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Wednesday, May 13
 

3:00pm CDT

"One, Two" World Shorts Block
Biscayne World
Runtime: 11 minutes
Directors: Ahol Sniffs Glue, Michael Arcos, and Ellen Hertzler
An experimental animated documentary based on the insane everyday interactions on Biscayne Boulevard, as seen through the ubiquitous, iconic graffiti eyeballs of street artist Ahol Sniffs Glue.

one hitta quitta
Runtime: 8 minutes
Director: Ya'Ke Smith
A boy, who has never had to suffer the consequences for his actions, becomes severely addicted to internet violence, leading him to act out in violent ways himself.

Boxeadora
Runtime: 17 minutes
Director: Meg Smaker
19,000 to 1. A fighters heart in Cuba.

Day One
Runtime: 25 minutes
Director: Henry Hughes
On her first day in Afghanistan, an interpreter for the US Army is forced to deliver the child of an enemy bomb-maker.

Hunter's Fall
Runtime: 13 minutes
Director: Peter J. McCarthey
When a bully is exposed for who he is, how will he react?

Bookin'
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: John Kirkscey
Two Memphis jookers (urban street dancers) and two ballet dancers fuse their distinct dance styles to a soundtrack that mixes hip-hop beats and cello at a famous Memphis juke joint.

Wednesday May 13, 2015 3:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 91 minutes

5:30pm CDT

"Quirks" World Shorts Block
The Department of Signs and Magical Intervention
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Melissa Sweazy
After a chance encounter with a beautiful girl and suffering a fatal accident, a young man arrives for his first day at work at The Department of Signs and Magical Intervention. Turns out he's not very good at his job.

Woman of the World
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Allison Cook
On a visit to Los Angeles, Rachel has an encounter with a celebrity that reminds her she is right where she belongs.

reConception
Runtime: 12 minutes
Director: Joe Petrilla
A hell-bent bunch of boys break into an abandoned cargo trailer. Their conquest is interrupted by the owner of the vehicle's unexpected return.

Happy Hour
Runtime: 24 minutes
Director: Martin Rodahl
Ed Hope had to fire fifteen people today. He leaves work to commiserate with his friend, Roger. At the hideaway bar, Ed recalls an almost forgotten incident from his childhood, and in telling it reveals larger ideas of pain and loss that have shaped his entire life.

Miss Famous
Runtime: 13 minutes
Director: Shadae Lamar Smith
All Monica wants is to be wanted. But can she get past her fantasies in order see the truth about her life and desires? This film is part of the UCLA James Franco Collaborative.

Love in the Time of March Madness
Runtime: 9 minutes
Directors: Melissa Johnson, Robertino Zambrano
Melissa Johnson hit 6'4'' tall in 8th grade. Although this made her an instant basketball star, Love in the Time of March Madness explores her hilarious and awkward true-life misadventures in romance as she dates shorter men and gets cheered or jeered wherever she goes. Blazing with honesty and dry humor, this animated 'tall short' about embracing difference is certain to disarm and delight.

Jake Plays First Base
Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Josh Harrell
Jake just graduated to coach-pitch little league on his baseball team, and he's set the East Nashville Little League on fire! Needless to say, Jake has big plans for his baseball future. 

Wednesday May 13, 2015 5:30pm - 7:30pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 93 minutes

8:00pm CDT

"Explore" World Shorts Block
Swimming in Your Skin Again
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Terence Nance
A film about motherhood, banality, Miami, the water, the divine feminine, and how to sing in church in a way that calls forth your own adulthood.

Beach Week
Runtime: 18 minutes
Director: David Raboy
On their last day there, 20-year-old Natalie awakes to find that her best friend, Laure, has gone missing. Racked with anxiety, Natalie goes on the search - but as the day wears on, and mysterious omens reveal themselves, she suddenly becomes terrified of Laure's return.

The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano
Runtime: 26 minutes
Director: Joshua Seftel
Photographer Phil Toledano has become obsessed with his future. Using DNA tests, fortune tellers, and a prosthetic makeup artist, he begins photographing the many dark possibilities that might await him — despite his wife’s pleas to abandon the project. Over three years, Toledano’s obsession alters him and his family forever.

