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2025 JURY
CATHY LEE CRANE
Special thanks to our volunteers: Caleb Cackowski, Ivana Cvetanoska, Eve McDougall & Gabriel Biennas
Opening Night Feature: Your Final Meditation
Your Final Meditation - Corey Hughes
Alone in her warehouse apartment, Jodiiie plays a VR guided meditation video game to calm her escalating anxiety. The game, run by a next-generation AI algorithm, adapts its gameplay to the player’s emotions as they navigate twelve levels on a quest to achieve the ultimate goal: transcendence. Jodiiie becomes increasingly consumed by the game as the meditation descends into a maze of real, virtual, and hybrid worlds. Ultimately, Jodiiie must transcend the game itself.
Corey Hughes / 52min / 2024
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A bricolage memoir of two different lives running parallel, intersecting in ruminations on death, transformation and time. Visuals created and culled from the filmmaker's personal mini-DV archives. Audio taken from cassette tapes found on a sidewalk in Prospect Heights.
Corey Hughes / 52min / 2024
Opening Night Short: when i wake up tomorrow, everything will be different [excerpt]
A bricolage memoir of two different lives running parallel, intersecting in ruminations on death, transformation and time. Visuals created and culled from the filmmaker's personal mini-DV archives. Audio taken from cassette tapes found on a sidewalk in Prospect Heights.
| Tynan DeLong / 6min / 2025 |
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Shorts Block #1:In the Dark Corner of a Dream
| de julho | Craig Scheihing |
| Fainter Echoes | Brady Lewis |
| Echoes of Glass | Ezra Aydin, Robin Joyce, Anthony Zayneh |
| Incantation | Kalpana Subramanian |
| Another Sinking Sun | Tyler Rubenfield |
| Cricket Feet | Jake Nicastro |
| Vigile | Pierre Lefrançois Vérove |
| Small Vessels | Matt Feldman |
| Firestarter | Jacob Mark Shpall |
| Welcome to the Enclave | Sarah Lasley |
86 Mi
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Shorts Block #2: LOVE LETTERS
What is the revolutionary potential of dreams? To astral project out of our bodies and into those more hurt by capitalism? - T.J. Blanco / 8 min / 2023
Cinemapolis - Saturday | March 1st | 6pm - 8pm
Shorts Block #3: Far Away From Everything That Was
