Heaven
Dir: Todd McCammon
Time: 4 mins
Country: USA
Heaven is a personal journey through the history of cinema culminating in its earliest form.

Jours en Fleurs (Blood Guts and Blossoms)
Dir: Louise Bourque
Time: 4 mins
Country of Origin: Canada
Menstrual fluids create a fitful terrain of abstract forms. Patterns of texture, transparency and sound suggest organic cycles of growth and decay.

Ash*Cantata
Dir: Ryan Panis
Time: 5:45 min
Country of Origin: New Jersey, USA
The voices of two city dwellers color an urban landscape with humanity. Dedicated to Tim Morris.

Kinetic Sandwich
Eric Dyer
Time: 3 mins
Country of Origin: USA
Through a process that converts mass into time the hidden beauty of everyday objects is glimpsed.

Post Industrial Symphony
Dir: Jason Middleton
Time: 16:30 mins
Country of Origin: USA
A visual essay contrasting downtown Durham, NC with its neighboring Research Triangle Park, representing the transition to a new type of urban geography.

Budy The Carrot
Dir: Eric Dyer
Time: 5 mins
Country of Origin: USA
A tantalizing take on a Hitchcock classic starring Budy the Carrot.

Niche
Dir: Kelly K. Oliver
Time: 5 mins
Country of Origin: New Jersey, USA
Through the Cuban missile crisis, a racoon with OCD and lots of laundry detergent, we explore what it means to find your place in a culture of fear.

Like Sleep Might Steal On Me
Dir: Michael Wechsler
Time: 3:50 min
Country of Origin: USA
A semi-autobiographical account of a bout with insominia and the resulting mental states. Parallel conscious and unconscious worlds are explored as the line between them grows increasingly thin.

Hide and Seek: The Snail Prevails
Dir: Jess Mireau, Sarah Kendall & Nicole Gray
Time: 3:55 mins
Country of Origin: New Jersey, USA
It's a rainy Saturday afternoon. Four friends, Suzy the Flamingo, Javier the Snail, Norman the Duck and Roberta the Rhino are all bored to tears as they sit around their living room trying to come up with something fun to do..

Under The Water
Dir: Au Wah-Hei
Time: 1:30 mins
Country of Origin: USA
Between evolution and extinction, a moment passes by too fast.

Marsa Abu Galawa
Dir: Gerard Holthuis
Time: 10 mins
Country of Origin: Netherlands
A hallucinatory voyage into underwater life.

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