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COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN

Thursday | September 19 | 3pm

Everything Mattress • Something Like Loneliness • The Phantom • 40 Minutes Over Maui • Coda

Communication is the key to relationships, but what happens when that communication breaks down?  That’s the question that’s asked in this collection of shorts that varies from quirky to touching to lonely to laugh-out-loud. Contains adult themes and sexual innuendo.
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Everything Mattress | 13m
Director: Chase Joliet
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David and Sara need a new mattress.

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Something Like Loneliness | 13m
Director: Seth Epstein, Ben Epstein
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Upstairs-downstairs neighbors barter sounds captured in food storage containers. With the sounds come fragments of past relationships and the hopes and disappointments that remain.


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The Phantom | 52m
Director: Geoff Marslett
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Loneliness is a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes; a ghost that haunts the deserted highways; and a whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.

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40 Minutes Over Maui | 13m
Director: Michael Feld, Josh Covitt
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For 40 minutes on January 13, 2018, the fate of the world hung in the balance, for Larry and Penny... their Hawaiian vacation was ruined.

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Coda | 24m
Director: Erika Davis-Marsh
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A young dancer struggles with her bi-cultural identity when she meets a confident young Deaf drummer who stirs up old conflicted feelings about growing up hearing in a Deaf family.
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