Eric Coombs Esmail
2026 / 1987
Critical Media Practices
[documentary]
Critical
Media
Practices
[documentary]
American Refuge
People flee to the upland forests of the Colorado mountains 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

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 and Hybrid Article, Hyphen Journal
(co-directed/written with Emilie Upczak and co-written with Sarah Biagini)
Restless Splatting
When the Frame Begins to TrembleRead
A video installation and accompanying essay that deploys the Gaussian splatting technique for the dimensional transformation of restless images, challenging how operational images and computer vision claim to see.
Artwork and Article, xCoAx
Exhibited at the Palazzo Madama in Turin, Italy

Documentary Intersubjectivity
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Documentary effectively navigates the slippage in idealism between solipsism and intersubjectivity.
Journal Article, Transformations Vol. 23
Still from Tempestad (2016) by Tatiana Huezo

