Short Films 3

Type: 
Film
Location: 
Columbus Theatre - 270 Broadway, Providence RI
Date and time: 
Saturday, August 19, 2023 - 7:00pm
 

The Weaver

Directed by
Øyvind Willumsen
starring
Isa Belle, Fredrik Hovdegård
13 mins
 | 2023
 | Norway
 | Norwegian Nynorsk
 w/English subtitles

A nurse goes to visit an old lady at her home. He soon realizes she has a few screws loose. And maybe she is not an old lady at all?

 

From Beyond

Directed by
Luca Ferrara
starring
Edoardo Purgatori, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Alessia Frerotti
17 mins
 | 2022
 | Italy
 | English
 

1944, Northern Italy. US Army Officer Howard Bailey is sent on a secret mission beyond the enemy lines in order to retrieve contact with Crawford, a local partisan leader and radical scientist gone off the radar weeks before.

 

Grogan's Lodge

World Premiere
Directed by
Isaya Evans
starring
Michelle Tiren, Sera Wanjiru
21 mins
 | 2023
 | Kenya
 | Swahili
 w/English subtitles

Two Kenyan college students travel to an old hunting lodge in search of work, when they are plunged into a colonial past.

 

Whisper in the Static

Local Premiere
Directed by
Heather Humpleman
starring
Saydee Dickinson, Skarlett Redd, Nicolette de Paris, Maite Garcia
14 mins
 | 2022
 | United States
 | English
 

A young woman hears a mysterious noise over the radio and pursues it -- with dangerous consequences.

 

Beyond Video

World Premiere
Directed by
Kevin Favillier
starring
Robert Baud, Jérome Thibault, Xavier Holaind
20 mins
 | 2022
 | France
 | French
 w/English subtitles

On Halloween night, a young man wakes up sweating from a nightmare. He decides to go for a walk to go back to sleep. On the way, he comes across an old decrepit video store run by a strange old man.

 

Hideous Heart

World Premiere
Directed by
Nicholas Camp, Don Thiel III
starring
Chris Cleveland, Jacob Witkin, Jasmine Kaur
9 mins
 | 2023
 | United States
 | English
 

In this sci-fi retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," a pair of astronauts work on a small space station orbiting a distant planet. As the mysterious narrator attempts to convince himself of his sanity while describing his brutal act of murder, he becomes haunted by a thunderous heartbeat that could only come from the far reaches of space. 

 

Still Up There

Directed by
Joe Loftus
5 mins
 | 2022
 | Ireland
 | English
 

A mortally wounded Astronaut awakens in the upper atmosphere after a catastrophic event. He struggles to remember how he got there.

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