Cinema on the Flipside Shorts Block

Remember This

2025 / 19 min / USA / Drama

Directed by Andrew Serban
Cast: Kate Garfield, Allison Altman, Predrag Dubravcic

Saturday, September 20th at 9:00PM
The Screening Room – 127 E. Congress St.

A young journalist wakes up in the middle of the night on a deserted New York City street with bruises on her face and body and realizes, to her horror, that she has lost her memory and doesn’t know who she is. When a stranger comes to her aid, she embarks on a disquieting journey to recover her identity and find out what happened to her.

Bebo Was Here!

2025 / 14 min / USA / Adventure, Comedy

Directed by Freddy Caro
Cast: Brian Gonzalez-Hernandez, Erica Acevedo-Ontiveros, Jonathan Andrade

He’s always been the good one—gentle, trusting, and easy to overlook. But when Bebo is wronged, his loud, fractured family surprises everyone by coming together to fight for what’s right.

Where My Road Ends, Yours Begins

2023/ 3 min/ USA/ Experimental

Directed by Jenny E Stark
Cast: Una Keller, Jenny Stark, Helen Cates

This video is about American culture’s fascination with dead girls, and the dark comfort of true crime. The messiness of the victims’ lives, and the grief of their loved ones gives way to endless hypotheses about what happened to them, and a desire for the restoration of order. The victims themselves become secondary, and only a whisper of a human being remains. Inspired by ‘Twin Peaks’ and the Origin of the Dead Woman TV Trope by Sarah Marshall and Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin.

Ari

2023 / 10 min / USA / Drama

Directed by Tierney Keegan
Cast: Isabelle Jennings, Athena Warriner

A young woman faces the jarring and chaotic reality of discovering her undiagnosed Bipolar Disorder.

It’s Expensive To Be Poor

2024 / 5 min / USA / Documentary

Directed by Chris Peters
Cast: Samantha Sloyan, Lexus Castano

An examination of businesses that prey on the poor. Shot on a 1987 PXL 2000 Video Camcorder

Man O War

2025 / 6 min / USA / Experimental

Directed by Liam Larkin-Smith
Cast: Liam Larkin-Smith

Old ghosts celebrate the past as it intrudes on those who think it past.

The Independent

2025 / 7 min / USA / Comedy

Directed by John Kestner
Cast: Garrett Radar, Bailey Olivas, Monique Michelle, Cara Nicole

After the 2024 election, one man straddles America’s greatest divide.

Be Here Now

2025 / 21 min / USA / Dark Comedy

Directed by Chichi Castillo
Cast: Dharma Moon-Hunter, Noemie Milagros, Toya Willock

Upon their return to their hometown, Celeste listens to voicemails from their Mom Edie who wishes Celeste well on their upcoming art exhibit but acknowledges how hard it has been to reach them. They want to keep their head down and stay low-key enough to not see anyone from their past, but their former best friend and ride for the evening, Henri (20s-30s, they/them), makes a well meaning but not-so-wise decision to take Celeste to a party.