RestFest Film Festival 2024

Shorts Block: Sun / Daylight / Photosynthesis [AD] [CC]/[OC]

Expired August 23, 2024 6:59 AM
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Total Runtime: 7min 45s

Content Warnings:

  • Scaling Fish: Shaky camera movement
  • it's not so bad: Needles, IV (no blood); In a medical setting; Discussion of medical diagnoses
  • Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting: Flashing lights


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Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting

In a haunted house, whatever hour you woke there was always a door shutting. Or many doors. Or a window. Or it slams. Or it opens. Or it escapes.


Online Premiere


Artist Bio: Ruby Que is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on site-specific intervention and expanded cinema performance. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many projects grapple with absence: the missing person, the deserted homeland, the obsolete media, the traumatic memory. With video, sculpture and writing, they attempt to give shape to what lies within and beyond the perceived emptiness. Drawing on their lived experience as a queer, itinerant immigrant, they meditate on yearning and find home in transit. They believe in the power of collective myth-making, and engage collaborators and/or viewers as co-conspirators towards liberation. rubyque.net @rubyq.ue

  • Runtime
    1 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Online Premiere
  • Genre
    Documentary Short Film
  • Content Warning
    Flashing lights
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Ruby Que
  • Sound Design
    Gabe Postle