentary Film from University College London (UCL), and a second MA in Film Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), where she joined the research group C3: Non-Aligned Film Archives.
Her short films Chontaduro Honey (2017) and Remembering the Taste of Avocados (2017) weave archival material and personal imagery to reflect on memory, space, and embodied histories. Her work has screened at Suburbinale, MIDBO, Whitstable Biennale, Hackney Shorts, FlipSide Festival, and FICCI, among others.
In 2024, she co-founded Tres Mil Malas, a platform for audiovisual experimentation. She is currently developing the film All the Rivers of the Sea (or a second unfinished memory of Yuruparí) and curating the exhibition Costas: Diaspora Cinema Archives.
Night Waters IV, Cecilia Tyrrell, 2 min 24 sec
Synopsis |
A 5-part soundscape, Night Waters combines field recordings of waves, underwater shells, and sea birds blended with ambient strings and female voices, to create a landscape found between waking and dreaming.
To a distant shore I drift with the stars, Sweet dreams they whisper to me. Looking out across the water, I hear sister moon as she shines bright above. Shells converse with the sky, cascading as the night listens.
The air is alive with song, and so I hold on a little longer, Wandering amongst these, the night waters.
Artist Bio |
Cecilia Tyrrell is a sound artist and composer from London, UK. Her work combines field recording techniques, ambient voice and classical instrumental textures to create immersive soundscapes and compositions that explore hidden sonic landscapes of the natural world. Her compositions have been described as mindful and lucid, crafting dream worlds that escape reality. As an avid field recordist, Cecilia embraces a mindful approach to audio creation, traveling to unique locations to record sound and resonance that would otherwise go unheard. These recordings are used throughout her work, forming a space for nature and imagination to intertwine.
Cecilia’s work has been used for meditation and has been broadcast and exhibited in the UK and internationally, most recently on Night Tracks (BBC Radio 3). She has a socially engaged practise, leading sound walks (recent client: North York Moors National Park) and listening workshops (The School of Noise), to reconnect our bodies to the environment around us. Graduating with an MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation from the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2021, Cecilia was a BBC Open Music Trainee for 23/24.
BLUE MOUNTAIN. WHITE CLOUD, Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė, 10 min 45 sec
Synopsis |
There is a story circulating among Zen Buddhist monks about two types of monks. First ones are settled and spend all their life in a monastery, they are identified with the blue mountains, while others are like white clouds – constantly traveling from one place to another. In the film, the filmmaker and Won Bo Sunim, a Lithuanian woman who decided to go to South Korea more than 20 years ago and become a Zen monk, embark on a journey in the mountains of South Korea.
Artist Bio |
Miglė Križinauskaitė (b. 1987) is an audiovisual artist and experimental documentary filmmaker based in Utena, Lithuania. In 2020, she graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with an MA in Film Directing and is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD, focusing on experimental travelogue filmmaking. She is particularly interested in experimental autoethnography, the travelogue genre, and artistic research through sensory exploration, including psychogeography through film or vice versa. Her work spans multiple disciplines, including essayistic sonic reflections, still photography, collage, found footage, and experimental and documentary moving images in both analogue and digital formats. Recently, her practice has evolved into expanded cinema and analogue film performances. She presents abstract ideas through meta-narratives, self-reflexivity, and personal storytelling. Her work often explores the erosion of memory and time, intertwining reality with abstract forms of experimental art. Filmmaker's short films have been screened at numerous festivals, including 25 FPS Festival, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Experimental Film Festival Process, Kinoskop – Analog Experimental Film Festival,
OBSKURA – Analog Film Festival, and others.
Night Waters V, Cecilia Tyrrell, 3 min 19 sec