Shorts: Armed with a Camera

A program of deeply personal films in which the camera becomes a tool of inquiry, tracing family histories, inherited wounds, and landscapes shaped by memory through documentary, animation, and hybrid storytelling. Includes A Swim in the Desert (dir. Coffee Kang), Hugs & Kisses (dir. Alexandra "Lexie" Orr), My Father was a Footballer (dir. Matthew Yae Kim), Ramen Western (dir. Meloddy Gao), Somewhere to be (dir. Libby Chun), and Tuimaseve: A High Chief Story (dir. Benjamin Pola).