An eclectic mix of great short films: narratives, documentaries, animations, and music videos.
Schedules and Screening Blocks are subject to changes
DOMestication is a short documentary that pays homage to bridal reality shows. The story follows the upcoming nuptials of a Chinese American professional dominatrix, Kim Ye, who is about to get married to her past client, Brian Bardos. Kim’s generational trauma of having to be the “perfect Chinese girl” makes her doubt her perfect union with Brian.
“field of dreams” is a home-going service that exists within a larger self-care conversation. In this piece, the audience is taken on a journey of a young woman releasing and mourning the power she has given to other people. The artist realizes that in order for true spiritual growth to occur, she must lay down prioritizing people and focus on self-exploration and individual need first. The process reflects how difficult life’s trajectories can be while offering a closeness to the emotion of grief. Through this burial, we find that she reframes her own relationship with self, and ultimately concludes that peace comes within and cannot be found anywhere else.
After the quarantine was lifted, the daughter visited her father and had lunch with him. She revealed to her father the nightmare she had always had recently: dreaming that she had a younger sister. But her father said that she was thinking too much. The daughter was not reconciled, and after a few questions, the father recalled the past: After witnessing her mother's suicide, the daughter suffered from mental illness and produced many unrealistic "illusions". After the daughter left his house, the father turned over some well-hidden photos. There were indeed a pair of twins in the photo......
A smart, satirical comedy about the ageism and sexism lurking in Hollywood. An actress gets a harsh reality check when there's a mix up at an audition and she finds herself on the other side of the hot young thing.
2D hand-drawn experimental animation about an inconvenient attack at a parking lot. An average person stands at a parking lot to get to his car, but an unexpected panic attack strikes taking him into an unescapable turmoil. all of this happens while physically he is unable to move in reality. Physical Representation of an internal experience with panic attacks.
Discussion surrounding the LGBTQ+ community is full of heated tension in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Part of The Kingdom amplifies the voices of the LGBTQ+ students at JBU, providing them with a platform to share their story. This piece tackles conversations that are uncomfortable for most Christian communities head on, teaching us that it should be safe to be known.
Fascinating drama about not everyone is trustworthy............
(The social issue movie centers around a poor woman)
FLESH & BONE is a narrative short set to music about a man with many hobbies who lives contentedly alone until one day he looks out the window and longs for more. The story is set to "The Robot Song" by Tony-nominated composer, Joe Iconis.
The girl suffers from a feeling of great discomfort that comes without warning, like an uncontrollable disaster. When the panic is accompanied by a flapping of wings, a chaotic, dissociated journey into her unconsciousness begins.
The film is based on concepts of panic attack and ornithophobia. Through materializing the feelings of people who suffer from panic attack and ornithophobia, the director aim to discuss the core issues of fear, life and death.
The film is a collaborative project with the Wellcome Collection. The Wellcome Collection is a famous museum based in London, where displays a mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring ideas about medicine and art.
The animation techniques in the film contain computer animation, object animation, stop motion animation, and multiple experimental artistic practice, such like cotton, beads, acrylic, and celluloid.
IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10435166/?ref_=nm_knf_i1
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