Short Films block 5

Type: 
Film
Location: 
RISD Auditorium
Date and time: 
Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 3:45pm

This is the final short films block of the festival, and we're sending you off with short films that will stick with you for a long long time, in your mind, like a welcome parasite.

Each block of short films in the festival features a variety of different short films - Cosmic Horror, the uncanny supernatural, Weird tale, Lovecraftian, and literary adaptation.

 

Carter

Regional Premiere
Directed by
Xander Copp
starring
Carson MacCormac, Elizabeth Saunders, Brian Quintero
10 mins
 | 2024
 | Canada
 | English
 

In this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, Carter, a grief-stricken young man, and his mentor Warren, an elder female professor of the occult, search for a portal to the underworld in an abandoned cemetery.

 

There is No Antimemetics Division

Regional Premiere
Directed by
Adria Marie Lang
starring
Jasika Nicole, Neil Napier, Mateus Ward
17 mins
 | 2024
 | United States
 | English
 

Marion Wheeler is called in to a routine meeting with her boss, a high ranking suit at the shadowy SCP Foundation, only to end up with a gun to her head and her identity in question. These are the perils of being the organization's Chief of Antimemetics, a division dedicated to fighting memory consuming entities. Marion must convince her superior and his trigger happy assistant that she's not a spy before gettting dragged off to Xi-3 in this atmospheric sci-fi noir short starring Jasika Nicole, Neil Napier, Mateus Ward and Syd Kilroy.

 

Eonian

Regional Premiere
Directed by
Michael Machin
starring
Kelsey Tuma, Shannon Helene Barnes, Joseph Lopez, Les Price
20 mins
 | 2024
 | United States
 | English
 

While grieving the loss of her father in his remote countryside home, a young woman makes a chilling discovery that suggests eternal life.

 

The Last Word

Regional Premiere
Directed by
Alejandro Moreno
starring
Irene Garrés, Alzira Gómez, Vanessa Buchaca, Patricia Montalbán, Màrius Hernández, Moira Durán
15 mins
 | 2024
 | Spain
 | Spanish
 w/English subtitles

A girl visits her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. But what she finds will not be exactly what she expected.

 

Dagon

Directed by
Paolo Gaudio
6 mins
 | 2024
 | Italy
 | Italian
 

DAGON is a stop motion animation short film freely inspired by the story of the same name by cult author H.P. Lovecraft. In 1919 San Francisco, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that led him to the brink of suicide: the encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Old One, DAGON.

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