Doors open at 7 pm.

Featured Films

I Wish to Know Your Dreams // Chris Ozminski // 8:53
I Wish to Know Your Dreams is a short film largely inspired by early fantasy films like A Trip To The Moon by Georges Méliès, 1902. In the film an old caretaker is oblivious to the magic that happens when 2 young girls find a tiny butterfly fairy in a botanical garden. Human connection happens whether we see it or not.

Breasts Not Included // Hannah Sullivan, Seth Thompson // 6:17  (contains nudity)
Award-winning autobiographical short film about a mastectomy journey. And the questions that follow about how to define beauty, femininity and strength. Produced by ArtPeers and Dance In The Annex (DITA).

Shadowing // Okyoung Noh // 8:18
A Korean woman who recently moved to the United States found her White “shadowing” (which means, learning English by imitating a native speaker) to be strange. She tries to understand the history and power dynamics behind her shadowing practice.

Arcturus Beaming // Jackson Ezinga // 4:50
Sam takes a road trip and discovers the beauty and the spectacle of virtual connections crossing into the real world. The Official Music video for the song, Arcturus Beaming, by The Crane Wives.

Calculate_(Freedom) // Julia Yezbick and Imani Cooper Mkandawire // 5:18
Calculate{Freedom} narrates a researcher who uses her ancestral knowledge of spacetime to travel into the past and visit a relative’s home. There she finds an artifact (a Dikenga map) to open a portal to an alternate present.

CYANOTYPE // Jake Girolami, Nick Girolami // 12:46
Photographer Pauly V. Navigates life with chronic illness through eco-experimental film photography.

Pure Magic // Natasha Beste, Tamara Finlay // 3:00
A crew of neurodivergent artists collaborates to document the unique creative process of Tamara Finlay, a stop-motion artist whose work blends family history, folklore, and personal healing. Drawing from her Ukrainian roots, Tamara incorporates her grandparents, the mythic Baba Yaga, and fragments of her past self to explore themes of identity, heritage, and resilience. As she brings her visions to life, Tamara taps into the power of art to bridge generational divides, using creativity as a means of healing that transcends both time and trauma one frame at a time.

Time Will Tell // Kashira Dowridge // 10:05
Time Will Tell is a poignant short narrative film that delves into the artist’s journey of self-discovery and the universal quest to “know who we are.” Through reflective internal dialogue, the story explores the act of surrendering personal desires, embracing the present, and honoring our needs to uncover an authentic sense of self. At its core, the film redefines liberation as a deeply personal and transformative process.

BINGO // Maddy Rager, Scott Crandall // 11:36  (contains nudity)
BINGO is an explosive multi-genre short film that plays with concepts of “authentic” Queerness, camp, gatekeeping, and Queer iconography in the American cultural context. A flurry of dreamy scenes put the performers in relation to gendered cultural stereotypes against the tangled backdrop of a shifting and untrustworthy world in which Queer identity has hard and fast boundaries. Will they achieve Queer BINGO? What happens if they do?

BINGO is created and performed by Detroit based performance duo Thank You So Much For Coming (Maddy Rager + Scott Crandall).