FAKT Visual Lab

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    Horror Chris Cronin

    Oscar's Bell

    Duncan and his dog Oscar go on their weekly camping trip into the wilderness. But this trip, when Duncan looks out into the woods, something out there looks back

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    Documentary Michal Pietrzyk

    All on a Mardi Gras Day

    In a gentrifying New Orleans, Demond sacrifices to be Big Chief in a secret 200-year culture known as Mardi Gras Indians; African-American men who spend all year sewing feathered suits they’ll wear only once, in a battle to decide who’s “the prettiest.”

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    Dramedy Chintis Lundgren

    Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves

    After losing his job, Toomas, a hot wolf, starts secretly working as a gigolo to support his family. His wife Viivi has a secret too: she’s attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: April 2021

    A trio of haunting films make up the S/W team's Best of the Month picks for April

  • News

    Animator Eran Hilleli's Looom App Wins the Apple Design Award

    Short of the Week alum, Eran Hilleli (Between Bears), has turned his 3D animation skills toward the world of software and built an app called Looom to unlock a friendlier and more free-form way to learn animation. It was impressive enough to nab a coveted Apple Design Award today bestowed upon the year's best-designed apps.

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    Comedy Daniel Gray Longino & 2 Others

    Ghost Family

    Ghost Family is an absurdist take on a coming of age sitcom, about a high school kid whose family dies and continues raising him as ghosts until their unfinished business is finished.

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    Documentary Dawn Luebbe

    Dress a Cow

    A documentary that spotlights a 38 year tradition, the “Dress A Cow” event at Ohio’s Canfield County Fair. A meditation on bovine beauty, it reminds us that putting pants on a cow is not like putting pants on a person.

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    Sci‑Fi Geoffroy de Crécy

    Empty Places

    Completed before the global lockdown, Empty Places is an ode to the melancholy of machines.

  • Article

    Is AI the Future of Filmmaking?

    Overview of how AI may shift the filmmaking world over the coming years—the opportunities and questions it raises.

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    Dark Comedy Junjie "Jake" Zhang

    Pokey Pokey

    A father attempts to figure out the best way to protect his son from the lurid excesses of their crime-ridden city.

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