Shorts - True/False Film Fest
Aurora

Aurora

Dir. Everlane Moraes; 2018; 16 min.
In Person: Director Everlane Moraes

Three Cuban women deliver electric monologues in total silence. (Plays in Shorts: Blanc)

Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1)

Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1)

Dir. Mitch McCabe; 15 min.
In Person: Director Mitch McCabe

Set in the future during the impending civil war, this anxiety-ridden cross-country road trip is soundtracked by talk radio banter. (Plays in Shorts: Rye)

Dadli

Dadli

Dir. Shabier Kirchner; 2018; 15 min.

Before the island was claimed Antigua, it was Wadadli—“our own.” (Plays in Shorts: Blanc)

Distancing

Distancing

Dir. Miko Revereza; 2019; 10 min.

The director of No Data Plan (True/False 2019) packs his .MOVs and says goodbye to the United States. (Plays with małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore)

Good Ended Happily

Good Ended Happily

Dir. Basir Mahmood; 2019; 13 min.
In Person: Director Basir Mahmood

A Lollywood production of the raid on Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad. (Plays in Shorts: Bock)

Hampton

Hampton

Dir. Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena N. Harold; 2019; 8 min.
In Person: Director Claudrena N. Harold

Black Voices, a gospel choir from the University of Virginia, journeys through song on the way home from a concert in Hampton Roads. (Plays with Time)

How to Disappear

How to Disappear

Dir. Robin Klengel, Leonhard MĂĽllner, Michael Stumpf; 2020; 21 min.

Is it possible to desert a war game? (Plays with Catskin)

JESA

JESA

Dir. Kyungwon Song; 2019; 6 min.

A sweet and salty take on family, food, and the patriarchy. (Plays in Shorts: Blanc)

Lost Three Make One Found

Lost Three Make One Found

Dir. Atsushi Kuwayama; 2019; 27 min.

A young man sets off on a long, strange road trip across Portugal to find a cure for his broken heart. (Plays in Shorts: Rouge)

Love It/Leave It

Love It/Leave It

Dir. Tom Palazzolo; 1973; 15 min.

A dazzling and overwhelming tour of Americana, set to the Vietnam War Era-chant “love it, or leave it.” (Plays in Rye)

Partial Differential Equation

Partial Differential Equation

Dir. Kevin Jerome Everson; 2020; 8 min.

A mathematician commands the screen in this entrancing, durational study of chalk and code. (Plays with The Faculties)

Reckless Eyeballing

Reckless Eyeballing

Dir. Christopher Harris; 2004; 14 min.

Furtive and syncopated, a Jim Crow-era crime is reexamined under new light. (Plays with Giverny Document (Single Channel))

San Vittore

San Vittore

Dir. Yuri Ancarani; 2019; 12 min.

A son picks up a crayon while waiting to see his incarcerated father. (Plays in Shorts: Bock)

The Sea, The Stars, A Landscape

The Sea, The Stars, A Landscape

Dir. Alison O'Daniel; 2019; 18 min.
In Person: Director Alison O'Daniel

Horns blare and sound softly through thick LA air. (Plays in Shorts: Rouge)

Secret Screening Short 1

Secret Screening Short 1

2019; 24 min.

An abandoned art deco building is restored to its former glory. (Plays in Shorts: Rouge)

See You Next Time

See You Next Time

Dir. Crystal Kayiza; 2020; 6 min.

A Chinese nail artist and her African American client, a regular, share a moment of relaxation and beauty in a Brooklyn salon. (Plays with Down A Dark Stairwell)

The Shawl

The Shawl

Dir. Sara Kiener; 7 min.

Stevie Nicks plays a magical role in Shane and Dusty's relationship. (Plays in Gimme Truth!)

Shortcuts

Shortcuts

Dir. Daniela Delgado Viteri; 2019; 18 min.

Five political actors offer incidineray testimony as they dance and burn effigies. (Plays in Shorts: Bock)

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Dir. Riccardo Giacconi, Paolo Pennuti, Mirko Fabbri; 12 min.

A band leader loses his senses. (Plays in Shorts: Rouge)

A Song About Love

A Song About Love

Dir. RikkĂ­ Wright; 2019; 14 min.
In Person: Director RikkĂ­ Wright

Suffering, pain, and pleasure are richly layered as a chorus of black women’s voices reaches divine heights. (Plays with Giverny Document (Single Channel))

Specialised Technique

Specialised Technique

Dir. Onyeka Igwe; 2018; 7 min.

An effort to recuperate black dance from studied spectacle to livingness. (Plays with Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another)

The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay

The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay

Dir. Yen-Chao Lin; 2019; 11 min.

Atmospheric journey to the rocky coastal dreamscape of eastern Taiwan. (Plays in Shorts: Blanc)

Spit on The Broom

Spit on The Broom

Dir. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich; 2019; 11 min.
In Person: Director Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich

The story of a clandestine organization founded by black women in 1840 is told through a surrealist lens. (Plays in Shorts: Blanc)

This is an Address

This is an Address

Dir. Sasha Wortzel; 2019; 17 min.

Stonewall veterans and queer activists claim residency along the Christopher Street piers while cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline. (Plays with Pier Kids)

To the North (Part 2)

To the North (Part 2)

Dir. Kelman Duran; 2016; 23 min.

A retelling of indigenous stories on a wintry foray into the mountains of South Dakota. (Plays in Rye)

Up at Night

Up at Night

Dir. Nelson Makengo; 2019; 21 min.

Homemade battery packs and snaking power cables connect citizens of Kinshasa resisting darkness. (Plays with Seven Years in May, and in Bock)

what remains / geriye kalanlar

what remains / geriye kalanlar

Dir. belit saÄź; 2018; 7 min.

Constructed images are frequently manipulated but also link us to the people caught between life and death, past and present. (Plays in Shorts: Bock)

When two or three

When two or three

Dir. Carmine Grimaldi; 2019; 20 min.

In a deserted Arizona town, a pastor and his devoted wife spend their days with God in this intense relationship portrait. (Plays in Shorts: Rye)