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Shorts Program One

Date: Sep 19, 2024
Starts: 20:00
Ends: 21:45
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Shorts Program One

LOOK Dine-In Cinemas W57

LOOK Dine-In Cinemas W57

657 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019
New York , New York 10019
United States
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Discover a diverse collection of short films, including captivating narratives, insightful documentaries, imaginative animations, and vibrant music videos.
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Jules Jules

Jules

A teenager struggles with her mother's bipolar disorder while her father tries to hold it all together.
11 minutes
Art, Joy, Protest Art, Joy, Protest

Art, Joy, Protest

This short documentary delves into the life and work of Jaishri Abichandani, a pioneering artist and activist whose creations challenge social norms and amplify marginalized voices. Born in Mumbai and based in New York, Abichandani's work spans a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, and photography. The film explores how her art is deeply intertwined with her commitment to feminism, anti-castism, and decolonization.

Through intimate interviews, archival footage, and a closer look at some of her most provocative pieces, the documentary reveals how Abichandani uses art as a powerful tool for resistance and transformation. It highlights her role in founding the South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWCC), a platform that has supported countless artists of color. As the film weaves through her journey, it reflects on the ways in which her work continues to inspire and ignite conversations on identity, power, and social justice.
10 minutes
AQUÍ Y ALLÁ AQUÍ Y ALLÁ

AQUÍ Y ALLÁ

Through a conversation with photographer Winston Vargas, we explore the evolution of the Dominican community that migrated from one island to another. We witness through his gaze the peculiar experience of the diaspora in Washington Heights, but most importantly the effect of the community on its new environment. Apart from addressing Dominican identity, Winston confronts the difficulties of adapting, their resilience and the value of documenting and visually expressing their presence over the years.
10 minutes
blackbird blackbird

blackbird

There is only one olive tree in the courtyard of the Dome of the Rock. The food source of the blackbird family who are living in this tree is the olives on the tree. One day, invading birds come from far away. They try to scare away the Blackbird family from the tree. Although invading birds repeatedly disturbing Blackbird’s nests, Blackbirds do not leave the tree and build nests over and over again. Invading birds collect all the olives from the tree and store them in their nests. Father blackbird buries an olive which he bought secretly under the tree, even though his family is about to die of starvation.
10 minutes
Love Photosynthesis Love Photosynthesis

Love Photosynthesis

Within the microscopic realm of a leaf, Water embarks on an improbable love story with Chloroplast with the duo struggle to overcome their differences. Battling to unify it triggers a transformative journey for the pair, and others around them
4 minutes
BLYTH BLYTH

BLYTH

This short film music video hybrid is an exploration of the witch burnings and the dancing plagues of the 16th Century which swept across Europe like wildfire.

The film itself wanted to explore a surrealist take on these topics, as well as creating a realm for viewers to dive into, as it is færy’s debut single.

Liana Cornell and Tom Dream came together to explore this world, weaving magic throughout the film’s experience, coupled with the healing frequencies of the music itself, as well as mysterious symbolism linking back to real pagan practices performed by Liana’s matriarchal ancestors. It is an exploration of what it means to be feminine, regardless of gender.

It is a permission to be wild, to lose oneself in the chaos magic of the unknown and to answer the howling of our inner call to dance to our own blaze of individual heart fire we each contain. Shot in the moorland of Cornwall, Liana’s patriarchal ancestral lands, nature plays a large part in the creation of this world, as do the wonderful performers hired to encapsulate the witches and townspeople who seek to destroy them.
6 minutes
Wabi-Sabi Wabi-Sabi

Wabi-Sabi

When an insecure, half Japanese woman's invited on a date to a traditional tea ceremony, her best friend's advice on how to avoid white-guys-with-Asian-fetishes threatens to ruin her love life and sanity.
20 minutes
Jamila Jamila

Jamila

In this coming of age drama set in the mid-2000s, NOUR, 16, a Palestinian American girl, must rediscover her multicultural identity after years of repressing her background and growing up among western standards of beauty. Nour visits Palestine to attend a family wedding, meeting some of her relatives for the first time. On the morning of the ceremony, she begrudgingly accompanies her aunties to the salon to get ready. Guided by her aunt MONA who resents Nour's single father for leaving, Nour is overwhelmed among the new and eclectic mix of family members. She soon finds role models in her female relatives, who inspire her to embrace herself. In one morning, Nour navigates culture and belonging, finally accepting herself and her identity.
15 minutes
Vida Vida

Vida

LOGLINE - Los Angeles – 2053: After a bloody civil war, women of color are captured and sterilized as a form of population control. Vida and a group of resistance fighters are getting ready to escape, but suddenly, one of their own is captured, and they’re forced to decide between saving themselves or saving her and risk getting captured.

Los Angeles, 2053 - Amid a world ravaged by climate change and a global food crisis, Los Angeles is a lawless, dystopian battleground. With no government to provide guidance, rogue militias have taken control, implementing a chilling strategy. They forcibly sterilize women they deem unfit for procreation, exploiting the chaos to manipulate the population.

At the center of this turmoil is Vida, a beacon of strength and compassion, who has become a leader among a group of women she now calls family. Vida has orchestrated an underground tunnel system, their ticket to escape the city and its horrors in just three days.

However, their plans crumble when Lexi, a cherished member of their group, is captured by their oppressive adversaries. Vida faces a heart-wrenching dilemma: rescue Lexi or ensure the safety of the group, which includes her only surviving relative, her sister Moni.

Moni, who has known only a world of fear and scarcity, has leaned on Vida and Lexi for support. Lexi's abduction shatters her world, unleashing an unexpected wellspring of courage and loyalty. Moni defies the group's consensus and embarks on a daring mission to rescue her friend.

As Vida risks everything to pursue Moni and Lexi, the fate of these remarkable women intertwines in an unrelenting struggle for survival, resilience, and the enduring power of human connection in the darkest of times.
20 minutes

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