New Releases

New Releases

New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.

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New Releases
  • IMPERFECT WOMAN short film, audience reactions

    IMPERFECT WOMAN, 6min., USA, Experimental Animation
    Directed by Xiaomai Tian
    I just want to be perfect by allowing this advertised product to alter my DNA, what could go wrong?

  • EGG DAY short film, audience reactions

    EGG DAY, 3min., Australia, Experimental
    Directed by Syarisa Yasin, Claudia Dickson, Samantha Oo
    A surrealist film in the style of female vaporwave, "Egg Day" explores the complex facets of femininity through scenes that allude to female reproduction. A recurring motif reflects the birth of a powe...

  • FUGITIVE short film, audience reactions

    FUGITIVE, 34min., Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Directed by Adis Kutkut
    A mysterious protagonist is on a quest worth spending 150 years playing chess to unlock a mistery in Sarajevo, now called Neosarayevo, under the control of a sinister Cyberdyne-esque corporation - Sodyn.

    https://www.fugitivefilm.ne...

  • AUTUMN LEAVES short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    AUTUMN LEAVES, 4min., Canada, Drama Animation
    Directed by Elizabeth Lewis
    Autumn brings bitter sweet memories. A woman, missing her husband, struggles to control the leaves and her emotions in this fully animated hilarious take on the classic song.

    Director Statement
    This is an interpretation of...

  • PROVENANCE: A LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER short film, audience reactions (interview)

    PROVENANCE: A LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER, 9min., Dance
    Directed by Li Chiao-Ping
    A short dance film about a transnational adoptee's personal experiences struggling with identity, belonging, and inclusion growing up in the Midwest of America. Directed and choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping, dancer Elisabet...

  • IN YOUR DREAMS short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    IN YOUR DREAMS, 3min., USA
    Directed by Mike Krohn
    In the future, a sentient robot finds that his dreams intrude on his waking life.

    https://tinyurl.com/InYourDreamsFilm

    Director Statement
    I learned to use Unreal Engine when the pandemic prevented me from making films with live actors. This new ...

  • THE BURNING HALLUCINATIONS OF MARY GRACE MCNALLY short film, audience reactions

    THE BURNING HALLUCINATIONS OF MARY GRACE MCNALLY, 3min,. USA, Dance
    Directed by Sam Mandich
    "The Burning Hallucinations of Mary Grace McNally" explores the emotional state of loneliness, isolation, and comparison leading to burnout. We are constantly observing others, whether this be on social me...

  • THE GAME short film, audience reactions

    THE GAME, 5min., USA, Dance
    Directed by James Kinney, Pierre Marais
    Paying homage to classic film noir cinema, The Game brings together an unlikely cast of characters in a midnight game of cat and mouse. Set in a mysterious abandoned warehouse and told through a hybrid of jazz dance styles, allia...

  • Dancing Rhthym Life short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    DANCING RHYTHM LIFE, 4min., Australia, Music Video
    Directed by Peter C. Downey
    Lyrics:
    Dancing is the love of your life
    dancing’s what’s helped you to survive
    dancing is your meditation
    everybody’s dancing

    http://wombatcitystudios.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/insteadofflowersmusic

    Get to know ...

  • SPEAKING OF SILENCE short film, audience reactions

    SPEAKING OF SILENCE, 12min., Canada, Drama
    Directed by Colin Williams
    Before a musician performs live, the sounds of their own song must be heard head-on when love and time cross paths.

    https://colwill.myportfolio.com/narrative
    https://www.instagram.com/colwill/

    Director Statement
    “Speaking of ...

  • KITOR - INNOCENCE short film, audience reactions

    KITOR - INNOCENCE, 4min., Israel, Music Video
    Directed by Benjamin Esterlis
    A lone woman deals with her inner demons in a world of secrets, magic & steam.

    https://benjamin.esterlis.com/

  • HAPPY EVER AFTER short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    HAPPY EVER AFTER, 4min., Musical Animation
    Directed by Leyokki
    This movie shows and sings the tale of a poet; falling into dreams, travelling in fantaisies. A movie made of images generated by an artificial intelligence, giving to the movie the flickering texture of daydreams and memories.

    https...

