Join us at 6:00 PM for the opening reception. Stay after the screening for a Q&A and discussion of the films with filmmaker Michael Walsh.

His World and Its Harms

by Michael Walsh

Digital, 7 min, 2025

A re-edit of the classic Hollywood film from 1952, The World in His Arms directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth and Anthony Quinn. Alaska plays a significant role in the film as a constant backdrop of excitement, despair and destination. The re-edit highlights the colonial perspective on Alaska’s land and its people. The World in His Arms had its world premier at the 4th Avenue Theatre in Anchorage on June 18th, 1952. The only Hollywood red carpet world premier to take place in Alaska.

Becoming Earth

14 min, digital, 2025

Missing my friend and neighbor, Eva Saulitis who died of breast cancer in 2016, I re-read her last two books. Eva was able to express her feelings about death in a way that resonated. As painful as the experience was for her, she showed so much grace and wisdom in her dying. In her book Becoming Earth she writes about bardo. In Tibetan Buddhism, bardo is a state of existence between death and rebirth, which varies according to a person’s conduct in life and the way in which they died. The video is dedicated to Eva.

In The Swim

Live accompaniment by Andie Tanning, violin, Katie Cox, Flute, James Moore, guitar and Mariel Roberts, cello.

16mm, 21 min, 2025

Bouncing in waves like a hatchling and gliding through currents like a salmon, a fisherman plunges beneath the surface of a mysterious landscape and swims in the sensual qualities of black and white 16mm film searching for the life of a salmon. 

Beer and Wine sales for the evening’s event go directly to Bunnell Street Art Center.