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.

Close-up of a person's arm, with a towel draped over their shoulder, partially covering their skin that has freckles.

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

A man with a shaved head is outdoors, holding and smelling a white rabbit.

Memoir

Directed by: Jordan Sommerlad

In a near future where memories can be relived, a man struggles to find closure.

Runtime: 6:48

A person with long dark hair lying on a textured dark carpet, looking up with tears on their face, wearing a choker necklace, colorful makeup, and a red fishnet top. The photo has neon and colored lighting effects.

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

Inside a red shopping basket with various items including a container of mixed nuts, a black marker, a pamphlet, and a pen, with store shelves in the background.

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

A dark scene with colorful star-shaped light projections in red, green, blue, and purple, creating a festive atmosphere.

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

Cartoon character with glasses and green jacket sitting by a cozy fireplace, surrounded by wooden bear-shaped sculptures.

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

A man with a beard lying on his back on a messy bed with gray sheets, wearing a green t-shirt and black shorts, looking up. The bed has a wooden headboard and is next to a wooden nightstand with some candy on it, against wooden-paneled walls.

Directed by: Grayson Duvall Wittenbarger

A desperate person waits for themself to show up.

Runtime: 8:40

A woman lies in bed, partially covered with a pink blanket, looking toward the camera, in a bedroom with floral patterned headboard and soft natural light.

The Ghost

Directed by: Allyson Morgan

A woman is ghosted by the man she's dating ...and then the haunting begins.

Runtime: 10:32

An elderly man with gray hair and a gray beard looking shocked or surprised while talking to another person, partly visible, in a dimly lit outdoors setting.

Softboy

Directed by: Tommy Meisel

A hopeless romantic goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure a first date is a success.

Runtime: 12:12

A person standing in front of a large, illuminated, rusty metal door with garbage and debris scattered on the ground.

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