TWO BLACK COFFEES

Michael Daniele Driscoll

Things go awry when a woman tries to escape from her domineering husband to run away with her secret lover.

SHORT | CZECH REPUBLIC| Texas Premiere, 8 mins.

AARON

Aaron, a young man, returns home after a failed suicide attempt. There he meets his family and eventually co-workers who show concern and ask questions regarding his absence. Nevertheless, Aaron continues on his original trajectory.

Aviva Neuman

SHORT | USA | Texas Premiere, 12mins.

ODE TO JOY

The elderly residents of a Houston retirement home make the best of their remaining days by playing in a kazoo band.

Michael Koshkin

SHORT DOC | USA | Texas Premiere, 12mins.

BODIES OF WATER

Marsh is 24 years old, and he struggles with a tormenting secret. Feeling disconnected human relationships others take for granted, Marsh treads water in the often painful doldrums of everyday life. One evening, a spark ignites Marsh's imagination of what could be and he embarks on a very private quest.

David Lykes Keenan

SHORT | USA | West Texas Premiere, 14mins.

LET'S TALK

Chris Andrews walked 3,200 miles across the United States to research the effects of digital overuse on our wellbeing. His spiritual and social journey challenges Americans to reimagine their relationship with technology and find balance in the digital age. This film meets Chris in Joshua Tree National park after 2,900 miles on the road. His message is simple: what is at stake is a connection to ourselves, to the people around us, and to the world we live in.

Rachel Klein

SHORT DOC | USA |USA Premiere, 8mins.

GREAT WIDE OPEN

Over the course of a single day, two brothers debate an anything but simple question: 'what are we all doing this for?' In the end, the debate may be far more one-sided than it seems. A story about the oldest question we've got, and the fact that stories of life and death are always clichés: they can only end one of two ways.

Jamie Effros and Paul Bomba

 SHORT | World Premiere, 12mins.

HUMAN SUN

A spiritual teacher is having a mental breakdown—and it’s showtime. His only hope comes from an unassuming source.

Carl Bird McLaughlin

 SHORT | USA | World Premiere, 13mins.

HEARTSTRUCK (WILD HUNGER) - HAMILTON LEITHAUSER

Music video shot in Marfa for Hamilton Leithauser featuring many locals. “This song is about catching yourself off guard when an emotion hits a little harder than you were ready for. It’s a desperate and funny situation. The desperation can be a little bit ridiculous, which can be a little bit funny, but it’s also desperate, so it’s agonizing. I thought “Wild Hunger” should be delivered with huge passion and energy, and I needed a fierce and booming voice as a counterbalance.

The Simonites

MUSIC VIDEO | 3mins.

DER DUNKLE REIGEN

In the turmoil after the First World War, young Agnes and her mentor Jadwiga reach an isolated, Austrian village. Although they are initially rejected and denounced by the villagers, the two curative women help with their medical knowledge. They heal the blindness of Frieda, the sacristan's daughter. In the process Frieda and Agnes get closer. So close that the village won't accept the sacrilege. In the fight for respect, morals and social norms, everyone loses in the end.

Dominik Bücheler

SHORT | AUSTRIA | 29mins.

Marfa Film Festival will honor the work of multimedia female artist Jessica Mitrani, a Colombian-born, New York–based artist whose work traverses a range of media, including performance, theater, objects, and film. 

Jessica Mitrani’s provocative explorations into female subjectivity are deeply invested in notions of desire as both an agency exercised by women and as a social apparatus that suspends women’s potential by delimiting them as objects. Her amusing acts, often expressed in an affective range that is excessive, absurd, and melodramatic, recontextualizes and reconfigures quotidian gestures, scenes, and objects in a magical realist realm that is nothing short of fantastical.

The program will open with a very special screening of selected short films and followed by a conversation with the artist.

WHITESANDS

Inspired by true events, Whitesands tells the story of a young runaway who arrives in a remote, coastal town motel, where the eccentric purveyor watches the clientele from a secret attic.

Robert Frantzeskos

 SHORT | AUSTRALIA | 15mins.

HASHTAG PERFECT LIFE

Maddie Applegate is harassed online, at home, publicly shamed, and ostracized in her community. In a last ditch attempt to tell her side of the story, she goes on the T.V. show, Straight Talk with Todd Gacc, in an attempt to clear her name. When Todd starts to dig further, the real reason for Maddie’s turmoil becomes apparent. Hashtag Perfect Life is a satirical look at our current American mood.

Mike Paulucci

SHORT | Texas Premiere, 12mins.

PSYCHIC

BENJI is funny but her stand-up is painful. Like it's literally just speaking her pain out loud in front of audiences who don’t care to listen. Her friend LAUREN, a former-physicist, reminds Benji that success is a matter of statistics; and free will is an illusion. When a visit to a PSYCHIC takes an unexpected turn, Benji decides what kind of gamble she's willing to risk to get rid of what's inside her.

Dana Sorman

SHORT | USA | World Premiere, 13mins.

JESSICA JESSICA

Filmcoop presents, Jessica Jessica same name, same problems. The story of two friends in their late 30’s who aren’t married, aren’t mothers, aren’t failures, and are both named Jessica.

Jasper Savage

SHORT | CANADA | 13mins.

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FILL YOUR HEART WITH FRENCH FRIES

"Fill your Heart with French Fries" is a short sad comedy about a woman who gets dumped by her girlfriend at a fast food joint, and, too sad to go home, just stays there for a week.

Tamar Glezerman

SHORT | USA |Texas Premiere, 20mins.

PINK LEMONADE

A night of casual living room drug use leaves two childhood friends confronting the fate of their friendship.

Christian Sprenger

SHORT | Texas Premiere, 16mins.

ONE EYE SMALL

One Eye Small follows Eleanore and Irene, two women in the midst of personal crises, who are brought together by fate and decide to keep each other company during a night out in the city. In a way that is characteristic of a night in NYC, they encounter a slew of hilarious psychos, throughout their journey, who poke and prod them. As brave, eccentric Eleanore takes the reigns and lures Irene, the victimized crab, out of her shell, the lines of attraction and friendship blur. Just like the characters themselves, the film walks a fine line between reality and the absurd.

Jane Stiles

 SHORT | USA | 9mins.

SEXXY DANCER

A woman down on her luck gets a lift when a friend loans her Sexxy Dancer for the week.

Jessica Makinson

SHORT | USA | World Premiere, 6mins.

MATA LAYA PATA

An underachiever named Tracy takes part in a bizarre self-help program. Will she succeed?

Kevin Vu

 SHORT | USA | Texas Premiere, 12mins.

SWEET 16

When you dont die..... twice.

Tina Rivera

TRAILER | USA | 2mins.

DESSERT-DISASTER

A found footage work which compares the parallel cinematic language of dessert commercials with that of ‘disaster porn’ found in the news and on the Internet. The sound, pulled from pedestrian-produced videos of demolitions, disasters, and storms, expresses the contradictions of the contemporary crowd; its insatiable appetite for destruction and arousal; its inattention, its inability to look away; its anxiety and its ecstasy.

Alison Nguyen

SHORT | USA | Texas Premiere, 4mins.

MARFA

A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the night sky. A mecca for lovers of minimalist art. A landscape of lost horses, freaks and food trucks. And then there’s the giant lemon.

Greg McLeod and Myles McLeod

SHORT | UK | 9mins

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