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Aug 17
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SI Reasoning’s International Film Festivals

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The Encarne Trilogy at the Around International Film Festival

SI Reasoning’s The Encarne Trilogy, won the month of June 2025 Honorable Mention for Best Experimental Film at the Around International Film Festival Paris 2025 and is entered into the unified festival of ARFF (Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin) and WSXA (Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris). In Novenber 2025, SI will attend the Red Carpet and Awards Ceremony in Berlin.

The Around International Film Festivals has a monthly selection for the categories Feature & Short Films, Documentaries, Experimental, Commercial, Music Videos, and Animations, Student Films, Series, TV, New Media and AI Works. Every month, the international community awards the creations to serve ARFF International Official Laurel and evaluates in advance all to participate in the annual Award Ceremony.

The Around International Film Festivals have numerous network & board members from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, and associated platforms. All the ARFF International Editions are the Official IMDb Award Listing Qualifiers. Monthly Selections may share their nominees on IMDb.

Around Films Paris
Paris International Film Festival

Absurd Film Festival

The Encarne Trilogy won Best Arthouse Film for the month of July at the Absurd Film Festival. This monthly award will be nominated for Best Arthouse Film at the annual Absurd Festival with an opportunity to be shown in Milan, Italy if it wins.

Awards July 2025
Absurd Monthly Awards Best Arthouse
Bangkok Royal Society of Film CRITICS AWARD - Bangkok Movie Awards - 2025

Bangkok Society of Film Critics’

Additionally, The Encarne Trilogy won one of the July 2025 Experimental Film Bangkok Society of Film Critics’ Award.

Bangkok Monthly Competition Results
Aug 17
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CillaVee on a Times Square Billboard

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CillaVee had a second of fame on a Times Square billboard, advertising the #Chashama Gala!

The ad photo was taken by David Gwaltney at the Black Mountain College {Re}HAPPENING in 2024. CillaVee’s The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher was originally commissioned for that performance.

CillaVee on a Times Square Billboard Photo by David Gwaltney

#Chashama helps create a more inclusive art world by partnering with property owners to transform unused real estate. These spaces are used for artists, small businesses, and for free community-centric art classes. The Chashama Gala features performances by over 300 artists. Proceeds from the Gala support over 30 years of space grants for artists, small businesses and community-centric art classes.

CillaVee’s The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher was also the poster for the Black Mountain College Museum’s 13th annual {Re}Happening!

CillaVee The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher Poster
May 03
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My drummer is my conscious

By Collective writing, Janice Hathaway, Ruurdje Laarhoven No Comments

For Paul Cowell,
September 21, 2014

Collage by Janice Hathaway

My drummer is my conscious

My drummer is my conscious
Floating silently along a bed of roses.
Good morning sweetie, it’s going to be a glorious day,
Skinned with a rough bark-like substance impervious to weather.
Because of gun shots and thunder
Once the sound of my drum catches their attention they cannot keep their feet on the ground,
giving rise to the notion of the flying dog.

A large swan that uses her beak to drum.
I was in seventh heaven when my drummer found me.
Ringing, rat-a-tat-ting with little fluttering notes that fade away slowly.
The horrors of the war, the whispers of the leaves, the roll of the waves.
Their hearing is so astute they can hear the smallest flutters as a shout for attention.
When pinned down and catapulted off into the night sky.

 

May 03
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The Charge

By Collective writing, Davey Williams, Janice Hathaway, Johnny Williams, LaDonna Smith No Comments

discharging melon seeds to miners
whose eye balls dilate with darkness. Chimpanzee historians
recite stanzas until ting tong tones tell tales of the aftermath of digestive organs
as if there were worms crawling about.
Meanwhile, belts of bells, bullets, boxes…bobby pins, bags…
An excellent debacle ensues
Sancoset series given a name
On the ashes of imagined signs
In the lethargy of firm ropes of “miracle gro”
We sprout hearing buds and exercises of listening.
There are fragments of rose thorns and crystal reflections on your face
You have touched and been touched by the loud chorus of artifact,
a scattered memory with legs and floating in steel.
Random tongues of razors and mortar
Gave a lingering presence like perfum
Leaning towards golf with loose fitted coral balls.

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