This shorts program is home to the latest visions that contemporary experimental and avant-garde cinema have to offer. If it’s here, it is most assuredly off the beaten path.

A short experimental film taken on a cheap point-and-shoot camcorder, run analog through a video mixer and collaged both electronically and manually.

How Loving U Changed the World

A physical and psychological journey discovering the Self. Shot on 16mm film and hand-processed, this experimental short explores the mystical terrain of Joshua Tree through the medium of pure cinema.

Out in the Desert

A physical and psychological journey discovering the Self.

It’s New Years’ Eve 2080 and Earth is uninhabited. A new age radiologist travels from outer space to practice yoga in front of a desert sunset when an earthquake hurls her from a cliff.

Death Valley

A new age radiologist travels from outer space to practice yoga in front of a desert sunset when an earthquake hurls her from a cliff.

1940’s colonial Singapore. A Chinese girl has to play a nursery game among English children and is reminded of her place. Another Chinese girl has to sing a Japanese nursery song for an official while her true voice remains silenced.

Nursery Rhymes

1940’s colonial Singapore. A Chinese girl has to play a nursery game among English children and is reminded of her place.

"Her hair, touched by the poison, fell off, and with it both nose and ears; and the head shrank up; her whole body also was small; the slender fingers clung to her side as legs; the rest was belly. Still from this she ever spins a thread; and now, as a spider, she exercises her old-time weaver-art."&nbsp;&nbsp;-Ovid, Metamorphoses

Arachne

Caught in the clutches of a nefarious island, Edward Prendick crosses a terrifying Thing that soon wreaks upon him a flood of endless torment. With one treacherous turn after another, Prendick must make his way through this world or suffer the end of his own. Inspired and creative, the film features an original score and was captured entirely on Super 8 film at Northwest Florida state and local parks.

Chapter 9

Inspired and creative, the film features an original score and was captured entirely on Super 8 film at Northwest Florida state and local parks.

Shorts Program 5 - High Art

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