SUNDAY JAN 17, 2021
SHORT FILM BLOCK 1
PSYCHEDELIC ANIMATION
2 PM -4 PM EST
ÜBERFROG, 2020
Director Tuomas Kurtakko
Finland, 12 minutes
When a chase for a delicious dragonfly goes awry, a frog finds himself on a journey towards higher levels of amphibian consciousness, ultimately leading him down the rabbit hole to face his worst fears.
HALF FULL; 2020
Director Olivia Trotter
US, 10 minutes
A short film anthology on the theme of identity, with each segment featuring a different animator and their personal interpretation of the theme. Personal interpretations include experience, self-acceptance, trans identity, aging, and ego death.
SUBMERGED; 2019
Director Alex Nelson
UK, 3 minutes
Perspective of a man drowning
THE DAILY HEAVY; 2019
Director Arturo Baston
Music by Oh Sees
Spain, 8 minutes
Earth is smacked by a bacterium from outer space which leads to dancing, fornication, fighting, and ultimately the coming apart of human systems.
LA VUELTA DE LA POLILLA; 2019
Directors Brian C O'Malley, Daniel A Penengo
US, 6 minutes
A young shaman in search of the eternal light discovers a moth who holds the secret of transcendence. The shaman goes on a quest to join the moth and its flock, discovering ultimate reality.
SHADOWS STRATEGY; 2019
Director Thomas Lisle
UK, 10 minutes
The shadows strategy” is the story of two alien cosmonauts, from an alien race that can manipulate their form as and when they wish, their planet has a problem and they send the two hero's to find an answer.
CAPTAIN VIVID; 2018 Psychedelic Featurette
Director Taku Kuroda
Japan, 44 minutes
Our hero awakened to the beauty of bad taste and built his "visionary environment" together with the people who have same weird obsessions. And when the opponents of his aesthetics attacked his world, the hero determines to fight against them to protect his bad taste
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SHORT FILM BLOCK 2
VISIONARY LANDSCAPES- AS ABOVE SO AS BELOW
4 PM-6 PM EST
EMBERS OF THE SUN; 2019
Director Zareh Tjeknavorian
Armenia, 12 minutes
This impressionistic short film evokes the otherworldly beauty of Armenia's prehistoric monuments and their sacred landscapes. The monoliths and rock art of the highlands are vestiges of the mysterious Bronze Age peoples that hunted and worshipped in this remote volcanic realm some 4 thousand years ago.
URBAN LANDSCAPE; 2019
Director Nicholas Gebbe
Germany, 5 minutes
If you walk through the city you are often not aware of the outside. The images seen mix with thoughts, occasionally fail, are sketchy. Only certain parts of the path are perceived and when you remember, these snapshots form a collage of some sort. With the technique of photogrammetry in Urban Dreamscape these parts are captured and staged in such a way that they empathize with this phenomenon. Many individual photos are used to create 3d objects. These are edited, merged and distorted. A dream landscape arises.
BRAVAS; 2019
Directors Peter A. Sandmark and Trace Nelson
Canada, 3 minutes
A short experimental film starting with images from painting directly on 16 mm celluloid, then transformed in the editing, and augmented by digitally modified sounds we captured in our day to day lives.
THE VALLEY;2019
Director Gavin Hipkins
New Zealand, 14 minutes
Devon's moors are the backdrop for this hybrid film that constructs an imaginary community and frames sentiments of belonging at a time when parochialism and nationalism are globally prevailing. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, Hipkins grafts portraits of his forebears across these uncanny landscapes. A subtext of Doyle’s classic novel negotiates yearnings for a homecoming and a mythical ancestral land.
AWAKENING- 2020 Music Video
Music Composed by Ava Lynch
US, 4 minutes
An instrumental voyage to transcendence
FATHOMS- THE WEIGHT OF SMOKE; 2018
Director Chris Myhr
Canada, 6 minutes
The Weight of Smoke explores the complex interrelationships between the spheres of land, water, living things, and air. The work ruminates on the idea of water as a medium through which organization and entropy operate simultaneously. The Ocean acts as both a generative/constructive influence, as well as an agent of immense and unpredictable destructive power - it is from this medium that all things originate, and will eventually return
ASLEEP ?; 2020
Director Massimiliano Cerioni
Netherlands, 8 minutes
Asleep? is what happens after Dusk Asleep? is an inner trip, an abstract vision inside the eyelids made by colored shapes moving in the darkness, when you're close to falling asleep but not yet there, stoned in the middle of two different realities, out of the time.
SUMMONING, 2019
Director Thomas Javier Castillo
US, 6 minutes
Experimental video piece about landscape, body, and ritual. Seeking the mythic and mystical in the landscapes of the Midwest.
END OF CONFUSION; 2020 Music Video
Composed by Second Coming from the album Fall of Babylon
US, 4 minutes
Coming to grips with the Earth’s crisis and yet finding hope.
SAMA; 2019
Director Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
Turkey, 11 minutes
SAMA is a whirling cosmic journey of ascension, starting from 'Khaos', an ocean of unmanifested form, a void state preceding the universe's birth to the sphere of planets of the solar system, to stars, Primum Mobile and beyond. Sama, is in a sense trying to contribute a response to an age-old question of: "is it possible to create a film that both induces and reproduces a transcendental experience?
THINGS I HAVE SEEN IN MY DREAMS; 2019
Director Joao Pedro Oliveira,
Portugal, 11 minutes
We dream... sometimes we have nightmares, or dreams that makes us sad, anguished, or simply indifferent. But occasionally, there are dreams that project in our mind images and sounds of great beauty. This piece is a recollection and variations on some of these images and sounds I remember from my dreams. It is dedicated to Mario Mary.
FUTURE ITALIAN FESCOES; 2019
FUTURI AFFRESCHI ITALIANI Director Salvatore Garau
Italy, 25 minutes
An artist takes possession of space again and paints coexisting with the mystery that lives in those walls and the distressing presences that still live inside that space. The painter remains involved by the suggestions that are breathed by the abandoned altarpieces, true protagonists
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FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
6 PM-8 PM EST
VETERANS JOURNEY HOME -LEAVING IT ON THE LAND
Director Frederick Marx.
US, 100 minutes
A cohort of 12 Military Veterans do an ancient, 12-day, wilderness Vision Fast ceremony in the desert in Washington that includes four days of solo fasting on the land using only water and minimal shelter.
A Q@A with Director Frederick Marx after the screening.
Frederick Marx was Producer of the famous hit Hoop Dreams. He is currently involved in Veteran Affairs thru his production company The Warrior Films Series.
8PM-9PM
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