Extremely Shorts 2024 Program & Ballot Survey

Aurora Picture Show's 27th annual Extremely Shorts Film Festival features adventurous short films (3 minutes or shorter) of all kinds. This year’s guest juror Lili Chin has selected 29 shorts from global submissions. Awards will be given to Audience and Juror choices. Vote for your favorites below (and be sure to hit "done" at the bottom of this page when you've finished)! Awards will be announced June 10 at Aurora's website.

Please pay what you can for this screening to support the festival and its presenting organization, Houston-based non-profit media arts organization Aurora Picture Show.

1.PROGRAM
(Choose your favorite 2 films for Audience Choice Award)

The #1 Movie In America (Taylor's Version) David Wightman and Jacob Ciocci (2023, USA, 1:00)
A meditation on aging and music.

The Interloper Jeremy Newman (2021, USA, 3:00)
Documenting the unseen lives of frogs.

Island Jack Cronin (2023, USA, 2:40)
A film postcard from Isle Royale National Park.

Mountain Teymour Ghaderi (2023, Iran, 2:00)
The dream of a child laborer in a mountain range.

form Adam E. Stone (2024, USA, 2:45)
A poem film about physical and spiritual transmutation, crafted with archival footage and family and found photos.

APE (3.0) Allison Beda (2022, USA/Canada, 2:35)
A meditation on our relationship with the sea, the animals, and each other.

SafeTravelUSA Xingrong Qiao (2021, Netherlands/China, 1:15)
A collection of hundreds of images captured from safetravelusa.com between June and October, 2020.

Trailers for Unmade Films Sophio Medoidze (2009, Georgia, 1:15)
Fragments of the artist’s short fiction are read over images of Tbilisi suburbs.

Ka tatishtipatakanit (Ethereal) Isabelle Kanapé (2020, Canada, 2:40)
A poetic lesson about respect, in which a man spreads rumors about a local elder.

Snow Day Rollyn Stafford (2024, USA, 3:00)
Two strangers meet at the Oregon Holocaust Memorial and ask each other some unusual questions.

The Father of Trees Teymour Ghaderi (2023, Iran, 1:00)
A man collects plastic bottles in nature and waters trees.

Storm Surgery Matt Hotez & Rico Del Sesto (2023, USA, 2:50)
The Earth is rebelling against the carelessness of people.

unfounding Ellery Bryan (2024, USA, 1:05)
Shot in a former quarry, this Double 8 film is a meditation on being surrounded by extraction and burial.

LOOK Rezaur Rahman (2024, USA, 3:00)
An exercise in trauma, limbo, and introspection.

Ritual SpLaVCe: passage Christopher Blay (2024, USA, 2:15)
Referencing the artist’s Liberian Kru and Grebo ancestry, this film lives at the nexus of space/time and history.

Pripyat Horse Sally Pearce (2023, UK/Ukraine, 2:00)
The artist grieves for a recently lost friend, and for the Earth at a time of climate change and accelerating species extinction.

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace Rachel Efruss (2024, USA, 1:20)
A collage of analog, digital, and AI-generated imagery exploring nature, technology, and distorted realities.

Good Night Ren Lu (2023, China, 2:20)
An experimental animation imitating features of Chinese ink painting, inspired by anxiety and helplessness during COVID.

Sürgünlik (Exile) Jeremiah Dickey (2024, USA, 2:15)
The plight of a single mother and her children during the Soviet purge of Crimean Tatars at the end of WWII.

RACER Dawid Konopka (2023, Poland, 2:50)
The memory of a racing game spurs a reflection on the effects and limits of human agency.

A Trading Card Film Tommy Becker (2023, USA, 3:00)
The pairing of soundtracks with trading cards found at a flea market.

SMOKES Marcelese Cooper (2023, USA, 2:10)
A teen receives a cosmic gift and decides to keep on giving.

Demon’s Day Out Eleanor Hauck (2024, USA, 1:25)
A pack of demons travel the world causing chaos in this Monty Python-inspired cutout film.

Parangolé Abinadi Meza (2023, USA, 3:00)
A handmade film using reclaimed pigments and processes including contact printing, scratching, peeling, spraying, and staining.

where is he now? Punnawat Vitoorapakorn (2023, Thailand, 1:40)
This video explores how one's true nature can be revealed through randomness—in actions, in noises, or even in editing.

This is Not My Farewell Rafael Elorza (2023, USA, 1:45)
A man reflects on the great love he had with his late wife while he nears the end of his own life.

Diary Film #2—No Nothing Cinema Dominic Angerame (2024, USA, 1:40)
Dedicated to Dean Snider and “No Nothing Cinema,” one of the first micro cinemas in San Francisco.

Nervy Variety Kevin Valor (2024, USA, 1:20)
The collection of nervy objects, sounds, and movement.

Zap On John Dawson (2024, USA, 1:30)
A handmade film, created by drawing, painting and scratching directly onto 16mm film stock.

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