Palm Springs ShortFest Online Festival (2012)
North America's largest festival dedicated to short film returns next week. For the second year organizers have created an online component to supplement the proceedings.
North America's largest festival dedicated to short film returns next week. For the second year organizers have created an online component to supplement the proceedings.
A young Taiwanese party girl comes home from living abroad, to try to say goodbye to her uncommunicative father before he has to start serving time in prison.
Rowing through space, self, and consciousness, the math of the universe unfolds.
With millions of views, the biggest online hit this week is an ambitious 27-minute independent TV pilot about gangster cats. Where did it come from?
A woman with depression struggles to keep up appearances in front of her chirpy and driven office colleagues. An encounter with a dying cockroach in the office toilet develops into an absurd friendship, becoming the comforting companion she needs until she realizes its destructive effects on her life.
The story of one girl's Google-search-gone-wrong to find out why she can't stop pulling out her hair.
An ingenious short film narrative made up of entirely fake ads. What does a man, a woman, ice cream, chewing gum, dog food, beer, and a lot of other things have in common? Commercials.
Drunk with power after getting her braces off, 13-year-old Esther tries to seduce her oblivious Hebrew tutor.
**VIDEO OPENS IN A NEW WINDOW** - Copenhagen. A police station. A foreign woman in a burqa tries to get help; yet the assigned translator is not willing to report exactly what she is telling.
Through snaky dildos, setting boundaries and a journey through a mind-bending forest we follow Siro's quest for self-discovery.