Join us for our first outdoor event of the year, an experimental film program guest curated by Dominick Rivers.

This program aims to expand the notion of destruction beyond spectacle or finality to consider what it means to dismantle and to transform, and how, within these processes, new meanings might take shape. Featured 16mm films by Ieva Balode + Michael Higgins, Kyath Battie, Sarah Bliss, Cooper, Dave Johnson, oneanders, Kristin Reeves, Dominick Rivers, and Robert Schaller approach this topic from a number of angles. Some turn toward the natural world to reveal systems already under stress, while others trace how social and psychological infrastructures fracture, exposing patterns of addiction and mental health that suggest breakdown is deeply intimate and systemic.

Through chemically destructive processes, material intervention, and chance, authorship opens to contingency and unpredictability, considering how control can be both constructed and destabilized. This tension reflects our current culture, marked by an acute awareness of instability, where systems that once promised order or coherence feel increasingly fragile. In this program, control becomes a negotiation that is partial and illusory, creating a structure shaped by adaptation, persistence, and the reimagination of what holds us together.