Short Films and Mid-Lengths

Short Films and Mid-Lengths

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Short Films and Mid-Lengths
  • 31

    Directed by Miguel Gomes | 27 mins | 2003
    What does Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution have to do with "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)? This is a riddle set up but not exactly answered by this endearingly lo-fi parable about two rich kids who, after getting mugged during a tennis lesson, forge a wind...

  • 38

    Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew | 23 mins | 2021
    Vivid interruptions of sound and images fragment the psychic landscape of a 38-year-old woman who becomes obsessed with the social media presence of the young woman who broke up her relationship. The latest entry in Chew and Durand’s ong...

  • Actress

    Directed by Sebastian Pardo | 11 mins | 2015
    An aspiring actress moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream, and finds herself orbiting the periphery of show business, while everyday life muddies what exactly her path might be. Ana Coto, star of horror blockbuster "OUIJA", leads Sebastian Pardo’s n...

  • A Family Called Abrew

    Directed by Maureen Blackwood | 41 mins | 1992
    Founding member of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective Maureen Blackwood crafts a poignant multi-generational portrait of a Black family with deep roots in Scotland: early in the 20th century, well before the post-World War II arrival of the “Windr...

  • afternoon

    Directed by Erica Sheu | 3 mins | 2017
    Taking inspiration from Jonas Mekas’s "The Diary Film," Los Angeles-based Taiwanese experimental filmmaker Erica Sheu deploys hand-processed 16mm film and in-camera editing to evoke the perspective of gazing through a window and onto the domestic life of an ...

  • Alone Together

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 24 mins | 2021
    Marcopoulos’s vital document of jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, filmed in an empty gallery with three cameras recording the raw behind-the-scenes set-up, captures the avant-garde legend in all of his improvised splendor, his poetry reading and a...

  • At Home But Not At Home

    Directed by Suneil Sanzgiri | 11 mins | 2019
    Combining excerpts from India’s Parallel Cinema movement, 16mm drone footage, and family Skype interviews, Sanzgiri’s film recounts an unorthodox history of various interlocked anti-colonial liberation movements as seen at a mediated distance, using hi...

  • Backbone Tale

    Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 9 mins | 2004
    Clapin’s first short is a game of Tetris as much as it is a love story. It centers on a man whose spine bends at a striking right angle: his eyes can gaze only downwards, his hat perched on the back of his head. The appearance of a woman whose back bends ...

  • Beast

    Directed by Benjamin Nicolas | 11 mins | 2021
    While the opening of this Expressionistic short film—depicting a perfunctory exchange between a rideshare driver and his passenger about Christmas shopping—gives little indication as to the direction it’s headed in, then the ominous title is rather mo...

  • Canticle of All Creatures

    Directed by Miguel Gomes | 21 mins | 2006
    This playful but sincere tribute to St. Francis takes the form of a cinematic triptych. From the present day, in which a guitar-wielding bard ambles through the historic center of Assisi, Gomes jumps back 800 years, reviving the saint himself in a lusciou...

  • Carry Me, I'll Let Go

    Directed by Alexis Hithe | 12 mins | 2022
    A five-film shorts program curated by LA Rebellion affiliated-filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis, including works by Pierre Desir ("The Gods and the Thief"), Julie Dash ("Four Women"), Portia Cobb ("Don’t Hurry Back: A Diaspora Fable"), and others.

    “These sh...

  • Christmas Inventory

    Directed by Miguel Gomes | 22 mins | 2000
    In this early work by the beloved and formally daring Portuguese auteur, the portrayal of a multi-generational Yuletide family gathering gives way to documentation of the season’s chintzy and charming accouterments: tinsel twinkles, baubles bob, and a Spi...

  • David

    Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp | 26 mins | 2016
    In this short, directed Dean Fleischer-Camp, a woman tells David (Nathan Fielder) he has five weeks to live.

  • Disintegration 93-96

    Directed by Miko Revereza | 5 mins | 2017
    As timely now as it was upon first release, this intimate essay film—a patchwork of self-portraiture and home-movie footage overlaid with the filmmaker’s voice-over—finds Revereza reflecting upon his childhood relocation from the Philippines to California...

  • Don't Hurry Back: A Diaspora Fable

    Directed by Portia Cobb | 26 mins | 1996
    A five-film shorts program curated by LA Rebellion affiliated-filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis, including works by Pierre Desir ("The Gods and the Thief"), Julie Dash ("Four Women"), Portia Cobb ("Don’t Hurry Back: A Diaspora Fable"), and others.

    “These sho...

  • DROGA!

    Directed by Miko Revereza | 8 mins | 2014
    The debut work of Manila-born filmmaker Miko Revereza, whose features "No Data Plan" (2019) and "Nowhere Near" (2023) reflect on his experience as an undocumented resident in the United States, this 8mm short—comprising a repeated shot of a singer and a c...

  • Finding Christa

    Directed by Camille Billops and James Hatch | 55 mins | 1991
    An affecting yet unsentimental portrait of motherhood, Camille Billops’s collaboration with husband James Hatch captures her reunion with the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption in 1961, combining candid interviews and archi...

  • First

    Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew | 12 mins | 2019
    A teenager lives her life, toggling seamlessly between her physical and digital self. She walks over a bridge at sunrise, follows a stranger through the streets of the city, and meets up with a friend to wander their favorite spots in NY...

  • Four Women

    Directed by Julie Dash | 8 mins | 1975
    A five-film shorts program curated by LA Rebellion affiliated-filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis, including works by Pierre Desir ("The Gods and the Thief"), Julie Dash ("Four Women"), Portia Cobb ("Don’t Hurry Back: A Diaspora Fable"), and others.

    “These short...

  • Hammons Flute

    Directed by Ari marcopoulos | 9 mins | 1991
    Marcopoulos’s intimate video portrait of David Hammons finds the artist casually resplendent in a beret and mock turtleneck and playing a flute in his cluttered New York studio, surrounded by the ephemera of his practice: paintings, sculpture, and the i...

  • Hang Loose

    Directed by Sammy Harkham and Patrick Brice | 9 mins | 2015
    "Hang Loose" follows a night in the life of an aimless surfer, Wade (Little Wings’ Kyle Field), who chases his whims up and down the California coast. When he returns to his former hometown, he takes the opportunity to visit his ex, who ...

  • Hannahs

    Directed by India Donaldson | 14 mins | 2019
    Amy Zimmer and Brenna Palughi give finely calibrated, increasingly squirm-inducing performances in Donaldson’s beguiling, darkly funny two-hander about a woman named Hannah who returns to her apartment one day to discover another woman, also named Hann...

  • Hi I Need to Be Loved

    Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler | 11 mins | 2018
    'I am going to have you read from a collection of my spam emails,' The director explains as she ushers actors from Craigslist one-by-one into an audition room. The actors and the director search together for the human voice inside the dialogue of...

  • History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

    Directed by Rea Tajiri | 32 mins | 1991
    A groundbreaking, highly influential work by the Chicago-born visual artist and filmmaker Rea Tajiri, this poetic tapestry of the personal and the political reckons with the internment of some 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II, amo...