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Udval Altangerel's "Orbita" meditates on language, meaning and vision through a circular peep-hole cosmos. In a blue haze and drifting focus, an auditory drone alludes to ritual, a world opening by naming and recollection.

A herdsman leaves his wife for another woman, then wonders if he hasn't made a mistake.

"I always feel helpless watching how we human beings destroy nature to satisfy our ever-increasing consumption. We all act as if we have no choice but to consume more and more. One day I was looking at the moss I collected from the forest and suddenly thought, What would it be like if I eat moss? I tried to eat it and recorded my act. The taste was really awful."

A young girl who lives in Ulaanbaatar is in crisis. She is totally disappointed by the idea of dependent upon the social contract. After several failures, she successfully created a relationship with someone. A someone who can share her ideologies with her. But she finds herself again in trouble communicating in terms of language. After several years, she eventually finds peace by rejecting idealism and grasps the power of rational thinking.