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Sunspots is back with our most deliciously alienating program of shorts yet! Experience the latest in genre-bending, expectation-defying cinema with a program of experimental documentaries, personal essays, animation, and pilfered pop culture. Adventure-seeking film lovers won’t want to miss this!
Lucid Dreams
Directed by Halina Kliem
Germany/USA, 2020, 7 MIN
World Premiere
Halina Kliem (“The Purple Video,” FFF 2020) returns with a Greek tragedy as text-on-screen, in this short that explores our digital relationships in the age of a pandemic.
Something to Treasure
Directed by Annapurna Kumar
Canada, 2019, 2 MIN
Southeast Premiere
“Warm showers make me see stars.” From the filmmaker who brought us “Mountain Castle Flower Plastic” (FFF 2018).
Morning Sickness in the USA
Directed by Cristine Brache
USA, 2021, 3 MIN
In Spanish with English subtitles
East Coast Premiere/2nd US Screening
The director shares the story of her grandmother, who was quarantined in an asylum after seeing a doctor for an unknown illness.
Exquisite Shorts, Volume 1
Directed by Ariel Fish, Ben Kutsko, Winnie Cheung, Travis Stevens, Courtney Andujar, Andrew and Elsbeth Mumm, Matt Boman and Tosca Rivola, Hunter Adams, Sarah Lind, Doug Klinger and Machete Bang Bang, Theresa Desautels, Jessica Calleiro, Ben Fee, Emily Andujar and Manuel Taylor-Alcocer, Bossi Dean Baker, June Zandona, Hillary Andujar, Niles Howard and Kayli Stollak, Kevin Kearney and Mary Florence Brown
USA, 2021, 13 MIN
East Coast Premiere/2nd US Screening
Adapted from the drawing game “Exquisite Corpse,” filmmakers were given two words to be spoken, shown, or both—one for the beginning of their own film and one for the end.
Car Ride (Baker Act Version)
Directed by Dro Watson
USA, 2021, 2 MIN
World Premiere
The recounting of a dissociative car ride, with all audio overdubbed to avoid Florida’s Baker Act, which allows for anyone expressing suicidal thoughts to be hospitalized against their will.
Ventana
Directed by Edgar Jorge Baralt
USA, 2021, 11 MIN
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
North American Premiere
A retrieved picture of a window elicits memories and the impulse to recreate a lost site. An exploration of the relationship between memory and filmmaking.
William Jefferson Wilderness
Directed by Ben Young
UK/USA, 2020, 7 MIN
East Coast Premiere/2nd US Screening
Bill Clinton’s strange legacy as a U.S. president and ringmaster of the 1990s is a confounding mess of public amnesia, nostalgia, and scorn.
The Flaw in the Crystal
Directed by Ryan Betschart
USA, 2021, 3 MIN
World Premiere
An exploration of astral projection via a diagnosis of exploding head syndrome from the director of “A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal” (FFF 2020).
In the Air Tonight
Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson
USA, 2020, 11 MIN
Southeast Premiere
Inspired by an urban legend about the origins of Phil Collins’s 1980 hit song and a mysterious sighting on a beach.
Mountain Lodge
Directed by Jordan Wong
USA, 2020, 8 MIN
East Coast Premiere
The candle, the myth, the legend, the Tumblr tale of Mountain Lodge.
Wild Grass
Directed by Shan Wu
US/Taiwan, 2021, 19 MIN
East Coast Premiere/2nd US Screening
A Taiwanese woman’s journey to America reveals her fantasy of love and an identity entangled with beauty, sexuality, nationality, and two languages.
Event Venue
Enzian Theater, 1300 S Orlando Ave, Maitland, FL 32751, United States
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