Night Ride From LA – Martin Gerick (Krefeld, Germany)Night Ride from LA is based on a real car ride at night from downtown LA to the desert near Palm Springs a few years ago. The footage was taken from the car by continually shooting single long exposure photos to document the ride of about two hours without any break. This technique condensed the whole trip to a flickering twirl of time-stretched movements and night light graffiti causing a kind of psychedelic trance. A love letter to the energy and vibe of the Californian way of life. 2023; 5 min.

Night Ride From LA

Night Ride from LA is based on a real car ride at night from downtown LA to the desert near Palm Springs a few years ago.

Method – Trevor Hembling (New York, New York)A director and actor go head-to-head when the actor wants to use a real bullet for the Russian roulette scene that they're filming.&nbsp;2023; 12 min.

Method

A director and actor go head-to-head when the actor wants to use a real bullet for the Russian roulette scene that they're filming.

San Miguel – Katherine Myers (Los Angeles, California)Three L.A. influencers are forced to hail an airport taxi&nbsp;in Mexico when their ride falls&nbsp;through. They start to&nbsp;notice strange behavior from their driver, and when the&nbsp;car takes a&nbsp;wrong turn into the middle of nowhere, the influencers&nbsp;begin fearing for their lives...&nbsp; 2023; 13 min.

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San Miguel

Three L.A. influencers are forced to hail an airport taxi in Mexico when their ride falls through. They start to notice strange behavior from their driver, and when the car takes a wrong turn into the middle of nowhere, the influencers begin fearing for their lives...

Animal – Lauren Adams (Los Angeles, California)Bitty and Minnie pilot their Post Haste Shipping Company vessel,delivering supplies for the ongoing and ambiguous rebuild of acollapsed America. For these pilots, their world is almost entirelycontained to the inside of their ship - a self-driving behemoth withno windows onto the landscape that corporate assures them ishaunted by dangerous Animals. Minnie has a vicious scar thatseems to back up this warning. 2023; 15 min.

Animal

Bitty and Minnie pilot their Post Haste Shipping Company vessel, delivering supplies for the ongoing and ambiguous rebuild of a collapsed America.

The Sacred Bees – Kay Qiao (Los Angeles, California)A caring man is finally forced to go out of his way to hunt down his love of life after her unbearable attitude switch and silent treatment. 2023; 16 min.

The Sacred Bees

A caring man is finally forced to go out of his way to hunt down his love of life after her unbearable attitude switch and silent treatment.

This is the Rill Speaking – Gabriel Rodriguez-FullerA lonely warehouse worker is besieged by visions. 2023; 23 min.

This is the Rill Speaking

A lonely warehouse worker is besieged by visions.

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