A Thousand Landscapes, A Thousand Bodies is a two-fold film program that explores the tension between the collective and the individual by looking at how landscapes and bodies interact with each other. Conceived as a diptych, these two programs bypass the difference of scale between the body and the landscape to take interest in the trajectories of contamination that puts these two entities in constant relation and negotiation. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s perspective on madness as developed in their book Anti-Oedipus, this second program explores the symptoms exhibited by the body as a response to an absence or a lack, and not as merely pathological. Here, symptoms are not failures but adaptations, offering a “sane” response to an increasingly insane world marked by the systemic violence of late capitalist societies. From the confines of institutional walls to the precarious expanses of untethered thought, A Thousand Bodies is a film program that looks at the ways in which bodies and minds resist control and subvert hegemonic forces. It’s under the flesh where you are tender by Agnès Hayden delves into the materiality of the body, silently piercing through the opacity of the skin to uncover what lies beyond the flesh. In Gala Hernández López’s for here am i sitting on a tin can far above the world, fear, imagination, and profit converge as thousands of individuals choose to be cryogenized, awaiting better times. Martin Davalos’ The Devil’s Knee excavates undesired bodies from decaying images, revealing their stubbornness to be seen in a context that constantly seeks to erase them. Exit Through the Cuckoo’s Nest by Nikola Ilic offers a searing critique of systemic oppression, showing mental illness as the only way out of a compulsory military service in wartime while Sarah Ballard’s Full Out delves into the transformative possibilities of the body as a site of violence, inexplicable impulses, and radical change. In the final film of the program, In My Head, Irina Tempea plunges the audience into the fragmented landscape of inner turmoil shaped by a body failing due to a tentacular disease. Together, these works question the boundaries between reason and madness, sickness and resilience, giving voice to untold stories of bodies that endure, resist, and refuse to be silenced. (Curated by Mira Adoumier and Nour Ouayda (The Camelia Committee))