Taking a moment away from the noise of life, thoughts of THE decision creep into the quiet. As Woman slips into the murky bath waters of her own mind, she is forced to explore every imagined road of motherhood. Does she or doesn’t she? She emerges from her bath, none the wiser. Pruney but no epiphany. Contemplating Motherhood was awarded the Mister Tibbs, Phoebe Francis Brown Film Fund.
Sharp period detail, a solid central performance from Heather Brittain O’Scanlon, and smart storytelling hooks are the ticket in Nancy Menagh’s award-winning VICTIM NO.6. A serial killer stalks 1975 NYC. That’s not going to stop New Yorkers from having fun in this largely bar-set short. It’s a groovy time. Just be careful who you leave with. – Mitch Davis
When Ashley, a poor college student, takes a nanny job in rural Indiana, she's kidnapped by a family forcing young women to bear children. Nomi, a survivor of assault seeking an abortion, unknowingly steps into the same family's trap.
After ransacking an ancient island monastery, two siblings, now trapped in their sinking campervan, are torn apart by history, hallucination, and a sacred stone.
When a couple finds out they hit the jackpot in the lottery, they plan to make a quiet exit in their sleepy town.
A date night gone wrong leads a mother and daughter to make a tough decision on how to deal with an unexpected situation involving generational trauma.
Tensions spark within the community of a small high school when a senior, Tayla Henderson, goes mysteriously missing. A social media account called "beautiful.missing.people" sparks out of nowhere, posting a strange picture of Tayla, claiming that "She's not missing. She's right here. With me."
In the 21st century Mr. George Reaper has become your average 9 to 5 working stiff, eking out an ineffectual existence, reduced to a pale shade of his former glorious self. The film has him wake up, get ready for work, wait for a bus and suffer humiliation at the hands of Norman the Daisy.
A psychedelic experience in an abandoned warehouse is interrupted by a building inspector and a talking rat.
Two private detectives called Salomon (Fernando Fernan-Gomez) and Torcuato (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez), are engaged in questionable conduct research and work reports
When Billy tries shrooms for the first time, the last thing he expects is his mother asking him to go and pick up some milk...
Catarina, a young and insatiably curious journalist, becomes involved in a contest to discover the most red thing in the world, which strains her relationship with Gabriel. Her growing obsession with finding the answer brings up deep and conflicting emotions about their unstable relationship.
An American has a psychedelic experience where a spiritual encounter reckons with his morality.
After inheriting a run-down castle, a dispirited woman and her ill-tempered husband decide to spend the night, as time and reality shift around them.
Plagued by visions of what her future could look like, Marcy becomes addicted to a pill that gives her vivid dreams and changes her appearance.
A man receives the most intense immersion therapy for an irrational fear (symmetry) ever. He’s blindfolded and driven to a forest where all the trees look the same, so that he is surrounded by symmetry. Also he is listening to tape of palindromes being read out loud.
Simon and Cubes, two sisters birthed from the soil ground, go on various of misadventures. Commissioned as a campaign of short films for Utopia Mushroom Co.
On the 10th anniversary of his band Rall Tide’s debut album, artist Peter Kotas takes you on a flowering multimedia tour of Detroit musicians trying to survive in a world where you can’t even enjoy a baseball game without supporting The Bay of Pigs. Along the way he shows you how the band’s abrupt break-up led to his career as a political journalist peeking behind the curtains of Kansas to find diplomatic wizard Mike Pompeo, Trump’s CIA Director and Secretary of State, wears no clothes. Iowa Writer’s Workshop hero Kurt Vonnegut (or some entity that knows all about his life) hosts this documentary as the ideal human from his 1985 novel Galapagos: a penguin with flippers unable to pull triggers or press buttons to bomb and kill people.
A boy has surreal experiences on a journey of self-discovery.
Glare from a setting Sun prompts three travelers to consider their place in the Universe.