A deadpan reading of a porn script illustrates the absurdity of the medium.
2003, USA, 6 minutes
Directed by T. Arthur Cottam
Nothing Matters
A responsible nebbish returns home to find his roommate in the throes of an ominous epiphany.
2015, Canada, 7 minutes
Directed by Daniel Jeffery
Big Brown’s TV Slap Down
The Shape Peeps see their wholesome utopia despoiled by hell-bent slapping rampage.
2016, USA, 1 minute
Directed by Cable Hardin
The Contract
Certified Famous American Actress™ Carlotta Moore has her suburban tranquility violated by a door-to-door evangelist.
2015, Finland, 7 minutes
Directed by CHRZU Lindström
Winner: Best Performance Award
Assholes
Two recovering addicts relapse together and share an apocalyptic downward spiral that ends in absurdity.
2016, USA, 74 minutes
Directed by Peter Vack
The Dissolving Man
An angry paranoiac suffers through increasingly horrific agony after pricking his finger on a stray hypodermic.
2017, USA, 19 minutes
Directed by Benjamin Swicker
Megrím
A kidnap victim struggles to make sense of his tormentor’s motives.
2016, USA, 13 minutes
Directed by Stuart Valberg
Winner: Scariest Award
Vampire!
An idyllic first date is disrupted by a zealous do-gooder.
2014, USA, 3 minutes
Directed by Phil Healy
Eat
Haunted by the intense scrutiny of her figure, a fashion model retreats to her dressing room to indulge her appetite.
2012, Germany, 7 minutes
Directed by Ines Berwing
Code Blue: A Love Story
An awkward weirdo refuses to let a tragedy derail his romantic ambitions.
2016, USA, 15 minutes
Directed by Susan Dynner
Babies
Two lovers ponder the upsetting implications of calling each other “baby.”
2015, USA, 4 minutes
Directed by Benjamin Gill
The Human-Banana from Outer Space
Shadowy government agents send a mutant gorilla to hunt an extraterrestrial banana.
2013, USA, 9 minutes
Directed by Josh DiGangi
Winner: Funniest Award