Super Shorts Los Angeles

08/12/2024

05/12/2024

F**k-A-Fan (Netherlands) by Muriel d’Ansembourg, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

Click counts, fan “likes” and subscription rates – welcome to the new world of p**n. Chloe Cam, the hottest viral adult star in the UK, posts a F**k-a-Fan contest to bump those numbers.

Meanwhile, Thomas, an awkward young man from Amsterdam whose heart was recently broken enters on a whim, and wins. When the lights go on and the camera starts rolling, Thomas and Chloe find themselves as they never expected: vulnerable, and accountable to each other. What is intimacy in an age where you swipe from date to date, s*xting is the new flirting, and social media is the global playground? “F**k-A-Fan” explores what it means to be real in these very unreal times.

Running time: 00:24:09

05/12/2024

Eximium Cor (United States) by John Kalning, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

Drained of biological resources, a Cyborg King faces the dire reality of his kingdom's impending doom. He embarks on a solitary quest to discover a new sanctuary.

Running time: 00:02:30

05/12/2024

Say Something (United States) by Agustina Aranda, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

Say Something is a short experimental documentary where Katie Agustina Aranda explores her relationship with her father, Panfilo Aranda—a Paraguayan immigrant, workaholic, and amateur videographer. Using material that he shot throughout the last forty years, the story follows his journey from passionate filmmaker to distant father. With archival footage and interviews, the film is about family, immigration, and a strained father-daughter relationship.

Running time: 00:09:47

05/12/2024

The Lovers Of Avignon (Spain) by Manuel Fernández Ferro, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

"The Lovers of Avignon" is the first ever translation of pictorial cubism into motion real image. Is an allegory of cubism as a conceptual symbol that acts as a filter and wall of emotions.

Running time: 00:02:33

05/12/2024

Nico (United States) by Max Olson, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

Nico is a surreal drama that follows a recently transitioned trans man throughout one night as he struggles to be seen as himself. When his grieving elderly neighbor, Helen, mistakes him for her recently deceased husband, Nico is offered a ready-made masculine identity to slip into and a connection begins to form. However, when Nico finds Helen in his apartment and this identity becomes a reality, Nico must confront his relationship to gender and being perceived.

Running time: 00:16:49

05/12/2024

Quadratura (Italy) by Sara Bonaventura, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

Quadratura is the first 16mm film signed by Sara Bonaventura - for the album Quasai, by the sonic artist, performer and independent researcher Francesco Fonassi

Running time: 00:03:26

05/12/2024

Threnody (United States) by Caleb Wheeler, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

A strange evening in a hotel room blurs with the quiet dissolution of a relationship.

Running time: 00:05:07

05/12/2024

Forsaken (Tunisia) by Aziz Shennawy, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

Mariem, in her thirties, decides to treat herself to a vacation. She finds the body of a Sub-Saharan African man drowned in front of her balcony. No one bothered to offer him any help. Upon discovering the victim's identity, humanity prevailed over fear and the strangeness of "the other".

Running time: 00:14:00

05/12/2024

One Happy Customer (United States) by Watts, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

Set in the red-light district of a heightened world that mischievously blends live action and animation, One Happy Customer follows the daily routine of an older s*x worker. Luring clients in, snatching up their cash, and using her special trick to leave them satisfied—and more importantly, to get them out of her hair as quickly as possible. She’s listless, even bored. It’s business as usual, until one customer—an old, seemingly decrepit man—arrives looking for something more. And he’s got a trick or two of his own to impress the woman who’s seen it all.

Running time: 00:06:20

05/12/2024

A Little Longer (Canada) by Connor Kujawinski, tomorrow at 7 PM, open bar starts at 6:30 PM.

In the future, a dying man briefly recalls his past with the help of a headset that allows him to see his memories -- but only a random select few, for his payment plan restricts him from viewing anything more.

Running time: 00:03:25

04/12/2024

Tidal (United States) by Katrina Lillian Sorrentino (Treen), tonight December 4 at 7PM.

In the wake of divorce and alone in a new country, Treen matches with the “one.” Months later, in what seems to be a fairytale romance, she discovers a huge lie. Who really is the man she loves? Isolated from friends and family, in an exclusive relationship with a volatile stranger, she gets pulled deeper and deeper into a toxic cycle. Will she ever get out and how? Treen finally finds the courage to leave and with the support of other survivors of narcissistic abuse, she beings to heal.

Running time: 00:18:06