FILM SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
STUART CITY CINEMA AND CAFE
79 West St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
THE DARK SIDE OF EDEN
200pm-400pm
Wisper, 2018
Director Russ Emanuel
United States. 1 minute
In June 2016, a loving family was found shot to death at their suburban home in Northern New Jersey, and discovered by father and husband Josiah Wisper - a brash businessman who owned bars, restaurants and real estate in Harlem, New York.
Mercury, 2023
Director Clara Dubau
United States, 11 min
Elio volunteers for a filmed experiment to help him reconnect with a repressed memory.
Everything Dies Out Here, 2023
Directors Cian and Sean Mallers
US, 10 min
In a barren, oil-soaked wasteland after global catastrophe, a man clings to the last flower on Earth. As danger mounts from unforeseen forces, his connection to the flower proves a window to the past.
You, Forever, 2024
Director Brenda Kovrig
Canada, 14 min
You, Forever is a short hybrid film that incorporates documentary and dark comedy fantasy fiction. Robert Ettinger, 'the father of cryonics,' speaks of his life’s work while his 'patients' experience an unnatural existence in suspended animation.
LifeQuest, 2023
Director Richard Lounello
United States, 25 min
A young physicist lives out his life in search of his greatest scientific discovery and finds one extraordinary truth.
The BiodiverCity, 2024
Director Masataka Ishizaki
United States, 11 minutes
2035, future’s story. we people finally live in one big area due to the biodiversity program which humanity must stay away from nature for the environmental treatment. Nora thinks about Tree because she never saw it. So she decides to go outside to see it with Eric.
Source Code , 2021
Director Mark Kiefer
United States, 17 min
The year is 2065. Captain John Galatin's loss of focus cost lives on a remote-controlled battlefield. He has been ordered to see the compound's psychiatrist who will assess his continued fitness for duty.
Jackpot, 2023
Director Chance Thomas Garcia
United States, 9 min
A father, mother and son gather in front of the television set to cast their votes and watch the Society for Population Control’s nightly lottery.
The Elsewhere Machine , 2023
Director Jay Yeomans
United Kingdom, 12 min
A filmmaker travels to 'the underneath' where he begins to contemplate a Sc-Fi movie; leaving for New Tokyo he meets a woman who claims to have met him before, & who gifts him a device to restore memories; he returns to his homeland where revelations ensue
Dear Elf on the Shelf , 2024
Director Tor Martin Norvik
Norway , 2 min
"Dear Elf on the Shelf" weaves a captivating tale of a young girl's emotional journey, intertwining reality with the magical lore of the Elf on the Shelf. As the holiday season envelops her home in joy and cheer, nine-year-old Emily encounters her family's Elf on the Shelf in an unexpected light, sparking a series of mysterious events.
Conversion of the Atheist, 2023
Director Michael Ambrosino
United States, 10 min
Two Mormon boys with a dark secret knock on an atheist woman's door.
The Space Between Us, 2023
Director Tim Holmes
United States, 6 min
An animated short film It tells the story of a forlorn astronaut heading into space after losing the great love of his life; on a journey in which nothing goes as ground control would have wished.
Q&A with Filmmakers after the Screening
FUTURE SHOCK
430pm- 630pm
Magical Doomsday HorseGirls’ of the Apocalypse , 2024
Directors Abbie Bacilla, Andrea Schmitz
United States, 2min
Fed up with the state of the world, these magical girls decide to take things into their own hands.
Moonskin Fever, 2022
Directors Hannah Bisewski, Tara Elliott
United States, 17 min
A near-future winter on a remote New England Island: as the economy and population wanes and locals grow desperate to survive, lovers Josette and Anna discover an intoxicating substance that could mean their salvation, and hatch a plan of escape.
Neon Vowels, 2023
Director Sergio Caballero
United States, 11 min
A service robot operating a taco stand learns, with the help of a Navajo elder, that it is mucho más more than just a dumbwaiter.
Powerline, 2024
Director Roman Caspain
United States, 2 min
"Powerline" invites viewers on an exploration into the depths of the human psyche through the perspective of its physical carrier—electricity, as the universal energy that binds us all.
Reformat, 2022
Director Jesse Pickett
Canada, 16 min
After the body of an AI student is found on school grounds, an investigation into the last 7 people who interacted with the student takes place.
Gum Garden,2023
Director Adriana Guevara
United States, 8 min
Dedicating his life to researching and discovering the oddities in his dental profession, Dr. Agrait stumbles upon a patient with a peculiar gum disorder.
JINX, 2023
Director Maya Zaleski
United States, 20min
JINX follows a young woman’s descent down a path of obsession and paranoia. When Jordan's estranged grandmother dies, she is haunted by visions of the occult practices that stained her childhood.
Chaska, 2024
Dir. Liz Guarraccino
US, 16 min
A girl curious about her family innocently submits her DNA to Lineage Industries, the leading Ancestral Investigators in the World. Her blood type, on a secret watch list since the 40’s, is red flagged, and soon CHASKA will find herself imprisoned and experimented on for reasons she is unaware.
Sileo, 2023
Director Demeter Lorant
Hungary. 8 minutes
A robot after working for years in a factory and being repaired and replaced bit by bit realizes that he doesn't want to loose his identity and sets out to find his creator.
ADA, 2023
Director Anaïs Vachez
France, 16 min
Ada, an eight-year-old girl, witnesses the ongoing tensions between her parents. One evening, a particularly heated argument breaks out
In Your Dreams , 2022
Director Mike Krohn
United States, 4 min
In the future, a sentient robot finds that his dreams intrude on his waking life.
Operators , 2023
Director Andy Zou
United States, 6 min
Two-night shift 911 operators try their best to hold things together during an alien invasion
The Panharmonion Chronicles: Times of London , 2022
Director Henry Chebaane
United Kingdom 3 min
The video was written and shot as a short film teaser, introducing the creator of the story as a character inside his own fictional universe, which happens to exists also in our own reality.
Q&A with Filmmakers after the Screening
700pm- 830pm
FEATURE PRESENTATION
The Coldness , 2024
Director Gustavo Sampaio
US, 75 min
Nick Polito a retired Jersey City homicide detective with a haunted past comes to Los Angeles in search of answers to a recent gruesome death that is shockingly like a case that has been an obsession for him since 1999. Determined to find out what happened, Nick connects with his former partner and encounters a cast of characters that lead him steadily down a disturbing path into lethal occult darkness
Q&A w after the Screening with the Filmmaker
830pm- 1Opm
FEATURE PRESENTATION
Red Earth, 2022
Director Georg Adrian Koszulinski
United States, 66 minutes
Red Earth imagines a world in the late Anthropocene, where large parts of Earth have become inhospitable to life. The story follows three generations of Martians, from the first colonists to the first expedition to return to an Earth decimated by interplanetary war.
Q&A after the Screening with the Filmmaker
AWARDS CEREMONY