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Great Canyon is a live-action / animated hybrid which chronicles a queer first date through the lens of the anxieties and insecurities that exude from the main character. The morning after hooking up, two recent college grads wrestle with their feelings for each other while a strange and inexplicable phenomenon creeps up in the background. In a chance encounter on Grindr, a reclusive barman at an Arkansas line-dancing bar connects with a charismatic Hollywood actor; the sheer force of their chemistry pushes him to question the isolated life he has built for himself. Gay and lonely, Lloyd is on a shame-fuelled, Grindr-addicted spiral into tragedy. Skin is a poetic exploration of identity and self-discovery, using visual symbolism to depict a woman's transformation into a man.
Great Canyon (U.S., 7 min., Dir. Ella Sahlman) At Lucy’s Last Night (U.S., 17 min., Dir. Ethan Roberts) Flicker (U.S., 10 min., Dir. Samantha Coulter) Some Kind of Paradise (U.S., 21 min., Dir. Nicholas Finegan) Izzy Aman: The Joy of Drag (U.S. 13 min, dir Isabella Kaya Walton) Skin (U.S.., 7 min., Dir. Leo Behrens) 808 (US, 5 min)
(Running Time: 80 minutes)
For the last twenty years of his life Tyler has followed a simple routine: Wake up. Workout. Shower. Drive to work for the late shift at his local line dancing bar.
A simple, quiet, unremarkable routine lived out in the small Arizona town of Paradise. The only real interruption to his routine are the strangers he meets on grindr for a quick fix hookup. That is, until the day that a Hollywood film crew rolls into town.
When Tyler drives past the set on his way to work, he pulls up on a hill to watch the action playing out below. He sees an actor amid the aged sets and dusty period costumes. he’s handsome. Charismatic. A far off impossibility. At least that’s how it seems till later that night when the two match on Grindr.
Across the course of a few brief nights the two men meet and the enigmatic actor draws Tyler into an intimate love affair that stirs new horizons inside him. As he allows his walls to melt under the warmth of the actor’s gaze, Tyler discovers a new and previously unknown power in his own vulnerability. Suddenly the old world of tequila, line dancing and quick fix fucks is no longer enough...
Great Canyon is a live-action / animated hybrid which chronicles a queer first date through the lens of the anxieties and insecurities that exude from the main character. The morning after hooking up, two recent college grads wrestle with their feelings for each other while a strange and inexplicable phenomenon creeps up in the background. In a chance encounter on Grindr, a reclusive barman at an Arkansas line-dancing bar connects with a charismatic Hollywood actor; the sheer force of their chemistry pushes him to question the isolated life he has built for himself. Gay and lonely, Lloyd is on a shame-fuelled, Grindr-addicted spiral into tragedy. Skin is a poetic exploration of identity and self-discovery, using visual symbolism to depict a woman's transformation into a man.
Great Canyon (U.S., 7 min., Dir. Ella Sahlman) At Lucy’s Last Night (U.S., 17 min., Dir. Ethan Roberts) Flicker (U.S., 10 min., Dir. Samantha Coulter) Some Kind of Paradise (U.S., 21 min., Dir. Nicholas Finegan) Izzy Aman: The Joy of Drag (U.S. 13 min, dir Isabella Kaya Walton) Skin (U.S.., 7 min., Dir. Leo Behrens) 808 (US, 5 min)
(Running Time: 80 minutes)
For the last twenty years of his life Tyler has followed a simple routine: Wake up. Workout. Shower. Drive to work for the late shift at his local line dancing bar.
A simple, quiet, unremarkable routine lived out in the small Arizona town of Paradise. The only real interruption to his routine are the strangers he meets on grindr for a quick fix hookup. That is, until the day that a Hollywood film crew rolls into town.
When Tyler drives past the set on his way to work, he pulls up on a hill to watch the action playing out below. He sees an actor amid the aged sets and dusty period costumes. he’s handsome. Charismatic. A far off impossibility. At least that’s how it seems till later that night when the two match on Grindr.
Across the course of a few brief nights the two men meet and the enigmatic actor draws Tyler into an intimate love affair that stirs new horizons inside him. As he allows his walls to melt under the warmth of the actor’s gaze, Tyler discovers a new and previously unknown power in his own vulnerability. Suddenly the old world of tequila, line dancing and quick fix fucks is no longer enough...