Shorts Program:

Time Being

Post-Screening Discussion with filmmakers Faye Tsakas and Nora DeLigter (co-directors, PLUMPED; Taliesin Black-Brown, director, and Hank Lentfer, protagonist (LISTEN); Todd Chandler (9,192,631,770 Hz).

TIME BEING meditates on time—not as something fixed and measurable, but as something felt, shaped, and embodied. From a child’s expansive, unstructured sense of time—before it is disciplined into minutes, hours, and schedules—to the fleeting promises of beauty culture, the pursuit of perfect pitch, the ancient endurance of plant life, and the vanishing sounds of the natural world, these works consider how time transforms bodies, landscapes, relationships, and perception itself. Moving between the intimate and the cosmic, these films explore how we mark time, lose ourselves within it, and try to preserve what it takes away.

Featured Shorts

United States of America14 min.DC Premiere

United States of America12 min.World Premiere