SHORTS BLOCK: FUZZY FEELING
Featuring plant performance art, public bathroom mishaps, full face prosthetics, banana costumes, and vogueing gas tank fairies (try saying that three times fast!) These films are brimming with the sweet and absurd to bust your gut and warm your heart!
SAT MAY 6 | 1:30 PM | ARK LODGE CINEMAS
AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY MAY 4-7
RO & SHIRELLE
Adelina Anthony; 2023; (USA); 8 min.
On the journey from NorCal to SoCal, two friends search for safe places to rest, fill up on gas, and relieve themselves; but sometimes going to the bathroom in peace can be the hardest thing to accomplish.
Content warnings: Vulgar language, discussion of transphobic violence, bugs, references to defecation and urination, unsanitary bathroom, homophobic slur
GOING AWAY
Morgan Sullivan & Noah Schamus; 2022; USA; 6 min.
When Benji's romantic feelings for his best friend Luna are accidentally revealed on the night of Luna's going away party, the two must reconcile what this means for the future of their friendship.
RECKLESS SPIRITS
Vee Hua; 2022; USA; 12 min.
A gender-fluid Latine performance artist and a neurotic Asian American therapist follow a series of uncanny circumstances into a world of chakras, spirits, and cult leader fanaticism.
Content warnings: Vulgar language
FUNNY FACE
Jude Hope Harris; 2022; USA; 15 min.
A country singer travels home to take care of his sister as she recovers from facial feminization surgery. There, he meets her girlfriend for the first time and t of them bond over family history, love, and an incredibly chaotic in-home nurse.
Content warnings: Blood, vomiting, references to surgery, misgendering, transphobic language
GROOMSPERSON
Benj Welmond; 2022; USA; 15 min.
July and Sylvia stumble into a high-end boutique to buy a groomsperson outfit and every possible thing that can go wrong, does.
Content warnings: Misgendering
DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS
Nyala Moon; 2022; USA; 14 min.
A wacky, irreverent comedy about a Black trans woman who tries to dilate for the first time in four years in order to hook-up IRL with her online boyfriend.Content warnings: Implied sexual content
(IN)CONVENIENCE - virtual in USA only
Alexandra Greenspan; 2022; USA; 11 min.
A short film about a mini-mart cashier, a guy in transition, and a box of tampons.
TANK FAIRY
Erich Rettstadt 雷利; 2021; Taiwan; 9 min.
A gas tank delivery fairy brings sass, stilettos, and a healthy dose of glitter to a lonely ten-year-old who dreams of dance and drag.