CINDEPENDENT AFTER DARK (short film block)
Saturday, September 20th, 8pm
Memorial Hall Main Theater
Total Runtime: 91m 3s
Ramy dir. Pouyan Rostami
Memoir dir. Jordan Sommerlad
Sif Saga’s Double Feature: Famous & Prayer dir. Danica Jensen, Baldur Thor
Accessories to a Crime dir. Bretton A. Miller, Sebastian Russell, Pierce Ryan
The New Raymond dir. Joe Blaugrund
Whittled Down dir. Olly Glenn
to lie in the grass is enough dir. Grayson Duvall Wittenbarger
The Ghost dir. Allyson Morgan
Softboy dir. Tommy Meisel
Ring Ring dir. Lucas Xavier Simes
Closing out the 2025 festival with a bang! This block of shorts features the kookiest, spookiest, striking, wildest, most unhinged films sent our way. This block hits different.
Ramy
Directed by: Pouyan Rostami
In the heart of a forest, a group of women carry a coffin on their shoulders, while a grieving woman follows them, wailing and crying out. Unmoved by her cries, the women proceed toward a cemetery, where…
Runtime: 10:02
Memoir
Directed by: Jordan Sommerlad
In a near future where memories can be relived, a man struggles to find closure.
Runtime: 6:48
Sif Saga’s Double Feature: Famous & Prayer
Directed by: Danica Jensen, Baldur Thor
Music Videos FAMOUS and PRAYER by artist Sif Saga
Runtime: 9:10
Accessories to a Crime
Directed by: Bretton A. Miller, Sebastian Russell, Pierce Ryan
A simple robbery goes wrong, as the thief must now learn to dispose of a body.
Runtime: 3:35
The New Raymond
Directed by: Joe Blaugrund
A burglar breaks into the home of two parents grieving the loss of their young son. The parents kidnap the burglar and force him to act like their deceased child. The strange thing is... the burglar grows to love their bizarre care and affection.
Runtime: 14:00
Whittled Down
Directed by: Olly Glenn
Carlisle has been trapped in this cabin for a long, long time. There are no doors, and the windows only open to an endless black void.
Runtime: 4:59
to lie in the grass is enough
Directed by: Grayson Duvall Wittenbarger
A desperate person waits for themself to show up.
Runtime: 8:40
The Ghost
Directed by: Allyson Morgan
A woman is ghosted by the man she's dating ...and then the haunting begins.
Runtime: 10:32
Softboy
Directed by: Tommy Meisel
A hopeless romantic goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure a first date is a success.
Runtime: 12:12
Ring Ring
Directed by: Lucas Xavier Simes
The simple mistake of tossing wedding rings into a trash compactor spirals into a fight for survival when the best man dives in after the rings and finds himself about to be crushed.
Runtime: 11:58