How’s a girl supposed to get off when she has pending Venmo requests? This darkly comedic thesis animation deftly interrogates the commodification of women’s desire in a haze of neon-drenched, low-res polygons and wire frames.

Part personal diary, part essay film, and part post-apocalyptic queer fiction, this 16mm short simultaneously offers a history lesson and a glimpse into our near future. The deserts of Utah are parched, a bomb has poisoned the land and its people, and we hold onto each other because we don’t really know what else to do.

Spanning an end times phone call between Shenzhen and New York, Su captures both cities with quietly arresting cinematography. The film’s dynamic aural universe shifts between meteorological warnings, radio reports, and correspondence reminiscent of Hong Kong cinema or Chantal Akerman’s News From Home.

Composed primarily of cut, pasted, and otherwise rearranged footage from a 2024 pro-Palestine protest in Berlin, Mahboubifar reflects on state brutality, the history of police, and Germany’s cooperation with Israel. Here, the camera is at once a tool for resistance as well as for intimidation, alienation, and persecution.

A journey of monumental scale through the virtual (after-?) life of an unseen protagonist, from their point of view. With cosmic meditations on selfhood and mental health, and searing critiques of the contemporary pharmo-medico regime, the theoretical influences here are as diverse as their representations.