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App

A shy engineer desperately needs venture capital for his virtual wing woman app. Can he and his app seduce a heartbroken girl at a swanky LA bar to prove it works? Screening in Shorts Program: read more

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One Please

A perfect family has a rather gory form of currency when it comes to children’s treats. Screening in Shorts Program: Totally Twisted read more

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Place Called Pluto

Greg O’Brien, long-time Cape Cod reporter and newspaperman, has been diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s. Acting on instinct and journalistic grit, Greg has decided to face down the disease and his imminent decline by writing frankly about the ... read more

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Body

A professional killer (Alfie Allen, Game of Thrones) discovers he can get away with anything on Halloween night, including dragging his latest victim around as a prop amidst a sea of oblivious London partiers. Screening in Shorts Prog... read more

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Peepers

In this suspenseful comedic short, a couple questions their perfect lives when they realize they are being watched. Unable to deal with the pressures of an examined life, Todd and Tamara confront the ‘peepers’ who are watching them, and expose wha... read more

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AMANDA F***ING PALMER ON THE ROCKS

Follow punk-cabaret icon Amanda Palmer as she hits the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Since her record-breaking $1.2 million crowd-funded Kickstarter campaign, Palmer (formerly of the Dresden Dolls) has carved out a path of fearlessness and inde... read more

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Optical Sound

Music is there at the start. The composition is in charge of direction and draws the sound-on-film onto the image. The sound-on-film generates abstract pictures that trace and visualize the music. Screening in Shorts Program: ... read more

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Romance Sans Paroles

Deconstruction and reconstruction from a found footage of a swashbuckling movie. Hundreds of images were scanned from film fragments and put together to get a rhythmic composition, “a stream of light energy,” giving a new life to the actors of an... read more

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CUT

CUT appropriates six classic black and white Hollywood film clips from the 30s and 40s. The images and sound are reconfigured through graphic and sequential interventions. The disruptions refocus and enhance our attention to obscure aspects of the... read more

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Two Points of Failure

The disappearance of the analogue film medium, heralded by Jean-Luc Godard, is visualized by allowing film to disintegrate in a chemical solution. Screening in Shorts Program: read more

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Noise Reduction II: Chinatown

The lament over the ‘death’ of film is re-enacted digitally, as the screen-as-landscape reacts to the material exegeses of film—scratches, splices, sprockets, dust etc.—that are digitally [de/re]constructed, in (im)probable verisimilitude to Cellu... read more

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All Vows

"All Vows" is an English translation of "Kol Nidre," the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which pre-emptively nullifies any future vows made unintentionally. The film uses ancient archival films to depict an unknowable future, re... read more

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For Spacious Sky

Inspired by actual events and set on Election Day, 2008, against the sweeping landscape of rural America, For Spacious Sky is the story of three lost brothers finding their way back to each other—one from incarceration, one from addiction, and one... read more

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Global Creativity: Here is the Full Short Film Lineup for Tribeca 2020

The films in this globe-spanning program of shorts may be small in size, but their vision, feeling, and artistry know no limits. read more

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Trotteur

Trotteur is a tale of man versus machine in a duel between a young man and a locomotive. Screening as part of the Shorts: Fallout program. read more

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Alekesam

Alekesam is the story of Hugh Masekela, an international jazz icon and apartheid activist who was exiled from his homeland South Africa for 30 years, and his son Selema, who attempts to embrace the roots of his identity through music... read more

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Adirake

Following the tsunami that claimed the lives of his parents, Adirake searches for the white elephant his mother spoke of in this coming-of-age story. Screening as part of the Shorts: Fallout program. read more

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All That Way For Love

A young Irishman traveling All That Way For Love across the African continent to get to his doctor girlfriend hitches a ride with a nomadic older couple and becomes embroiled in their complicated history. Screening as pa... read more

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Dreamscapes

Dreamscapes looks behind and beyond the canvas of artist Stephen Hannock, following him from his Newcastle opening to the canals of Venice and the streets of New York. Screening as part of the Shorts: Triptych prog... read more

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Chupachups

After passing the civil service examination Sung-joo returns to her hometown to spend the day with her friend, Shin-hee, who stayed behind, in Chupachups. Screening as part of the Shorts: Fallout program. read more

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Beauty Culture

Beauty Culture investigates our obsession with beauty and the influence of photographic representations on female body image and the persistent "beauty contest" of daily life. Screening as part of the Shorts: Triptych<... read more

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Easter Eggs

Taking place in the ex-Yugoslavia of the 1970s, a mother secretly celebrates Easter at home with her children when their father, an army officer and ingrained communist, discovers his family's clandestine festivities in Easter Eggs. ... read more

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Foxes

A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking Foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world. Screening as part of the Shorts: Fallout program. read more

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Transmission

Following a deadly pandemic that has decimated the world's population, a father drives his nine-year-old daughter from the west coast of Australia to the safe zone in Transmission. Screening as part of the Shor... read more

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My Neighbourhood

Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian teenager growing up in the heart of East Jerusalem, but when his family is forced to give up a part of their home to Israeli settlers, local residents begin peaceful protests and in a surprising turn, are quickly ... read more