Ashland Independent Film Festival: Shorts Lineup
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- DirectorMyrsini AristidouStarsAudrey GiacominiChryssa PlatsatouraTakis SpyridakisAthens, today. Seventeen-year-old, Aria working at the local kebab place, is waiting for a driving lesson with her father.
- DirectorDan GoldesA San Francisco activist puts her body on the line for causes she believes in.
- DirectorRyan NiemiLife in southern Oregon captured through time-lapse photography.
- DirectorLeonora LonsdaleStarsBillie PiperSinéad CusackPoppy PolivnickA gothic fairytale following three generations of women struggling with the aftermath of a divorce.
- DirectorImogen StraubStarsLauren Elizabeth TaylorAndrew Wayne MurphyDominique KnightAs a rising media personality lands a job in the city and meets the person of her dreams, she must struggle to overcome the darker side of her secret nature.
- DirectorAubry HollingsheadStarsEric SolisA lonely Sasquatch struggles with anxiety about the size of his feet, and his failed efforts to make friends with other woodland animals.
- DirectorNiki Lindroth von BahrStarsSven BjörklundMattias FranssonCarl EnglénA dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
- DirectorJessica KingdonYiwu International Trade City is the world's largest market, selling cheap goods wholesale in a city south of Shanghai. The fake flowers, toys, pens and alarm clocks traded in Yiwu eventually end up in dollar stores across the planet, but I focus on the people who sell these goods that we take for granted. As a character study of the market itself, the film peers into the lives of those who run this global trade. The sellers, full of life and individuality, live against the uniformly oppressive backdrop of their livelihood. A somber man painstakingly counts tiny metal parts on his desk in a pen shop. A business lady sweet talks one of her customers, peppering him with insults and compliments, but in between the buying and selling, vendors all find different ways to pass the time in this gigantic mall. A mother yells at a group of young boys, berating them for losing a toy. A man in a suit hums along to a haunting song waiting for a customer as the clocks he is selling tick away. Two young siblings play a video game while lazily eating KFC from the bucket, licking their fingers. While these stories seem small and insignificant, in the context of the film, the dialogue and actions take on new weight and meaning, elevating the quotidian to a realm of discovery.
- DirectorAndrew JamesA Detroit minister rallies the community to shut down a drug house in an inspiring display of collective action. Observational, nonfiction cinema.
- DirectorDorian TockerStarsFred MayelianLaurel SteirBluebelle SaracenoOn the day of a father's unexpected death, six family members each seek ways to manage their grief. In the face of his sudden absence, the ordinary takes on heightened meaning.
- DirectorJulio O. RamosStarsTenoch HuertaKarren KaragulianHansel RamírezAfter a disastrous event on his construction site, Armando acts quickly to save his crew, but instead stumbles upon an unspeakable truth.
- DirectorSky HopinkaAn incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock.
- DirectorPhilippe De MontignieStarsClare BrunnerRob Saul
- DirectorEwen WrightStarsJulia AksSkyler AlexanderQuinn BladesA potentially psychosomatic white man, a woman stuck in a vortex of mansplaining, and a young black man confronted by the racial disconnect of society each try to make sense of their lives as their worlds are set on an inevitable collision course in this surrealist comedy.
- DirectorDavid FreidOriginally proposed as an international peace park with Mexico, Big Bend, Texas has a unique relationship with its southern neighbor. For the past 40 years, Mike Davidson has been ferrying tourists across the Rio Grande for a little taste of Mexican life - but now a great big border wall might divide the park.
- DirectorAlex BehStarsAlex BehJoe NunezSara PaxtonA chance online dating encounter brings two very different people together for an adventure through the Los Angeles night and an unexpected outcome - the possibility of true love.
- DirectorJeannie DonohoeStarsRick FoxNicole Chanel WilliamsTye WhiteA new kid in town tests the limits at the high school basketball tryouts.
- DirectorGilda BraschStarsDesmond MeadeFilmed in Tampa, during the 2016 presidential election, this verité short covers a day-in-the-life of civil rights activist and former felon, Desmond Meade. What begins as an upbeat day of faith in our democratic process, ends in a heartbreaking realization for Desmond - Jim Crow is not dead.
- DirectorJill SachsStarsMichael ChieffoKees DeVosLaine HannonAn idealistic father tries to save his old movie palace from foreclosure and regain the faith of this daughter.
- DirectorZach BandlerStarsMeg SteedleBruce DavisonSet on a remote stretch of stormy coastline, a hardened young woman agrees to dinner at the home of an aging recluse.
