Venture into new territory with these formally daring and expressive pieces. The conventions of the traditional short film format are challenged and made elastic in these explorations of family, identity, art, culture, and more!

In Search of Mount Analogue journeys through ocean and land, bringing life to the imagined, metaphorical, and mysterious island from the 1952 novel, Mount Analogue, by René Daumal. The film uses 16mm film to capture computer-generated images that create an immersive, but rather odd, landscape of Mount Analogue.

In Search of Mount Analogue

Taking its title from the Japanese onomatopoeia for bird sound, this is a lyrical, dream-like portrait of the filmmaker's grandmother and her deep connection with avian beings.

Chuu Chuu

A recollection of the moments between a phone call and a plane ticket as a girl packs her suitcase for a funeral.

I remember it from up close

Lullaby is a documentary essay about coming of age and the power of the unconscious. In the continuity of "Sweatlodge song", this short film is a message of courage and hope.

Lullaby

A boy finds love amongst the chaos of the city. As an older man, he makes peace with the beast, letting go of the chaos and anger.

Slay The Beast From A State of Peace

A boy skateboards through abstract landscapes and memories in search of a place he encountered in a dream.

Dreams of Home

A brief ode to the humble dandelion, shot on 16mm, hand processed, using developer made from the titular dandelions.

are dandelions really so bad?

A woman is feeling watched in the familarity of her own. Her paranoid thoughts cause the line between reality and delusion to blur.

Voyeuristic Tendencies

The film is a meditation on memory and its fallibility. The memories we have of the people we love and the moments we remember, if we don't actually remember them, then what do we have left? Using a multitude of formal elements, from Super 8 to animation, this film explores the temporal links between one's past, present, and future and a quest to learn how to live with yourself when every moment that has led to the present, is getting morphed and reconstructed in your mind. How do you preserve sublime moments of beauty that have made you who you are? How will you remember this moment?

I Hope You Remember This Moment

After discovering the drowning of a little girl, an unnamed narrator describes her community's response while battling the memories of her own fight with The River in this experimental take on sexual violence, grief, and trauma.

The River

A martial arts inspired dance-fight between a lion dancer and queer performer reflecting the tension between traditional and modern identities in a dreamscape nightmare.

beast

Through ceramics, animation, printmaking and 16mm film, Honeydew, Darling articulates the delicate, interwoven cycles of queer grief, sex and euphoria.

Honeydew, Darling

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