Genres Video, Film & Radio

Body Language

Parish, Carson

Year Grant Awarded: 2025

"Body Language" is a play and meta-documentary about the life and afterlife of Linus Herrell, a gay Clevelander who played an active role in awakening the city to the AIDS crisis. In 2024, Linus' ashes were discovered at a rural BDSM retreat in Pennsylvania, 34 years after his death. Read More

Augmented

Rea, Raymond

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

“Augmented” (working title) is a short experimental animation incorporating traditional analog photography with digital animation techniques and digital editing to examine and educate about disability in a visceral way. Read More

Primordial Attending

Reisch, Jessica

Year Grant Awarded: 2025

Primordial Attending is a three-channel, experimental film that explores the timescales around Summer Lake in Lake County, Oregon, United States. Historical and contemporary research, site-specific footage, and poetry are combined with a soundscape created from field recordings. Read More

Tip/Alli

Samer, Jed

Year Grant Awarded: 2025

In 1977, the outing of science fiction author James Tiptree, Jr. (as Alice B. Sheldon) shook the world’s sense of genre fiction as a male domain. Fifty years later, Tip/Alli explores the intricate life of expansive gender that produced some of the 20th century’s most celebrated speculations. Read More

Picturing My Climate Future

Seeing for Ourselves

Year Grant Awarded: 2025

This project involves the production of a PBS short documentary, "My Climate Future," that follows high school students as they set out with their cameras and smartphones to document environmental change in their communities and imagine how these landscapes may evolve in the decades ahead. Read More

The Golden Thread

VanderKelen, Janelle

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

The Golden Thread is a 16mm single-channel feature that illuminates alternative soil conservation approaches rooted in both scientific innovation and the environmental philosophies of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century abbess and protofeminist scholar. Read More