A TV magician opens a viewer’s third eye, giving him a chance to confront his own consciousness.
2022, USA, 5 minutes
Directed by Johnny Clyde
Winner: The Cyber Sickie
Category: Winners
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms
Two strangers bond over addictive hallucinogenic worms leading them on a psychotic bender full of murder and perversity through the back alleys of Chicago.
2022, USA, 72 minutes
Directed by Alex Phillips
Winner: The Golden Tentacle
Textual
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
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