A sampling of the best narrative and experimental shorts from the 2021 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.

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 interpretation of a deep, dark, and intimate dream.

Woolgathering

An animated film that deals with aspects of resilience by creating a parallel between the world of emotions in human beings, metamorphosis, and the seasons in nature.

DesMotivaciones

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

Cave

Minimal explorations of rain and sound.

By the Sea

“There's something strange in the neighborhood” when an underfunded team of paranormal exterminators is faced with a demonic entity summoned by a local street gang.

Ghostbusters: South-Side (A Fan Film)

Guided by a strange dream, a young man believes he’s found a way to bring the dead back to life.

Sleepwalker

After secretly following her older brother and his friends to an abandoned neighborhood, Myra encounters a mysterious girl who lives with a group that is preparing for “the reckoning.”

Castle Hill

In the middle of a pandemic, an encounter between a man and his strange neighbor quickly becomes tense.

Face Mask

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, a family takes a trip to an important historical monument.

Monument

St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase Sampler: Narrative & Experimental Shorts

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