BLOCK 4 - MEMENTO MORI

This series of compelling narrative shorts connects us to the starch reality that beyond the objects, people, and places that make up our lives; our present state of existence is temporary.  (6 shorts)

​THE ALTORS(11:54)

Narrative Short
By: Lisa L Wilson, Greg Payton 

Description: A couple haunted by their past is forced to decide whether love can survive beyond life. Set in today’s world, The Altors explores the various inhabitants of our cities, the isolation they may feel, the battles they lose while among the living and how it often traps them in a never-ending cycle of guilt and regret. It is with the overwhelming feelings of a life left undone, where those who are on stuck between the land of the living and the beyond that our Altors arrive to help them on their way. (USA)

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KHADIGA(19:55)

Narrative Short 
By: Morad Mostafa  

Description:  Khadiga, young mother of 16 lives alone with her baby after her husband left for work in a remote city; in an ordinary day she makes her way through the hustle of Cairo streets to do some visits where she feels uncomfortable with the surroundings. ​(Egypt)

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APPLE CORE(14:58)

Narrative Short
By: Patrick Thomas  

Description: Apple core is about Papa, a lonely, grumpy widower who has given up on his desire as an artist to paint since his wife's death. He looks after his granddaughter from time to time while her mother works. She comes over this time on his marriage anniversary and while he watches her paint it rekindles the thought of him painting once again. In order to do this he must first overcome a tremendous guilt that is haunting him. (USA)

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HERMANITA(11:39)

Narrative Short 
By: Hisonni Mustafa 

Description: After recently being released from prison, Daniella learns that her little sister has been abused at the hands of her stepfather and has to decide if her duty to protect her sister is more important than freedom. (USA)
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JAC ON THE COME UP(9:30)

Narrative Short 
By: Gene Graham 

Description:  Jac is a recent widow who takes a walk through mid-town Manhattan on an autumn day, contemplating life, love and what lies ahead. (USA)

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HESS(11:09)

Student Film
By: Lisa Simmons 

Description:  The year 2020 has created a dysphoria of emotions and experiences. This range of human expression has been challenging to manage overcome and triumph. Hess the stunning CinePoem drama created and directed by Lisa Simmons confronts these issues in usual and unusual pictorial images. (USA)

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