WELCOME TO WONDERAMA
10:30am-11am
Fight For What is Right
Song - Carlos KRL Mera
US, 4 min
Hello, I am KRL, and thank you for considering one of the songs that I am most proud of, the process of making Fight For What Is Right is a whole story that I am willing to tell you about, thanks.
Find It, 2022
Director Joy Fillmore Greene
US, 4 min
Can You Find it?
Sensitive Fate, 2021
Director Oren Affias
Israel, 6 min
in this work, I tried to express the struggles and the rough path we take when we blind to see the darkness in ourselves. and when we are in this place, it’s like a private hell. Once we dare to take a look at the dark side in ourselves we can overcome it.
Bikers Dream, 2022
Director Ken Glaser
US, 3 min
A Biker's Dream is Ken Glaser's whimsical homage to motorcycling, one of his lifelong passions. This 3-minute animated short film began as a poem and evolved into a unique audio/visual journey that ventures beyond the confines of earthbound pavement
YOUR SURREALIST PLAYGROUND
11 am - 1 pm
Dada Noise 2, 2021
Director Christopher Rakas
United States, 3 min
An abstract short
Meshes of the After, 2022
Directors Meg Case, Brad Porter
US, 10 min
A retelling of Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren’s formative avant-garde film, a psychogeographical journey through the shifting landscape of a woman’s home, mutating between experience, imagination,and causation in a recursively developing labyrinthine vision
CIFIKA - Good Luck From Her (Lusine Remix, Live), 2022
Director Trent Moorman
US, 6 min.
Cifika's lyrics in the song are about borrowing strength from a future self she sees as realized and strong because her present self is down - "I want to borrow good luck from her, I just want it to burst
Complete, 2022
Director Stephanie Leet
US, 3 min
Out There, 2021
Director Lukas Mikkas
Denmark, 30 min
A young man finds himself in his own primitive self-created world, consisting of a tent, a well, a small garden and a scrap yard.He performs some rituals over the book Karma Sutra and cuts important notes, images out of the book as a form of worship and sacrifice to make a new life grow, all the while his subconscious takes more and more control and brings him beyond nature and far out in the universe.
Lavoro Macchinine, 2021
Submitter Alexis Grey Hildre
Canada, 4 min
Lavoro Macchinine is a collaboration between Alexis Grey Hildreth (moving image) and Ora Cogan (sound) that deconstructs the opening credits and reimagines the musical overture in the title sequence from the Italian period drama Il Gattopardo (1963).
A Walk Thur Latent Space, 2021
Director David Witzling
US, 6 min
Two artificial bits of intelligence compete to mingle fact with its statistical representation. Thinking machines will eat your future. In the end, all is well in the Disneyverse Thinking machines will eat your future.
Lotería!, 2020
Director Isabella Hicks
US, Mexico, 12 min
Rafa is forced into the trial of his life when he awakens to find himself face to face with Destiny and her deck of lotería cards.
Photography and Rocketry, 2005
Matthew Robert Macy
US, 6 min
The eye is a miraculous instrument, forever tuned to the pulsating wavelengths of light but, the eye is hemmed in by horizons.
Forrest Creatures, 2021
Director Larissa Archer
US, 3 min
Smoking Mirror, 2022
Zareh Tjeknavorian
US, 2 min
An eye for an eye...An analog sleight of hand - all effects made in-camera. one minute / 16mm reversal / B&W / Silent - BYOSFX (bring your own sound effects)
Untitled Bartel
Director Malte Bartels
Germany, 1 min
untitled [self-destruct a] shiows the physical and chemical destruction of the filmmaker's portrait.
ALTERED STATES
1 pm-3 pm
Dharma in Everywave, 2020
Director Lee seong wook
Korea, 6 min
Natural footage collected by excluding intentions as much as possible was recombined into the iconography of Mandala-Dharmachakra .
Free Your Mind, 2021
Director Kevin Trung Manh
US, 14 min
An artist forced to engage in creating mass-produced paintings struggles to conform. Seeking help from a poster, he begins to delve into the philosophical nature of the inner self, meditation, and religion. Inspired by the writings of Thich Nhat Hanh
PNW: Pure Natural Wonder, 2022
Director Justin Saint Cyr
US, 3 min
Ancient Medicines,2020
Director Javier Prato
US, 7 min
Javier Prato takes the audience on a groundbreaking journey through the world of natural psychedelics —from the Peruvian Amazon to the heart of Africa— meeting shamans and partaking in their traditional ceremonies, interviewing distinguished neuroscientists, psychologists, and pharmacologists who study their potential application in medicine.
