Overlooked // Unseen

When we turn away from human narratives, how do we see the world? From a congregation in a church basement to the Cornish coastline, these films position us as part of the fauna around us, challenging our preconceived notions of importance, slowing us down, and zooming us in. Combining both animation and documentary formats, this programme is an experiment in thought and a call to alter our perspectives.

This session will feature a Q&A with James DeLisio chaired by Shelby Prichard

Lobsteropolis

James DeLisio / 2025 / USA / 22:00

An observation of the California Spiny Lobster (Panulirus interruptus) through a series of disparate contexts, tracing its passage through the commercial fishing and scientific research industries. Through a slow, silent visual study, the entanglement of non-human life in issues of ecology, labor, and knowledge production come to the surface.

Lick a Wound

Nathan Ghali / 2024 / France / 24:57

A mysterious community of animals has chosen to live self-sufficiently and separated from the humans. Engaging in various rituals in the basement of a church, they remember their existence as pets, mourn the deceased and develop fantasies of omnipotence and revenge. A reckoning in the form of a hyper-realistic computer animation.

ROCK POOL

Dan McKay / 2025 / UK / 17:17

ROCK POOL invites the viewer into a space of quiet encounters, one that asks for attention, rewards stillness, and hopefully awakens a sense of awe for the hidden rhythms of the life all around us. From murky kelp forests to scallop burial grounds and a UV lit cosmic expanse, the non-narrative flow draws its audience through the circadian cycles that turn the worlds beneath our feet. As commonplace as they are alien, these cauldrons of primordial wonder are animated by an innovative experimental soundscape and seamless, layered montage.