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A fable about the magic of free parking.
Screens in Shorts Program #1
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A richly layered look at family, fear and the struggle for forgiveness in a land where cottonmouths and clutter swim side by side.
Screens in Shorts Program #1
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They say nothing in this world takes the place of persistence.
Ross is in the wrong job. He's a middle class kid trying to be a bouncer at a nightclub. The harder he tries to succeed, the harder his struggle becomes. Can persistence succeed where aptitude fails?
Drawing from personal experience of an unsuccessful stint as a barman, Paul Cotter's black comedy tries to answer the question, "Can persistence succeed where aptitude fails?" Heroic wisdom suggests it can. But what does life say? JEFF FARNSWORTH is Paul Cotter's independent film debut.
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The text in the video is taken from OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY by Stanley Milgram
"Volunteers are invited to a laboratory under the pretence of participating in a study about the effects of punishment on learning. They are instructed by an experimenter to administer an electric shock of increasing intensity every time a "learner", strapped into an electric chair, makes a mistake. How many people, if any, would go right up the scale to 450 volts." back cover of Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram.
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Paul Whittington's moving short tells the story of a young soldier who returns from the Falkland's War emotionally scarred by what he has seen. That the tale is told through the eyes of his adoring younger brother makes it all the more heartbreaking.
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One night in St. John's, a mother tells a story to her daughter of how she once fell through the ice while skating and had her life flash before her eyes. From this terrifying accident and in the panic of attempted escape from the cold water, Lewis mixes various styles of animation, dramatic reconstructions and visual puns.
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A rare glimpse into a very private moment as this Scottish filmmaker follows her fiancee's battle and triumph over Hodgkin's Disease, which is both a romance and a journey.
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Shorts Program: Mindbenders
After a year locked in a trunk at the back of the attic, Mindbenders returns with tales too bizarre to be put on at any time other than late night. Only then can dark tales of clown on mime violence mingle with the talk of the mean streets and the unnatural cycles of food growth. There?s amputation, mutilation, excrement and even a film for those who are big into anthropomorphic animals in suits or b.b. gun fans. These Mindbenders may well be the strangest ever, and it will certainly keep you awake and scratching your head.
Chris Garcia
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In a culture of quick fixes, a sad guy is trying to get happy?and so is everyone else.
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He's gotten two callbacks for a major part in a movie. And now he's got one more callback to nail the part of a vicious criminal. He's a really nice guy. He needs to get this part. He has a gun.
Screens in Shorts Program 3: In Combination