SLAMDANCE 2021 Premiere - The title and cinematography are an obvious reference to 1970's "blaxploitation" films, and the opening credits and chapter intros are styled as action comics, but at its heart Black Kung fu Chick is about a girl coming to terms with herself and gaining power for herself in a difficult world. Tasha [...]

SLAMDANCE 2021 Premiere - Marie (Aurora Florence) is just like any other beautiful, young, modern pin up girl. She’s got a wonderful best friend, a cute little place, and like all of us, she struggles with work and finding her purpose. Oh, and one other thing--she has an intense passion for taxidermy. That, and her [...]

In Suspensao/Poise a man lies on a on bed as flies swarm over him. He, along with the furniture and everything in his room except the flies and one red flower in a vase are transparent. Each movement splits off from stillness to overlap. Another person sits in a chair, watching out the window. Outside, [...]

In the hive-like domed city in a dystopian world of Bare Bones, humanoids march in lockstep, their faces and individuality hidden behind masks and robes, their movements constrained.  Synthesized narration from the point of view of an artist expressing dissatisfaction ("I was ungrateful, marginalized, a filthy beast") underscore montages of work, ritual, movements, and ever, [...]

24,483 Dreams of Death is an experimental film in the truest sense of the word. According to the website the film was created by having a neural network watch La Maschera del Demonio [Black Sunday] (Mario Bava, 1960). Chris Peters then recorded the process of the AI integrating the information. Separately, another AI was trained [...]

SLAMDANCE 2021 Screening - Wonderfully quick paced and perfectly succinct, Peter the Penguin is everything that makes short films great. There’s nothing left to the imagination, and no need for any further explanation. It is exactly what it is, and what it is is nearly perfect. Nigel (Chris Butler) is about to meet his partner Rachel’s [...]

Santina Muha is a beautiful, vibrant actress. She’s curvy, she’s bubbly. She has great hair. She also just so happens to use a wheelchair. But in the modern age of Zoom meetings and virtual classes, being in a wheelchair isn’t the first thing people notice anymore. Sometimes, people don’t notice or know at all. All [...]