A wretched human houseplant learns all the horrors of its new life inside a nightmare house of flesh, meat, muscle, and bone.
2021, USA, 7 minutes
Directed by Benjamin Roberds
Category: 2021 Festival
Little Creep
A child rescues a tiny garden denizen from their mother’s pesticide rampage but struggles to keep the creature alive in captivity.
2021, USA, 6 minutes
Directed by Gurleen Rai
Unlawful Combatant
American contractors endure a surprise workplace inspection.
2021, USA, 10 minutes
Directed by Jackson Fatheree
Geri and Rick
Two venerable street hustlers spend a late night arguing and reminiscing in a broken-down car on the outskirts of New York City.
2021, USA, 21 minutes
Directed by Vincent Turturro and Alena Turturro
Masking Threshold
An antisocial engineer sequesters himself in his home and goes to extreme lengths to investigate a strange noise in his head.
2021, Austria, 91 minutes
Directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner
Stinger
Stung by a mysterious insect, a filmmaker documents his intensifying sickness using microscopic video.
2021, USA, 5 minutes
Directed by Brian Zahm
Laguna Ave
A laid-off editor gets drawn into the paranoid world of his mysterious transhumanist neighbor.
2021, USA, 80 minutes
Directed by David Buchanan
Just a Guy
Three women share their experiences corresponding with Richard Ramirez — the murderer and rapist known as The Night Stalker.
2020, Germany, 15 minutes
Directed by Shoko Hara
Winner: Weirdest Boner Award
The Last Temptation of Aelred
A religious initiate battles an infernal beguiler who offers the young priest forbidden delights.
2021, USA, 25 minutes
Directed by Jack Pratt
Forgive Us
When a young man returns home with his boyfriend after a long absence, he finds his family’s cordial reception masks a secret menace.
2021, USA, 14 minutes
Directed by D. W. Hodges
Corked
A man with a dark secret accepts a mysterious invitation to a bar and finds it has dark secrets of its own.
2021, Australia, 10 minutes
Directed by Zac Loy
Help
A woman looks to a self-help app for guidance in her meandering life and finds the app demanding more from her than she’d expected.
2020, USA, 5 minutes
Directed by Liesel Hanson