As Southerners, we don’t shy away from what others may find strange, surreal, or uncanny; instead we approach with curiosity, eager to learn what the otherworldly has in store. With this block of twelve short films, we follow a cat to the center of the earth, watch best friends cleanse their home of a haunted couch, and witness individuals undergo a mysterious grieving process involving a supernatural telephone booth. With this collection we are taking our audience through the looking glass, hoping to return with an enriched perspective on the weird and wonderful world that is the South.
A Q&A with filmmakers will follow the films. This event is now sold out, but tickets for our other events are available here.
Spun Out (2:01)
After chasing a yarn ball to the center of the earth, a cat accidentally disrupts the clockwork gears that keep the planet stable.
Loveseat (8:15)
When the acquisition of a second-hand loveseat coincides with a series of unexplainable disturbances, two friends confront their own mortality.
Hunger Pang (10:03)
A desperate and starving zombie woman finds a human baby, but her unlikely bond with the child poses a problem for her appetite.
RECALL (11:02)
A sci-fi anthology short about a room where guests memorialize the last phone calls before their loved one died.
Grace (13:30)
Sixteen-year-old Grace prepares for her baptism in the rural 1950's South. When she learns she must repent before the ritual, Grace contemplates her romantic feelings toward her best friend Louise.
Hope Chest (4:29)
Class Assignment: An oral essay on your hopes and dreams for your future. Eve’s Opening Statement: “I hope the FBI agent who finds my body is predisposed to sadness.”
New Water Music (4:04)
A cast of strange plants and flowers play, help and devour each other over an original music composition by Yotam Haber
Gizz Is Going to Die (3:50)
Gizz Is Going to Die follows Gizz, a scrawny, cockfighting rooster who is killed in the ring, and shuffled through different afterlives until he finds the one where he truly belongs
60 Second Thoughts: Volume 3 (4:25)
A collection of short vignettes – featuring a VHS/AI mashup, a scientific discovery, and a poem – offers quirky insights into human nature with humor, nostalgia, and existential musings.
Benediction (18:26)
A broken woman’s search for solace lands her at a black baptist church in rural Mississippi, where an eerie encounter leads her to unsettling truths.
Bobby Came Home (7:43)
After being missing for several months, a woman’s husband suddenly returns home with no memory of where he’s been.
Shelter Half (2:56)
A naturalist investigates the disappearance of a mother black bear while camping in a remote valley that may hold darker answers than he bargained for .