The Dairy Arts Center

TICKETS Six rural communities are marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate: their land, a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. Against the impassive logic of government analysis and archives, a people’s history of resistance and stewardship emerges through a visceral journey across the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites. […]

TICKETS Far from loved ones, people push external borders and stretch internal boundaries seeking safe havens – willingly or warily. Meanwhile, fantasies of return and tensions between here and there linger. Traversing the perpetual crossroads of nightmares and daydreams, home becomes a space of knowing and not knowing.

TICKETS An incarcerated crew fights fires for 70¢ an hour. A housebound mother struggles against the celebration of matrescent martyrdom. Observing and reenacting daily routines where human potential is bought and sold, these projects document their own production in contested terrain, confronting the exploitations of capitalist culture on the clock.

TICKETS A daughter's father. A mother's sons. Across time and space, the nuanced contours of grief are mapped between generations. From the intimate to the systemic, the films in this program explore meaning-making in the wake of loss and the paths of remembrance that loved ones create to sustain communities.

TICKETS Structures of resistance are powered by the hopeful who inhabit them, like individual fibres of a muscle, contributing their strength to a collective resilience. Radical, expansive inclusion facilitates collaboration, imagining the future as a restored whole, with a history and home emancipated from colonial display.

TICKETS When distances are measured in time and oceans, we cannot simply quantify the gaps. Separated bodies are marooned and shipwrecked, waiting to be found. To be so far causes the heroes of these tales to set sail, testing the potential of presence through deep reminiscing, craving a specific flavor of happiness, and fearful of […]

TICKETS An exploration of Colombia's geographies, peoples, and stories through the material and imperceptible intersections of the Spanish word "tierra" – land, soil, ground, and territory. From geological formations to coca-growing regions, unequal land distribution to mass graves, and Indigenous rituals to land re-appropriation efforts, Terra interweaves some of Colombia's most pressing issues in a montage of […]

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TICKETS Fragments, movements, and radical unselfing coalesce in a collective treatise on the poetry of charged spaces. A hazy screen marks a violence that cannot be traced. Felled trees drift along a bayou tributary, in search of a disappearing home. Childhood excursions are revisited, unearthing obscured truths from spring-fed rivers and snow-capped mountains. Strained desire […]

TICKETS Mickey spent the last ten years exploring her transition process within the conservative context of Sinaloa, Mexico. Through digital archives, artistic reenactments, and deeply personal encounters, the film moves between tenderness and rage, transforming memory into an act of freedom. An exploration of self-perception and a n

TICKETS A program of shorts by Dana Kavelina Animation becomes a practice of resurrection in Dana Kavelina's cinema, where collage, stop-motion, and archival fragments reanimate forgotten histories. People speak from mass graves and coal mines of the Donbas, rising to haunt us anew. Dolls begin to move, photographs flicker, and buried voices return to relay […]

TICKETS The past persists in trembling images, unsettled ground, restless bodies, and repeated gestures. From a devastating street protest to a cryonics facility, these projects deny demands for resolution. They dwell instead in limbo between reversal and return, the solid and the spectral, preservation and decay, embracing absences that continue to shape the present.

TICKETS Small-gauge tactility reveals interlocking patterns of landscape, activism, and everyday life, highlighting how meaning emerges through relationships. Energies of the George Floyd Uprising, Anishinaabe Seven Fires Prophecy, and Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride are transmitted through the intimate conversations and kinetic montage of Surrendur. Bay Area Sampler Quilt makes an in-camera mosaic to mimic the form of a […]

TICKETS A speed ramp between quotidian rhythms and accelerating consumerism materializes in the endless mirror of lakes and rivers, the windshield of a city bus, and the ever-expanding physical infrastructure of cloud computing. Superimposing tradition and transformation, layers of space and time transmute water into data at the velocities of slow-growth lichen and break-neck scrolling.

TICKETS Carefully constructed walls fall to the irresistible forces of storm and fire. In the aftermath, we see one another more clearly. Lines of connection grow between broken hearts, charting routes of restoration and solidarity. Humanity blooms beautiful through mutual aid and the endurance to keep showing up, radiating the love that appears when we […]

TICKETS Triumphs fade, future tribulations loom large. Disappointment looks inevitable, but navigating by desire, you persevere. Each attempt sets its own pace, each a new opportunity for the same old mistakes. It becomes clear that some people will never learn. Vulnerable, you try again. Ending is not a failure, and what remains will be enough.

TICKETS Languages are carried beyond words, in a glance, a game, or a ritual. Through a disintegrating tongue and a capella songs, we think about the nature of communicating and try to narrate ourselves back to life. Cinema becomes a space to understand survival, selfhood, and alterity. Here, storytelling is an act of relation, and […]