CONSUMED, 4min., USA
Directed by Michael Asmundson
Maggie, an online shopping junkie, just wants to buy the perfect outfit. But, when she maxes out all her credit cards, she soon learns that her debt isn't the only thing waiting in the shadows...

https://instagram.com/Consumed_Film

7:59, 3min., Canada
Directed by Henri Carreau
In a dystopian world, a masked figure commutes to work. For him, everything is normal, but things truly aren't.

SHE'S NOT YOU, 3min., Italy
Directed by Valentina Valenti
Based on Savarese and Valitutti’s cover of “She’s not you” (Elvis Presley)

https://www.instagram.com/costanza_savarese/

EMOTIONAL STORAGE FULL, 5min., Canada
Directed by AJ Lutsky
What if memories were stored in your head like photos on your phone? How would you know which ones to delete to make room for more...

PIPPY AND THE TYPIST, 5min., USA
Directed by Rachel Nemez
Our protagonist, Pippy, discovers that a magical typewriter controls the events happening down below.

https://rachelnemez.com/
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NOUMENA, 2min., USA
Directed by Coby Resnick, Yanni Economos
"Noumena" is an experimental film that explores the Kantian principles of reality. It follows a student studying at a library late at night as she tries to understand concept of metaphysics. As she becomes deeper in thought, her environ...

SECRET GOSPEL, 23min., USA
Directed by Brandon Auman
A young nun inflicted with stigmata discovers a horrific secret in the dungeon of her monastery.

https://www.instagram.com/brandon_auman/

NAVIGATING THE NIGHT, 10min., USA
Directed by Erin M. Aler
A young Soldier participates in a routine training mission, where her failures lead to a predicament for her morals to come to question

https://www.instagram.com/navigating_the_night

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THE NEXT BELLS, 16min., USA
Directed by Joey LaFrance
In this musical, Lily is waiting for an important phone call and navigates life assuming the worst, leading her down a dance-filled, spiraling path of self-discovery.

https://www.instagram.com/the.next.bells_film/

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A PICCOLI PASSI, 5min., Italy
Directed by Francesco La Barbera
Antonio, a 12-year-old boy, defends a man from the abuses of his own friends. Following this event, the boy's present and future will be profoundly changed, together with that of those around him.

https://www.instagram.com/_fralab24_/

THE LAND OF MEMORIES, 3min., Italy
Directed by Rocco Losasso
memories, happy or sad are always memories.
a past time that can no longer return

https://www.instagram.com/rocco___losasso

HEAVEN, 6min,. Finland
Directed by Masha Shalagina
A young woman struggles with feeling trapped inside her body, and the authoritarian and dystopian society she lives in. She clings on to hope as she desperately tries to escape.

http://www.cruxmusique.com/
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JACK, 5min., USA
Directed by Julian Curi
An art connoisseur finds himself on the run after he steals a priceless item from a ruthless man in this fun twist on a classic tale.

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Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

My love, I was just praying when the Holy Spirit put you in my mind; did I ever tell you that you are stupid fine!?

I was envisioning us playing in the snow, please my love; don’t forget to bring that special glow!

We would now have snowball fights, but I promise no...

Narrated by Val Cole

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Once there was a woman in the night forest
who could hear above the register of most.
She would listen to mice sing in chorus
or coyotes comfort their young
over the flash and rumble of coming weather.

There was the night when I stayed in the garden
late into the ho...

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READ POEM:

Cold unconscious metal
Reflective concentration
Carefully cloned contortions
Cast in curves of concave
Full length spying steelfaces
Hung in private parlours
Viewing fornication
Convex copulation
Such vivid observation
For one so unalive.

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Silk tangerine sheets dance melodically
as reflections of the sultry moon, gleams
through the lofts balcony, under-shadowed
by the soft lip presses of two sexually stressed humans
pressed against their saturated melaninated skin
pressing old buttons during the practi...

Narrated by Val Cole

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1. What is your short story about?

I recently watched the William Holden film Network for the first time and I started googling the actor’s life. Although I’m a fan, I did not know about his tragic death from a fall while intoxicated in November, ...

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POEM:

I hate that I am gaining so much weight,
It’s feeling like I’m losing my grip on fate,
As here and there, I await and debate,
How to turn back learned time.
I need to not burn my rhymes,
Except in my readers minds.
I feel blind and signed,
My fine health away,
Today a...

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POEM:

I hate when cannibalism is used as a metaphor for love.
I think love is a form of devotion which does not include devouring. Maybe
hunger and
sometimes bruises or
sunburns
but never devouring.

I wrote in a poem once that I am a liar at the best of times.

I hate when...

9/10: Love Before the Fall, 58min., USA
Directed by Daron Hagen
The myths of Orpheus and Charon are interwoven with the entirely sung magical-realist story of four friends dining in an Italian bistro who are fated to perish the next morning in the attack on the Twin Towers. At meal’s end, through...

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THE FINAL CURTAIN CALL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Jessica Orcsik, Robbie Ryde
As Ella embarks on a musical journey, she meets 4 other teenagers, each with a new song. Taking place in a mysterious theater, the musical numbers reveal heart wrenching stories of child tr...

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DAYLIGHT, 12min., USA
Directed by Yaa Asantewaa Faraji
A ballet dancer struggles to cope with the realities of her new life after one night goes terribly wrong.

https://www.daylightshortfilm.com/
https://www.instagram.com/daylightheshort

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