A big firework of bright colors — an ebullient young love — soars through a sunrise sky, teetering on the verge of a new beginning.

to WORRY isn't love DOLL

Music composed by Stephen Werner — performed by the Pyroclastic Flow Orchestra — accompanies his art in motion.

Kinda Kaleidoscopic--for Anna

The connection of a St. Louis musician’s ambient sound to the ambiance of the filmmaker’s home.

Feng Shui

Poetry In Motion: Man's Crisis of Identity

A pet-store cashier reveals a special talent to a customer who would be happier just buying his cat food.

The Barking Lot

The first 72 hours after a breast-cancer diagnosis is depicted through a montage of sound juxtaposed with close-ups of gestural expression and contrasting images of the natural world.

every.single.one (karuna)

Image-manipulated nature footage is set to a soundtrack of two kids having a conversation.

Ephemeral

An unconfident duck participates in the biggest racing event of the year.

Duck Race

A series of claps, each creating a new space, echoes through anonymous worlds.

ZIG ZAG  Handclaps in Alternity

It’s Chuck’s first Christmas and, for an ornament, that can be a very daunting time.

Deck the Halls

A girl is determined to go to any extreme to catch the legendary Lake Loch Pond Monster, only to realize he may have feelings, too.

Lake Loch Pond Monster

An acknowledgement of the art of visual simplicity.

Goodbye

Animations of collages of flowers in vases are juxtaposed with video footage of flowers.

Just because!

A stop-motion video made out of construction paper follows a bee through the outdoors and indoors.

Manchester Rain

A door appears in darkness as your final distorted visions blink before you.

A Blinking Existence

A video collage — both pastoral and unsettling — fabricated from YouTube videos, online photos, nature desktop wallpapers, animation, and some “real life” shooting.

Cave

A minimal exploration of society’s harm to itself and the planet.

Outcry

A girl who died young tries to revisit the land of the living to communicate with her brother.

Come Home

Minimal explorations of rain and sound.

By The Sea

Breaking the never-ending everyday cycle just requires stopping ... and taking a breath.

Coffee Breath

Animated & Experimental Shorts

General Admission

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