Erin Espelie Movies

Attempting to fix, replicate, reanimate, or gather data can estrange us further from what we seek to know.

A queer contemporary re-imagining of the Odyssey. Odysseus wracked with guilt for the loss of his crew returns home in search of a lost love. An...

Three years ago, honeybees started to disappear. Today there are at least 33% fewer bees in the U.S., and with bees helping to pollinate one in every...

A film for A.R. Ammons, author of Garbage: A Poem (1993), and baculovirologist Lois Miller. 10 quintillion insects live on the planet—that is,...

made for the Frontier Drive-In, Earth Day 2022

An orb-weaver spins its web, captures prey, and filters light. How does other light get filtered or created? Digitally and energetically, light and...

10 quintillion insects live on the planet—that is, 300 pounds of insects for every pound of human flesh. They drive decomposition, dissolution,...

Our imagination is equally confounded, said the 18th-century Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet, by the infinitely great and by the infinitely small....

Using found sound from Disney's 1940-50s nature documentaries, this trilogy creates a mismatch between the digital image and historic/histrionic...

what am I to do with my imagination—& the person in me trembles—& there is still innocence, it is starting up somewhere even now, and...

Humans have used moss for at 1,000 years to help heal their injuries. --Smithsonian Magazine, 2017. Mosses and other small beings issue an invitation...

(made for video exhibition loop, MediaMatic Gallery)

Radicals organize the chaotic swarm of characters into a logical system. Traditional Chinese groups all characters according to 214 radicals...

Underwater creatures—snapping shrimp, bearded seals, sperm whales—populate the soundscape here, alongside the ghost voice of biologist...

This installation, like so many others, is outdoors. It cannot really be seen, for its primary object, will, if looked at directly, burn, damage,...

Here, a group of women tell of how they came to arrive at an isolated ashram atop a mountain and what life there has been like both before and after...

The myth of the black mirror as a source of knowledge provides the platform for a deeply original film, which bridges scientific diligence with...

Boletus, amaryllis, anolis, listeria, wisteria, nematoceara: nothing is linear in evolution, nor in life nor in light. We radiate out on waves, then...

Try as we might, we cannot autopsy (from Greek, to see for oneself) the whole natural world. As diversity of life reduces, we further lose the...

A distillation of references to the sea in James Joyce's Ulysses, and a tangible look at the material effects of an aging Super8-mm camera.