NEW SHORTS: WTF
HAPPINESS - AN ALIEN CONCEPT, dir. Cheryl Bayliss
It wouldn’t be an LSFF without our annual smorgasbord of deranged cinematic oddities, dreamt up by some of short film’s most brilliant(-ly perverse) minds working today.
This year, expect mutant bacteria, Microsoft Paint, chicken-loving despots, Magic-8 balls, and a really very annoying horse.
Programmed by Philip Ilson. 77'
This programme contains gore, nudity and some generally disturbing content.
DADDY'S NOTE
After battling their consciences, two moronic drug dealers serve up to a politically connected, obnoxious public schoolboy.
WALNUT MEN
A domestic argument unfolds when Jensy's boyfriend rolls home late and drunk and with a giant walnut for a head.
MERCURY'S RETROGRADE
A millennial is relying on her Magic 8 ball to make sense of a chaotic life. A satire about a never ending quest towards self realisation, self improvement, and life answers.
MODO CRASTICOT
A content moderator works via her cell phone in a bar. While she moderates the darker corners of the web, she also needs to repel some annoying real life characters.
CRY BABY CRY
A man cries at the butchers.
NOD. WINK. HORSE.
A film behind a horse. Obscuring the narrative. Self sabotage.
WHARTON'S CHERRY JELLY
In a fantastical uterine environment, we witness the birth of a weird creature whose life begins floating in a primordial soup and continues its development into a complex organism that hopes to become human.
HAPPINESS - AN ALIEN CONCEPT
An oddball couple desperate for fulfilment have their mundane existence invaded by an unexpected new arrival.
THE STORK
Three babies wait for the stork to take them away.
EATING SPAGHETTI
Two men enjoying a bowl of spaghetti.
THISISHOWTHEWORLDENDS
For a good amount of money, a company offers the chance to become part of a virtual reality to escape mid-pandemic Earth. We follow Ana, who decides to become digitalised alongside her identity, memories and friends.
THE CATALYST
A young man thrust into a strange journey.
MY FAVE EFFING SHOW
A MS Paint fever dream of bingewatching trash online.
IN IT TOGETHER
A poetic look at the violent dance between lovers entangled in an unhealthy relationship.
DIVISION SERIES
Prime Minister Abe goes into KFC to find them sold out. At the next table, presidents from various countries start playing cards to win the last chicken basket.