Still Life

Jun 1, 2017

0h 21m

★ 10.0

Overview

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Vanishing Angle

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Cast

Garrett (segment "It’s All Right, It’s OK")

Joseph Lee Anderson

Hannah (segment "Hydrangea")

Hannah Elder

David (segment "Hydrangea")

David Henry Gerson

Jim (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")

Jim Cummings

Jordan (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")

Casey Thomas Brown

Elsie is a fiercely independent, equally opinionated pensioner with a drink problem and reliant on daily help including Jermaine, a black, sexually ambiguous carer. Initially, their relationships is combative but he wins her over with his non-conventional ways. When Jermaine disappears without a word, Elsie is determined to ﬁnd out what happened to him.

1.0

Larsen

May 8, 2017

Maude and Clothilde have been together for several years but no longer look at each other. When Maude suddenly loses her hearing, she tries to get closer to Clothilde who constantly avoids her.

6.0

Last Night Was a Mistake

Mar 24, 2017

Best friends, Alexa and Maya wanted stress free trip to Vegas away from their significant others. But when the ladies get too drunk and find themselves in a wedding chapel, they've got to face the feelings. In a short told completely backwards, the two prove that what happens in Vegas has lasting consequences.

4.0

Leave of Absence

Jul 4, 2017

After his daughters accidentally bleach his hair, before another stressful family dinner, Meir decides to escape. The middle-aged, suburban history teacher unexpectedly finds what he needed when a chance encounter with his former students plunges him into a night of pure rebellious energy.

0.0

Venus in Nykes

Nov 11, 2021

Darling, he came to see me again today. I end every session more shook than the last. Because, unlike all my other patients, he shows no discomfort whatsoever with his sexual freakishness. On the contrary. I maintain my diagnosis: acute melancholia and flight from reality. He goes so deep in his delusion sometimes that he imagines he's some kind of prophet. As if he was part of a cult.

0.0

Paperboy

May 27, 2019

A small town paper delivery boy sees the world in a different light when he peeks through his neighbor's window.

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0.0

The Water Song

Oct 27, 2019

A spunky seven-year-old receives a shiny pink bike for her birthday, but her domineering uncle is the only adult in the trailer park willing to teach her how to ride it, and the word "quit" is not in his vocabulary.

0.0

Jumper

Aug 16, 2022

The ultimate love story, by Courting.

0.0

Hidden

Sep 30, 2022

Maureen finds her step-daughter in bed with a friend, which changes their relationship.

9.0

Letters

Apr 10, 2021

LETTERS, a dramatic historical fiction written by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt in 2010, tells the story of U.S. soldiers and their loved ones through their correspondence beginning with the Civil War and ending with the War in Iraq. Sahuarita High School students adapted the Readers’ Theatre play into a movie, reasoning the student actors would be kept safe from Covid-19 by filming them individually, and afterward the footage could be reassembled into a screenplay following the original dialogue.

1.0

It's the Cat's

Jun 1, 1926

Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to statuelike tableaux vivants.

6.0

Jumper

Aug 16, 2014

Story of a bourgeois European family whose lives are invaded by an enigmatic visitor. Set within a 20th century modern villa in Spain, his presence creates an unnerving effect.

8.0

Terror Of The Killer Carnivorous Coat

Oct 31, 2011

A group of friends struggle for survival as they are faced with the ancient, demonic evil of - the killer carnivorous coat.

0.0

The Distance Between Us

Oct 11, 2016

Seonduk Arts High school sets a “moral distance rule”, forbidding physical contact between boys and girls. The school recommends Byeonchan and Seohyun, who have been meeting for 700 days, to transfer to another school because of this rule.

0.0

Different, Night

Jun 29, 2017

Jong-su is visiting Seo-yeon who had compensated dating with him...

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0.0

My First Time

Jun 28, 2019

Young-eun who has a crush on her classmate, Min-su, realizes that her younger sister Young-ji and Min-su are in a relationship. Though she tries to suppress her emotion it’s not easy. One night, Young-eun witnesses Young-ji and Min-su having sex.

1.0

Young Man's Dance

Oct 17, 2014

Mattis feels rejected by his dad and seeks attention from his male dancing teacher. But this night, something is different. Mattis induces a power struggle and when the dancing teacher desperately tries to set boundaries, they both loose control.