Alina Rancier

Aurora

A queer love story set during summertime in Brooklyn, NY. We meet Aurora, a 30 something graphic designer unhappy with where her life is - including the relationship with her boyfriend. We follow her to a picnic with her new crush: Sol, a 20 something programmer, and interactive artist, plus Sol's friends, a group of tech/art misfits. As the night unfolds Aurora finds and loses herself within Sol, becoming inebriated with the prospect of the kind of life she's dreamed of for herself, but hasn't achieved.

Joiri Minaya's Pattern Making

Through a dense visual layering of the Dominican Republic’s landscapes, artist Joiri Minaya’s New York studio, and her vibrant artworks, this short documentary film follows Dominican Republic-born, New York-based Minaya as she challenges the ways that the cultures of the Caribbean have been represented and makes space for the stories that remain untold.