In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.
Joseph Lee AndersonGarrett (segment "It’s All Right, It’s OK")
Hannah ElderHannah (segment "Hydrangea")David Henry GersonDavid (segment "Hydrangea")
Jim CummingsJim (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")
Casey Thomas BrownJordan (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")On the final night of summer, Annie is confronted by a relentless stalker—the embodiment of her deepest childhood fears. When her friends dismiss her concerns, Annie must contend with her anxieties and the unsettling truth.
Crab Day is a short film made to accompany Cate Le Bon’s eponymous album, released on April 15, 2016 via Turnstile. Directed by Phil Collins and shot on location in Berlin in the winter of 2015.
Dominik is a young graduate experiencing his first relationship. Adam becomes a mentor, idol and first love for him. With great feeling, there are also great uncertainties. He finds out that he does not belong to his world of young Bratislava, but he still tries to make their relationship work.
Elsie is a fiercely independent, equally opinionated pensioner with a drink problem and reliant on daily help including Jermaine, a black, sexually ambiguous carer. Initially, their relationships is combative but he wins her over with his non-conventional ways. When Jermaine disappears without a word, Elsie is determined to find out what happened to him.
Maude and Clothilde have been together for several years but no longer look at each other. When Maude suddenly loses her hearing, she tries to get closer to Clothilde who constantly avoids her.
Best friends, Alexa and Maya wanted stress free trip to Vegas away from their significant others. But when the ladies get too drunk and find themselves in a wedding chapel, they've got to face the feelings. In a short told completely backwards, the two prove that what happens in Vegas has lasting consequences.
After his daughters accidentally bleach his hair, before another stressful family dinner, Meir decides to escape. The middle-aged, suburban history teacher unexpectedly finds what he needed when a chance encounter with his former students plunges him into a night of pure rebellious energy.
Darling, he came to see me again today. I end every session more shook than the last. Because, unlike all my other patients, he shows no discomfort whatsoever with his sexual freakishness. On the contrary. I maintain my diagnosis: acute melancholia and flight from reality. He goes so deep in his delusion sometimes that he imagines he's some kind of prophet. As if he was part of a cult.
A small town paper delivery boy sees the world in a different light when he peeks through his neighbor's window.
A spunky seven-year-old receives a shiny pink bike for her birthday, but her domineering uncle is the only adult in the trailer park willing to teach her how to ride it, and the word "quit" is not in his vocabulary.
The ultimate love story, by Courting.
Maureen finds her step-daughter in bed with a friend, which changes their relationship.
LETTERS, a dramatic historical fiction written by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt in 2010, tells the story of U.S. soldiers and their loved ones through their correspondence beginning with the Civil War and ending with the War in Iraq. Sahuarita High School students adapted the Readers’ Theatre play into a movie, reasoning the student actors would be kept safe from Covid-19 by filming them individually, and afterward the footage could be reassembled into a screenplay following the original dialogue.
Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to statuelike tableaux vivants.
Story of a bourgeois European family whose lives are invaded by an enigmatic visitor. Set within a 20th century modern villa in Spain, his presence creates an unnerving effect.
A group of friends struggle for survival as they are faced with the ancient, demonic evil of - the killer carnivorous coat.
Seonduk Arts High school sets a “moral distance rule”, forbidding physical contact between boys and girls. The school recommends Byeonchan and Seohyun, who have been meeting for 700 days, to transfer to another school because of this rule.
Jong-su is visiting Seo-yeon who had compensated dating with him...
Young-eun who has a crush on her classmate, Min-su, realizes that her younger sister Young-ji and Min-su are in a relationship. Though she tries to suppress her emotion it’s not easy. One night, Young-eun witnesses Young-ji and Min-su having sex.
Mattis feels rejected by his dad and seeks attention from his male dancing teacher. But this night, something is different. Mattis induces a power struggle and when the dancing teacher desperately tries to set boundaries, they both loose control.