Recently completed short films by Abraham Ravett and Hampshire College alums Josh Weissbach & Ben Balcom :

MOKUM ( 2024) 30 min. sound  by Abraham Ravett

Mokum is a film that explores the feeling of home experienced walking through the streets of Amsterdam during the filmmaker’s multiple trips to Holland. Utilizing 16mm and digital footage filmed over the past twenty years plus recently acquired, early 20th century, silent, b/w archival footage of Amsterdam, Mokum is a tribute to ancestors fleeing the Spanish/Portuguese Inquisitions. Street sounds come up at 19:13.

Eighteen Mill Street ( 2024) 14 min. sound by Josh Weissbach

Eighteen Mill Street introduces Ukrainian artists Marianna Tarish and Nikita Gryshko soon after their relocation to Sweden due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film explores how Tarish and Gryshko's relationships to intimate spaces have been impacted due to the trauma they experienced at the start of the war while living in Kherson, Ukraine and during their journey to Tranås, Sweden. 

The Phalanx ( 2025) 13 min. sound by Ben Balcom

Filmed on the former site of Ceresco, a 19th-century agrarian commune in Ripon, Wisconsin, this film revisits the utopian aspirations of a community guided by Charles Fourier’s vision of 'association'—a model of collective labor, shared property, and social harmony. Founded in 1844, Ceresco flourished briefly before dissolving in 1850, its ideals giving way to the pressures of individual land ownership. Weaving together archival materials, literary adaptation, and a collaborative performance, the film lingers in the echoes of this experiment in cooperative living. Against this historical backdrop, it contemplates the quiet lines of fracture that mark community and the melancholy that lingers in spaces once brimming with possibility.