  • ETHEREAL short film, audience reactions

    ETHEREAL, 8min., USA, Experimental
    Directed by Lanbing Lyu, Lamie Doan
    Ethereal is a story about a social media influencer girl facing the pressure of being popular,

  • SYNTHETIC ME short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    SYNTHETIC ME, 4min., Singapore, Musical Animation
    Directed by Susan Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
    An inanimate stuffed toy belonging to a teenage medical student desires a longevity in their companionship, that it may last for eternity. It is acutely conscious that as time passes...

  • UNVEILED FROM WINTER short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    UNVEILED FROM WINTER, 7min., Canada, Experimental
    Directed by Nicolas Padovani
    Inspired by the poetry of the landscape during a season's change and these upset bodies, this project is an attempt to expose the interiority of a season leaving its spot to another.

    Directing, Editing, Photography :...

  • ALWAYS PRESENT short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    ALWAYS PRESENT, 30min., USA, Musical Dance
    Directed by Philip G. Anderson
    An artist explores their relationship with fear in the creative process.

    https://www.philipganderson.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/philipgandersonmusic/
    https://www.facebook.com/philipgandersonmusic/
    https://twitter.com/...

  • LONG LOOKING short film, audience reactions

    LONG LOOKING, 9min., USA, Dance
    Directed by Carrie Richer
    A young woman perched in a lookout tower shifts between states of isolation and solitude. Inspired by historical records of Montana’s fire lookout towers, this portrait uses movement to explore time’s passage.

    https://holedancefilms.com/
    ...

  • TEST DRIVE short film, audience reactions (director interview)

    TEST DRIVE, 15min., USA
    Directed by Sam Tahhan
    In 2037, in a war-torn world where soldiers are in high demand, a rogue fighter pilot must protect his precocious daughter from enemy forces.

    https://vimeo.com/779981281

    Director Statement
    As my grown daughter puts it, "TEST DRIVE is a movie about ...

  • INNSBRUCK. POWDER. PEOPLE. short film, 17min., Austria, Sports Documentary

    After many winter seasons and competitions at the highest level all over the world, a professional freeride skier from New Zealand named Neil Williman ends up in Innsbruck. There he meets many talented locals that show him just how great the mountains around Tirol are. Deeply impressed by the pos...

  • DANCE Feature Film Festival - ON GUARD: A Story of American Youth. Jan. 26/27th

    ON GUARD: A Story of American Youth., 92min., USA, Documentary
    Directed by Randal Allen Otto
    On Guard is a coming of age story as told through the eyes of five teenage women of color growing up in an era unlike any other.
    Set in the border city of El Paso, TX - a region thrust into the forefront ...

  • UN CHALET AU PLED DES FIZ short film, 36min,. France, Environmental/Documentary

    An elderly woman returns to her chalet at the foot of the Chaîne des Fiz and finds the draft of a letter she had written years earlier.

    Directed by Godefroy de MAUPEOU

  • BYOUL PART 2: DA short film, 8min., South Korea, Dance

    Byoul Part 2: Da

    "Da reinterprets DaEun Jung and Melody Shim’s long-time collaboration Byoul through the intimate lens of filmmaker Taso Papadakis. Da blurs the boundaries between the classical form and pedestrian moves as well as discipline and spontaneity, branched out from the original proje...

  • BEEHIVE (do you want me to bee), 2min., Italy, Dance

    Beehive aims at focusing on the critical part bees plays in the biosphere as a deeply interconnected system. As pollinators, the bees make every sort of flowers and trees grow. Without them we are all lost.
    In a rocky and steep beehive two worker bees do not dance their lives away; quite the oppo...

  • BROKEN short film, 4min., France, Dance

    1 in 3 women are victims of violence during their lifetime, i.e. 1 billion women worldwide. Their names are Myriam, Adèle, Clémence ... They are 20, 35 or 48 years old. They are victims but do not always have the words to speak and to find help ... Since January 1, 2020, 11 women have died killed...