We’re All At Night of Shorts - Intro Video
Dir. Marian McWare
Disco Roboto is back with a few new friends to kick off the show!
Betty St. Clair
Dir. Syra McCarthy, Writer Kyle Chu
Backstage at an all-AAPI drag show, a fledgling drag queen prepares for a performance that will change her family forever.
Chicken Shop Date
Dir. Stephanie Romero
Unofficial dance visual for WHATMORE's "Chicken Shop Date" dedicated to my hometown, San Francisco.
This is Private
Dir. LeAndre Thomas
A stripper cunningly decides to use her private dances as therapy sessions in order to prevail in her collegiate psychology class.
STUCK
Dir. Nicole Won
People say they're "perfectly fine", but Vic can't seem to shake off this sticky, ooey, gooey, feeling.
Gnobert
Dir. Diana Reyimjan
Gnobert is a gnome who lives in a stump and works in a tree. This short animated mockumentary gives a peek into the world of gnomes, who might be the very reason why you can never find that other sock. Also, Gnobert is having an existential crisis.
Mindpond
Dir. Yasmine Anastasia
Mindpond by Sunshio drifts into the surreal inner world of ones-self, where ones past, present and future self intertwine. Mindpond is an ethereal meditation on identity, transformation and surrendering to becoming.
The Right Fit
Dir. Max Mollring & Nicolas Collins
Denim maestro, Tom Deittrich is the last of his kind. In the twilight of his career, who will take up the mantle when he’s gone?
INTERMISSION - 20 MINUTES
Besos Sala'o
Dir. Patricio Trejo Lerdo
A fishy character leaves his home to find love, even if it leads to some salty kisses.'
Slumped Over Man
Dir. Sam Hyatt
A budding relationship comesto a screeching halt when aman discovers his date’sdeceased ex-boyfriend slumpedover in her living room.
Shots Fired
Dir. Pari Mathur
A married couple tries to feel young again with two tequila shots. It goes about as well as you’d expect. Shots Fired is the first episode in a comedy web series about two people trying to build a life together while making mistakes, stumbling through adulthood, and learning that growing up is really about growing together.
make it to the end
Dir. Make It To the End Forrest Nolan
Late for a movie date, Forrest must fight his way through war, aliens, and cosmic disasters to reach his love interest.
What'chu Mixed With?
Dir. Maya Cameron-Gordon
"What'chu Mixed With?" is a coming-of-age short film that follows 14-year-old Alexis, a quiet and introspective biracial girl growing up in early 2000s San Francisco. After her Black father leaves the city for Los Angeles, Alexis is left with her white mother, forced to navigate the awkwardness of adolescence in a predominantly white school where she often feels invisible and out of place. Struggling with identity, self-worth, and the question of where she belongs, Alexis hides under a hoodie and retreats into herself-until she meets Precious.
Meet the artists: Woody De Othello
Dir. Tyler McPherron
“Meet the artists: Woody De Othello” follows the multidisciplinary artist through his Oakland studio and the surrounding forest, where he shapes ceramic, wood, and bronze into expressive, anthropomorphic forms. Intimate verité and quiet environmental portraits explore ancestry, material duality, and the emotional resonance of domestic objects.
Gold for Fools
Dir. René Solomon
Gold for Fools is a modern Yiddish folktale about Faustian bargains. The film follows a simple Hasidic man from the country who's exiled from his grandmother's farm after she discovers that he's in love with a blonde woman in a magazine ad.
