Catharsis: A #metoo Era Tale of Liberation from Old Wounds
Kayla Fyfe’s Catharsis is a familiar account by now. The 11-minute film tells the story of a young woman faced ...
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Static Space: Love and Friendship in Unlikely Space(s)
John Klein and Kate Black-Spence’s Static Space is a 29-minute romance across space. Centred on a woman in rural Indiana, ...
Pvt. Ravel’s Bolero: A Fictional Foray Into the Context of a Musical Masterpiece
JZ Murdock’s 28-minute film-poem Pvt. Ravel’s Bolero uses the documentary format to imagine the private life of French composer Maurice ...
Silent Sirens: A Visual Meditation on Sound and Silence
Neil Sandhoefner’s Silent Sirens confounds, puzzles, comforts, and then, moves. For a film that does not actually have moving images, ...
Kasama: Documenting Food through Struggle and Comfort
Nick Cavalier’s culinary documentary Kasama is a sumptuous 17-minute story of how the eponymous Chicago-based restaurant came into being, struggled ...
Little Cuts: Friendship Sours into Wounded Rage
Maia Henkin’s Little Cuts is a harrowing psychological horror about hierarchy and abuse in female friendships. The 16-minute film follows ...
Perspective: Nature: An Experiment in Juxtaposition
Robbie J. Atkinson’s 1-minute Perspective: Nature attempts to trace the likeness of humankind in nature and vice-versa through a wordless ...
Everyone Writes Memoir: Exploring Truth and Certainty Through a Dying Relationship
Alexander Campbell and Mark Solter’s Everyone Writes Memoir is a 37-minute examination of a relationship on its final legs. Beginning ...
The Need: Inside a Mind that Collects Its Demons
Michael Rognlie and E.E. Tallent’s The Need is a horror short about a withdrawn young man who feels universally unwanted. ...
Trial 22: A Perilous Level-Up Game with No Winners
John Ferrer’s Trial 22 is a slick action-horror where the pace is set to such a high rate that characters ...
