Program 32
WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 16, 4:00PM
Red
China / Drama / 24 mins
Director/Writer: Yichi
Producer: Joyce Yueyi Xing
Cast: Yichi, Liping Yan, Huanzhang Zhang
Zhuang, a young woman who longs to be a poet, is coerced by her auditor mother into a soul-sucking accountant job. She develops an odd vision of the color red after the death of her grandmother, the only person who believes in Zhuang’s poetic gifts. Drifting into a dream-like state, Zhuang writes more poems and jeopardizes her work performance.
Venus
France / Experimental / 10 mins
Director: Victoria Mezquita
Writer: Victoria Mezquita, Santiago Ligorria
Producer: Victoria Mezquita
Cast: Olivia Jubin, Jacques Martin
Through the ages, women have been objectified and oppressed in a neverending cycle of desire, admiration, and exploitation, perpetuated by an imposed aesthetic standard.
Ugly Child
United States / Drama / 14 mins
Director/Writer: Lola June
Producer: Lola June
Cast: Eva Scott, Bee Broadway, Lola June
Going home, being lost, and getting shocked by your surroundings. Ugly Child follows two teenage girls on the adventure to find the elusive house of one of their fathers.
No Funny Business
United States / Drama / 10 mins
Director/Writer: Bobby Decker
Producer: Bobby Decker, Aaron Bartuska
Cast: Katie Prael, James Proctor, Rommel Genciana
Someone stole his watch and she does not know why.
Last Summer Day
United States / Drama / 14 mins
Director/Writer: Flora Fei, Shintaro Ochiai
Producer: Flora Fei
Cast: Yen Wen Chen, Tianna Wang
A Chinese immigrant single mother who desperately wants to be close to her daughter, her only family, takes it to the extreme after discovering her daughter’s secret move-out plan. A portrait of a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship.
Screentime
Australia / Drama / 7 mins
Director/Writer: Alexandrena Parker
Producer: Alexandrena Parker
Cast: Ruby Riseley, Maayan Tamir, Ethan Swann
‘Screentime’ is a social commentary narrative illustrating the contrast between digital screens and the tactile world in childhood, demonstrating how boredom acts as a catalyst for imaginative play and engagement with one's environment.
A New York Covid Story
United States / Documentary / 3 mins
Director: Tal S. Shamir
With rare footage of the New York City COVID-19 lockdown, the film evokes the feeling, experience & atmosphere of one of the most dramatic moments of the beginning of the 21st century. As the COVID-19 storm hits the great city, the film shifts from shock, hollowness, hope, and fear of the future.