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Into the Unknown: Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Shorts

  • 120 mins

In this program


Van

Directed by: Nicholas Berg | 11:10 mins

An experimental animated short about the struggle to find direction in life, VAN follows a lone vehicle navigating outside of its comfort zone. The journey is shaped by rhythm, pacing, metaphor, and atmosphere, unfolding primarily through observation rather than explanation. As the story finds meaning, it adjusts, becoming more direct in how it expresses itself to the viewer.

Chained

Directed by: Jacob Jarecki | 02:46 mins

A man engages in a struggle with his phone to leave his apartment.

BOOK OF SKIN

Directed by: Neil Kendricks | 10:00 mins

Surreal and provocative, artist-filmmaker Neil Kendricks experimental short film, “Book of Skin” reimagines the myth of Pygmalion with a gender-bending twist as an artist’s fantasies and nightmares expressed in her drawings suddenly appear as shape-shifting, phantasmagoric images on the body of an artist’s model during a life-drawing session. Inspired by the filmmaker’s observations teaching life-drawing classes, this unusual short film sets the bar high with the challenge of creating something that most viewers have never seen before: “Book of Skin” features actor-artists creating real drawings in real time while portraying fictional characters on camera in a scripted narrative. The film offers an intoxicating mixture of “cinema verite,” documentary style camerawork and surrealism. “Book of Skin” has won 12 awards – mostly for “Best Experimental Film” – on the international film-festival circuit so far.

The Path

Directed by: Patrick Guera | 00:06:46 mins

A child is stalked by a man on an isolated path.

Memoria Obscura

Directed by: Connor Ryan, David Christopher Nelson | 05:00 mins

In a world where memory erasure is a legitimate industry, the underground black market known as Memoria Obscura serves as a hub for stolen and repurposed memories.

RAVE

Directed by: Jimmy Gruss, Riley McMahon | 13:21 mins

A masked DJ slices and dices his way through an afterparty in the Hollywood Hills.

Aradia

Directed by: Richard Wilson | 07:27 mins

Aradia Directed by Richard Wilson A heartbroken woman tears a photograph in half and summons a demon to…

Apnea

Directed by: David C. Nelson | 7:54 mins

A sleep-deprived woman sets up a camcorder to record herself at night, hoping to prove something is visiting her, only to capture her own slow suffocation at the hands of an unknown entity.

It’s All For The Best

Directed by: Tom Gingell | 12:04 mins

Set 150 years in the future in a post climate change underground vault, impaired robots fight over hibernating humans’ future.

Nondecomposable

Directed by: Tobin Kincaid Carter | 05:00 mins

An angel informs a ghost she cannot pass on until her body decomposes, but not all is as it seems.

Dates & Times

Unknown Venue

November 13, 2026
7:00 pm