Category: Films in Competition

The official music video for Fay Gauthier’s electro-pop single “Fade” is a quick-cut, visual celebration of the power of finding one’s voice and using it.
Directed by Jonathan Levit (USA)

She’s an actress, she’s a sex symbol, she’s a superstar, she’s my mother. Sandie “The Goddess Bunny” Crisp is the last truly glamorous star left in Hollywood…

Born in Santa Monica, CA, stricken with polio, the transgender cult diva is a she-devil on six wheels. She’s a ballerina with a perfect pirouette and it wouldn’t be hard to find her in a gold lamé dress belting love ballads to garbage men or liquor store clerks.

This is my love letter to her. I love you, mom.
Directed by Hunter Ray Barker and Tucker Tripp (USA)

A nurse is assisting with a scientific study on a patient with an unknown illness. Things take a paranormal turn as she finds herself at the center of the experiment.
Directed by Kevin Harvey (USA)

“Gift I’ve Provided” is the story of a bicycle, a family, and a song, told through phone calls, animations, home videos, and other experimental elements. This project is the senior thesis film by Aiden Berglund for the Bard College Film and Electronic Arts department.

Special thanks go to Ed Halter and Jackie Goss for helping to shape this project, as well as longtime collaborator Rain Johannes for his help in mixing “Will He Ride (My Bike).”

“Will He Ride (My Bike)” as well as all of Aiden Berglund’s music is available for download at https://aiden.bandcamp.com/ 
and for streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, etc.

Aiden Berglund is the recipient of the 2019 Sidney Peterson Prize for exceptional service in the spirit of the late experimental filmmaker.
Directed by Aiden Berglund (USA)

After a year of loneliness and anxiety, a young German musician reunites with his estranged uncle to face his fear on foreign soil.
Directed by Tori Layne (USA)

“StarPeople” is a true story about contact and the transformation required to make positive contact and evolve.
Written by Kelly LaCombe (USA)

Married millenials Ryan and Jane enjoy their childless freedom, but when their jar of unconventional date ideas runs dry, their world falls apart and they start to question, “Is there such thing as too much free time?”
Directed by Danny Abrahms (USA)

“The Quickening” is a visual album spoken-word journey from the bottom of the sea all the way to the Pleiades Star Cluster. Featuring the poetry and performance of award-winning multi-hyphenate artist Rachel Kann, this is more than a film, it’s a ceremony.
Directed by Brad Cooper (USA)

Kurt Curtis, a depressed teen, befriends a sentient gelatinous blob whom he accidentally creates.
Directed by Julian Huss (USA)

Max Grillinger wakes up, hand cuffed to his car, in the middle of nowhere. When a stranger comes along, Max soon realizes that asking for help may have gotten him more than he bargained for.
Directed by Brian White (USA)