Eric Coombs Esmail

Following the documentary impulse to the limits of observation.
2026 / 1987 
        

Eric Coombs Esmail

2026 / 1987
       

Critical   Media   Practices

[documentary]

Critical
Media
Practices

[documentary]




















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American Refuge (feature documentary)
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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     forthcoming (co-directed with Christian Hammons)

Restless Splatting

When the Frame Begins to Tremble

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        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     2026 
Exhibited at the Palazzo Madama in Turin, Italy

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 Vol. 23     2024
Still from Tempestad (2016) by Tatiana Huezo