Now in its fifth season, the Third Coast Dance Film Festival celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening of a series of short dance films. The 2016 Festival’s 90-minute program features fourteen film shorts, including eleven international films from Canada, Spain, Turkey, Brazil, Jordan, Finland, Armenia, the UK, and Italy. (90 minutes, unrated)

In hyper realistic paintings that portray herself and others in exotic settings and dreamlike, mythical, puzzling, or sometimes threatening situations, artist Cedra Wood explores the strangeness of the world and our encounters with it.

Artist Sonja Hinrichsen creates large scale participatory drawings in snow fields around the world, most recently near Sagehen Creek Field Station north of Truckee, California. Learn about the ideas behind Hinrichsen’s snow drawings, and her engagement with the Sierra Nevada as a drawing site.

Artists David Taylor and Marco Ramírez ERRE collaborated on photography projects documenting the US-Mexico Border and its contested history. Join them for a discussion of their work and the social and cultural issues raised by their images.

Playlist: INTO THE TIME HORIZON: 101 Songs for the Environment 

Once Upon a Time in the West, Dire Straits
A Piece of Ground, Miriam Makeba
Earth Crisis, Steel Pulse
Under Pressure, Queen & David Bowie
I Love You Earth (Thomas Bartlett Remix), ANOHNI & Yoko Ono
Walking on Thin Ice, Yoko Ono
4 Degrees, ANOHNI
O Superman, Laurie Anderson
Electricity, Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark
The Future, Leonard Cohen
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, Bob Dylan
Atmosphere, Joy Division
Pray for Rain, Massive Attack
The Gloaming, Radiohead
Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead
Screamland, Father John Misty
One Love to Another, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Hymn of the Big Wheel (2012 Mix/Master), Massive Attack
Plastic Beach (feat. Mick Jones and Paul Simonon), Gorillaz
Vampire Blues, Neil Young
Baby’s on Fire (2004 Remaster), Brian Eno
Beds Are Burning, Midnight Oil
Shut It Down, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Is It Too Late, Rosali
Waitin’ for a Superman, Iron & Wine
Spitting Off the Edge of the World (feat. Perfume Genius), Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I Can Change, LCD Soundsystem
all the good girls go to hell, Billie Eilish
Gasoline Rainbows, Amy Kuney
I Know It’s Real, Wye Oak
Making Do, Lake Street Dive
Orange, Pinegrove
At the Bird’s Foot, City and Colour
Hoping for Rain, Mel Parsons
Newfound Oxygen, Steady Holiday
California Stars, Billy Bragg & Wilco
Rain Crow, Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson
Quédateluna, Devendra Banhart
Moongazing, Drea D’nur
Ni les nuages ni le vent, Mathieu Des Longchamps
Weatherman, Ibeyi
Weather Alive, Beth Orton
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Marvin Gaye
Lives In the Balance, Richie Havens
Stay Alive, Hollie Cook
Inside Out, Spoon
I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All, Father John Misty
Feeling Like a Plant, Dominique Fils-Aimé
La Jardinera, Violeta Parra
Fungal City (featuring serpentwithfeet), Björk
The Mycelium Underground News, The Okee Dokee Brothers
Love Is Like a Butterfly, Dolly Parton
Tartaruga, carbeau
Yimenda-Papaguneray (Turtle Song), Emily Wurramara
El Pescador, Totó La Momposina
Étoile filante, Mathieu Des Longchamps
Weird Goodbyes (featuring Bon Iver), The National
My Blood Runs Through This Land, Black Belt Eagle Scout
Days of Insanity, J. S. Ondara
Echo in the Chamber, Say She She
Wildfires, Sault
A Burning Hill, Mitski
She Brings the Rain (From “Bottom – Ein grosser Graublauer”), Can
Things Behind the Sun, Nick Drake
We Are the Sun, Sault
Change Is in the Form, Rosali
Terra, Caetano Veloso
Magic Mountain, Blonde Redhead
Natural Law, Frazey Ford
Into the Blue, The Joy Formidable
Field Below, Regina Spektor
Wind in My Palm, Six Organs of Admittance
Next Time, Laura Marling
Goodbye, Empire Builder, Tom Brosseau
Son of the Sun, Willie Dunn
Somebody Tell Me It’s Alright, Teleman
Cosmogony, Björk
Mother, Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin
Dragonfly, Samantha Crain
Hawk Song (featuring Yonatan Gat), Medicine Singers
Look at What the Light Did Now (featuring Samantha Crain), Ya Tseen
50 Words for Snow (2018 Remaster), Kate Bush
Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell
Heartbeat, Joanne Shenandoah
Hug of Thunder, Broken Social Scene
In Lightning, Feist
Become the Earth, Feist
Cities in Dust, Siouxsie & The Banshees
The 1975, The 1975
Truth to Power, OneRepublic
The Water Song (featuring The Algonquin Singers & Irene Wawatie Jerome), Marcelle Abela
Fire Snakes, Laura Veirs
To the Ends of the Earth, Midnight Oil
Warrama, David Hudson
She Oak, Alice Skye
Woodstock, Austra
Le peuple a le pouvoir, Tiken Jah Fakoly
Change, Tracy Chapman
New World Coming, Nina Simone
Ohio, Patty Griffin
Wake Up Everybody (feat. Teddy Pendergrass), Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

The film and video program for Into the Time Horizon relates to the seven different discrete themes of the exhibition: Listening to the Land, Altered Lands and the Anthropocene, This Vital Earth, Circularity, Interspecies Relationships, Strange Weather, and The Sixth Extinction.

WEEKLY PROGRAM IN THE PRIM THEATER:

TUESDAYS
Lucy Raven, Chinatown, 2009. Video projection, color, sound; 51:30 min. Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery.

