Open Secret (Vol. 4)

Open Secret - new cinema screenings curated by Dana Dawud

Hosted and Organized by Millennium Film Workshop, New York

Open Secret returns to New York—full circle—in May 2025.

This iteration brings together a group of artists working across film, sound, choreography, and networked space. The program traces embodiment within digital life: how performance, affect, and intimacy are mediated, rehearsed, and sometimes undone.

Featured artists include filmmaker Maurane, whose inventive editing techniques navigate the digital, the erotic, and the fragmented self. Julius Hulshof presents choreography that maps internal weather systems. Tony Yew’s work unfolds like a tarot deck—each image a new invention. Callum Hansen introduces an evolving triptych of movement, sound, and bodily intensity. Plastic Girl presents haunting animations, while Ian Margo constructs cybernetic landscapes shaped like dreams. Aemmonia returns with screen-based works grounded in slowness and surface tension. Kryptosphaira continues her exploration of liminal worlds, and Yan Tashtoush and Anna…