Medusa's Bakery, 2021
Director Sheru Arora
US, 10 min
Two young artists accidentally eat psychedelics taking them on a transformative journey while throwing a party.
Swamp Thing, 2022
Director Dane Cree
US,5 min
Peace, love, and embrace is found in the dance between two entities merging in psychedelic connection. The soundtrack ‘Swamp Thang’ was recorded by the Minneapolis, MN based band Age of Curation
Identity, 2021
Director Oona Räyhäntausta
Finland, 3 min
Is anything really ”ours”, anyway?
Grateful Dean, 2021
Director Gabriel Joncas, Guillaume Dubois, Kenzo Suzuki
Canada, 11 min
This psychedelic portrait film follows Dean Robert, an eccentric self-sufficient mushroom cultivator who lives in an RV. It explores the adventurous and carefree van life, while also acknowledging that this reality can sometimes be deceptive.
Mayur, 2015
Director Vibeke Sorensen
Singapore, 8 minutes
Mayurfeatures complex images that evolve from threads and roots to vines and veins, forming intricate lace-like 2 and 3-dimensional structures, tiles, and living textiles in the luminous colors of the peacock.
Pick Me Up!, 2021
Director Alex Cherney
US, 12 minutes
Heartbroken over a recent breakup, a young man gets more than what he bargains for when he looks to gain his confidence back with the help of a friend.
Endlessneism, 2021
Director Liam Clark
Australia, 12 min
A 16mm erotic trip about two friends who play a game where each rule prescribes them to act out their most violent and perverse private fantasies.
I Gets No Sleep, 2021
Director JD Ferenc
US, 14 minutes
A music video director moonlights as talent during the pandemic. A 14-minute film told through song.
Melody, 2021
Director Eric Harrison
US, 4 min
An homage to "Spill the Wine" by Eric Burdon and War, "Open My Eyes" by Nazz, "I Heard Her Call My Name" by the Velvets, and a few dozen other great psychedelic nuggets
A DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION
3 pm-5 pm
Woodstock: A Snapshot in Time, 2021
Director Nancy Cohen Koan,
US, 79 min
Two filmmakers, one an alumnus of the original Woodstock Festival, the other, a younger Brit who only read about the sixties, plan a return to the original site in hopes of re-kindling the spirit of the time.
PSYCHEDELIC SCI-FI
5pm-7pm
House of the Unholy, 2022
Director Daniel Merlot
US, 15 min
A bloodthirsty Princess hunts down the last of the Indigo Elders tribe. She seeks a magical elixir in his heart that will grant her the powers to reign over the Kingdom for an Eternity.
Catalyst Comet - The Movie
Directors Isaiah Marcotte, Danny Voyles
US, 6 min
Inspired by the eccentric conspiracy theories of the Bavarian Illuminati, the Freemasons, and the New World Order. the works of Carl Jung, Manly P. Hall, Rudolf Steiner, and Robert Anton Wilson
277, 2022
Director Matthis Dor
France,22 min
A young man wanders between the walls of his house, sinking into the darkest depths of his psychology. As memories of his past life wander around him, his thoughts escape into the void that surrounds him...
Sunday Drama,2021
Directors Arturo Bastón, Dirty Sound Magnet
Spain, 6 min
A psychedelic fable about the creation of the universe and the beginning of life on earth, evolution, war, death... and maybe life again somewhere else.A music video for Dirty Sound Magne
Pandemic, 2021
Director Albert Bayona
Spain, 7 minutes
A mashup of " Village of the Damned" , Day of the Triffids" and other classic Sci-fi films.
Arise Robot Minds v1
Director Michael Bohacz
US, 6 min
Tin Godz made this tune for the "Abductions with the Alter Boy" TV show, the episode "Robot Taboo Module 2
Elatio, 2021
Directors Ioana Cherascu & Garrett Schroeder
US, 7 min
A mysterious signal from outer space elicits equally mysterious reactions from its listeners, from total bliss to violent death. This film comprises three parts: a 50s-style newsreel, black-and-white moving photography, and a psychedelic finale.
The Interrogation, 2022
Directors Marisa Cohen, Peter Issac Alexander
US, 6 min
Set several decades in the future, The Interrogation is a cat-and-mouse game between a corporate media executive performing a “loyalty test” and a savvy news director harboring a potentially game-changing secret.
Dude, 2021
Directors : Konstantin Rosshoff, Tokay Yotimo, Marco Jörger
Switzerland, 5 min
Sören and Melchior got lost in the woods.At a lonely gas station, the two get into a heated argument and Melchior takes off. Left on his own, Sören drives through the increasingly surreal forest which becomesdenser and denser and finally invades his mind.
