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SMASHXSHORTS: VIDEO ROULETTE

  • We Luv Video 100 North Loop Boulevard East Austin, TX, 78751 United States (map)

This collection of short films of all themes, genres, and styles takes us on a whirlwind tour From Houston to Brooklyn to St. Louis to Taco Bell and the distant future.

FILMS LIST

THREE TWENTY-FIVE

14min - Drama - dir. Eli Fischer

A real-time experience of a young couple’s final fourteen minutes together as they confront taking a major step in their lives.

THIS IS US

9min - Comedy - dir. Kevin Ralston

After stepping away from his Taco Bell order, a young man returns to find himself in an unprecedented dilemma.

PARKWAY HOP

15min - Drama - dir. Ben Pakman

Estranged millennial exes have a chance encounter in Brooklyn for the first time since one of them embraced a new life in Orthodox Judaism.

FOUNTAINBLEAU

11min - Slice of Life - dir. Derek Zimmer

Brief encounters and missed connections in the rooms and halls of a band rehearsal building

LANDLAND

9min - Video Essay - dir. Cesaire Carroll-Dominguez

A Cornell student’s curiosity about a campus tree leads to a larger story of displacement.

I WAS GONE FOR A WHILE

9min - Drama - dir. Sara Gaston

A young girl is torn between social expectations and listening to her gut when a neighbor invites her inside.

CHURCH PUPPETS EP 1

6min - Comedy - dir. Paxton Gilmore

A satirical knock-off of Christian programming from the 90s complete with a working phone number.

LUCKY NIGHT

12min - Sci-fi/Action - dir. Nick Nielsen

In a not-so distant dystopic future, a martial artist collects a debt.

BLACKBOARD/YELLOWSCREEN

10min - Experimental - dir. Charles de Agustin

Blackboard / Yellowscreen centers on an interview with writer, programmer, and activist Rosa Martinez, speaking in the middle of their trial as part of the CUNY 8, facing up to seven years in prison for their alleged actions at a Palestine solidarity encampment in New York.

RABBLE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

1min20sec - Experimental - dir. dirtyclean

An exploration of a psycho-geography that exists underneath the imagined city and its layout.

WORLD SLOW STAIN

6min - Experimental - dir. Hector Iglesias

A silent, wordless exercise in videographic painting.oon <3

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The Master of Disguise (ODD WORLD)