International premiere
English

Filmed on the former site of Ceresco, a 19th century agrarian commune in Ripon, Wisconsin, this film revisits the utopian aspirations of a community striving to live ‘in association’, guided by principles of harmony and shared ownership. Weaving together archival materials, literary adaptation, and a performative collaboration with students, the film lingers in the echoes of a brief, failed experiment in collective living. Against this historical backdrop, it contemplates the quiet fractures of contemporary community and the muted bereavement for spaces once brimming with possibility.

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