Films

We’re pleased to present our 2021 film lineup!

Documentaries

Love for Skating

Giancarlo Stigliano / 3:39

A documentary highlighting the friendship of three girls with a passion for skateboarding. The goal of this film is to inspire girls to get out there and step out of their comfort zone.

THE LOVING KIND

Sasawat Loesrit / 5:41

This documentary uncovers the story of two Thai representatives of #Worldpride2019 in New York City, discussing the struggle of growing up gay in Thailand and the importance of self-loving.

Music Videos

Tweed - Moves

Nicholas J Piser / 5:21

Spend My Dayz

Agni Raj Singh / 4:35

An impressionistic portrayal of an artist obsessively chasing his vision & inspirations, as he journeys from gritty urban jungle to delicate floral paradises.

WIYULD

Janice Chun / 2:20

Just a girl and her T-Rex vibing.
Evann McIntosh - WIYULD feat. Lil Mop (Official Video)

Animated Short Films

3:45 PM

Alisha Liu / 2:50

A girl sinks into contemplation during a picnic at the park.

Beepo

Blake Hennigan, Siri Martir / 1:58

A self-driving car commercial goes wrong in this animated short.

Big Tasty

Ryan Kostopoulos / 2:56

Come on down to Big Tasty for a sweet treat! The only grocer with good pricing and great people watching. Trusted partner of Ward Mathers CO. since 1995.

CATnBAT - Evolution

Sashko Danylenko / 2:22

Cat and Bat are best friends. Every day, they watch awful television, get awful ideas, and get into an awful lot of trouble. It's a story that reveals painfully funny truths about human nature.

Copycut Scanfill

Colin Stanhill / 4:44

Photos collapse and colors collide in this jauntily abstracted cartoon! Animated entirely on a defective photocopier, familiar images begin to drift, morph and dance their way into uncanny new forms. Can you dance along?

Pinned

Xenia Balashov / 1:30

A short animated film about a butterfly collector and the inevitability of change.

SCROLL

Dylan Hanson / 1:12

A low budget cartoon about what it feels like to grow up in the modern world.

Narrative Short Films

Black Cherries

Unni Rav, Addi Ajmani / 3:28

Black Lives Matter

The Dangerous Type

Tipper Newton / 11:36

Diane, a mechanic in a small midwestern town, would do anything to leave her boring life behind. One day a mysterious stranger breaks down while passing through. Boy, does he have a great car - cherry red, smooth leather interior, and best of all… an empty passenger seat.

DAVID

Zachary Woods / 11:40

David needs help. So does David.
A severely depressed man reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He’s not the only one who needs help.

Distinct Properties of the Indonesian Spotted Tree Frog

Brendan Lee Hickey / 9:18

Life is silly for Mochi, an office worker in an enigmatic coastal community - as he discovers his burgeoning psychic powers derived from a rare breed of frog. THINGS GET WACKY?!?!

VR Unlimited (1:00)

Austin Sane / narrative short

A peaceful moment in nature is quickly interrupted by the harsh reality of the world.

Experimental Films

20th Century Wallpaper

Wheeler Winston Dixon / 17:36

“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history." - Jacques Yves Cousteau

“I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century." - Walter Murch

81 to 1

Chihiro ITO / 3:45

This short film is made from videos Chihiro and Mica sent to each other between September to October 2019. The title "81 To 1" is a reference to the country codes for Japan and US.

CROSSING

Ian Fang / 2:00

A Freudian parapraxis led to an unexpected encounter.

Denomination (4:08)

Jacob Fertig / experimental

Freytag's Pyramid of Climactic Light

Kai Swanson / 3:44

Freytag’s Pyramid of Climactic Light interrogates the relationship between the individual film frame and the audience’s perception of the ideology projected. By taking 16mm film and capturing 900 different stills from NC-17 rated films through a 35mm photo camera and projecting the images at the standard cinematic frame rate of 24 frames per second, I ask the audience to investigate the relationship between each frame.

The images that I selected from NC-17 rated films were bodies of individuals in non-violent and sentimental acts of love and friendship. By using a cropped frame, the bodies extend beyond the frame and onto the sprockets, allowing the subject to devour cinematic space and time that has been dissolved and satiated through censorship. The images synchronize with sound snippets from critically acclaimed films from 1968 to 2018 that have been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association. The violence of the sound is reflected in the pattern of light emitted from the flickering images, which is chronologically representative of the five acts of Freytag’s Pyramid: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement.

My goal for this film is to disrupt the audience’s complacency and expand their view of narrative, censorship, and storytelling in mainstream cinema.

Keepin it Real

Malique Lee Moore / 14:21

Deep in a black subconscious: the Fates sing the stories of an angry boy, a heavy-hearted girl, and a ballroom surrounded by marble statues, but how are they all related? They are all B.L.A.C.K...

RELATIONSHAPE (2:09)

Jiatong Han / experimental

SNOW DAY (2:25)

Chris Toro / experimental

Quell (5:48)

Zach-Sabel De Kercadó / experimental short

To Be A Black Girl "In America" (2:00)

Deanna Griffin / experimental

Just Chill (3:22)

Wheeler Winston Dixon / experimental

“Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.” – Mark Deklin

Personalia (3:06)

Remy Styrk / experimental

Lines of Exile (7:21)

Eric Patrick / animated experimental

Hamid Naficy’s fifty years of drawings of prominent scholars, philosophers, and theorists form a unique index of the evolution of cultural theory over the last decades. In this portrait, Naficy intimately recounts this evolution through his drawings.

Woman (3:45)

Tsai Hsi Hung / experimental

Dams: The Pros & Cons (2:21)

Ava Sky Barton, Chas Seiffert / student film

Lonely Whale (3:00)

Steve Nguyen / animated experimental

Nurture (3:00)

Ying-Fang Shen / experimental

Relative Living (6:00)

Alisha Heng / experimental

TRZ music video

AC short film

Ross sketch comedy

Michael Hennings doc