SHORTS: FOR THE TIME BEING

SHORTS: FOR THE TIME BEING

UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, November 5, 2016 4:05 pm

Description

Bus riders, convicts, daughters, and lovers caught in little moments that, in flashes of surprising clarity, define who they are and how they’ve been shaped.

In This Program

NIGHT OUT

Jeff Man / USA / 2016 / 10 mins
After a night out on the town, a girl is locked out of her friend's house and must figure out what to do until morning.
HOTEL 22

Elizabeth Lo / USA / 2015 / 9 mins
The only 24-hour bus in Silicon Valley transforms into a shelter for the homeless at night.
DEATH IN A DAY

Lin Wang / USA / 2016 / 14 mins
While his father is bedridden in a hospital and his mother copes with the looming shadow of death, a child’s attention strays elsewhere.
ANOTHER CITY

Pham Ngoc lan / Vietnam / 2016 / 24 mins
In the karaoke-room tropics, photography captures men and women in middle-age malaise, lovesickness, and pregnancy at those moments when hope recedes and togetherness becomes a disco-ball urban fantasy.
(ALMOST) FREEDOM

Puck Lo / USA / 2016 / 8 mins
A day walking in shoes with electronic monitoring devices.
A SUNNY DAY

Ying Liang / Hong Kong, Netherlands / 2016 / 25 mins
The Umbrella Movement in the background, a protestor visits her father for their weekly lunch, during which feelings about their past gently simmer to the surface.