Shorts Program:

Vanishing Point

Post-Screening Discussion with filmmakers Mars Verrone (BUCKSKIN), Brett Marty (PLANT LIFE), Jean Chapiro (LA MAR), Victor Tadashi Suarez and Livia Albeck-Ripka (co-directors STILL STANDING).

VANISHING POINT gathers films haunted by disappearance—of landscapes, histories, species, and the fragile worlds we call home. Moving from sinking coastlines and fire-ravaged neighborhoods to forests, laboratories, and spiritual archives, these works ask what remains when the ground beneath us—literal or emotional—begins to give way. Across these films emerge acts of witness, resistance, and preservation, illuminating the human drive to hold on even as change feels inevitable.