Every Contact Leaves a Trace
A filmmaker opens up a box of business cards collected over thirty years and crafts a cinematic meditation on the fleeting connections that draw us to one another.
2025
FILMS/VIDEOS
2025
Abortion Clinic Film Collective
In the Abortion Clinic Film Collective series, we hear from medical directors and staff, mothers and daughters, criminal defense attorneys and advocates, about how their personal and professional lives have been affected post-Dobbs.
2024
This Side of Salina
Four Black women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services.
2024
Contractions
In the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade, “Contractions” takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic.
2023
The Jitters
Shot one frame at a time, “the Jitters” includes wiggling around, three pet frogs, and two bonsai trees.
2023
She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes
A picture of parallels and swirls, two women touch with eyes closed, use cameras in motion, discover a holiday of optics.
2022
Swerve
Paolo Javier is a poet who thinks like a filmmaker. I am a filmmaker who thinks like a poet. In Swerve, we’ve come up with our own kind of movie language, or at least a dialect that articulates how we observe the world together as two artists using images, sounds, and words.
