Merlot
Italy, 2019, 6 Minutes
Giulia Martinelli and Marta Gennari’s describe their graduation film: “In a blue fairy-tale forest, a grumpy granny loses a bottle of wine. This event will give rise to a crescendo of linked events: consequently establishing a dialogue, a funny repartee between frames and characters, which will lead to an unexpected development.”
Marguerite
Canada, 2018, 19 Minutes — Subtitled
An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.
The Super Zoom
Brazil, 2019, 3 Minutes
Visual artist Pedro Machado takes a deep dive into an ordinary object, a ballpoint pen. His CG animation uses super zoom to get a macro view to the "quantum world", shown on an approximate scale of the reality of physics. The score is Pink Floyd, making the whole thing feel like a psychedelic music video.
Second Thoughts
USA, 2015, 9 Minutes
In Second Thoughts, the latest short film directed by David Shane, a cult leader gets cold feet when it comes time to fulfill his own prophesy and transcend to the afterlife.
One Small Step
USA/China, 2018, 8 Minutes
The story of Luna, a Chinese American girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut.
Car Chase
Israel, 2015, 2 Minutes
It’s two minutes. Just watch it.
Mixtape Marauders
USA, 2017, 17 Minutes
An endearing tale of two flawed, passionate characters striving to find meaning in the mundane. Through a mixtape of nine songs meant to win the heart of a girl, two stoners obsessively debate the merits of the mixtape and the art of curating one.
Intermission
Thomas Deninger, Trash Artist
USA, 2019, 4 Minutes
Thomas Deininger, a self described trash artist, creates complex sculptures using nothing but trash. He’s angry. He’s annoyed about the sheer scale of plastic waste in the world. Worse still, the massive long-term impact of plastic waste is fuelled mostly by single-use plastics. They get used just the once and then they’re thrown away, left to sit on the Earth for thousands of years. So Thomas decided to start creating large, complex artworks out of these discarded plastics.
The Last Line
USA, 2018, 6 Minutes
An actress enters an audition where she is forced to face a harsh reality of the industry. She starts out delivering a confident performance, only to be gradually beaten down.
Interlude
Brazil, 2019, 1 Minute
A personal short film about an intervening period of time.
Lila
Argentina, 2014, 9 Minutes
Lila is a dreamy girl who can't resign to accept reality as flat as she perceives it, hence she uses her imagination and her skills to modify it.
Happiness
USA, 2017, 4 Minutes
A brilliant analogy to life on Earth, Happiness tells the story of a rodent's unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment.
My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes
USA, 2018, 14 Minutes
My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes tells the story of a young man sifting through his late father’s belongings in an attempt to uncover the intimate details of his life. A perfectly arranged menagerie of old film footage, audio recordings, and meticulously crafted stop motion animation, it is a beautiful tribute to a complicated but devoted father-son relationship.