<h1 class="ql-align-center">"Well-crafted artful documentaries that share intimate portraits of lives in struggle, sacrifice, and experimentation." </h1>— Amanda Naseem, Shorts Programmer runtime: 94 minsThese films have a pre-recorded Q&amp;A with the filmmakers following the program..

Synopsis: It's almost a miracle Errol Isom has managed to survive this long without being locked up or killed. It's not an easy feat in St. Louis, which for the last five years has had the highest murder rate for any big city in America. The 29-year-old did his best to avoid the cycle of violence and incarceration that claimed so many of his friends and family (including his father), especially after the birth of his oldest son. But Errol got caught up in the drug game in 2018. Facing 20 years, he accepted a plea deal. This film is an intimate look at the last week before his sentencing. Errol must reconcile with himself and his mother as he spends his last few days with his two young sons trying to figure out what he can do when he gets out to give them a better chance. Director's Bio: Danny Gold is a journalist and documentary filmmaker who has covered crime, conflict and politics across the world.

One Week

Errol Isom has only one week left before he's locked up.

Synopsis: Japanese artist Azuma Makoto has sent his floral sculptures into space and sunk them to the bottom of the ocean, but most of the time, he thinks about the life and death of flowers. Director's Bio: FLOWER PUNK is the third documentary exploring an artist's life and process by director Alison Klayman, after AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY and THE 100 YEARS SHOW. Her other films include THE BRINK and TAKE YOUR PILLS. Film Website: <a href="https://alisonklayman.com/flower-punk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">alisonklayman.com/flower-punk</a>

Flower Punk

You won't look at flowers the same way again.

Synopsis: In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had an artist residency in a shack without running water or electricity. While there, she shot film, recorded sounds and kept a journal. In 2018, Barbara began her own process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her images, sounds and writing from the residency to filmmaker Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with the material. Through her own filmmaking, Lynne explores Barbara’s experience of solitude. She places text on the screen as a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces and times. Director's Bio: Lynne Sachs embraces both film and poetry in her work as an artist, a feminist, an activist, and a teacher. Through word and image, she explores various subjectivities, various selves and other-selves, opening up a portrayal of being alive during a specific time, in a specific place. Her thirty-five short and feature-length films include hybrid forms, combining memoir with experimental, documentary, and fictional modes. In recent years, she has expanded her practice to include live performance with moving image. In 2019, Tender Buttons Press published her first collection of poetry, "Year by Year Poems." Lynne lives in Brooklyn, New York, with filmmaker Mark Street.

A Month of Single Frames

What did renowned artist Barbara Hammer do alone in a shed without running water or electricity?

Synopsis: A documentary short following five women as they fight for their children through the cycle of homelessness, drug addictions and neglect from their own parents. Unique, yet undoubtedly familiar to many; a story on fear, sacrifice and the unconditional love between a mother and her children. Directors' Bios: Savanah Leaf is a director, photographer, creative, and olympian, born in London and raised, for half of her life, in the Bay Area. Leaf has been published and/or screened in Tribeca Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Vogue Magazine, I-D Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, V&amp;A museum, ICA London, and many more. Her talent as a director has lead her to work with such clients as Warner Music Group, Roc Nation, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Nike, Adidas, Beats by Dre, Gilles Peterson, Common, Gary Clark Jr, and more. Taylor Russell is an actress, director, photographer, and performing artist born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Taylor is best known for her work in the hit Netflix series LOST IN SPACE. She has also starred in Trey Edward Shults' feature film for A24, WAVES, opposite Lucas Hedges and Sterling K. Brown, and the feature WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS opposite Charlie Plummer, Andy Garcia, Molly Parker, and Walton Goggins.

The Heart Still Hums

Love is abstract. A ‘mother’s love’ stretches beyond our imagination.

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