Ashley Glass’s song about the frustrations of lockdown horniness depicted in glitch animation.
2020, USA, 3 minutes
Directed by Cary and Jon
Winner: Festival Director’s Award
Category: Winners
Twine
A young woman visits her newly inherited home with her musician boyfriend, but the retreat grows tumultuous as the couple begin having surreal visions.
2021, USA, 33 minutes
Directed by Scott Bolger
Winner: Rumpshaker Award
The Dark Odyssey
A prisoner breaks free from his cell during a long, dark journey through interstellar space.
2021, USA, 9 minutes
Directed by Michael Lavine
Winner: Brown Acid Award
Flick
A compulsive nose picker encounters a bogey that refuses to release him.
2019, USA, 10 minutes
Directed by Ariel Zengotita
Winner: Sickest Award
They’re Watching (Ils Surveillent)
A doting husband tags along when his alien-obsessed wife rushes to investigate a strange visitor at the neighbor’s house.
2020, Belgium, 29 minutes
Directed by Quentin Moll-Van Roye
Winner: Mink Stole Award
Salamiboy
A teen boy is humiliated when a unique body feature of his is exposed on social media.
2020, Denmark, 12 minutes
Directed by Theis Holmstrup, Jes Bergholt Bach
Winner: Wrongest Award
Book
A sad sack finds some small solace from his miserable life in a peculiar book.
2021, USA, 4 minutes
Directed by Anthony Oberbeck
Winner: Cringetastic Award
Floaters Dot Com
Two brothers find themselves at odds when one of them is caught ripping off the shadowy organization they work for.
2021, USA, 30 minutes
Directed by Stephen Girard
Winner: Audience Favorite Short Award, The Golden Tentacle
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
A. I. Mama
A programmer in a dead-tech future feeds their memories into a program designed to conjure their lost mother.
2020, USA, 5 minutes
Directed by Asuka Lin
Winner: Dumpster Diver Award
Brain Death
When her girlfriend mysteriously disappears, a “very online” trans woman travels to an eerie small town and finds herself stalked by a malevolent presence.
2021, USA, 87 minutes
Directed by WL Freeman and John Harrison
Winner: Audience Favorite Feature Award
Optic Nerve
Alone on a stormy night, a man sends himself into a spiraling psychedelic nightmare in an attempt to exorcise his demons.
2019, USA, 15 minutes
Directed by Peter Hartsock
Winner: Rumpshaker Award