24th Nevermore Film Festival

FOUR MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT Long-Form Narrative Shorts

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Here is a 77-min collection of four long-form narrative shorts from around the world.


ADVANCED DELVONICS - In this stop-motion sci-fi tale, a character wakes up with no memory after surviving a storm. Given the name “T”, they find themselves helping a team that travels across the many universes. “T” eventually learns that this team – Advanced Delvonics – fixes the degrading universes by merging parts of adjacent universes to keep them whole. Advanced Delvonics seems to have good intentions, but “T” isn’t quite so sure.

SHAMAN - Welcome to Neo-Budapest, capitol of Hungary sometime in the near future! In this city of total collapse lives Lens, a young but dying seer. For good money -- using a hallucinogenic drug called "Shaman" -- he burns his visions of "the other side" onto photographic paper. When a private detective knocks on his door with a potential cure for Lens' illness, he shoots up some "Shaman" to find an important woman who's gone missing. Following the pictures on the photos, they embark on a journey into the apocalyptic ruins of Old-Budapest. But soon, Lens must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to in order to save his own life. In Hungarian with English subtitles

THE HOUSESITTERS - Erin and Matt are best friends, underemployed entertainers, and terrible housesitters. And when they find themselves staying at the site of an infamous murder, they begin to wonder if someone is trying to recreate the crime. Think “Will & Grace” meets “The Strangers.

THE OPERATOR - The Operator follows Michael, a client contact associate as he starts another dull day of business as usual. Connecting long distance intergalactic calls from a remote satellite (not as exciting as it sounds); a bleary eyed and coffee fueled Michael receives a distress call. No one ever receives a distress call. They barely touch on distress calls during the induction day.

ADVANCED DELVONICS

In this stop-motion sci-fi tale, a character wakes up with no memory after surviving a storm. Given the name “T”, they find themselves helping a team that travels across the many universes. “T” eventually learns that this team – Advanced Delvonics – fixes the degrading universes by merging parts of adjacent universes to keep them whole. Advanced Delvonics seems to have good intentions, but “T” isn’t quite so sure.


SCHEDULED TO APPEAR at the PHYSICAL FESTIVAL:

Taylor Hensley, Director/Producer/Writer

Kim McHugh, Producer

Olivia Bland, Producer

Jessica Proctor, Producer

Tracy Holt, Actor



Director Biography - M. Taylor Hensley


Taylor was born, did some things, and then decided to try and make a stop motion film. This is that stop motion film. He has always loved stop motion and wanted to see if he could make one with his limited knowledge, budget, and skill. He wanted to see if he could make them like they used to, without fancy CGI, for two main reasons. First reason, to better understand the craft of other film makers. Second reason, because he didn't know how to use fancy technology to remove rigs or add majestic backgrounds. It took him thirty thousand pictures, over one thousand hours, and one whole year to birth. He is glad it is over. Please be kind to his baby and he hopes you love it even a fraction as much as he does.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    20 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    World Premiere
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  • Director
    M. Taylor Hensley
  • Screenwriter
    M. Taylor Hensley
  • Producer
    M. Taylor Hensley & Kim McHugh & Olivia Bland & DDH Lee & John Masters & Jessica Proctor & Angela Razza & Joshua Rine
  • Cast
    Samuel Dunning, Tracy Holt, Sarah Price, Emily Presley, John Mehrholz, Julie Rine, and Chris Colbath
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