Displacements
Runtime: 9 minutes
Director: Manuel Alvarez Diestro
Hong-Kong is one of the densest cities in the world. As there is no much space available, new towns are adjacent to the cemeteries. These days in Hong-Kong the world of the living coexists with the one of the dead. Meanwhile, Hong Kong inhabitants move from place to place. They are waiting for a final displacement.

Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar 
Runtime: 16 minutes
Director: Jorge López Navarrete
A dog and a mare embark upon a voyage together. With every step they take, the differences between them become inevitably clearer, and yet the profound mutual knowledge they develop over time shows the potential to suddenly produce a luminous moment between the two.

When I Write
Runtime: 4 minutes
Director: Colin Wheeler
Locked in the cell of a Parisian psychiatric hospital, Antonin Artaud wrestles with a diseases that rewrites his memories with fantasy. To keep the madness away, Artaud must write a magic spell. The Blue Head, an avatar of Artaud's mind, tries in vain to signal the answer from beyond the flames of a fever dream. The two go on a journey through his microcosm, uncovering strange worlds and impossible landscapes. The search for magic is a desperate one and Artaud's sanity will be forfeit if he fails to find the answer behind the written page. 

Wednesday May 13, 2015 8:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 96 minutes
 
Thursday, May 14
 

3:00pm CDT

"Comes and Goes" World Shorts Block
TOUGH
Runtime: 12 minutes
Director: Alfonso Johnson
TOUGH is a story about an estranged father and son who reconnect after 11 years when they now discover that they share the same apartment complex. The cause for the disconnect was the father inability to deal with his sons lifestyle. This film confronts issues of identity, self awareness, fatherhood, and family. The title itself is a play on masculinity within the American society and within the African American community and asks the question 'What does it really mean to be tough and also accepted for who you really are?'

How to Stand Up for Yourself
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Sarah Hanssen
Learning to stand up for yourself is an exhaustive process. You've got to understand your opponent, chose your time wisely and gather enough strength to never back down.

Marathon
Runtime: 14 minutes
Director: Lauren Smitelli
A young woman stifled by her future sets out to find someone from her past. She soon realizes that the journey she’s embarked on might be more complicated than she imagined.

La Reina
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Manuel Abramovich
Memi prepares to become queen of the carnival. Lost in a world of grown-ups and trapped in her routine, she is torn between the glamour of pageant and the social pressure to become a winner.

The Art of Richard Thompson
Runtime: 22 minutes
Director: Bob Burnett
Richard Thompson has a Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist on his mantelpiece. For a cartoonist, that's like winning an Oscar. Richard Thompson is admired, if not revered, by his peers. He first reached a wider audience with his weekly feature 'Richard's Poor Almanac' in The Washington Post. His daily cartoon 'Cul De Sac' was syndicated in 2007. Thompson was forced to stop drawing in 2012 due to Parkinson's disease.

Mr. Gold
Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Brian Carlson
Redemption is found in the oddest of places. Jose Melendez found it inside a gold suit. In the documentary short Mr. Gold, filmmaker Brian Carlson explores how a 21-time felon and two time Maury show guest crafts a new life through becoming a street corner promoter.

Papa Machete
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Jonathan David Kane
Haitian farmer Alfred Avril is one of the last remaining masters of tire machèt, the indigenous martial art created by Haitian slaves to defeat Napoleon’s armies. Avril provides a bridge between his country’s traditional past and its troubled present. 

Thursday May 14, 2015 3:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 92 minutes

5:30pm CDT

"Some Lives" World Shorts Block
The Resort
Runtime: 16 minutes
Director: Shadae Lamar Smith
Set in Tobago, The Resort is a film that gives an intriguing glimpse into the lives of workers in Caribbean tourism. The film explores the correlation between sexual politics and work. In doing so it contrasts the mundane realities of women to the shocking and unseen behavior of men in the tourism industry.

Chute Fighter
Runtime: 13 minutes
Director: Laurel Parmet
A teenage cowgirl takes action to get back the last connection she has with her dead father.

Tom in America
Runtime: 17 minutes
Director: Flavio Alves
Everyone has a secret

Lay in Wait
Runtime: 25 mintues
Director: Jonathan Ade
A young married woman in the midst of an affair loses her wedding ring in the woods and must find it before the sun sets.

