Short Films Block B | Friday 11am-12:30pm
TUKTUIT: CARIBOU. Directed by Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre. An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use. Lichen developers help bring the images to life, while caribou hide is processed into gelatin to make handmade emulsion. Filmed primarily on the land in Nunavut where caribou struggle to maintain their lifeways amidst burn events, habitat disruption and changing conditions. Watch the trailer.
LONG’S LONG LOST & MINI MART. Directed by Julian Doan. In the seedy back rooms of a Little Saigon convenience store, a young customer reanimates his dead father for one last conversation... awakening phantoms of unspoken grief. Filmmaker in attendance. Watch the trailer.
WE BUY GOLD. Directed by David Huang & Albie Smith-Chang. Two coin dealers in New York City's Chinatown try and make the deal of a lifetime. Filmmaker in attendance. Watch the trailer.
TRIPTRAP. Directed by Jack Dorfman. A lonely woman takes desperate measures to make new friends. Filmmaker in attendance. Watch the trailer.
I’M SORRY. Directed by William Lancaster. A massively popular YouTuber records an apology video to his dwindling number of fans, but is it a sincere admission of guilt or only the first step in a darker, premeditated plot to claw back his online popularity? Filmmaker in attendance. Watch the trailer.
CANDY BAR. Directed by Nash Edgerton. A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad. Watch the teaser.