Shorts – Green Mountain Film Festival 2024

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Shorts

45th Parallel

Film 45th Parallel Directed by Lawrence Abu Hamdan 45th Parallel focuses on the Haskell Free Library and Opera House—a unique municipal site between the jurisdictions of Canada...

A River Runs Beneath Us

Film A River Runs Beneath Us Directed by Jake Paron A visual research project into the Burlington Ravine and its lasting geographic impact today.

Bad Mother

Film Bad Mother Directed by Molly Longwell As a grieving family gathers home on the eve of a dear neighbor’s funeral, a mother tries to...

Bigger on the Inside

Film Bigger on the Inside Directed by Angelo Madsen Minax From an isolated wooded cabin a trans man star gazes, scruff chats with guys, watches youtube tutorials, takes...

Bloodroot

Film Bloodroot Directed by Lukas Huffman Over the course of their lives, two brothers return to a granite quarry in their backyard where they...

Bookstacks

Film Bookstacks Directed by Dan Burke Perez A comedic candle on a bookstack reads missed connections.

Chamberpeace

Film Chamberpeace Directed by Natalie Jones Light forms by the water. Live score: Night Music by Arthur Foote

cosm(o)etica

Film cosm(o)etica Directed by Martin Moolhuijsen Screening + zoom artist talk with Martin Moolhuijsen Sunday 3/17 @ 2 – 3pm.

Dau:añcut (Moving Along Image)

Film Dau:añcut (Moving Along Image) Directed by Adam Piron In 2014, an unknown man in Ukraine tattooed a portrait of a relative of a filmmaker in his...

Dislocation Blues

Film Dislocation Blues Directed by Sky Hopinka Filmed during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in South Dakota, Sky Hopinka’s Dislocation Blues offers a portrait of...

Driftwood

Film Driftwood Directed by Marina Khananayev One man’s heartwarming practice of building sculptures out of driftwood.

Erosion Project

Film Erosion Project Directed by Dan Su

Extinction is a Myth

Film Extinction is a Myth Directed by Baxton Alexander Jesus, extinction, and sexuality intersect as one former “gay little dinosaur boy” wanders around a dinosaur park as...

Fainting Spells

Film Fainting Spells Directed by Sky Hopinka Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the X�
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Family Portrait

Film Family Portrait Directed by Richard Kuan Screening + zoom artist talk with Richard Kuan Saturday 3/16 @ 8 – 9 PM.

grain cloud atmosphere

Film grain cloud atmosphere Directed by Martin Moolhuijsen Painterly technique and colour, the film is the result of improvisation with software.

Green Mountain Project

Film Green Mountain Project Directed by Tori Lawrence Site-specific choreography through improvisational scores for the dancers and the camera.

Hickey

Film Hickey Directed by Giovanna Molina Three sisters come of age within a strict evangelical community in rural Oregon.

Just a Soul Responding

Film Just a Soul Responding Directed by Sky Hopinka The title echoes Smokey Robinson’s protest song “Just My Soul Responding,” recorded in 1973 with the Indigenous rock...

Little Boy Loon

Film Little Boy Loon Directed by Julia Thompson, Kevin Bay A young boy in Patten, Maine, works in his family’s grocery store, serves mass, sings opera, and calls...

Animated, Shorts

Misaligned

Film Misaligned Directed by Marta Magnuska The woman and the man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, several flies are...

My Heart is My Only Country

Film My Heart is My Only Country Directed by Iva Gocheva Structured over a remote therapy session between Elya, a young immigrant woman, and her therapist, the film explores...

nearness; an effigy

Film nearness; an effigy Directed by Ada Bowman

ODEON

Film ODEON Directed by John Roberts Super 8mm Transfer to Video

Pet Store

Film Pet Store Directed by Joanna Rothkopf Larry Wallach is the owner of “Sloth Encounters,” a controversial Long Island exotic pet store.

Side Hustle

Film Side Hustle Directed by Abby Harri Eden, a dancer in New York City, pays the bills with financial support from her sugar daddy.

Slice

Film Slice Directed by Zaire Love Rico Golden and his homeboys from Memphis, Tennessee submerge themselves in an original swimming art form of athleticism,...

Snapping

Film Snapping Directed by Dillon Tanner A snapping turtle is saved from the middle of a busy Vermont road.

Stationed Drifting

Film Stationed Drifting Directed by Richard Kuan Screening + zoom artist talk with Richard Kuan Saturday 3/16 @ 8 – 9 PM.

stillpoint

Film stillpoint Directed by John R. Killacky A visual poem rumination on living with chronic pain.

Suddenly TV

Film Suddenly TV Directed by Roopa Gogineni A group of young revolutionaries create an imaginary television station at a besieged sit-in. What begins as play...

Sunflower Siege Engine

Film Sunflower Siege Engine Directed by Sky Hopinka Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to...

The Reductionist

Film The Reductionist Directed by Garret Anton Harkawik Daniel Garrett spends nearly all of his free time on a hobby that consumes his life: opioid harm...

The Space Between

Film The Space Between Directed by Andreas John, Evan Premo An altar for the unnamable, “The Space Between” invites us to enter a deep experience of the creative...

The Thaw

Film The Thaw Directed by Sarah Wisner, Sean Temple In 19th century Vermont, a young woman’s parents drink sleeping tea in order to survive the harsh winter,...

THEAR

Film THEAR Directed by Menghan Wang

Tierra De Leche

Film Tierra De Leche Directed by Fiona Hall, Milton Guillén An interrogation of capitalism and the American dream through migrant labor, GPS, and dairy cows.

Animated, Shorts

Two One Two

Film Two One Two Directed by Shira Avni Q&A with director Shira Avni following the screening. Shimmering clay on glass animation combines with personal archives in...

ur heinous habit

Film ur heinous habit Directed by Eugene Kolb A blackmail email prompts a filmmaker to explore the intersection of shame and masturbation.

zodiac 0°56’ (rewind-retrograde edit)

Film zodiac 0°56’ (rewind-retrograde edit) Directed by Aodhagán O’Flaherty

Recreating All the Blue Stories

Film Recreating All the Blue Stories Directed by Ryan Siegmann Ryan Siegmann recreates blue works from a favorite high school art history book.