Elgin Park
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Danny Yourd
Elgin Park dives into the life of Michael Paul Smith, a reclusive artist turned viral sensation, recognized for creating 1950s utopias out of pain, love, and miniature cars.

The Murder Ballad of James Jones
Runtime: 4 minutes
Director: Jesse Kreitzer
In 1993, Chicago blues singer James 'Tail Dragger' Jones, a protege of Howlin' Wolf, shot and killed fellow musician Boston Blackie during an on-stage performance.

Write with Me...
Runtime: 9 minutes
Director: Hannah Leshaw
A woman longs for a songwriting partner but, terrified of the vulnerability inherent in the act of creating, instead retreats into the safety of her mind. 

Thursday May 14, 2015 5:30pm - 7:30pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 94 minutes

8:00pm CDT

"This Life" World Shorts Block
The Suburbs Go On Forever
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Mark Day
A film exploring the facade of the suburban family and naivety towards sexual absolution through protagonist Felicity's affair with her professor.

The Youth
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Dehanza Rogers
A recent college graduate is frustrated that his life is going nowhere until an old friend offers him the opportunity to make a difference.

The Way Things Are
Runtime: 27 minutes
Director: Guy Nemesh
Iris lives in a big house in a good neighborhood. It was once full of life, now she is alone. Even when her family is around. When an old romance comes knocking, Iris has a sudden urge to break the boundaries of her home and spend a moment outside herself.

unmappable 
Runtime: 23 minutes
Directors:  Diane Hodson, Jasmine Luoma
unmappable weaves together the life and work of noted iconoclastic psychogeographer, and convicted sex offender, Denis Wood.

Stella Walsh
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Rob Lucas
Stella Walsh was one of the most celebrated female athletes on the planet. She had thousands of medals, ribbons, honors and fans from around the world. Her popularity continued for decades after winning a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, until she was killed in a robbery and it was discovered that she had ambiguous gender. 

Thursday May 14, 2015 8:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 94 minutes
 
Friday, May 15
 

12:30pm CDT

"Adventure" World Shorts Block
Twelve Traditions
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Jonathan Cuartas 
Jack, an alcoholic, claims a ruthless killer is after him, but is anything he says believable?

The Other Side
Runtime: 20 minutes
Director: Scott Brown
Work is hard, love is tough, and bullets are cheap. At a perilous crossroads in their relationship, Kate and Abby find themselves embroiled in a botched burial job in the desert. Pitted against each other, a bloodthirsty gang of meth-heads, and bodies that just won't stay dead, our lovers must face the ultimate trial to prove themselves worthy in the face of imminent danger, death...and chicken.

Dust
Runtime: 27 minutes
Director: Mike Grier
In a harsh and unpredictable natural environment where people have isolated them selves behind massive walled cities, a socially marginalized Tracker teams up with a black-market merchant to save the industrial society that has rejected his way of life.

Big Boy
Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Bryan Campbell
Nine-year-old Dustin has never been allowed to use a public bathroom on his own. Now, in the middle of the night, at what appears to be a deserted highway rest stop, his parents permit him to go in alone where he encounters unforeseen dangers that take surprising and hilarious turns.

The Answers
Runtime: 8 minutes
Director: Michael Goode
Immediately after his death, the victim of a car crash gets answers to every question he's ever had about his life, including the most import one of all - what did it all mean?

September Sketch Book
Runtime: 8 minutes
Director: Ronnie Cramer
September Sketch Book is an experimental film created using old school animation; over 5,400 drawings made with pen and paper. The film is abstract in nature, with sequences based on flags from around the world. 

Spearhunter
Runtime: 14 minutes
Director: Adam Roffman
Deep in the wilds of rural Alabama, a spear-hunter proclaims himself the world's greatest and erects a museum dedicated to his own bizarre obsession. In this atmospheric and darkly funny documentary, an offbeat cast of lovers, acolytes, and critics of the megalomaniacal spear-hunter remember his distinctive tactics both for killing and for leaving a legacy. 

