Cosmic Rays Touring Program 2025 | Experimental Film Lab

Cosmic Rays Touring Program 2025: 

"You Don't Know Me"
A selection of films from the 7th Cosmic Rays Film Festival 

Presented by the Experimental Film Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute
and Screen/Society

What happens to our bodies in an age of disembodiment? A program of short experimental films about the roles our bodies play, the data they generate, the avatars they adopt, and the traces they leave behind. Films that ask if we’re evolving into something new, or just heading for extinction. 

Program:

I'm Not Your Monster 
(Karen Yasinsky, 2024, 4:33 min)

Lizzy
(Susanna Wallin, 2024, 14 min)

Exo Gestus #2
(Yvette Granata, 2024, 4:30 min)

Listening In, Resounding Out
(Eislow Johnson & Dominic Bonelli, 2023, 11:23 min)

Night Music
(Edwin Rostron, 2024, 3:23 min)

Species of Analogy
(J.M. Martínez, 2023, 13 min)

File No. 2304
(A. S. M. Kobayashi, 2024, 5:22 min)

An egg, the white is gone but the yellow remains
(Mohamed Thara, 2023, 3:50 min)

ESP
(Laura Kraning, 2024, 2:45 min)

The Big Day of Coloane
(King U Lao, 2023, 17:30 min)

Total Running Time: 82 minutes

The Cosmic Rays Film Festival is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be. The Festival presents several programs of short films made by filmmakers from North Carolina and around the world that are formally inventive; speak with a personal voice; and are inspired by the possibilities of film as art.

Programmers/Directors:
Sabine Gruffat
Bill Brown

The Experimental Film Lab (EFL) is a group of projects aimed at redefining and broadening the contemporary discourse around "experimental film" by addressing academic biases, fostering inclusion and diversity, and expanding the conversation through a conference, podcast, website, screenings, and an archival project focused on African American cinema. EFL's screening series presents films that use experimentation as a method for improvisation, political friction, and playful disruption. These works resist fixed meanings, push boundaries through unpredictability, and present us with the possibility of something yet to come.

EFL's co-directors are:
Shambhavi Kaul, Associate Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Franklin Cason, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

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