The past is not a faded piece of history, buried and distant; it lives on in the present, either in plain view as an evolving trace, or lying hidden as a marked imprint. Our present is an evolution of the past, a direct effect of symbolic or manifest causes.

Oftentimes, as the present accelerates towards the future, it blurs the traces of the past - ever-present in the sky or landscape, national borders or economical models, ideologies etc. 

The cyclical nature of our civilization’s evolutionary models only reinforce the cautionary tales of history as case-studies from which to build toward a more inclusive, egalitarian and ecologically-minded future.

In times of crisis the desperate call for leadership and solutions should always be met with awareness and wariness toward authoritarian reflexes.

REVERBERATIONS culls together a series of films that analyze the (recent or distant) past in order to draw out the traces which are still manifested in the present. 

As we hurtle towards the future, our current paths reverberate the past - global unity for ideologies of peace and equality (BRIGHT FUTURE), feverish authoritarianism (FIUME O MORTE!), ‘botanical archeology’ unearthing past and present exploitation (THE SOLDIER’S LAGOON), corporate influence over climate policy and societal awareness (THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT), the fulcrum of colonial exploitation and patriarchy (PARADISE), atmospheric intrusions as reminders of belligerent occupation (THE DIARY OF A SKY). 

The inevitable conclusion is at once sobering and humanistically poetic: it is up to each generation to decide the degree to which the axiom of “history repeating” holds true (TRAINS).