New Orleans Film Festival 2021

Experimental Shorts

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11 films in package
Intro: Experimental Shorts
Valid & Literal Magic
An ethereal experimental film that utilizes a clear crystal ball to represent the essence, spirit, and magic of Black girls and Black women.
Show Me Other Places
A Sri Lankan woman accesses other places in digital form, while situated in her own physical reality.
Fireflies (Vagalumes)
The night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Flamengo's Park while the city of Rio de Janeiro falls asleep.
Two Sons and a River of Blood
Two Sons and a River of Blood parallels the loss of a pregnancy with trans embodiment, as two queer cis women and a trans man perform and mythologize their experiences of harboring multiple existences.
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Desert Air
A dark journey down the rabbit hole of a turbulent female adolescence.
Closed captions available
Pride
Set in Charlottesville during the early 1990s, Pride follows an aspiring writer as she finalizes stories for the latest issue of Pride, a student run newspaper at the University of Virginia
Saturday Afternoon (pài-la̍k ē-poo)
A half-moon on the blue sky. A quiet offering connects the unreachable world with the physical ground. An elegy for the filmmaker's grandma.
No Garden Beyond
Scenes from above, below and around the Sargasso Sea, a body of water unbounded by land where ecology and mythology have coexisted since before Juan de Bermúdez’s 1505 expedition.
Sinking of the Natchez (Grounding Exercise no. 13)
this Machine kills Nostalgia. at the corner of Calliope and Calamity, a Fusillade and Formation arrayed amid placid antebellum aestheticization. and Feathers will Fly.
QA: Experimental Shorts

Formally inventive and challenging notions of hows have traditionally been presented, these short films broaden our understanding of what a film is and how it communicates.  

Two Sons and a River of Blood parallels the loss of a pregnancy with trans embodiment, as two queer cis women and a trans man perform and mythologize their experiences of harboring multiple existences.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    11 minutes
  • Language
    English, Spanish
  • Country
    USA, Mexico
  • Director
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
  • Screenwriter
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
  • Producer
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
  • Cinematographer
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
  • Editor
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
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