In a dystopian present, an immaterial catastrophe spreads at the speed of data, traveling in waves. Social isolation. A contagious phenomenon makes people disappear. Empty city, virtual communication ...
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11010
Director(s): Gabriela Monnerat, Rodrigo Amim
Concerning three groups of children from disparate upbringings, A Black Hole is a Black Hole in the Ground intimately depicts the strange, ephemeral realities that arise on evenings of play, when dime...
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A Black Hole is a Black Hole in the Ground
Director(s): Sophia Feuer, Tyler Macri
Strange experiences and realizations lead a grieving artist to reconsider his identity and beliefs in this meditation on loss, family and mental illness.
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A Family That Steals Dogs
Director(s): John C Kelley
‘A WALK DOWN TO WATER’ follows an immigrant employee working at a rural motel after he discovers that a guest has passed away in one of the rooms. While he waits for an ambulance to arrive and lif...
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A Walk Down To Water
Director(s): Levi Holwell
A$$ Level is a comedic music video that celebrates life with a disability while paying homage to 90s dance videos.
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A$$ Level
Director(s): Alison Becker
May 2017. The city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It’s just another day in America.
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Acadiana
Director(s): Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau,Yannick Nolin
Set during the decline and fall of the consumerist empire, a filthy garbage-picker is retained as a personal slave by a wealthy ultra-consumer still worshipping at the temple of a life he once knew.
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Ape Sodom
Director(s): Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
"Shaquita Lopez, a single mother and an aspiring actress, is ready to nail her audition. Things fall apart, however, when her ex-
boyfriend bails on watching their 3-year-old son Nezih. Cornered and u...
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Audition
Director(s): Richard Van
Autoscopy follows a young man who escapes to the Swedish wilderness for a period of creativity and introspection. The tranquility and isolation he finds there morphs into something more sinister when ...
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Autoscopy
Director(s): Claes Nordwall
During the 1990’s in ex-Yugoslavia a war rages. A husband and wife try to escape their besieged
town but there’s an improvised barricade blocking the road. In attempt to get past it, they make up ...
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Autumn Waltz
Director(s): Ognjen Petković
While sitting on the toilet one November morning, Ben Boyer receives a Jungian lesson on archetypal marketing.
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Ben Boyer and the Phenomenology of Automobile Branding
Director(s): Rian Johnson
After moving across the country, a young girl gets more than a best friend when her parents let her adopt a dog.
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Best Friend
Director(s): Cory Reeder
Utilizing archival footage and stop-motion animation, Black Dog is set during the US and USSR space race of the 1960's amidst a time of heated social and political tension. Two brothers must deal with...
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Black Dog
Director(s): Joshua Tuthill
Beatriz is a teenager from Argentina that, after her mother’s death, finds herself moving to Brazil to an absent father. In a concert, she meets Rogério, a musician in his late 30’s, struggling u...
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Boni Bonita
Director(s): Daniel Barosa
On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Cat Sticks weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with...
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Cat Sticks
Director(s): Ronny Sen
An experimental narrative about the creation of online content and the reaction to it.
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Chicken Wraps and Condoms
Director(s): Jacob Gregor
Hell goes animated as apocalyptic graphic novel artwork and eerie Victorian toy theater converge in this subversively satiric update of a literary classic. Reinterpreted with the use of intricately ha...
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Dante's Inferno
Director(s): Sean Meredith
Exploiting 💉 the female “grotesque” 👄 I examine the superficial 🌈 construct of reality 🍩 and play with the voluptuous 🔥 danger lurking beneath the sticky 💋 sweet surface 🍰.
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Desert Air
Director(s): ANDiLAND
Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Burning Man, Lollap...
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Desolation Center
Director(s): Stuart Swezey
Portrait of a small dairy town in the tropics.
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Don't Buy Milk
Director(s): Julian Gallese
Adapted from the surrealist drawing game “exquisite corpse,” this short of shorts created by 19 filmmakers is stitched together in a stream of consciousness with unique words bridging each of the ...
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Exquisite Shorts, Volume 1.
