25 FLEFFistas write about how the festival changed their thinking, their art, their writing, and their ideas about the environment

To celebrate the festival's 25th annual edition in 2022, the 25 for 25 project marked how the festival has impacted participants and staff to think differently about the environment. Contributors recounted their experiences of FLEFF screenings, concerts, roundtables, master classes, events, and programming. The 25 for 25 team was Leah Shafer, Editor; Rachel Schaff, Assistant Editor; Rachael Geary, Editorial Assistant; and Rachel Rosenberg, Editorial Assistant.
El ultimo malon
EL ULTIMO MALON
March 4, 2022
Revisiting an inspirational starting point
By Chelsea Wessels, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Film and Media Studies minor at East Tennessee State University.
A Blogger is born
Memory, Images, History
March 3, 2022
A Blogger is born
By Jan-Christopher Horak, moving image archivist and film preservationist
Variete
Variete
March 2, 2022
Where Zydeco meets Weimar cinema
By Reece Auguiste, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, documentary practitioner, scholar, and founding member of the critically acclaimed British-based Black Audio Film Collective.
Formative Experiences of a FLEFF Insider
The Polysemy of FLEFF
March 1, 2022
Formative Experiences of a FLEFF Insider
By Claudia Costa Pederson, Associate Professor of Art History, Wichita State University; Author of Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media (Indiana, 2021); Co-curator of FLEFF’s new media exhibitions since 2017.
Rodents of Unusual Size
Rodents of Unusual Size
February 28, 2022
FLEFF’s Unusual Surprises
By Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor of Public Health Policy, Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education, Ithaca College
Outcry and Whisper
On Entanglements
February 27, 2022
Giving Visionaries a Platform
By Gina Marchetti, Professor, Film scholar, and Director, Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures, University of Hong Kong
S21
S21
February 24, 2022
Unexpected Reverberations
By Thomas Shevory, Professor Emeriti at Ithaca College and former co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.