Alt Shorts
From visually poetic mood pieces to found-footage mash-ups, this year’s collection ranges from somber to surreal to hilarious.
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Thursday, May 14, 2026
- Limited Availability
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- Matinee
- Running Time: 81 min.
Packaged Films
As Told by a Corpse
USA | 2025 | 5 min. | Yace SulaMemory and self-reflection meet through a river of pixels, glitches, and digital noise.
Force Times Displacement
Taiwan | 2025 | 12 min. | Angel WuLine animation with abstract backgrounds tells the story of the struggle to be an individual in the world of repetitive factory work.
In the Heavenly Cutting Room
USA | 2025 | 3 min. | Emma Penaz EisnerA woman on her deathbed chastises her creator in this fusion of stop-motion animation and dreamlike live-action video.
It’s a Wonderful Night of the Living Dead
USA | 2025 | 9 min. | John Bell, Dan BellExactly what the title describes, when George Romero’s zombies invade Bedford Falls.
Materia
Canada | 2025 | 7 min. | Alisi Telengut (Mongolian, Telengut)Brakhage-like animation with close-ups of rocks and fibers, and credits that describe them “in order of appearance.”
Night Plane
USA | 2026 | 5 min. | Salise HughesLocal filmmaker Salise Hughes returns with a dream about clouds and lightning and travel.
refrigerator hum
USA | 2025 | 15 min. | Jade WongAn abstract documentary about memory in general and the filmmaker’s grandmother in particular changes when the subject starts criticizing the very movie that we’re watching.
Water Sports
Philippines | 2025 | 20 min. | Whammy AlcazarenLife is hard and the world is ending in this surreal and often funny tale of two schoolboys in love in the time of catastrophic climate change.
You & Me
USA | 2025 | 5 min. | Kiera Faber, Jes ReyesDual-screen movie created by two artists where images come into sync and drift apart.