SHORTS
This year’s Shorts program is a buffet of tasty morsels that range from stories of American identity, life in the schoolyard and family ties to LGBTQ expression, complicated relationships and thinking outside of space and time. Get ready for a feast of the senses!
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Mansions on The Moon feat. Zee Avi: Heart of the Moment
Choz Belen / SHORTS / USA / 2015 / Animation, Experimental, New Media / Web, Short / 5 mins
Southern California-based musicians Mansions on the Moon’s Bay Area premiere of their Steven Nguyen and Choz Belen-directed music video wisps two women away to a neon universe full of adventure and danger. They explore the depths, run from otherworldly monsters and, finally, discover one another with transcending results.
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Molten Tea
Laura Hyunjhee Kim / SHORTS / USA / 2014 / Gay/Lesbian, Short / 4 mins
Local multimedia artist Laura Kim unapologetically dives into a rainbow of lo-fi Internet visual and pop music trends in MOLTEN TEA. With music produced by San Francisco musician Chris Corrente, Kim’s use of filters and effects makes for a kaleidoscope of imagery as we ride along on an uncharted romance.
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Mush
Yoonhee Ye / SHORTS / USA / 2015 / Narrative Fiction, Short / 17 mins
Andy is a cleaner. The guy who comes in after the police have left a crime scene. The one who cleans up the detritus of a life gone awry. He lives his life solo, until Lina comes along.
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No Contract
Randall Lloyd Okita / SHORTS / Canada / 2011 / Documentary, Experimental, Narrative, Short
No Contract combines elements of performance, sculptural cinema and documentary to explore themes of urgency, isolation and escape, as well as the notions of torment and renewal, desire and destruction.Plays In:
In Conversation with Randall Okita
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
March 12, 2016 12:30 pm Not Available
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Noodle Deli
David Liu / SHORTS / United States / 2015 / Documentary, Short, Student / 14 mins
In a small restaurant of Temple City, CA, a man’s long and arduous journey in America leads him to fulfill his dreams, as humble and satisfying as a bowl of lovingly made noodles.
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One-minded
Forest Ian Etsler & Sébastien Simon / SHORTS / Korea / 2014 / Comedy, Gay/Lesbian, Short / 20 mins
A farce plays out in the apartment of two Korean women. Did you ever hear the one about the Lothario, the two burglars, and the fan?
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THE OUT(ER) LIMITS
SHORTS / 78 mins
Engage your senses as you peer through the lens of a kaleidoscope to view a spectrum of stories, ideas and expression. The detailed and experimental elements of THE OUT(ER) LIMITS carry you on an intimate visual journey of dance, music, art and identity in the LGBTQ universe.In This Program: Absence: no fats, no femmes, no Asians, Do Not Think For a Moment, Eclipse (ruby), For the Love of Unicorns, It Runs in the Family, Mansions on The Moon feat. Zee Avi: Heart of the Moment, Molten Tea, We are Mangos
THE OUT(ER) LIMITS
Alamo Drafthouse
March 12, 2016 9:20 pm At RushTHE OUT(ER) LIMITS
New Parkway Theater
March 19, 2016 5:20 pm Not Available
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Parachute Girls
Alex Rubens / SHORTS / USA / 2015 / Short / 10 mins
Sisters Evelyn and Ellie are “parachute kids” — children from foreign countries that are sent to the US by their parents for schooling. Though both sisters try to live life outside of the distinction and without each other, a family emergency forces them to face the truths they’ve been running from.
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Pioneer High
Suha Araj / SHORTS / USA / 2014 / Short / 10 mins
January, 1969: Hala leaves her home in Palestine to move to America and enters high school with limited English.
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Pop
Edwin Chang / SHORTS / USA / 2015 / Short / 3 mins
What if you could change the course of your crush's life so that they never met their own true love?
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