Slower
Kelly Gallagher
7 min., Digital, 2018, USA

A found footage personal essay film exploring the power of a woman who values her own pleasure.

Flame
Sami van Ingen
15 min., 35mm > Digital, 2018, Finland

A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015.

Exit Strategy #2
Kym McDaniel
5 min., Digital, 2017, USA

I seek treatment for a head injury and a memory is triggered from years earlier. In resistance to my past ways of coping, I release this stored body memory. The second in a series examining how I dissociate in order to cope with emotional and physical traumas.

Five Secrets To Mom
Charles Dillon Ward
2 min., Digital, 2019, USA

Inspired by a teenager’s online confession on Quora, Five Secrets to Mom is a surreal and darkly comedic short that uses the filmmaker’s actual family photos, Microsoft Paint 95, and an automated voice to tell a story about the comfort and vulnerability in anonymity.

The Eddies
Madsen Minax
16 min., Digital, 2018, USA

From underground tunnels, a man named Eddie describes the crumbling infrastructure of Memphis, TN, while the filmmaker, a recent transsexual transplant, watches war films and contemplates masculine connectivity. He posts a Craigslist ad asking men to masturbate on-camera with their firearms and receives a single response from a man whose name is also Eddie.

Piedad
Naya (The Outdoor Cat)
14 min., Digital, 2018, Spain

Rodolfa and Maria Antonieta, two sexworkers with a deep passion for spliffs and trap music, hang around all day at their workplace: a magic garden at an abandoned airport ground in Berlin. When their colleague Asunción suddenly appears with the corpse of a dead client, they discover how easily sexual desire can cross the borders between the living and the deceased. A tragicomedy that explores ideas never touched before. “Because death really suits some people well.”

HER MOUTH WAS;
Haley McCormick
8 min., Digital, 2017, USA

Pornography from 70’s VHS tapes is repurposed to expose the bawdy expectations women are expected to uphold in contemporary times.

black box
Giuliana Foulkes
20 min., Digital, 2018, USA

In 1995, I attended Beatlefest for the first time, in utero. In 2012 I was sexually assaulted there. In 2015, I returned to make this movie.

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Tags: Charles Dillon Ward, Chicago, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Giuliana Foulkes, Haley McCormick, Kelly Gallagher, Kym McDaniel, Logan Square, Madsen Minax, Naya (The Outdoor Cat), Sami van Ingen, Shorts 7: This Knot of Life, The Logan Theatre