Friday May 15, 2015 12:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 93 minutes

3:00pm CDT

"Some Lives" World Shorts Block
The Resort
Runtime: 16 minutes
Director: Shadae Lamar Smith
Set in Tobago, The Resort is a film that gives an intriguing glimpse into the lives of workers in Caribbean tourism. The film explores the correlation between sexual politics and work. In doing so it contrasts the mundane realities of women to the shocking and unseen behavior of men in the tourism industry.

Chute Fighter
Runtime: 13 minutes
Director: Laurel Parmet
A teenage cowgirl takes action to get back the last connection she has with her dead father.

Tom in America
Runtime: 17 minutes
Director: Flavio Alves
Everyone has a secret

Lay in Wait
Runtime: 25 mintues
Director: Jonathan Ade
A young married woman in the midst of an affair loses her wedding ring in the woods and must find it before the sun sets.

Elgin Park
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Danny Yourd
Elgin Park dives into the life of Michael Paul Smith, a reclusive artist turned viral sensation, recognized for creating 1950s utopias out of pain, love, and miniature cars.

The Murder Ballad of James Jones
Runtime: 4 minutes
Director: Jesse Kreitzer
In 1993, Chicago blues singer James 'Tail Dragger' Jones, a protege of Howlin' Wolf, shot and killed fellow musician Boston Blackie during an on-stage performance.

Write with Me...
Runtime: 9 minutes
Director: Hannah Leshaw
A woman longs for a songwriting partner but, terrified of the vulnerability inherent in the act of creating, instead retreats into the safety of her mind. 

Friday May 15, 2015 3:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 94 minutes

5:30pm CDT

"One, Two" World Shorts Block
Biscayne World
Runtime: 11 minutes
Directors: Ahol Sniffs Glue, Michael Arcos, and Ellen Hertzler
An experimental animated documentary based on the insane everyday interactions on Biscayne Boulevard, as seen through the ubiquitous, iconic graffiti eyeballs of street artist Ahol Sniffs Glue.

one hitta quitta
Runtime: 8 minutes
Director: Ya'Ke Smith
A boy, who has never had to suffer the consequences for his actions, becomes severely addicted to internet violence, leading him to act out in violent ways himself.

Boxeadora
Runtime: 17 minutes
Director: Meg Smaker
19,000 to 1. A fighters heart in Cuba.

Day One
Runtime: 25 minutes
Director: Henry Hughes
On her first day in Afghanistan, an interpreter for the US Army is forced to deliver the child of an enemy bomb-maker.

Hunter's Fall
Runtime: 13 minutes
Director: Peter J. McCarthey
When a bully is exposed for who he is, how will he react?

Bookin'
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: John Kirkscey
Two Memphis jookers (urban street dancers) and two ballet dancers fuse their distinct dance styles to a soundtrack that mixes hip-hop beats and cello at a famous Memphis juke joint.

Friday May 15, 2015 5:30pm - 7:30pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 91 minutes

8:00pm CDT

"Comes and Goes" World Shorts Block
TOUGH
Runtime: 12 minutes
Director: Alfonso Johnson
TOUGH is a story about an estranged father and son who reconnect after 11 years when they now discover that they share the same apartment complex. The cause for the disconnect was the father inability to deal with his sons lifestyle. This film confronts issues of identity, self awareness, fatherhood, and family. The title itself is a play on masculinity within the American society and within the African American community and asks the question 'What does it really mean to be tough and also accepted for who you really are?'

How to Stand Up for Yourself
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Sarah Hanssen
Learning to stand up for yourself is an exhaustive process. You've got to understand your opponent, chose your time wisely and gather enough strength to never back down.

Marathon
Runtime: 14 minutes
Director: Lauren Smitelli
A young woman stifled by her future sets out to find someone from her past. She soon realizes that the journey she’s embarked on might be more complicated than she imagined.

La Reina
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Manuel Abramovich
Memi prepares to become queen of the carnival. Lost in a world of grown-ups and trapped in her routine, she is torn between the glamour of pageant and the social pressure to become a winner.

