Connecticut Shorts

 
 

Saturday, January 21

Block 1: 1 -3 p,m

Wall Street Theater

Sunday, January 22

Block 2: 2 - 4 pm

Wall Street Theater

 
  • Be Careful Out There

    Director: Stephen Emerick

    Be Careful Out There is the product of many late nights at the Post Road Diner with Director of Photography William Armstrong, brainstorming a feature film story. During COVID, the script and story were refined to act as an experimental short, creating a silent film that relies on visuals and score.

  • Broken Record

    Director:: Nick Aquilino

    In the middle of the night an old woman is continually awoken by the same song on her record player. Something is reaching out to her, but who or what is it?

  • Corpse Flower

    Director: Spencer Coriaty, Jose River

    Unable to come to terms with the untimely death of his young son, a desperate father enlists the help of a shadowy salesman to resurrect his lost child. After being sold mysterious skull-shaped seeds that supposedly have the power to bring his son back to life, the father obsessively uses them to channel his grief, much to the chagrin of his skeptical wife.

  • K2 TOG

    Director: Ari Veach

    Two girls sit in two separate chairs deep in the woods. They knit. They make mistakes. One sneezes a few times. Anxiety grows stronger. Will they make it out unscathed?

  • Kissing Kerouac

    Director: Moll Chiffer

    Katie Meyers is a high school senior interviewing at a university - the same college her old camp crush attends. Before she knows it, Katie has agreed to go back to his dorm room, but once she gets there, Katie can't help but feel like the virgin she is and finds she is in over her head.

  • Nothing Big is Going to Change

    Director: Nicholas Burns

    From 1984-1995, Geoffrey Driscoll recorded a daily video diary. Now Jordan, a video technician, watches Geoffrey's life unfold as he transfers each videotape.

  • Past Prologue

    Director: Brian Russell

    Robert and Claudette have a chance encounter in a coffee shop, their first meeting since they dated over 60 years ago. A re-connection to memory, and discovery of feelings long buried takes them on an emotional journey through their past.

  • Polybius

    Director: Alex Roulea

    Towards the end of the Cold War, an American teen finds a mysterious video game under the Christmas tree.

  • Sanctify

    Director: Jesse Torres

    Unidentified flying objects attack major cities around the world, gradually blocking off the sun and starving the earth of its natural resources. In the aftermath of the invasion, a young man is separated from his wife and daughter. Desperate and determined, he embarks on a dangerous mission to find them at all costs and make amends for his past.

  • Spin

    Director: Lisa Marie Tedesco

    When the curtain descends on their final performance of Romeo and Juliet in drama club, high school seniors, Abigail and Sky, bid adieu to the stage they loved while letting their most deepest desires for one another surface at the cast party.

  • Surabhi: The Journey of the Sacred Cow

    Director: Tm Frosina

    Surabhi shows the process of regenerative agriculture through the life cycle of a cow, from birth to death. It takes a non-narrative structure and only uses images, music, and sounds.

  • The Colors of the Soul

    Director: Jennifer Greco

    An artist uses body painting as a way of liberation and helping people to relieve themselves from stress and anxieties. A connection is created between artist and subject that heals souls.

  • The Woodsman

    Directed: Kyle Kuchta

    Bernie Davis, a Christmas tree salesman, has three trees left to sell on Christmas Eve. As the night progresses, his anxiety (and alcohol) leads him to take unconventional measures to ensure that his lot is sold and his soul is safe.