SHORTS: THE FUTURE IS FEMALE

SHORTS: THE FUTURE IS FEMALE

UltraStar Mission Valley
Sunday, November 6, 2016 1:00 pm

Description

From requiems to ghosts, absurdist tears, revolutionary dance drama, and testicular crystal balls, some of this year’s most exciting shorts just happen to be made by women.

In This Program

TEARS OF ZHANG YIMOU

Jiayu Wang / USA / 2016 / 3 mins
Better than Laughing While Eating Salad is this non-stop stream of ferocious tears from the baddest women on film today.
BRUCE TAKES DRAGON TOWN

Emily Chao / Taiwan, USA / 2015 / 14 mins
Haunted by her uncle’s little-known Bruceploitation film, a filmmaker chases his phantom to Taiwan during the annual Ghost Festival.
GOLDEN GOLDEN

Erica Cho / USA / 2016 / 14 mins
Queer imaginations of the psychic kind in this charming bus ride with desire.
THE OLD

CHO Eun-young / South Korea / 2016 / 22 mins
A teenager and silent grandmother share past trauma and hopes for redemption.
B00

Teresa Lu / USA / 2015 / 15 mins
A study in love’s deepest well. All a girl's got is her brother, until one Halloween night when an eight-year-old’s devastating loss morphs into retribution.
BISONHEAD

Elizabeth Lo / USA / 2016 / 9 mins
A riveting road trip from Montana to Yellowstone with a group of Ponderai Native Americans exercising their federal rights to kill bison at Yellowstone National Park.
SALOME V.

Frieda Luk / Canada, USA / 2016 / 11 mins
It might take one last dance-off for this old legend to break ties with underground radicals.