The Art of Richard Thompson
Runtime: 22 minutes
Director: Bob Burnett
Richard Thompson has a Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist on his mantelpiece. For a cartoonist, that's like winning an Oscar. Richard Thompson is admired, if not revered, by his peers. He first reached a wider audience with his weekly feature 'Richard's Poor Almanac' in The Washington Post. His daily cartoon 'Cul De Sac' was syndicated in 2007. Thompson was forced to stop drawing in 2012 due to Parkinson's disease.

Mr. Gold
Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Brian Carlson
Redemption is found in the oddest of places. Jose Melendez found it inside a gold suit. In the documentary short Mr. Gold, filmmaker Brian Carlson explores how a 21-time felon and two time Maury show guest crafts a new life through becoming a street corner promoter.

Papa Machete
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Jonathan David Kane
Haitian farmer Alfred Avril is one of the last remaining masters of tire machèt, the indigenous martial art created by Haitian slaves to defeat Napoleon’s armies. Avril provides a bridge between his country’s traditional past and its troubled present. 

Friday May 15, 2015 8:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 92 minutes
 
Saturday, May 16
 

10:00am CDT

"This Life" World Shorts Block
The Suburbs Go On Forever
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Mark Day
A film exploring the facade of the suburban family and naivety towards sexual absolution through protagonist Felicity's affair with her professor.

The Youth
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Dehanza Rogers
A recent college graduate is frustrated that his life is going nowhere until an old friend offers him the opportunity to make a difference.

The Way Things Are
Runtime: 27 minutes
Director: Guy Nemesh
Iris lives in a big house in a good neighborhood. It was once full of life, now she is alone. Even when her family is around. When an old romance comes knocking, Iris has a sudden urge to break the boundaries of her home and spend a moment outside herself.

unmappable 
Runtime: 23 minutes
Directors:  Diane Hodson, Jasmine Luoma
unmappable weaves together the life and work of noted iconoclastic psychogeographer, and convicted sex offender, Denis Wood.

Stella Walsh
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Rob Lucas
Stella Walsh was one of the most celebrated female athletes on the planet. She had thousands of medals, ribbons, honors and fans from around the world. Her popularity continued for decades after winning a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, until she was killed in a robbery and it was discovered that she had ambiguous gender. 

Saturday May 16, 2015 10:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 94 minutes

12:30pm CDT

"Adventure" World Shorts Block
Twelve Traditions
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Jonathan Cuartas 
Jack, an alcoholic, claims a ruthless killer is after him, but is anything he says believable?

The Other Side
Runtime: 20 minutes
Director: Scott Brown
Work is hard, love is tough, and bullets are cheap. At a perilous crossroads in their relationship, Kate and Abby find themselves embroiled in a botched burial job in the desert. Pitted against each other, a bloodthirsty gang of meth-heads, and bodies that just won't stay dead, our lovers must face the ultimate trial to prove themselves worthy in the face of imminent danger, death...and chicken.

Dust
Runtime: 27 minutes
Director: Mike Grier
In a harsh and unpredictable natural environment where people have isolated them selves behind massive walled cities, a socially marginalized Tracker teams up with a black-market merchant to save the industrial society that has rejected his way of life.

Big Boy
Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Bryan Campbell
Nine-year-old Dustin has never been allowed to use a public bathroom on his own. Now, in the middle of the night, at what appears to be a deserted highway rest stop, his parents permit him to go in alone where he encounters unforeseen dangers that take surprising and hilarious turns.

The Answers
Runtime: 8 minutes
Director: Michael Goode
Immediately after his death, the victim of a car crash gets answers to every question he's ever had about his life, including the most import one of all - what did it all mean?

September Sketch Book
Runtime: 8 minutes
Director: Ronnie Cramer
September Sketch Book is an experimental film created using old school animation; over 5,400 drawings made with pen and paper. The film is abstract in nature, with sequences based on flags from around the world. 

Spearhunter
Runtime: 14 minutes
Director: Adam Roffman
Deep in the wilds of rural Alabama, a spear-hunter proclaims himself the world's greatest and erects a museum dedicated to his own bizarre obsession. In this atmospheric and darkly funny documentary, an offbeat cast of lovers, acolytes, and critics of the megalomaniacal spear-hunter remember his distinctive tactics both for killing and for leaving a legacy. 

