Schedule of Events:
4:00pm: SHORTS: Modern Problems
SINGLE MALT
Over the course of one night, a new father goes through a drunken crisis of masculinity
LOSING IT
A thirty-year-old woman comes up with the perfect plan to lose her virginity on a one-night stand.
GOLDEN CHILD
A young woman is reunited with her childhood friend at a pool party and reckons with the fact that he used to pee on her when they were kids.
[SUBTEXT]
Two people on a first date mask and ignore their insecurities until an event forces them to say what they”re really thinking.
5 A.M.
One night, Barry, a lonely, non-speaking coroner discovers a pair of magic glasses.
EGG TIMER
The question ”When are we gonna have kids?” ignites a panoply of surreal fears and fantasies as a mid-thirties married couple hunt for the answer while on a walk in Prospect Park.
CRISIS
When Chip receives his DNA test results in the mail, he discovers he is related to a family of billionaires and travels to ask them for $20.
DRAGON AGENT-WRECKERS OF BOSTON
Two brothers from Boston try using Ai to replace their agent.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Redfield Auditorium
5:30pm: Agua Sala (Salt Water)
After 20 years, Jacobo reconnects with José Luis, the priest who scarred his childhood. His heart now harbors conflicting feelings of resentment, lust and affection.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Meigs Room at Swope Center
5:30pm: SHORTS: Decisions Decisions
DÉRIVE
Guided by posthumous instructions, a reclusive book publisher embarks on a Surrealist odyssey across New York City.
SCRATCH-OFF
A home healthcare worker steals her dementia patient’s winning scratch-off lottery ticket.
UNTIL HE’S BACK
After learning that his son, Yahya, has died at sea trying to get to Spain, Ahmed Tchiche must find a way to get his son’s remains back home to Morocco so he and his family can have a proper goodbye.
THE HEART OF TEXAS
An aspiring country singer on her way to a life changing audition collides with an undocumented worker who refuses medical care. The two engage in a struggle, each in pursuit of their own American dreams.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Falmouth Academy - Simon Center
6:15pm: The Wonder and the Worry
Chris Johns made some of the the most recognizable pictures of our time. He’s the only field photographer to rise through the ranks of National Geographic to become Editor-In-Chief, heading the world’s most iconic magazine during a period of industry disruption, digital transformation and ecological crises. After spending a career as a journalist walking the tightrope between worry and wonder, he’s now being shadowed by a visual artist with her own distinct ethos. His daughter Louise Johns, who picked up a camera as a child during her father’s last field assignment, is shaping her own photography vision one image at a time.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Redfield Auditorium
8:00pm: Egghead & Twinkie
After awkwardly coming out to her conservative parents, Asian-American teen, Twinkie, convinces her BFF Egghead to come along on a cross-country road trip to meet her online crush at a big lesbian dance party in Texas. Unfortunately, Egghead has no idea what he’s being roped into, and he just confessed his long-hidden feelings for Twinkie with disastrous results.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Meigs Room at Swope Center
8:00pm: First We Bombed New Mexico
In July 1945, the US military detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb in White Sands, New Mexico, covering the soil and water with irradiated fallout and contaminating the land. The facts and consequences on the people have been concealed for decades, but inspirational Hispanic cancer survivor Tina Cordova has catalyzed a movement seeking justice and healthcare for the poisoned people of New Mexico still ignored by their government.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Falmouth Academy - Simon Center
8:30pm: Lost Nation
In 1775, a formerly enslaved couple faces obstacles as they seek to settle their homestead in the eastern hills of the territory now known as Vermont. Forty miles west, rebel instigator and land speculator Ethan Allen plots to drive out New York landlords who seek to impose their rule.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Redfield Auditorium
10:00pm: Wednesday Night Party
Wednesday Night Party at the Captain Kidd, featuring music by Liam and Johnny: Guitar-slingin’, harmony-singin’, vibe-bringin’ hombres. Their wheelhouse is the classic Americana, country-rock and folk-rock songbook of the 60’s & 70’s.
Parties are open to those 21+ only
Cost: $10.00
Location: The Captain Kidd
