MERMAN
2023 USA 11 MIN
DIRECTOR Sterling Hampton IV
A 58-year-old Black queer man speaks about his life as an emergency nurse, leather title holder and civil rights advocate.
FLESHWORK
2023 USA 7 MIN
DIRECTOR Lydia Cornett
At a butcher shop in Jeromesville, Ohio, four meat processors situate their labor within their own minds and bodies.
NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (GRANDMA & GRANDMA) (奶奶跟外婆)
2022 USA 16 MIN
DIRECTOR Sean Wang
Nǎi Nai is my grandma. Wài Pó is also my grandma. Together, they are a grandma super team that dances, stretches and farts their sorrows away.
PUFFLING
2023 UK | Iceland 20 MIN
DIRECTOR Jessica Bishopp
Over the course of one night, teenagers Birta and Selma exchange nighttime parties for nocturnal puffin rescues – saving lost pufflings, whilst also grappling with their own uncertain futures. A coming-of-age documentary about growing up, making choices and dealing with encroaching environmental pressures, PUFFLING explores the delicate interplay between wildlife, our surroundings and human life.
ALPHA KINGS
2022 USA 15 MIN
DIRECTOR Enrique Pedraza Botero, Faye Tsakas
From a rented mansion in suburban Texas, a group of young men sell a hyperbolic, alpha male version of themselves on the internet.
QUIET AS IT’S KEPT
2023 USA 25 MIN
DIRECTOR Ja’Tovia M. Gary
QUIET AS IT’S KEPT is a cinematic response to Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” An evocative illustration of the everyday particulars of colorism, the film collages direct animation, super 8 and 16mm film footage and repurposed social media clips to consider themes of internalized and externalized anti-blackness in contemporary culture.
