Event

Narrative Shorts: Sci-Fi/Thriller @ St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase

A collection of science fiction and thriller shorts directed by St. Louis natives and filmmakers with strong local connections. Shorts in multi-film programs are listed alphabetically, not in the order screened. All programs are at Washington Universitys Brown Hall Auditorium.

Narrative Shorts: Sci-Fi/Thriller
(95 min.)

Abducted Anonymous
Nathan Karimi, 23 min.
The rich and powerful exploit the temptations of seven men.

Breaking Cycles
Brent Butler, 10 min.
A robotics engineer re-creates his late wife only to realize he has made a huge mistake.

The Exchange Student
Nathan Bowman, 5 min.
In this third-place winner of the Cinema at Citygarden Competition, a middle-school student embarks on a journey that leads to self-reflection and a newfound appreciation of nature.

George
Jess Stamper, 2 min.
George is called into human resources, and all is revealed.

The Lines We Cross
Jake Thebeau, 13 min.
Three survivors must navigate a barren world.

Rabbits Foot
Dustin Carter, 16 min.
A mans dependency on a future device causes him to lose sight of reality.

The Shine
Tristian Montgomery, 4 min.
In this winner of the 2019 St. Louis Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival based on a poem by Kendra Allen a light shines brightly inside of black men, but certain forces fight hard to extinguish it.

Shipslog
Richard Taylor, 5 min.
Mitch Majors uses his spaceships video log to chronicle a 28-year voyage to the distant Proxima Centauri system.

The Stranger
Damon Davis, 17 min.
In this surrealist allegory to the American Diasporas return to the African continent, a stranger falls from the sky one day, in search of a castle and a Queen that was shown to him in his dream.