Director(s): Ben Fee,Courtney Andujar,Hillary Andoujar,Matt Boman and Tosca Rivola,Doug Klinger and Machete Bang Bang,Niles Howard and Kayli Stollak,Theresa Desautels,Mary Florence Brown and Kevin Kearney,Travis Stevens,Sarah Lind,Ariel Fish,Bossi Baker,Winnie Cheung,Elsbeth Mumm and Andrew Mumm,Ben Kutsko ,Emily Andujar and Manuel Taylor-Alcocer,June Zandona,Hunter Adams,Jessica Calleiro
"A trailer of an experiment searches for meaning in a moldy montage.
The detritus of the movie industry swims in organic material.
Emulsion and its cracks, its crumbles, and its fades.
Is it ready f...
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For All Audiences
Director(s): Josh Weissbach
In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein receives a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparks a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism and shamanism. The short film, Gloria’s Call...
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Gloria's Call
Director(s): Cheri Gaulke
Struggling with New York living, Dana Schapiro decides to move, saying goodbye to a neighborhood that can barely remember who she is....
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Goodbye, Brooklyn
Director(s): Daniel Jaffe
First-time performers round out the cast of this stunning metaphysical drama, set against the sugarcane fields of Florida. Tempted into stealing a backpack full of rabbits, a young man living on the m...
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Hierophany
Director(s): Kevin Contento
Seventeen-year-old Iva is in the process of coming to terms with the death of her mother. Influenced by this deep personal loss and by the discovery that she didn’t know everything about her mom, th...
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History of Love
Director(s): Sonja Prosenc
Human Helper is a sci-fi comedy short about a doctor's mission to make artificially intelligent human-like helpers not ableist.
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Human Helper
Director(s): Shaina Ghuraya
Known as the Slam Collective, seven Slamdance filmmakers from different continents come together to make "I Want to be an American," Slamdance's first documentary feature.
In the spirit of the surrea...
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I Want To Be An American
Director(s): Slam Collective
Two ex-lovers meet at a rarely-used Aspen lodge to reignite their passions, but first they must confess their past sins.
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It's Been Too Long
Director(s): Amber Schaefer
A 7-foot-tall fundamentalist Baptist minister, Markie Wenzel made the decision at age 46 to come out as a transgender woman and start living as female. It was a decision that ended her 20-year marriag...
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Markie in Milwaukee
Director(s): Matt Kliegman
In June of 1969, the fourth Memphis Country Blues Festival took place at the city’s famed Overton Park Band Shell. Fueled by the rediscovery of blues artists like Furry Lewis and Mississippi Fred Mc...
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Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival
Director(s): Joe LaMattina
"It's hot in a ramshackle attic, full-blown fans stir the atmosphere generated by the ""exercises"" of a weird tenant who manipulates objects. He twists cardboard, builds object castles, admires them,...
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Mudanza Contemporánea
Director(s): Teo Guillem
Donna has recently been convicted of “Driving While Impaired” and is ordered to perform community service at the local animal shelter. When an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna deci...
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Murmur
Director(s): Heather Young
In a split-second between life and death, teenager Myeisha Jackson crosses over into a hip-hop musical dreamscape and witnesses her life, what it was and what might have been.
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My Name is Myeisha
Director(s): Gus Krieger
"The well-springs were deeper and less detectable, deeper and shallower both, look at billboards and matchbooks, trademarks on products, birthmarks on bodies, look at the behavior of your pets." Don D...
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Now 2
Director(s): Kevin Eskew
One Nation Under is an investigation into what it means to be an American, questioning idyllic notions of freedom and power by observing the structures around us and hearing from the people overshadow...
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One Nation Under
Director(s): Justin McHugh
Onikuma is Japanese yokai, a demon bear known for chasing horses. Through a combination of live action and animation, this hybrid short film follows the journey of two women as they wander through the...
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Onikuma
Director(s): Alessia Cecchet
A child must create a world where chaos and dread turn to order and awe.
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Oracle
Director(s): Aaron Poole
A boy playing in his backyard begins to exhibit signs of a disturbing physical ability. His parents invite the neighbors over to enact a peculiar rite-of-passage ceremony that will assimilate the boy ...
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Our Boy
Director(s): Kyle Sims
In an advanced society that worships a musical chord, a maintenance worker who tunes sonic shrines is thwarted by teen vandals.
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Out of Tune
Director(s): Aaron With