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Eric Coombs Esmail

Following the documentary impulse to the limits of observation.
2025 / 1987 
        

Critical   Media   Practices

Documentary & Pedagogy

Critical   Media   Practices

Documentary & Pedagogy
Tomorrow

American Refuge (feature documentary)
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American Refuge


        People flee to the upland forests to reinvent themselves after personal and social trauma, but they soon learn that the American West is a site of eternal return, and the past is always present.

Feature documentary    forthcoming (co-directed with Christian Hammons)


LEO SACER

Documentary approaches to ecological violence.

        The story of a re-located mountain lion that may have killed at least 15 pet dogs in 30 days in a small Colorado community.

Short Documentary     Forthcoming
(co-directed with Emilie Upczak)

Documentary Intersubjectivity


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        Documentary effectively navigates the slippage in idealism between solipsism and intersubjectivity.

Journal Article, Transformations issue 37     2024

Unearthed Objects

S3026 and Michael Marder’s object earth

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        Mirage, qanat, and vertical poeisis show how art itself can perform media archaeology. 

Journal Article, The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory     2024
(co-authored with Nima Bahrehmand and Laurids Andersen Sonne)