Music Video
Steve Conte - Flying, Directed by Peter Perenyi, USA, 5:43, Brooklyn Premiere
A music video starring (revolving around the introspective lyrics of) Steve Conte, about the passing of time and the movement of life alike.
Dirty Work - Directed by B. Gabriel, Matt Ernst, USA, 3:14, World Premiere
"Dirty Work" is a modern day, film noir music video featuring the band Titanic ‘s punk rock cover of the Steely Dan yacht rock classic. Call it the Coen brothers’ "Blood Simple" meets "Groundhog Day" - "Dirty Work" is a feedback loop of seduction, murder and dismemberment.
Follicles - Directed by Matthew John Lawrence, USA, 3:42, NYC Premiere
The story of a lonely man, a dead alien, and a rock and roll song.
Summa Bumma - Directed by Chris Spaces, USA, 4:59, World Premiere
A young songwriter's summer sweetheart breaks things off for a new locale in this 1960's "summer sinker" hybrid short-film/music video.
Shimmy Doll Music Video - Directed by Ginger Snapper, USA, 2:03, World Premiere
Shimmy Doll, a tune originally appearing in the film Viridiana, performed by Ashley Beaumont the 18th, is given a 2020 twist. Literally.
Sweatshop Boogie - Directed by Willard Morgan, USA, 3:36
An amusing musical take on the unsustainable industry of fast fashion, it’s affects on the planet and the third world ’slave nations’ that produce it.
Zero Trust: "Clouds" - Directed by Jeremiah Dickey, USA, 3:28, Brooklyn Premiere
Music video for NY/NJ post-hardcore stalwarts Zero Trust. "Clouds" is a song about the labor of love through a lens of intergenerational care, helping others navigate the path to self-actualization and reclaiming lost potential.
BRONX IS BURNING! - Directed by Omar Villegas, USA, 6:12, World Premiere
Bronx is burning in the summer heat/Higher learning on every ghetto street”- Abrazos Army
As streets burn, buildings go up in flames, police cars are overturned and systems with them, the Masses learn to read the signs of the fire this time. Bronx is Burning! is a lit fuse.
Experimental
New York Conversations - Directed by Nick Sgaglione, Alvin Kean Wong, USA, 2:26
Whether it's on the streets, the subway, or from your apartment window the sounds of the city are inescapable. New York is alive with the stories from people all over the world. In that chaos lies the heart of the city.
Dead Man Rides Subway - Directed by Donald Preston Cato, USA, 5:20, Brooklyn Premiere
A man's soul rides the subway....forever.
Eidolon - Directed by Shade Rupe, Lisa Hammer, Hungary/USA, 4:56, World Premiere
Mist swirls around, something is being conjured. A woman walks through an almost never-ending tunnel that mutates as she moves. Wolves growl around her. She changes...
Beatings of the Devil - Directed by Bradly Dever Treadaway, USA, 7:19
"Beatings Of The Devil" is based on the concept and weather event called sunshowers, or, as my grandmother would often say when it rained while the sun was shining, “The devil is beating his wife”. This wildly inappropriate, and outdated colloquial phrase, which resonated deeply within me as a child, provides a point of departure and interpretation for this work.
Howl - Directed by Martin Del Carpio, Martin Gerigk, USA, 3:37, NYC Premiere
A Howl is coming! A personal but yet universal struggle of our everyday existence told through the lens of experimental art.
Secrets of the Galleries - Directed by Peter Meng, USA, 6:36
After hours. This is your ticket to unlock the secrets in the galleries of Mount Kilimanhattan. Follow the Arthouse players as they go beyond the realm and revel in this magical, mystical world.
Light as Paper - Directed by Tanya Khordoc, Barry Weil, USA, 8:17
This short puppetry film takes place in a world of paper, light and shadow, and tells a story of parents, children, love and loss. This is not an animated film – all of the puppetry is done in live action with visible strings and rods, and no computer imagery. The story is told completely without dialogue, narration or language of any kind, set to music by composer Joel Phillip Friedman.
MARGINALITIES (How We Live Together) - Directed by Anne Katrine Senstad, USA, 11:27, World Premiere
The third in the 4 film short film series How we Live Together, with acclaimed actor Bill Sage. The films are extractions from French philosopher Roland Barthes 1977 lecture series How To Live Together, on ideorrythmic living formats, the social and historic utopia of living in isolated states.