Fantastik Beyond

  • Filmmaker Update

    The Short List: Lance Oppenheim Interview

    Fresh off his first feature's appearance at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim joins us to discuss his short form work, his transition into features, and the importance of being your own MC.

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    Dramedy Kirsten Lepore

    Bottle

    Separated by the sea, a unique duo pass along details of their lives through a bottle. An elegiac animation of minimalist perfection.

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    Documentary Helki Frantzen & Thomas Torres Cordova

    L.A. Roll

    In the face of a changing Los Angeles, a crew of dance roller skaters reflects on the closure of their beloved hometown roller rink and seeks out a new space despite adversity and setbacks.

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    Horror Tiffany Kimmel

    Everybody Goes to the Hospital

    The tale of 4-year-old Little Mata (writer/director Tiffany Kimmel's mother) as she's taken to the hospital in late 1963 with appendicitis.

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    Fantasy Ricardo Kump

    O Cacto (The Cactus)

    Troubled by a severe nervous system disorder, a man finds himself paralyzed in a remote and hostile environment after an accident. His situation takes new directions as he surrenders and accepts his new reality. A horror film inspired by Santiago Dabove short story Ser polvo.

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    Horror Mariama Diallo

    Hair Wolf

    In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture…

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    Documentary John Merizalde

    BIGNATTYDADDY

    At 15 years old, BIGNATTYDADDY became notorious online for openly flaunting his use of anabolic steroids on social media. This short portrait explores his personal quest to achieve the perfect physique.

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    Drama Jannis Lenz

    WANNABE

    A young YouTuber builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.

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    Dark Comedy Johnny Kelly

    Fern

    A recent widow mends her heart nursing a fern back to health. But please please be wary of a jealous, possessive fern...

  • Interview

    Interview with Lewis Arnold (Charlie Says)

    With his latest short Charlie Says having just featured on SotW and its simple yet powerful narrative still resonating through our minds, we spoke to director Lewis Arnold about basing a film on his own childhood experience, shooting on 35mm and releasing a 24-minute short online.

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