- DirectorChel WhiteStarsDomeka ParkerA '70s horror film is twisted into a timely parody involving a diminutive Donald Trump.
- DirectorWes HurleyNathan M. MillerStarsWes HurleyElena BridgesBenjamin JakupcakWes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his mother, a mail order bride, to Seattle to face a whole new oppression in his new Christian fundamentalist American dad.
- DirectorJames BlueStarsCarl RowanMarian AndersonJoan BaezA 1964 documentary film about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington.
- DirectorElizabeth LoR.J. LozadaThe impact of mass incarceration on a generation of youth is explored through an annual Mother's Day charity bus journey that take children from across California to visit their mothers in prison.
- DirectorDavid FreidWhat goes down must come up.
- DirectorJason WinerStarsMartin FreemanMorena BaccarinJake LacyCharlie has a neurological disorder in which strong emotions, especially joy, make him faint. He lives with his brother. Working as librarian gives him a quiet environment, but then Francesca enters the library and his life.
- DirectorPatrick BresnanIvete LucasStarsAir Force OnePalm Beach International Airport's newest snowbird has become one of the fastest growing roadside attractions in the United States.
- DirectorErica MilsomStarsKayline GavendaOtto GavendaSofia I. Keenan IlizaliturriSet in the 1960s this is the story of a road trip that changed a family's life forever.
- DirectorStacey SteersEdge of Alchemy is the third film in a trilogy examining the psychological terrain of women's inner worlds. In this handmade film, assembled from over 6,000 collages, the actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are lifted from their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an unending of the Frankenstein story and contemporary undercurrents of hive collapse. Music by Lech Jankowski (Brothers Quay). Edge of Alchemy received major funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Creative Capital Foundation. "Edge of Alchemy is the epitome of Stacey Steers' unique vision of collaged re-examination animations, an uncanny way to carry on in the great tradition of surrealist cinema. Max Ernst would refer to Lautréamont's sewing machine and umbrella to define the structure of the surrealist painting as 'a linking of two realities that by all appearances have nothing to link them, in a setting that by all appearances does not fit them.' I would add, making it all feel so seamlessly inevitable and inexplicably right...the 'feeling of form', as Suzanne K. Langer might have put it..." (Phil Solomon)
- DirectorStacey SteersStarsLillian GishIn this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages and shot in 35mm color, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role. Night Hunter evokes a disquieting dream scape, drawn from allegory, myth and archetype.
- DirectorStacey SteersA woman encounters enormous insects and an alluring man with bat wings in a recollection of a pivotal journey.
- DirectorJackie KatzmanStarsJackie KatzmanErica SullivanBernard WhiteElla spends her days taking care of her mother and sitting in parks watching kids play. Desperate to have a child of her own, her clock ticking away, she takes matters into her own hands.
- DirectorStephen CervantesStarsJordan Michael BlakeChris BarryKaaren ZarBoy meets Tortoise.
- DirectorMark C. SmithTwo adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.
- StarsSatomi IshiharaMasataka KubotaYutaka MatsushigeStories of Unnatural Death Investigation, a Japanese non-governmental organization as they work on unnatural death cases and try to reveal the truth behind the deaths.
- DirectorKelly AndersonSix kids with OCD share how they learned to face their fears, stop their rituals and regain control of their lives.
- DirectorJeff BeesleyStarsEmmanuelle VaugierMichael SirowAva Darrach-GagnonAfter the death of her husband, a woman tries to get on with her life, but during a business trip she spots him alive and comes to realize that he faked his death.
- DirectorMaris CurranThis short documentary explores the captivating work of five acclaimed African American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, a rural community that played a pivotal role during the Civil Rights Movement.
- DirectorMylissa FitzsimmonsStarsJenny O'HaraAddison EckertLeonora PittsAn elderly sick women and a young girl engage in a conversation about who decides when it's time for you to die.
- DirectorLeandro GoddinhoThe journey of a gay African refugee seeking asylum in Germany.
- DirectorMig WindowsStarsTorrin KellyYang LiuKyle SandersonJoe is an actor in college, going out for a smoke after what he felt was a bad performance on his part. But when he's approached by a stranger in the night with some words of encouragement, things get eerie quickly as he realizes that this peculiar man knows more about him than he realizes. Heavily inspired by the classic 'Twilight Zone' series, this black & white short asks the question of how well we really know our audience...