I Walk While Glaciers Melt + Heaven Rain Flows Sweetly

A double-bill screening of I Walk While Glaciers Melt and Heaven Rain Flows Sweetly.

I Walk While Glaciers Melt

This visual essay blends animation and live action to traverse the Andean mountains of Cusco, reflecting on walking as a medium for embracing life’s fragility and transformation. Revisiting Andean animism, rituals, and pilgrimage, it interrogates modernity and our place amid melting glaciers, while celebrating collective experiences and connections.

Heaven Rain Flows Sweetly

Shasha, a nomad who has moved frequently, arrives in Cascadian Oregon. Somehow, the smell of rain here reminds her of the Himalayan foothills from where she originally came. She grows an abundant garden, yet the sky suddenly rains ashes in autumn. Wildfires have erupted around the state, and the smog keeps seeping into her house, forcing her to evacuate. Driving through the Mad Max-esque haze, her thoughts drift back to Lijiang, her ancestral hometown in China, where her maternal Nakhi tribe celebrates Fire as a divine natural force every summer. A journey of tracing dream-like currents of memories unfolds.

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