Pollen: Video Spells
Benja Thompson
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES FALL 2025: CONSTELLATION SERIES
Pollen transmits video spells submitted by artists from around the world, organized into three distinct screenings:
Program 1: Liquid Poetry
Celebrates the elemental medium as a material for sublimation and canvas for personal histories to emerge.
Program 2: Need For Teeth
Chomps at the noise of in/organic bodies, bloodying our relationship to craft as an extension of self.
Program 3: Summonance
Showcases the dancefilm practice as a portal into mythic realms, channeling spirit through interior truths.
Liquid Poetry
Acqua e Ghiaccio dir. Pietro Gardoni
Inundation dir. Dominick Rivers
The Flow dir. Wenwen Zhu
Rain Undulations dir. Ruxandra Mitache
Elephant’s Foot dir. Ellie Vanderlip
I Was There dir. Kamila Kuc
Fathom’s Deep dir. Matilda Butler
An Autumn Follows The Hearse dir. Long Pham
River’s Rebellion dir. Majo Pérez-Castro, Pedro Félix Aguilar, Abril Gandhi
Sulfur dir. Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes
Need For Teeth
• dir. Derrick Schultz
Solebound dir. Max Wolf
BOOKANIMA: Dance dir. Shon Kim
Cinegraffic Score dir. iloobia
Tape-stry dir. Rennie Taylor
As close as your voice can call dir. Derek B Jenkins
Gavia stellata (Sea Mew Set with Stars) dir. Erin Espelie
Pictures of a negative chair dir. Magdalena Bermudez
in ocula oculorum dir. Anna Kipervaser
The Story of the Cricket Queen dir. Natalie Peracchio
Diary of a Hand dir. Tomás Orrego
Confessions on a Transmission Line dir. Monica Duncan, Senem Pirler
CORPUS dir. John R. Kilacky
St. Agatha’s Garden dir. Zelikha Shoja
Gimlet dir. Ruth Hayes
Summonance
Voices Borrowed dir. Veronica Luke
Smoke dir. Erica Schreiner
I Have a Song to Sing You dir. Eluned Zoë Aiano, Alesandra Tatić
One Duck Down dir. Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre
Colibrí dir. Sebastian Vaccaris
Void Variant dir. Shannon Yu
Stick Figures dir. Jennae Santos
Calls and Candlelight dir. Juyi Mao
Is It Easy dir. Cat Tassini, Leslie Hong
THE MARTIAL FOREST dir. J Triangular
Tlalkueponi dir. Julian David Sacristán, José Navarro, Sara Bautista
Sway dir. Julie Lobo
why some people be mad at me sometimes dir. Mahlet Cuff
Vollúpya dir. Éri Sarmet, Jocimar Dias Jr.
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2025.ConSr.1ID number
ConSr.1Year Created
2025Date Created
20251102Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
CAVE Home Of LEIMAY58 Grand St - Brooklyn, New York, NY
Produced and curated by Benja Thompson
Co-presented with LEIMAY at CAVE, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, within WEAVE
LEIMAY is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. And the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The New York Community Trust, the Mellon Foundation and many generous contributions from individual donors.
LEIMAY’s works, community, and coalition programs are supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department Of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts. And by Creative Capital, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the National Performance Network (NPN); and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
