This short film program, running 79 minutes, will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. The program features films including “Conveyor” (Eginhartz Kanter, 2025, Austria, Germany, 8 min), “Braided Sand” (Tracy Abbott Szatan, 2024, United States, 17 min), “Between There and Here” (Olivia Booker, 2025, United Kingdom, 9 min), and “Messengers” (Jeffrey Zablotny, 2024, Canada, 45 min).

Unearthing the Universe with Filmmakers

Vast mines provide the raw materials for voracious energy economies and the intricate technologies that drive our world. Elsewhere, geothermal activity offers insight into worlds beyond ours, and old mines, exhausted of their resources, find new life as precision devices that may allow us to see much, much further.