Cock Block – Shorts 2021

Saturday, 10/23, 9:15 PM

3 Sons
Director: Ed Sayers, Documentary, UK, 4 mins.
A documentary comedy exploration of my dad, me, and my son through golf and Super 8. Filmed on one roll of Super 8 with only in-camera edits.

Put a Stick in It
Director: Austin Kimmell, Animation, USA, 4 mins.
When his grandchildren are fighting in the yard, PopPop retells a story from his own childhood to teach them a lesson.

Exhibition
Director: Sylvia Borges, Narrative, Germany, 3 mins.
In the age of smartphones an exhibitionist struggles to get the attention he needs.

Pleasant Valley Drive In
Director: Brian Zahm, Experimental, USA, 10 mins.
Park your car under the stars and spend your evening at Pleasant Valley Drive In to watch “Summer Awakenings.” This coming-of-age film is radically altered when a projectionist-cum-cinematic saboteur splices in some not-so-subtle subtext via drive in movie advertisements.

Screener
Director: Pedro Florêncio, Experimental, Portugal, 9 mins.
“For now we see through a screen, darkly.”

Flex
Director: Josefin Malmen & David Strindberg, Narrative, Sweden, 4 mins.
He may be god enough, but is he… good enough?

Shuttlecock
Director: Tommy Gillard, Narrative, UK, 13 mins.
Carl is forced to confront his idea of masculinity when an obsession with a mysterious member of his badminton club spirals out of control.

Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves
Director: Chintis Lundgren, Animation, Croatia, 18 mins.
After losing a well paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family.

Class
Director: Enzo Cellucci & Ash McNair, Narrative, USA, 18 mins.
New student Max attends his first ever acting class. He soon discovers that the lines between class and cult begin to blur as he and his fellow students are subjected to the bizarre but brilliant methods of their eccentric teacher, Adam (David Krumholtz).

Chairs
Director: Avner Pincher, Experimental, Israel, 12 mins.
A man hurls chairs at a wall for 12 minutes in what seems to be a holy-rage attack. This expressive performance-for-camera fluctuates between satisfaction and futility while simultaneously creating compositions of destructive beauty. The work is part of Haaretz Art Collection, Tel Aviv and The Angel Collection of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.

Shooting Stars
Director: Magda Jaroszewicz, Experimental, Germany, 17 mins.
It’s a midnight song about masculinity, joy and rivalry. The starting point is an observation, through which I near a picture searching for stories, that ultimately emerge in one’s head. That night is a different one.