Opening & SHORT FILM BLOCK 1 (with Filmmaker Q&A)

Type: 
Film
Location: 
RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St.
Date and time: 
Friday, August 17, 2018 - 6:00pm

Followed by Q&A with Massachusetts filmmaker, Benjamin Wickey, the director of "The House of The Seven Gables."

 

Love & Survival in Innsmouth

Directed by
Jamie Gower
starring
Jamie Gower
1 mins
 | 2018
 | United States
 | English
 

Advice for those entering the dating scene in the Innsmouth area. Deadly serious advice.

 

Time Heals No Wounds

Regional Premiere
Directed by
Jordan Barnes-Crouse
starring
Kallie Jean Sorensen, Gabriel Carter
11 mins
 | 2018
 | Canada
 | English
 

Toiling away in a makeshift lab, Dr. Barry Slater has finally made a breakthrough: THE CHRONOSPHERIC RE-OSCILLATOR, a device able to transmit artifacts across time. But when he materializes a recording from his future self, he decides to become his next test subject, despite the cautioning of his young wife Georgina. When the experiment goes awry, Georgina suddenly finds herself transported to another time, and the man resembling her husband may no longer be who, or what, he seems.

 

The House of the Seven Gables

Directed by
Ben Wickey
starring
David Frankham, Jonathan David Dixon
28 mins
 | 2018
 | United States
 | English
 

Haunted by the dark days of witchcraft hysteria in New England, the Pyncheon family endeavors to lift a family curse and find buried treasure... before ghostly terror can once more strike in THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.

 

Fragments

Regional Premiere
Directed by
Lucas Vossoughi, Artur Golczewski
starring
Daniela Zacherl, Gox Mailer, Christoph Dostal
11 mins
 | 2017
 | Austria
 | German
 w/English subtitles

A young woman awakens next to a man, who, while not unfamiliar, seems oddly strange to her. She roams drowsily through his apartment, being awash with shreds of memories. Fragments of what happened last night, which don't add up to a coherent whole.

 

Psychopompos

US Premiere
Directed by
Lucie Gukkertová
starring
Martin Hudec, Michaela Dolinová, Joel Sidon, Riwaa Nerona, Jared Doreck
16 mins
 | 2018
 | Czech Republic
 | Czech
 w/English subtitles

Based on the H. P. Lovecraft story in verse. A tragedy strikes the family of widow Svetlana and her two sons, Jan and Maxmilián. The villagers believe that the hated nobles surrounded by myths and superstitions - Madam and Sir De Blois - are responsible for it.

 

Irreparable

World Premiere
Directed by
Thomas Nicol, Andrew Gleason
starring
Eric Beckley, Cara Maurizi
7 mins
 | 2018
 | United States
 | English
 

Following a devastating loss, a couple attempts to pick up the pieces.

 

Sound From the Deep

Directed by
Antti Laakso, Joonas Allonen
29 mins
 | 2017
 | Finland
 | English
 

Sound From the Deep is a voyage to the unknown, inspired by the stories of H. P. Lovecraft. A research group searches for oil in the Arctic Ocean, but they find much much more at the bottom of the deep, dark ocean. Could it be the remnants of a long-forgotten city?

Owner: 
H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival – Providence, RI