REVOLUTION ME FILM FESTIVAL
SHORT BLOCK ONE
Friday, NOVEMBER 7 AT 6:15PM
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All the World's a Stage
Directed by Desiree Abeyta
USA | 6 min
A singer, trying to appeal to the diverse expectations of her audience, buckles under the pressure of her unrelenting critics, until she finds herself in the eyes of whose gaze matters most.
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Emergunt Chordae
Directed by Masa Gibson
USA | 4 min
A bottle player gains control over spacetime and plays alongside alternate versions of themself to weave together a polyphonous, interdimensional interlude.
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Risk Machine
Directed by Alexis Karl
USA | 4 min
Risk Machine embraces the 90's style rock videos following a lone preternatural wanderer through portals. World-walking and fierce, she is truly a risk machine.
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Hair Salon Tunes
Directed by Christian Collazo
USA | 3 min
A love letter to the salons where Black women have long gathered—not just to get our hair done, but to let our guards down, to vent, to laugh, and to be cared for; and to the beauticians who carry our stories in their hands and hold space for us to simply be.
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Quinn
Directed by Mike "Loco" Hoffman & Jahvon "Jex" John
USA | 3 min
Quinn is a twisted love story that tells the tale of two people whose love becomes all consuming, co-dependent, and ultimately toxic to themselves and the world around them. Showing how two people who may not realize the trauma they carry, can turn a once innocent love into something neither of them can recognize. But at the same time neither of them can walk away. Leveraging the world of Joker and Harley Quinn as inspiration to tell this toxic love story.
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Of time, of place
Directed by Alexis Karl & Deniz Ataman
USA | 9 min
Of Time OF Place follows a lone female dancer through three moments of her existence in a dystopian world.