'26 EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Moved by the sacrifice of youth activists in Lutzerath, Germany, Sierra and her team attempt to finish their no-budget documentary while warding off an AI agent empowered with toxic positivity. When...

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Climate Control

Director(s): Sarah Lasley

Ancient myth keeps Diana and Minerva apart, until this film brings them together in the unlikely setting of a pink kitchen in an ’80s Mexican villa. Reimagined as two contemporary women, they speak...

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Diana & Minerva

Director(s): Francesca Occhionero

After my grandfather passed away, we reunited with him in our own way. My mother began to remember the old house that was sold and the unfamiliar tenants in her dreams, while I used a thermal camera...

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Ghost of Home

Director(s): Chen Xie

I Was There is a haunting exploration of familial bonds, intergenerational memory, and the afterlife of testimony. Moving between documentary, performance, and fiction, filmmaker Kamila Kuc enters...

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I Was There

Director(s): Kamila Kuc

In a voiceover the filmmaker reports on the sexual abuse she had to endure as a child and teenager. She talks about the consequences that such violence can cause. An experimental video image...

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I would have liked to make a different film

Director(s): Suse Itzel

A young girl prophesies the end of time as the American Southwest drifts between myth and disappearance. Tactile filmmaking becomes a handmade record of ecological loss. Applying water, soil, and...

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Now That We Are Sending You to The End

Director(s): Blake Knecht

A horse reflects on memory during the press release for his new book, disturbing the daily routines of local citizens.

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SOMEONE TO STEAL HORSES WITH

Director(s): Dylan Pailes-Friedman

Created frame by frame from over 500 feet of woven fabric, this animated short reimagines the mysterious disappearance of the filmmaker's great-great-great-great-grandmother, Julianna Hofrichter. In...

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Whose Woods Are These

Director(s): Kate Nartker