Filmmakers Attending!
Feast your eyes and minds. Double Takes contains the most visually splendorous and, at times, most perplexing shorts of MSPIFF 2018.
Preschool Poets: Poem about All Different Things: An animation of a poem by a four year old named Samuel. (Also see This Might Shock You in Short: Art That Moves I)
Director(s): Nancy Kangas, Josh Kun | Runtime: 2 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English
Glucose: Inside the surreal dreamscape of a KO'd video game boxer.
Director(s): Jeron Braxton | Runtime: 13 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English
Botanica: An infertile garden-center employee swallows his pride.
Director(s): Noël Loozen | Runtime: 13 min | Country: Netherlands | 2017 | Dutch
Obscurer: A reclusive children’s author inhabits a fragile reality.
Director(s): Kiera Faber | Runtime: 19 min | Country: USA | 2018 | English
Cloud of Petals: Sixteen workers photograph 100,000 individual rose petals to map out an artificial intelligent algorithm that learns to generate new petals forever.
Director(s): Sarah Meyohas | Runtime: 31 min | Country: USA | 2017 | no dialogue
Tesla World Light, The: New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, the father of alternating current, makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor.
Director(s): Matthew Rankin | Runtime: 8 min | Country: Canada | 2017 | English