Jukebox – 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 9:00 PM
Pain In My Heart
Director: Daniel Schäfer, Music Video, Germany, 5 min
In a dystopic world, two adventurers start a hidden machine in order to leave a poisonous, yet beautiful planet.
Dell’Altro Mondo
Director: Delia Simonetti, Music Video, Italy, 7 Min
A group of friends experiences a collective hallucination after discovering an enchanted flower in their backyard.
Decomp Disco
Director: Russell Sheaffer, Experimental, USA, 5 min
Taking place entirely on Cybil’s Disco Jet, Decomp Disco places us in the midst of a disco-fueled quarrel between two women in 1978.
Meltdowns, Ohio
Director: Jay Marks, Music Video, USA, 5 min
A sprawling music video tribute to the many oddities of Ohio, featuring robots, pickles, and the Mothman on drums.
AJR – Maybe Man
Director: Edoardo Ranaboldo, Music Video, Croatia, 4 min
Animated music video for the band AJR from their album Maybe Man
Kaash Paige – Waterfalls
Director: Stefano Bertelli, Music Video, Italy, 3 min
A lonely woman sees her world fall apart
Suas
Director: Gareth Byrne, Music Video, Ireland, 4 min
A collaboration between filmmaker and performer leaning into the limitations of the camera itself.
Do Not Dance
Directors: Julian Quentin, Marie Heleen Samrotzki, Music Video, Germany, 7 min
High performer Mila loves her company. She just started her career and is highly motivated to give everything she has to prove herself. Only slowly, she realizes what she never wanted to see.
Land Lines
Director: Greg Gilpatrick, Music Video, USA, 4 min
The boardwalk under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is an analog place and one of the last spots in New York City that predates ever present communication, post-9/11 surveillance, untouched by Broken Windows Theory and the digital economy. But analog places can only last for so long until the digital creeps its way in.
Too Much
Director: Bobby Ross, Music Video, USA, 4 min
An anthem offering others the option to exit peacefully and positively, rather than forcing conformity to undesirable expectations. If you think I’m too much, maybe go find less?
Little Shrew (Snowflake)
Director: Kate Bush, Animation, UK, 4 min
A little shrew searches for Hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city. The film is being used as part of a fund raiser for the War Child charity.
The Cage
Director: Roxanne Gaucherand, Music Video, Belgium, 4 min
In the heart of a strange forest, a body lies on the ground, its torso pierced by a sword. In its trance to heal and stay alive, this magical, fluid organism revisits the memories of its organs and the rebellious, flamboyant individuals who have marked its life.
Lying in the Grass
Directors: Ryan J. Eilbeck, Rebekah Korenowsky, Music Video, USA, 4 min
Nothin’ but lying in the grass and dreaming.
Yanga
Directors: Amaury Barrera, Audrey del Piccolo, Music Video, Mexico, 9 min
A young woman embarks on a transformative journey along the Oaxacan coast, where the boundaries between dreams and reality blur.
When the Hawk Comes
Directors: Lilia Li-Mi-Yan, Katherina Sadovsky, Music Video, Armenia, 6 min
An Armenian lullaby are taken as a starting point to provide a poetic metaphor for what is happening in the world today.
Riding Day
Director: Michael Alexander Morris, Music Video, USA, 3 min
An exploration of the material qualities of celluloid film in ways that are analogous to gestures in electronic music.
Viramar
Directors: Patrick Hanser, Luigi Parisi, Music Video, Brazil, 6 min
A music video for Brazilian grunge band Bacará inspired by The Blair Witch Project.
Moral Support
Director: Vuk Jevremovic, Animation, Croatia, 4 min
Inspired by the music of the Slovenian band Laibach and the song ”Moral Support, the film evokes the decades of 20th century artistic movements.