Shorts 4: Nineteen Ghost Hills
86 min.

Kathleen
Stephanie Hutin, 4 min., Video, 2013, USA

“When all you know is that you want so badly to be her best friend.” - Stephanie Hutin

The Loneliness Thing
Vanessa Gully Santiago, 10 min., Video, 2013, USA

“The Loneliness Thing explores our increasingly isolated lives in the age of self check out, social media and internet dating. A series of vignettes that portray various states of self involvement, daily drudgery and failed attempts to form connections are tied together by an emotionless, computer-generated voice, who recites pick up lines narrated from the artist’s actual dating profile. Mixing humor and pathos, The Loneliness Thing, uses autobiography to understand the Zeitgeist of modern dating against a soundtrack of tediously overwrought love songs.” - Vanessa Gully Santiago

Ten Notes on a Summer's Day
Mike Stoltz, 5 min., Video, 2013, USA

“We could be anywhere but we're right here, humming along”. - Mike Stoltz

Migraine and Michael: A Love Story
Adrian Goodman, 5 min., Video, 2013, Australia

“Michael is married to a migraine. Despite his pain, he soon discovers that he can't live without her.” - Adrian Goodman

Green
Heather Young, 10 min, Video, 2013, USA

“Curious and confused about the adult world, teenaged Julie secretly follows her mother on a date. Both intrigued and disturbed by what she sees, she takes her game of spying too far.” - Heather Young

Theatre of Cruelty
Devin Cain, 12 min., Video, 2013, USA

“Following his release from a mental hospital, Maurice comes to grips with his mental state against his mother who belittles his condition. This film is meant to take a deeper look at mental illness through an expressionistic viewpoint.”- Devin Cain

Ellie Lumme
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, 42 min., Video, 2013, USA

“Looking for someone to bum her a cigarette at a party, 22-year-old Ellie meets Ned, an articulate, slightly older 'friend of a friend.' A couple of weeks and a few unreturned phone calls later, Ned begins showing up in her life -- first as an unexpected guest at her roommate's birthday, then at her workplace. At first flattered by Ned's attention and then creeped out by it, Ellie struggles to rid her life of his overbearing presence. A 'non-supernatural ghost story.'” - Ignatiy Vishnevetsky