Shorts Block Experimental: Alive and Moonbound

Wave Form

2020 / Canada / 8 min / Experimental

Directed By Tiz
Cast: Margaret Brock

WAVE FORM explores movie viewing, sharing, and making as a means of confronting the experience of mental illness. It illuminates the sustaining, transformative powers of film by transforming a variety of “waves” from cinematic history—ocean waves, waving hands, waves of soldiers—through the luma waveform scope, a technical feature of movie editing positioned to make it happen.

Transitions

2017 / Switzerland / 13 min / Experimental

Directed By Aurèle Ferrier

TRANSITIONS is a journey from the civilizing void of the desert to a maximal urban, capitalistic and hedonistic density, which in the case of Las Vegas assumes some bizarre expression. The film is a contemplation without any people or moving machines in it, focussing on the built and designed.

Down to Earth

2020 / USA / 12 min / Experimental

Directed By Tom Mull
Cast: James Lemire, Brianna King, Richard Brown

A skateboarding road trip becomes a laboratory experiment as a true believer tries to prove his theory that inter-dimensional lizard people are traveling through tunnels seeking world domination. His two companions aren’t so convinced.

Do It Again

2018 / USA / 9 min / Experimental

Directed By Curtis Miller

Do It Again combines three moments of shared looking at Chicago’s Marina City; the climactic scene from Buzz Kulik’s The Hunter, a re-enactment for an All-State Commercial, and the tight-rope walk of Nik Wallenda.

And I Feel Fine

2020 / USA / 8 min / Experimental

Directed By Kate Walker

A group of young friends walk through an urban wasteland at night, headed for “Disaster Karaoke” at Boise Idaho’s original gay bar, ‘Lucky Dog Tavern’. Fragments of archival material including nuclear energy instructional video, old music videos and storm reporting footage are layered in with heartfelt apocalyptic singing, in a strange blend of joyous anxiety, “And I Feel Fine,” includes brief interviews with the performers speaking frankly about their fears, experiences and hopes for the world they inherit. Homelessness, climate anxiety and systematic disregard for life are some of the stories told. Throughout these anxieties, a sense of irrepressible optimism lingers.

If this really was the end of the world, you wouldn’t want to miss it.

Follow Leader

2019 / Canada / 7 min / Experimental

Directed By Scott Johnson

A vivid exploration of the relationship between toxic male masculinity and the social as well as psychological influences it has had on me growing up through the generations.