The revelation of the Disembodied,2022
Director Andres Silva
US, 10 min
Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, mythological, and ecological dimensions
Niteland, 2021
Director Joey Halter
US, 11 min
A man wanders through a dream city of the night visiting the ghosts of the past.
A Dose of The Buzzer, 2022
Director Aaron Thibeault
US, 9 min
A government agent is on a mission in an undisclosed bunker in Russia. The agent waits for instructions from a shortwave radio and he tunes into UVB-76 The Buzzer to wait for instructions. His mission get
SHC: Freak Accident,2021
Director Thomas Burke
US, 2 min
A mysterious phenomenon occurs during a video call, leading to a Texas resident's death.
A PSYCHEDELIC AWAKENING
7pm- 9pm
Howl, 2022
Directors Martin Del Carpio
US, 4 min
Howl was written at a time when I needed to purge many of those emotions. You give your best to a position and hope it’ll be genuinely recognized where it matters.
The Surrealistic Dream,2021
Director Logan Fry
US, 3 mins
Juxtapositions of distant realities as if in a dream. Reality is what you dream, life comes from within..
Argent Glass, 2022
Director Katsuyuki Nakanishi
Japan, 4 min
In November 1967, in Honmoku, Yokohama, a guy (Shinsuke Kato) is chasing his dream of becoming famous while performing live, but it is not coming true. One day, he breaks his cherished silver glass, and after gathering up the fragments, he drove off somewhere.
The Factory, 2021
Director Gizmo Beardon
UK, 4 min
Life is short, in fact it’s just six lessons. In a world controlled by the Overseer, our hero enters the world as a new-born. Will they achieve enlightenment and become conscious enough to break free or will history repeat itself?
Between the Balance, 2021
Directors Nicole Kadar, Steven Speliotis
US, 4 min
Choreography in 4d
Space, 2021
Directors Jing Wang, Harvey Goldman
US, 4 min
Between the horror and the ecstasy, Between memory and motivation, Between our wisdom and our ignorance.Between where you are and where you are not. The vacuous dark matter, primeval singularity, is filled with infinite possibilities. Before the beginning and after the end.The vortex that is now.
Roses in the Night, 2019
Director Pencho Kunchev
Bulgaria, 10 min
A story of a young girl in ancient Greece between the ripening and mystery of first love. Based upon "Les Chansons de Bilitis" by Pierre Louys (1875-1920).
Suite Southwest
Director Ted Timmreck
US, 14 min
Mythical imagery found on stone surfaces of the American Southwest
Huni, 2022
Danielle McCormick
Ireland, 30 min
The Huni Kuin are a remote indigenous tribe living in the Amazon rainforest. The psychedelic brew Ayahuasca is a key part of their spirituality. Every Saturday night, they gather as a tribe and take it and go on a night long inner vision quest.
Our America, 2021
Directors Dean M Winkler, Donald S Butler
US, 4 min
"Our America" is a short-form, non-narrative meditation on American 20th century industrial promises gone awry.
Adrienne's Garden, 2022
Director Richard Daniels
US, 5 min
Adrienne's Garden joins into four short yoga-inspired movement videos featuring Adrienne Dornbusch meant to inspire and uplift mind, body, and spirit.
Mostri, 2021
Director Luca Di Bartolo
Italy, 10 min
The monsters for a dancer are the fatigue behind the performance, the sacrifices, the difficulty of arriving. A dancer who returns to the times when worries and fears have escorted him.
Junior, 2020
Director AJ Wilhelm
US, 12 min
Gifted as a teenager, Jérôme “Junior” Simeon was recruited by top Haitian roots music group “Racine Mapou de Azor” and spent 20 years touring the world. When the lead singer of his band dies unexpectedly Junior’s high-profile career comes to a shocking halt and he suddenly faces an uncertain future for himself and his legacy.
All of us is One, 2020
Director Xavier Zahra
France, 4 min
let's share the love like it's 1969!
A FEATURE PRESENTATION 1
9 pm-11 pm
TRAP, 2021
Director Anthony Edward Curry
United States,96 mins
Facing life in prison, a hood dreams of the violent streets that forged his identity but cursed his soul.
A FEATURE PRESENTATION 2
11 pm-12:30 pm
Enter Mycel, 2022
Director Daniel Christian Limmer
Austria. 74 mins
After the death of her mother, thirteen-year-old Lena struggles to keep the family life together, between her newborn baby sister and her depressed father, who seeks relief from his loss through the manic belief of a timeless and worldwide emotion-based communication system enabled by a natural fungal parasite called the Mycel