Saturday May 16, 2015 12:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 93 minutes

3:00pm CDT

"Explore" World Shorts Block
Swimming in Your Skin Again
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Terence Nance
A film about motherhood, banality, Miami, the water, the divine feminine, and how to sing in church in a way that calls forth your own adulthood.

Beach Week
Runtime: 18 minutes
Director: David Raboy
On their last day there, 20-year-old Natalie awakes to find that her best friend, Laure, has gone missing. Racked with anxiety, Natalie goes on the search - but as the day wears on, and mysterious omens reveal themselves, she suddenly becomes terrified of Laure's return.

The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano
Runtime: 26 minutes
Director: Joshua Seftel
Photographer Phil Toledano has become obsessed with his future. Using DNA tests, fortune tellers, and a prosthetic makeup artist, he begins photographing the many dark possibilities that might await him — despite his wife’s pleas to abandon the project. Over three years, Toledano’s obsession alters him and his family forever.

Displacements
Runtime: 9 minutes
Director: Manuel Alvarez Diestro
Hong-Kong is one of the densest cities in the world. As there is no much space available, new towns are adjacent to the cemeteries. These days in Hong-Kong the world of the living coexists with the one of the dead. Meanwhile, Hong Kong inhabitants move from place to place. They are waiting for a final displacement.

Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar 
Runtime: 16 minutes
Director: Jorge López Navarrete
A dog and a mare embark upon a voyage together. With every step they take, the differences between them become inevitably clearer, and yet the profound mutual knowledge they develop over time shows the potential to suddenly produce a luminous moment between the two.

When I Write
Runtime: 4 minutes
Director: Colin Wheeler
Locked in the cell of a Parisian psychiatric hospital, Antonin Artaud wrestles with a diseases that rewrites his memories with fantasy. To keep the madness away, Artaud must write a magic spell. The Blue Head, an avatar of Artaud's mind, tries in vain to signal the answer from beyond the flames of a fever dream. The two go on a journey through his microcosm, uncovering strange worlds and impossible landscapes. The search for magic is a desperate one and Artaud's sanity will be forfeit if he fails to find the answer behind the written page. 

Saturday May 16, 2015 3:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 96 minutes

5:30pm CDT

"Quirks" World Shorts Block
The Department of Signs and Magical Intervention
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Melissa Sweazy
After a chance encounter with a beautiful girl and suffering a fatal accident, a young man arrives for his first day at work at The Department of Signs and Magical Intervention. Turns out he's not very good at his job.

Woman of the World
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Allison Cook
On a visit to Los Angeles, Rachel has an encounter with a celebrity that reminds her she is right where she belongs.

reConception
Runtime: 12 minutes
Director: Joe Petrilla
A hell-bent bunch of boys break into an abandoned cargo trailer. Their conquest is interrupted by the owner of the vehicle's unexpected return.

Happy Hour
Runtime: 24 minutes
Director: Martin Rodahl
Ed Hope had to fire fifteen people today. He leaves work to commiserate with his friend, Roger. At the hideaway bar, Ed recalls an almost forgotten incident from his childhood, and in telling it reveals larger ideas of pain and loss that have shaped his entire life.

Miss Famous
Runtime: 13 minutes
Director: Shadae Lamar Smith
All Monica wants is to be wanted. But can she get past her fantasies in order see the truth about her life and desires? This film is part of the UCLA James Franco Collaborative.

Love in the Time of March Madness
Runtime: 9 minutes
Directors: Melissa Johnson, Robertino Zambrano
Melissa Johnson hit 6'4'' tall in 8th grade. Although this made her an instant basketball star, Love in the Time of March Madness explores her hilarious and awkward true-life misadventures in romance as she dates shorter men and gets cheered or jeered wherever she goes. Blazing with honesty and dry humor, this animated 'tall short' about embracing difference is certain to disarm and delight.

Jake Plays First Base
Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Josh Harrell
Jake just graduated to coach-pitch little league on his baseball team, and he's set the East Nashville Little League on fire! Needless to say, Jake has big plans for his baseball future. 

Saturday May 16, 2015 5:30pm - 7:30pm CDT
Bill and Margaret Clark Room 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
  World Shorts
  • Director(s) Various
  • Runtime 93 minutes
 
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