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Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: Live From Memphis Retrospective
An homage of over 10+ years of films, projects, and events from Live From Memphis — a volunteer organization in support of music, film, and art from local creatives. This is a pay-what-you-can event, with proceeds going to Sarah Fleming and Chris Reyes’ legal fund during their fight to save their home from the Aparium Hotel Group.

Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm.
Admission is pay-what-you-can.

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: Festival Departures Shorts
Encore of short films in this year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival Departures category that bend genres with experimental filmmaking and animation.

Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can.

ANOTHER GIRL, ANOTHER PLANET
Director: Laura Jean Hocking (Memphis Filmmaker), Running Time: 7:10min
A young girl writes her own version of a classic Greek myth.

BWAKHAA!
Director: Jabriel E Woodall (Memphis Filmmaker), Running Time: 6:08min
Robin conceives her first gold trimmed egg but through strange events she has to fight wings and talons to reunite with it.

COLLAPSING
Director: Brian Ratigan, Running Time: 0:55min
An exquisite corpse about the end of the world, made with found 8mm footage.

DAILY COMMUTE
Director: Scott Palazzo, Running Time: 0:55min
Public transport sucks. Daily Commute is a traditionally done animation that shows the relationship between the grotesque public transport passengers and the complacent, passive riders among them.

EVOCATION OF A NIGHTMARE
Director: Wally Chung, Running Time: 1:20min
A nosy man finds trouble.

GIRL BECOMES SNOW
Director: Ryan and Tyler Betschart, Running Time: 7:19min
A VHS rendition of what happens when we die – an investigation into death induced dream ephemera or; a body (mind) dissolves into video signal memories.

HORSE DAD
Director: Anna Hudzik, Running Time: 2:17min
A playful, father-son story about a young horse named Charlie who grows increasingly frustrated by his dad’s his lame jokes.

I KARDIA
Director: Sarah Christine Bolton (Memphis Filmmaker), Running Time: 7:49min
Struggling to find synchronicity, two egos and shells come to terms with compromise and find respite in learning the secrets of each other’s internal time-keeping.

MOLASSES & LEMON
Director: Robert Sickels, Running Time: 4:06min
Love. Heartbreak. What’s the difference?

OK, CALL ME BACK
Director: Emily Ann Hoffman, Running Time: 4:47min
Craving companionship, a woman leaves a voicemail late at night. Objects take on new meaning in a lush world of gendered icons.

PATTERN FOR SURVIVAL
Director: Kelly Sears, Running Time: 6:30min
As you read the rest of this manual, keep in mind the need for a survival pattern.

PLICKER
Director: Byungjun Kim, Running Time: 2:44min
Introducing the concept of “time in figures,” a representation of time and space is visualized in this film. In this aesthetic attempt, time is no longer a linear or simple flow, but it dances in spatial form like a blooming flower.

RED VELVET CAKE
Director: Martina Boothes (Memphis Filmmaker), Running Time: 9:30min
Red Velvet Cake is about an artist and raver named Marcy. Marcy has a personality trait called fantasy prone personality. After confronting her deep secret to her best friend Tanie who is a hypnotherapist, Marcy is asked to dream and open her mind revealing a dark seeded secret which unfolds as a twisted freak show, sex cult…

SABINE
Director: Sissy Denkova (Memphis Filmmaker), Running Time: 2:15min
A young Parisian girl with a blue balloon wakes up in Central Park.

SESTINA
Director: Tom Varisco, Running Time: 1:42min
A story of a couple assessing and reassessing their relationship –which takes a surreal turn.

THIS IS YATES
Director: Josh Yates, Running Time: 12:10min
A home movie collage interrogates the ways in which we shape identity and confront trauma through fragmented media.

UGLY
Director: Nikita Diakur, Running Time: 11:54min
An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.

UNWORLDLY
Director: Sarah El Bakkouri and Cross Li, Running Time: 6:08min
Unworldly – adj; not seeming to belong to this planet; strange.

 

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: Documentary Shorts Festival Encore
Encore presentation of the documentary shorts program from the 2017 Indie Memphis Film Festival.

Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can.

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MICKEY’S PETS (Documentary Short – Special Jury Award)
Director: Ashley S. Brandon, Running Time: 13:01min
With a trusty peacock in tow a young taxidermist must overcome her insecurities to win first place at the U.S. National Taxidermy Championships.

JESSZILLA
Director: Emily Sheskin, Running Time: 7min
Jesselyn “Jesszilla” Silva is serious about boxing, and at 10 years old trains seriously with dreams of becoming a professional fighter. Her father, Pedro, finds himself caught in between supporting her dream and worrying about her future as she tries to master a combat sport.

COWGIRL UP
Director: Nathan Willis, Running Time: 5:17min
A cowgirl from Mississippi pursues her lifelong dream of becoming the first African-American female in the National Finals Rodeo.

SILO: EDGE OF THE REAL WORLD
Director: Marshall Burnette, Running Time: 10:43min
SILO: EDGE OF THE REAL WORLD is a meditation on life in a small midwest farm town. When a grain entrapment shocks their small community, Adam Fox, a young farmer, and Clay Althoff, a senior in high school, both consider the risks and rewards of a corn farmer’s life.

THE DUEL
Director: Sean David Christensen, Running Time: 5:50min
A sixteen-year-old girl struggles to reach her father in the midst of an unexpected and intense manic episode. Based on a true story from actress Lili Taylor.

ISIS HAIR SALON
Director: Nicholas Coles, Running Time: 4:52min
Los Angeles hair stylist Carrie Banks has unwittingly been thrust into the war on terror and she’s fighting back one braid, weave and extension at a time.

REBUILDING IN MINIATURE (Best Documentary Short)
Director: Veena Rao, Running Time: 7:12min
Ali Alamedy, an Iraqi artist living in Turkey, creates detailed miniature scenes of places he has imagined but has never been.

GAYS FOR TRUMP?
Director: Aaron Paul Lovett, Running Time: 16:44min
In the 2016 general election, 14% of LGBTQ Americans voted for Donald Trump. This film follows Peter Boykin and David Smith, an interracial gay couple, and their friend Scott Presler as the unlikely trio advocate for the polarizing businessman-turned-President.

ELECTION NIGHT
Director: Ryan Scafuro, Running Time: 7:40min
A crowd gathers until the early morning at a boozy London pub to watch the US presidential election. As dawn breaks, emotions escalate and the evening takes a turn for the worse.

LESSONS INJUSTICE
Director: Karen Chapman, Running Time: 8:57min
Danardo jones sets out on a car ride with his teenage son in hopes of having a conversation that some parents dread and others are unaware of. As a lawyer, Jones is well aware that the law can do little to protect his son against the anti-black racism and discrimination that has become a part of his complicated identity.