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VEKK film, reactions DANCE Festival
VEKK, 6min., Norway
Directed by Thea Bay, Simon Matthew Valentine
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DANCE FROM THE ANGEL AND FAERIE OPERETTAS BY TERRY ULICK film, DANCE Festival
Dance from the Angel and Faerie Operettas by Terry Ulick, 27min., USA
Directed by Terry Ulick
Ballet and modern dance numbers from the Operettas “An Angel’s Love” and “Shameless Faeries” by Terry Ulick from Wherever Music and Wherever Movies. All rights reserved and not for use without express wr... -
STAR - ESTRELLA film, reactions MUSIC Festival (interview)
STAR, 13min., USA
Directed by Selena Alvarez
Estrella (Spanish for “Star”) follows the journey of a young woman navigating the weight of adulthood, identity, and self-acceptance. As a child, Estrella is nurtured by her mother’s belief that she is destined for greatness — her pastel pink-colored w... -
THE SILENCE OF MY SOUL film, reactions MUSIC Festival (interview)
THE SILENCE OF MY SOUL, 4min., Armenia
Directed by Hasmik Chakhmakhchyan
The Silence of My Soul is an intimate piano-vocal ballad shaped by jazz and R&B sensitivity and approached with cinematic restraint. Minimalist piano textures and a nuanced vocal performance create a quiet emotional tension ... -
WHAT KIND OF WORLD IS THIS? film, reactions MUSIC Festival
WHAT KIND OF WORLD IS THIS?, 50min., USA
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WISHFEATHER film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
WISHFEATHER, 3min., Australia
Directed by Ying Lei Zhang
A dancer wishes to soar beyond her eternal cage. But the key can only be found from deep within herself.
https://www.instagram.com/kila_ima/Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
My drive to create this k...
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THE PORNOGRAPHER film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
THE PORNOGRAPHER, 3min., Canada
Directed by Milla Cummings, Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre
The Pornographer traces a woman’s sexual sensations through a poetic, fragmentary sensory arc: from the awakening of desire via an abstract nature that comes alive, through geode-like vulvas that glow and swell, ... -
PROJECT HAZMATIC: DANGEROUS GOODS film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
Project Hazmatic: Dangerous Goods, 13min., USA
Directed by Willa Carroll
Hazarding a guess at our planet’s imperiled future, Project Hazmatic: Dangerous Goods, hovers between cataclysmic hymn, ecstatic elegy, and absurd ritual. Clad in bespoke hazmat suits, eco-voyagers cavort through industrial ... -
VEILS film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
VEILS, 7min., USA
Directed by Nick Polace
Humans are trapped in a symphony of movement and stimulation. What happens when they break outside of this bubble that they created? -
THEY ARE KILLING US,,, film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival (interview)
THEY ARE KILLING US..., 5min., Canada
Directed by Maurice Cormier
From A Nightmare Of A Possible Not Too Distant Future....
https://www.instagram.com/maurice_cormier92Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
The idea started to come through during the first two y...
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BALL LIGHTNING film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival (interview)
BALL LIGHTNIING, 12min., USA
Directed by Catriona Trina Baker
Ball Lightning is the true story of a refugee who fled the personal and social effects of Soviet run East Germany after the end of WWII and immigrated to the United States in the 1960s. The story is told through the eyes of the surroga... -
LILITH film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
LILITH, 22min., Mexico
Directed by Camila Barragán, Patricio Méndez
A silent presence leads a group of women to a cathartic experience in which they merge in a collective entity, embodying the cyclical and synchronic stages of the feminine being.
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THE SANGUINE film, reactions HORROR Festival
THE SANGUINE, 25min. USA
Directed by Patrick McNerney, Daniel Jones
A crestfallen master and outcast servant rob the grave of a long dead warlord to find he’s returned to defend it.
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HAUNT RESTORER film, reactions HORROR Festival
HAUNT RESTORER, 19min., Canada
Directed by Wil Andrews
Darla and Eddie are transient siblings who make their living performing supernatural for-hire jobs, with Eddie using his rare gift to communicate with ghosts and restore their connection to the living world. As they travel from town to town, ... -
GLISTENING BENEVOLENCE film, reactions HORROR Festival
GLISTENING BENEVOLENCE, 6min., UK
Directed by Matt Cargill
Neo-jazz wrecking-crew Sly & The Family Drone summon forth a new vision of terror and transcendence with the video premiere of ‘Glistening Benevolence’. Filmed at an undisclosed, shadowy music festival in the heart of Hampshire, the visua... -
JULIAN film, reactions HORROR Festival
JULIAN, 18min., India
Directed by Rithul Vepramkandi
Julian” is a psychological horror set in Berlin, where a group of film students gather for an ordinary house party that spirals into chaos when one of them becomes possessed by a mysterious presence. As reality blurs and paranoia spreads, the f... -
HUNGER film, reactions HORROR Festival
HUNGER, 19min., USA
Directed by Ken Carlson
A group of trappers lost in the wilderness of the 1830s Pacific Northwest must face more than hunger after
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KAREN'S RETURN film, reactions HORROR Festival
KAREN'S RETURN, 11min., Canada
Directed by Quinn Stewart, Labbrienna Michelin, Heidi Atter
Two years ago to the day, Karen's friends decide to try to reach her in the afterlife. Instead, some may join her.
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STAGEFRIGHT film, reactions HORROR Festival
STAGEFRIGHT, 14min., Canada
Directed by Adam Hill
After the cast list is posted, all hell breaks loose. This short created by a Nunatsiavut Inuk youth, filmed through a one-week summer camp with the Labrador Indie Film Troupe will make you question the lengths people go to be in the spotlight.
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THE HARPIES film, reactions HORROR Festival
THE HARPIES, 4min., Canada
Directed by Rogan Lovse
Aura is on the run from her ex-boyfriend. She is accompanied by her friend, Matt. Matt has always had an uncomfortable crush on Aura. The pair find themselves seeking shelter in an abandoned lumber mill. Unbeknownst to them; a dangerous harpy cal... -
EGGSECUTION film, reactions HORROR Festival
EGGSECUTION, 3min., USA
Directed by Japhet Velazquez
A woman who loves eggs but one day, she is haunted by an egg monster. -
LULLABY film, reactions ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIPS Festival
LULLABY, 4min. Ukraine
Directed by Oleksandr Shvets
Through the child’s simple questions — about fear, hunger, life, and a father at the front — the fragile world of a family is revealed, held together by love, hope, and the promise of dawn. This is a story about childhood that war could not take... -
YOU ARE SPECIAL film, reactions ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIPS Festival
YOU ARE SPECIAL (Music video), 4min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilia Noyabrov
A little boy, fascinated by the legend that the white keys on the old Steinway piano, which "lives" in his parents' house, are made of elephant tusks, dreams every night of meeting the gray giants one day and never being sepa... -
THE YARD film, reactions ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIPS Festival
THE YARD, 9min., UK
Directed by Cameron Moon
During the Christmas season a girl goes in search of a lost ornament with surprising results