Film
Documentary Shorts Program
- 2PM
Dir. Kyle Myers-Haugh
2019, 12min
This immersion into a black barbershop in Wilmington, North Carolina unfolds as an almost abstract symphony of straight razors and straight talk.
Dir. Lydia Cornett
2019, 17min
A New York City doorman wears many hats—father, art curator, and erstwhile violinist—as he works tirelessly to give back to his community in Haiti.
Dir. Ben Garchar
2019, 15min
The lives of three strangers—a pigeon keeper, a webcam model, and a man haunted by ghosts—intertwine mysteriously amidst the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying Bushwick in this ethereal documentary.
Dirs. Lotfy Nathan, Willie Miesmer & Ray Levé
2019, 11min
A galvanizing eulogy for Douglas Schifter, the New York City taxi driver who saw his life and industry destroyed by the rise of ride-sharing apps.
Dir. RaMell Ross
2019, 14min
Oscar-nominated director RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) finds unexpectedly rich resonances in a hog processing ritual in rural Alabama.
Dirs. Lonnie Holley & Cyrus Moussavi
2019, 20min
An ecstatic Afrofuturist tone poem set to the music of visionary folk artist Lonnie Holley.
Dirs. Luis Gutierrez Arias & John Henry Theisen
2019, 9min
A dystopian meditation on the building of the US-Mexico border wall as government workers test the ominously imposing steel and concrete prototypes.
A poetic, healing rumination on the words of womanist icon Audre Lorde.
A potent, hyper-stylish immersion into the dark side of the teenage drive to be “perfect.”
An achingly alive look at cherishing the past while learning to let go.