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*Online Premiere* In the early ‘90s, a 14-year-old girl and boy mysteriously switch bodies and spend the rest of their lives haunted by the event. “emotion 93,” directed by Oz Davidson, is a singular experimental film about identity, memory, and transience…
Read More*Online Premiere* When the night fish arrive, their job is to feed on your sanity. Presented in second-person point of view and comprised primarily of crudely animated fish floating across a cosmic starry black landscape, “The Night Fish” directed by Albert Birney is a poetic rumination about the fears that keep us up at night…
Read MorePart documentary part music video, “High Diver” directed by DH Jacobs is an off-kilter ode to legendary high-diver Dana Kunze. He describes the experience diving from a tiny platform 130 feet in the air, “the most incredible sensation in the world. So close to flying”
Read More*Online Premiere* A young man decides to take control of his life by turning to cigarettes. This experimental film shot in the San Fernando Valley using an old miniDV camera is an avant-garde curiosity directed by Justin Zuckerman…
Read MoreAn exploration of blackness in America, this beautifully rendered visual poem by Cleon Arrey is a hypnotic collection of images and feelings. It’s presented in two parts: the first, “Blackness in Suspension” is largely filmed in abstract angles, bodies upside down, floating, or held back but in motion…
Read MoreThe streets of Sao Paulo and a portable green screen are used to great effect in creating this expansive piece of experimental art. Filmed during a period of political unrest in Brazil, a film already about layers, takes on an extra one. Douwe Dijkstra is a filmmaker from the Netherlands and “Green Screen Gringo” is a brilliant piece of video art…
Read More*Online Premiere* The story of a drug-fueled weekend in a Brooklyn apartment propelled by grief and loyalty. Lee, reeling from the death of his mother, visits the home of his old friend, Monty. Given his present state of mind (and body), it’s not a pleasant visit, at least from the perspective of Monty’s well put together wife, Virginia...
Read More*Online Premiere* A silent experimental film about a space man’s first day in Brooklyn. Directed by Travis Wood and shot on Super 8mm black and white film, “Just getting by is okay” communicates with a gentle playfulness and warmth...
Read More*Online Premiere* A retired professor and investigator gives a talk about prominent UFO sightings while being monitored by a long-haired “visitor” carrying an ominous black triangle. This eerie doc/sci-fi hybrid by director Quinn Else captures an intriguing mix of small-town Americana and otherworldly phenomenon, offering a wholly original take on the paranormal...
Read More*Online Premiere* Crushed by the tedium of her daily routine, a business woman takes a leap of faith. Directed by Candice Vallantin, this experimental dance film from Madrid, Spain is notable for its use of sound and rhythm to highlight the monotonous patterns of modern life...
Read More*Online Premiere* A dance trip through anger starring Sunita Mani moving through an abandoned building dressed starkly in a white tank top and tights against industrial brick. Directed by Anu Valia, “Blue, Blue” is an experimental dance film with wonderfully expressive choreography and moments of sly humor...
Read MoreA young man attempts to get to the bottom of his childhood memories of plywood in this amusingly mundane documentary short by Christian Kozlowski...
Read MoreA young man takes his love for lizards to the extreme. He legally changes his last name to Lizardi and then, camcorder in tow, goes in search of any lizard he can find and zoom in on.
Read MoreBuilt with style and flash, “Headless” is a candid profile of three performers living in New York City. Artists, performers, dancers in their early twenties, the goal here is self-definition and it’s carried off with a thumping pride...
Read More*Online Premiere* A young woman begins to have doubts while waiting to meet the adoptive parents of her unborn child. This expressive short directed by Anamari Mesa and Kevin Rios succeeds in creating an instant atmosphere and lingers on after the credits roll...
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