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)
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
Dir. Shabier Kirchner; 2018; 15 min.
Before the island was claimed Antigua, it was Wadadli—“our own.” (Plays in Shorts: Blanc)
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
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
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
Dir. Robin Klengel, Leonhard MĂĽllner, Michael Stumpf; 2020; 21 min.
Is it possible to desert a war game? (Plays with Catskin)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2019; 24 min.
An abandoned art deco building is restored to its former glory. (Plays in Shorts: Rouge)
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
Dir. Sara Kiener; 7 min.
Stevie Nicks plays a magical role in Shane and Dusty's relationship. (Plays in Gimme Truth!)
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
Dir. Riccardo Giacconi, Paolo Pennuti, Mirko Fabbri; 12 min.
A band leader loses his senses. (Plays in Shorts: Rouge)
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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)