films

NOW THAT WE ARE SENDING YOU TO THE END (2025)

Directing & cinematography by Blake Knecht

Utah, Nevada, Arizona // 16mm & handmade // 12 minutes

A young girl prophecies the end of time as the American Southwest drifts between myth and disappearance. Tactile filmmaking becomes a handmade record of ecological loss, using desert water, soil, and salt to echo the human imprint on a fragile landscape. Through gestures of time, material experimentation and quiet exchange, we consider what it means to approach The End.

Screenings

IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Competition for Short Documentary, Amsterdam, NL, November, 2025

Slamdance, Experimental Shorts, Los Angeles, USA, February, 2026

American Cinematheque, This Is Not a Fiction, Los Angeles, USA, April, 2026

Sustainable Darkroom, Blurred Ecologies, Jyväskylä, Finland

Sustainable Darkroom, Blurred Ecologies, Bristol, England

Autojektor, UNGEZIEFER VOL.2, London, England, 2026

FROM THE SKY, THE RIVER (2026)

Directing and cinematography by Blake Knecht

Written by Blake Knecht & Irene Zhu

Post-Production // China // Digital & 16mm // Chinese with English subtitles

The Yellow River becomes witness to memory and myths, its shifting course recalling histories of flood and famine layered with industrial scars, agrarian rhythms, and private remembrances. Cameraless gestures and mixed formats mirror its recollections through Qinghai, Gansu, and Henan.

EL LENGUAJE DE LAS COSAS SILENCIOSAS (UNRELEASED)

Directing & cinematography by Blake Knecht & Gerardo Silva

Production // USA & Uruguay // Digital // Spanish & English

In the desert mountains of the American Southwest, Gerardo Silva is a migrant worker who herds hundreds of sheep in near-total isolation for ten months each year. Separated from his home and daughter in Uruguay, he befriends a filmmaker and begins learning filmmaking while living suspended between two lives.