O-Hi-O – 2026

Thursday, April 16, 9:00 PM

Moonwalking On The Clock
Director: Nick Tyler Butkowski, Experimental, USA, 4 min
While clocked in and with more free time than they know what to do with, a twenty-something worker learns to moonwalk and begins to analyze their current situation with a sardonic haze of overthinking.

Origins
Directors: Maria Gian, Miranda Salvia, Experimental, USA, 2 min
An experimental exploration of fear, repression, and identity. Origins dissects how we enter this world and the expectations placed on us as we grow.

Cut From A Different Cloth
Director: David Oyuke, Documentary, USA, 5 min
The journey of one black female barber in Athens Ohio who against all odds, picked up the trade and joined a hallowed list of many before her.

To Be Pretty
Director: Faith Louise Jackson, Experimental, USA, 6 min
A young girl struggles with her self-image after being confronted by her own insecurities.

Malvin
Director: Benvindo Pereira, Documentary, USA, 13 min
A midwestern art-maker, and a true spirit of an older, weirder America invites audiences into his home.

The Nocturnal Horse
Director: Elisabeth Ross, Animation, USA, 8 min
Ruby escapes her sad reality through comforting dreams of a wise horse.

Body of Water
Director: Jules Biller, Experimental, USA, 3 min
Water in the body (piss, spit, blood, tears) re-animated to the pulse of queer life and death, fact and fiction.

Emma’s World!
Director: Megan Riley Young, Narrative, USA, 10 min
Emma, who lives in a small boring town, writes about her life and inner thoughts in her diary.

Open Mic
Director: Caden Layne, Experimental, USA, 6 min
An event send Harper into an existential state of mind, where she can’t help but think about who she is, and how much control she really has over her life.

Lucas + Claire
Director: Elliot V Lanzer, Narrative, USA, 13 min
A man who is unable to hear must find a way to inspire his musician girlfriend, who has lost her passion for music.

La Esperanza
Director: Javier Cruz-Ginez, Documentary, Mexico, USA, 16 min
Told through archival footage and candid conversations, a Mexican immigrant family reflects on the border that has kept them apart for 25 years.

Grace
Director: Sydney Swihart, Narrative, USA, 30 min
After being sexually assaulted, a college student seeking to regain control decides to interview her attacker for her documentary, in exchange for not pressing charges.