Opening Night GAS Film Festival
October 16, 2026
Presented by Glass Art Society and REFRACT. Join us for an exciting evening celebrating the intersection of glass and film at the Glass Art Society Annual Film Festival Opening Night!
Enjoy a light reception and special program featuring a conversation with the director of Braided Sand (Tracy Szatan), remarks from the Executive Director & CEO of the Glass Art Society (Brandi Clark), and words from one of the creators of REFRACT (Michelle Bufano). Then, settle in for a screening of Braided Sand, the winning film from the 2026 GAS Conference in Corning, New York.
Come celebrate the artists, stories, and creative connections that bring glass and film together for a memorable opening night!
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
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Friday, October 16, 2026
What if the rock could be a lens? And if it’s not a question of if, but when? Braided Sand engages the geologic materiality of imaging and communication technologies. There is no glass lens without ancient sand, itself the result of hundreds of millions of years of geologic activity. Filmed at a sand mine, a glass factory, and a nanotech laboratory, Braided Sand moves between observation and abstraction, juxtaposing human and geologic timescales, plunging viewers into churning industrial environments to lay bare the weighty earthly bases of seemingly invisible and immaterial infrastructures.
- Director: Tracy Szatan
- Country: USA
- Year: 2026
- Running Time: 120 min.
- Language: English