Experimental Shorts Block
Shown as a part of Finding Bright Film Festival (Formerly Arlington International Film Festival)
All Tickets are $14, Capitol/Somerville Theatre Members are $12
As Clara’s life spirals, a rotting fish in the back of the refrigerator tries to convince her to eat him.
Gustavo is a meticulous and obsessive man who cares deeply about his image and reputation, and follows his to-do list step by step. He is about to join a very important online meeting when he discovers a mistake. He forgot to complete one of the tasks on his list. Gustavo will have to celebrate his birthday in less than five minutes or he will be late for his meeting. He is confronted by his personal goal hanging on the wall and the mediocrity of life.
A lonely programmer must leave his digital shell to experience that true connection cannot be programmed. An unexpected glitch forces him to confront his repressed anxieties about human contact and prove that even in the age of automation, human closeness is irreplaceable.
An empty swimming pool becomes the staging grounds for a puppet-protagonist as she confronts her disappointment, longing, and pleasure.
Routinely, a patch of sand known to visitors as the “Shrinking Island” is unveiled and covered by the tide. In this documentary, we see one 24-hour cycle of the process, focusing on the land’s only permanent residents – its hermit crabs – and their chance encounter with a man-made sand castle
When presented as a sacrifice to an elusive sea monster, Maggie must find her strength or be condemned to a dreadful fate.
Three mercurial girls staying behind at their boarding school for spring break have to band together when one of them thinks she might be turning into a werewolf.
A diaristic film that begins at the solar eclipse, and uses planetary movements and geological records as jumping-off points for exploring meaning-making, subjectivity and memory.
