Lineup

Aufsicht | Natalia del Mar Kašik

Translated to “supervision” in English, a witty examination of the conceptual art world through the lens of a gallery attendant’s fidgety boredom on duty in the confines of the white cube. 

Personally I Find It Rude to Be Boring | Derek Spencer

A voyeuristic long take tracks the alley scene osmosis outside an underground LA rave as a social swarm grows. There will be laughing, hugging, chatting, arguing, sipping, smoking, strutting, shimmying, kissing, twirling, clashing, yelling, joking, riffing, puking, punching, weeping, and gnashing of teeth, then stumbling on home. 

The Muppet | Dan Black

A haunted remix of the FOX TV show Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test (2023), in which celebrities receive hellish military training under the watchful eye of elite Special Forces operatives. In episode two, Tara Reid is plunged into freezing water and asked to remember what the acronym MUPPET stands for.  

Space_invaders.exe | Malaz Usta

Meandering through an eclectic montage of found footage culled from archival film, newsreels, and video games, the filmmaker parodically recalls his own confusion when asked unanswerable questions about being a displaced Syrian now living in the Netherlands.

Foot to Ground | Christopher Thompson

Taking its title from the literal translation of pied-à-terre, the film mythologizes a boring bacchanalia for Manhattan’s post-residential luxury apartments. Real estate walkthroughs are threatened by apocalypse and interrupted by acid-wash events as sci-fi narration evokes plate tectonics, cave dwelling yesteryears, and resurgent modernist fantasies.

...And You Had Tourette's | Luis Figueroa Caunedo

A beautiful nightmare surreally approximating the slippages and confusions of an international student’s assimilation into American youth culture.   

A Message From Humboldt | Matt Feldman

A 16mm in-camera experiment that kaleidoscopically beams its way through the dark of a Milwaukee apartment, descending into walls, pipes, whispers, and the old haunt of days past. 

Dreams of My Father | Jonathan Seungjoon Lee

A familial yet eerie dialogue around spirituality, dreams, and transformation between son, brother, and father who share in a curiosity about filmmaking.