Performed by Val Cole

The Last Thing Ma-Maw Buried
Southern gothic mystery

performed by Val Cole

FOR
WHITE BUFFALOES

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Performed by Val Cole

performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

Fat.
Heavy.
Thick.
Chubby. Flabby.
Pudgy. Tubby. Chunky.
Healthy. Obese. Husky.
Plump. Portly. Beefy Meaty.
Fleshy. Blubbery. Rotund.
Paunchy. Stout.
Large.
Solid.
Gross.

Years spent dealing with words meant to define me by the look and shape of my body.

Chi...

performed by Val Cole

5-10-23

Donald Trump Goes Down

Donald Trump
got sentenced to
something like 15 counts
of abuse and defamation
of E. Jean Carroll.
His attorneys tried to say
that E. Jean
was not “his type.”
What “type” is that?
A type who has
a shred of self respect?
A type who
had the sense to make
a legal acc...

Performed by Val Cole

Peach

Opaque peach, purple
Beauty weeping rays of light
Sunsets and bruises

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Performed by Val Cole

American Libraries

An ancient language,
a patron protests--
the sound of democracy.

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performed by Val Cole

Before
Grief arrived quietly.

Not with diagnosis,
that came later,
clinical and manageable,
outlined in pamphlets
beside treatment plans.

The grief began
the first time she noticed someone looking
for one second too long.

After that
mirrors became negotiations.

She learned which side of her f...

Editor & Visual Designer: Kaitlin Manalili

Produced by Matthew Toffolo

Written by Damon Yeargain

A Vacation Terror Tale, 30min., USA
Directed by Shreco Bakari
Havoc & mayhem unfold amongst 6 friends while vacationing in a Airbnb.

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Never Tell, 3min., USA
Directed by Morgan Rosenblum
After a devastating car accident leaves his wife on the brink of death, Ben Rosen is approached by a mysterious, dying man in a hospital corridor who offers him an impossible bargain: her life in exchange for their future firstborn child.

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LET’S MAKE IT A BLOCKBUSTER NIGHT, 80min., USA
Directed by Amir Shah
An Italian-American foreign language instructor and aspiring actress auditions for a role in a German lollipop commercial. An Iranian actress auditions for the same role. Little do both actresses know, that this German TV produc...

Infernus, 85min., USA
Directed by Vincent Vente
After her brother's abrupt and mysterious disappearance near the end of summer, Danielle sets out to find the only family she has left. In doing so, she quickly discovers something much more unsettling about the world she thought she knew, and herse...

THE PROTECTORS, 24min., USA
Directed by Kelso Harper, Carin Leong
This immersive film follows researchers racing to save 74 remaining southern resident orcas while federal budget cuts threaten the very science needed to rescue them. The story combines compelling on-the-water storytelling with urg...

FOOD IS EVERYTHING, 19min., USA
Directed by Julio Palacio
Food Is Everything is a visually lush and provocative short documentary from award winning director Julio Palacio, that invites viewers to think about food through a radically fresh way. In this film, Chef Ryann Morris explores the notion ...

Desert Reforestation: Rivals and the Dropped Camera, 5min., Czechia
Directed by Stanislav Skricka
The film captures real, unplanned moments in which divided communities — rivals in politics, work, and sport — come together in a desert reforestation project. In a place where conflict might be expe...

THE TRANSITION ROOM, 13min., USA
Directed by Aaron Penney
A grieving widower attempts to chase his late wife down in the afterlife only to be stopped by two extremely polite obstacles in his path.

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