WEDNESDAYS
Suzanne Husky, The Sound of a New Waterfall, 2022. Video, color, sound; 32 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Jerry Dugan, Between Grass and Sky, 2009. Video, color, sound; 5:03 min. Commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art, inspired by the poem “Grass” by Buck Ramsey. Performed by Joel Nelson, Andy Hedges, and Jerry Brooks.

THURSDAYS
Ana Vaz, Há Terra!, 2016. 16 mm transferred to HD video; 12:47 min. Courtesy of the artist and KADIST Collection.
Carolina Caycedo, Esto No Es Aqua (This is Not Water), 2015. Single-channel HD video, color, sound; 5:20 min. Courtesy of the artist and KADIST Collection.
Rebeca Méndez, The Sea Around Us, 2024. Single-channel video, sound, color; 44:26 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

FRIDAYS
Tomás Saraceno, Fly with Pacha, Into the Aerocene, 2017-ongoing. Single-channel video (with archival material from the 2017, 2020, and 2023 gatherings in Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin, Argentina, as well as material from Aerocene and Museao Aerosolar, 2007-ongoing), color, sound; 67:15 min. Directed by Maximiliano Laina and Tomás Saraceno. Courtesy of the artist, Aerocene Foundation, and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

SATURDAYS
Sky Hopinka, Dislocation Blues, 2017. Single-channel video, color, sound; 16:57 min. Courtesy of the artist and KADIST Collection.
Sky Hopinka, Sunflower Siege Engine, 2022. HD video, color, sound (stereo); 15:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Sky Hopinka, Visions of an Island, 2016. 16mm transferred to HD video, color, sound (stereo); 12:23 min. Courtesy of the artist.

SUNDAYS
Karrabing Film Collective, Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland, 2018. Video, color, sound; 26:29 min. Courtesy of the artist and KADIST Collection.

SINGLE SCREENINGS:

May 14, 2026
Godfrey Reggio, Koyaanisqatsi, 1982. Music composed by: Philip Glass and Michael Hoenig
35 mm film transferred to 4K video, color, sound; 86 min. Followed by a virtual Q+A with Godfrey Reggio.

July 30, 2026
Jumana Manna, Wild Relatives, 2018. 2K video, color, sound; 64 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Introduced by Apsara DiQuinzio, followed by a virtual Q+A with the artist.

September 10, 2026
Sky Hopinka, Powwow People, 2025. 4K video, 16mm film, color, 5.1 sound; 88:10 min. Courtesy of the artist.
In-person introduction by the artist, followed by a Q+A.

“Circularity” relates to a needed systemic overhaul in the way that we produce and dispose of materials. Instead of making an item to be used only once or twice and then tossed in the garbage—to sit in a trash dump for eternity—the idea of circularity encourages us to develop more sustainable approaches to the things we manufacture. If we can eliminate the linear cycle of production (creation to landfill) and transform it into a circular one predicated on reuse, recycling, repurposing, and regeneration, then we can eventually stem the profligate rubbish streams we generate and transform to a zero-waste economy.

The works in this section exemplify the concepts embedded in circularity, their makers creating innovative art out of objects they have removed from the waste stream—political posters, discarded bottles caps, used Nike shoes, single-use plastic bags, scraps of wood, shipping envelopes, avocadoes, and even FEMA tarps.

This section is a part of the exhibition INTO THE TIME HORIZON.

This Vital Earth encourages an ethical recentering in human consciousness of the approximately 4.5-billion-year-old “pale blue dot” (as scientist Carl Sagan described the Earth). In the mere 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have evolved, our planet’s centrality has become eclipsed by humanity’s view of itself as the center of life. Artists represented here revel in the interconnectedness of all living and nonliving things and return our gaze to the biodiversity that supports healthy and balanced ecosystems.

Trees, which store carbon dioxide and push it into the ground with their roots, are the predominant motif in this section. Arboreal life helps to cool the atmosphere, like a kind of natural air conditioner, while also releasing necessary oxygen into the air. Assuredly, human life is contingent on the existence of trees and other living beings. The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposes that one large tree can provide a day’s supply of oxygen for up to four people. In recent years, scientists have learned about the intricate social networks trees have evolved, and some ecologists have posited that trees are even intelligent beings. Yet, deforestation—the result of agricultural expansion, cattle ranching, and commercial production of such goods as palm oil and timber—continues to threaten the plant life that has evolved over 400 million years. During just the last 12,000 years, humans have cleared nearly 50 percent of the planet’s trees, threatening to destabilize ecosystems and life forms of all kinds.

This section is part of the exhibition INTO THE TIME HORIZON.

For more than two decades, Maya Lin (b. 1959) has engaged the vocabulary of cartography, producing artworks as diverse as stand-alone sculptures, civic monuments, and room-sized installations that manifest the complex natural and cultural systems operating in the world. In 2012 the Museum invited her to make Pin River–Tahoe Watershed in response to the unique Lake Tahoe landscape. After visiting with scientists at the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Lin created a series of works that visualize the foundational structures of the planet—in part by manufacturing an architecture of its natural features.

This work is a part of the exhibition INTO THE TIME HORIZON.

Several of the exhibition’s themes coalesce in Pierre Huyghe’s riveting nineteen-minute video Human Mask (2014): interspecies relationships, extreme weather, and extinction. Huyghe (b. 1962) sets his moving-image work in post-apocalyptic Fukushima, Japan, after the nuclear disaster of 2011, which occurred in the wake of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that surged over the seawall and flooded nuclear reactors. After panning remnants of the devastated city, the camera enters a small, abandoned restaurant, where a mysterious creature remains with a cat.

This work is a part of the exhibition INTO THE TIME HORIZON.