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Scary and Surreal Shorts

  • The Platform in Moore Hall at CMU 102 Moore Hall, Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI, 48858 United States (map)

A collection of short films engaging with horror or surrealist elements. Including:

A Boy Named Choo Choo (directed by Ethan Williams): A surreal black-and-white short film about a boy who serves as a human transit service in a dystopian world where people are turned into fleshy currency. After his handler steals his savings, Choo Choo seeks revenge . Bleak, and strange, the film explores exploitation, grief, and innocence in a world stripped of humanity. (14.5 minutes)

Hazelbeth (directed by Graham Hastings): An obsessive conductor prepares for his next concert as a mysterious object unravels his fate. (14.5 minutes)

Lenny’s Brother (directed by Jacen Daniel Januseski): After a call from his brother, a man embarks on a journey marked by surreal encounters and unexpected emotional revelations. (14 minutes)

Me.exe (directed by Matthew Stephen Williams): Rain, a struggling college esports player, enlists the help of an AI program designed to improve poor gaming performance — only to find that its intentions are far more sinister than she ever could have imagined. (22 minutes)

Nightjar (directed by Aaron Garcia): A psychological horror short about the horrors of losing oneself and the fears of mental health. We all will experience it eventually if we haven’t already. An online therapist comes across a mysterious young woman in one of his session. Failing to help, he becomes obsessed with who the girl was as his thoughts bleed into his own life. (25 minutes)

The Solution (directed by John Klein and Steve Kniss): A math professor, rejected over and over again for publication, finds herself supplanted by her genius-level teaching assistant, and resorts to drastic measures to re-assert her authority. (17 minutes)

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