Short Films Block 1

Type: 
Film
Location: 
RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St.
Date and time: 
Friday, August 16, 2024 - 1:30pm
Location: 
RISD Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center - 20 N Main St.
Date and time: 
Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 1:00pm

Shorts Block 1! A sampling of different styles and vibes, from moody black and white cosmic horror to stop motion animated weirdness to literary and uncanny tales! 

Q&A with Visiting Filmmakers at the end of the block.

 

'Head Sighs' - Jumprope

World Premiere
Directed by
Matthew Hardesty
starring
Julia Sell, Sarah Jean Campbell
4 mins
 | 2024
 | United States
 | English
 

Two friends mettle with dark forces, summoning a creature from their nightmares.

 

Amygdala

Directed by
Oskar Johansson
starring
Rania Nygaard, Sandra Herlog
12 mins
 | 2023
 | Sweden
 | English
 

A mother and her daughter move into an old family house. The daughter has difficulty adjusting to the house, and to the mother's great horror, begins having increasingly intense dreams of the sea.

 

Lab Rats

World Premiere
Directed by
Stimson Snead
starring
Nicole Merat, Andrew Wind
19 mins
 | 2024
 | United States
 | English
 

A man finds himself in cage, like a lab rat. The most recent abductee of a prolonged alien invasion. There he joins a woman, a day-one abductee, long consigned to the mind altering drugs given to her by their alien overlords. Together, they must decide whether or not to succumb to being pets or face the absurd horror of their reality and find a way to escape the lab.

 

Fermento

US Premiere
Directed by
Andrea Ortega Botello
starring
Miguel Ali Paredones Sánchez, Miguel Ali Paredones Sánchez
5 mins
 | 2023
 | Mexico
 | Spanish
 w/English subtitles

A nauseous baker is amazed of what the rottenness of his kitchen has been able to create, a fermented dough to the point of monstrosity capable of wipe him out.

 

It's Something Else

Regional Premiere
Directed by
Gabriel Byron Warr
starring
Nathan Casper, Isaac Akers
17 mins
 | 2024
 | United States
 | English
 

Martin is a hoarding collector living a solitary life on a small plot of land. While out magnet fishing for metal, Martin stumbles upon a mysterious object that possesses a dark and terrifying greed that is larger than even his own.

 

Reflection of A Deadman

Regional Premiere
Directed by
Michael Shlain
starring
Rufo Quintavalle, Dit Boheme
8 mins
 | 2024
 | United States
 | English
 

A man's obsession with a stranger leads him through the underworld of Paris to an uncanny revelation. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd."

 

A Caution For The Wise

US Premiere
Directed by
Gaius Brown
starring
Patrick O'Donnell, Jensen Clarke, Liz Thompson
29 mins
 | 2023
 | United Kingdom
 | English
 

When an 18th Century Cleric, Rev. Heatly Smythe is appointed to a new rural Parish, he finds his faith tested by local superstitions surrounding a strange mound in an ancient woodland. Heatly has little time for the local superstition and being an academic and a scholar, he begins to ruminate about the true nature of the so-called 'Devil's Mound'. In an attempt to rid the Parish of it's 'blasphemous beliefs', Heatly endeavors to prove that the mound in question is merely an ancient neolithic burial sight, of historic and scientific importance. Led by his own arrogance and blind self-conviction, Rev. Heatly Smythe find himself confronted by local friction, tragic circumstances, and an illusive individual that begins to haunt his every step. Loosely based on a chapter from the 'smash hit' novel 'Skendleby', written by the Director's father, Nick Brown, with all rights permitted.

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