Tornado

Tornado

2020 / USA / 2 min / Experimental

Directed By Kathryn Mockler Mockler

An experimental video adapted from the one-line poems from Kathryn Mockler’s series This Isn’t a Conversation.

“Tornado” is an absurd text conversation between two unnamed speakers over found film footage.


Lairs

Lairs

2020 / USA / 2 min / Experimental

Directed By Emma Penaz Eisner

Lairs, layers, liars: In this poetry film, hatred insidiously supplants a couple’s love.


Affixed

Affixed

2020 / Australia / 8 min / Experimental

Directed By Himanshi Handa
Cast: Shalane Connors, Ben Hamilton

Affixed is a short experimental film which explores how obsession traverses in the mind, submerging one in a repetitive rhythm. Xara is a personification of obsession who finds her muse in Ben and makes him obsessed with a particular tune of music. The film is divided into three chapters with each chapter exploring what obsession does in a person’s mind in stages. The elements which Xara interacts with is a metaphorical representation of various human emotions.


Desert

Desert

2020 / USA / 3 min / Experimental

Directed By Brett Jones
Cast: Henry DelBello

An aimless man attempts to escape the predatory force of the desert.person’s mind in stages. The elements which Xara interacts with is a metaphorical representation of various human emotions.


Arizona Underground Film Festival

The Dark, Debra

2019 / Austria / 4 min / Experimental

Directed By Dina Yanni

Debra Paget is sad, lonely and can’t stop worrying. Will she ultimately have to face her own ghosts?

The Dark, Debra references Mark Robinson’s The Dark, Krystle (2013) and develops a related narrative of a woman in a state of unrest and seclusion. Through digital editing and image modification, Debra Paget – cast in a supporting role in the original sample – is featured as the sole character. Part experimental fiction, part remake, supercut and music video, The Dark, Debra seeks to reveal the fixed concepts applied to Debra Paget’s Hollywood persona and to produce more ambiguous notions of identity, intention and subversion.


Closets Keep Suburban Boys Home

Closets Keep Suburban Boys Home

2020 / USA / 7 min / Drama, LGBTQ

Directed By Matt Mitchell
Cast: Alexander Pires, Ben Hirschhorn, Danny Breslin
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Two boys struggle with love and heartbreak in closeted suburbia.


The Ephemeral Orphanage

The Ephemeral Orphanage

2020 / USA / 15 min / Experimental, Animation, Sci-Fi, Silent Film

Directed By Lisa Barcy

A group of tattered paper dolls daydream alternate realities and surreptitiously explore the hidden lives of their strict and secretive caregivers. Hijinks ensue and discoveries are made as the characters live out their childhood fantasies. Created with found paper dolls cut from a 1920’s newspaper and found in an attic, the film explores the adults attempt to dictate what girls learn, and the children’s talent for discovering forbidden knowledge.


Execution

Execution

2020 / USA / 45 min / Experimental

Directed By Stavit Allweis
Cast: Natalia Plaza, Yana Bron, Chiara De Caroli, Lieselotte

A renegade band of females stages an execution of rapists and killers in a classroom.