SAT OCT 8, 2022 4:00pm Shorts Block 4: Turn, Turn, Turn Free Shudder Theatre at Los Feliz 3 | Beyond Fest 2022 Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE SHORTS This nightmarish and sublime collection explores a variety of traumas — intergenerational or otherwise — and the myriad ways we inherit, transmit, and are imprisoned by their cyclical, sometimes downright devilish, natures. Delivery | Spain | 10 min. dir. by Imanol Ortiz López Paula tells her psychologist about her fear of locusts while protecting her unborn child from a faceless threat. Expectancy | Finland | 15 min. dir. by Juho Fossi Alex is left alone for the weekend to renovate a room for his and his wife’s unborn child. Soon, a baby monitor starts to play horrifying sounds about his future failures as a father. Everybody Goes to the Hospital | USA | 9 min. dir. by Tiffany Kimmel A haunting stop-motion animated incision into childhood trauma, interpreted with a poet’s eye. Swept Under | USA | 10 min. dir. by Ethan Soo The grisly specter of foreign military intervention and generational trauma resurfaces in the form of a rug that’s gifted to a Cambodian adoptee. Dead End | Russia | 19 min. dir. by Dima Barchenkov Even after death, Nick’s abusive boyfriend Godfrey goes on pursuing him. But is it reality or a terrible nightmare? Processing | USA | 17 min. dir. by Renetta G/ Amador Detective Frank Ramirez recounts the loss of his partner in a nightmare bust gone wrong. In The Shadow Of God | Canada | 18 min. dir. by Brian Sepanzyk As a woman packs up her childhood home following the passing of her father, she comes to learn that there may have been a more sinister threat behind his death, long buried on the grounds of the family home.