Gritty lo-fi comedy, panoramic splendor, 16mm horror, and inappropriate instructional video! Buckle your eyeballs into your head and get ready for the kaleidoscopic array of visions hitting the screen at BUFF25’s Sunday afternoon shorts block!

BUFF has brought together films from across the country, up into Canada, and over to Switzerland for Must Have Got Lost: A feel-good tour of what’s hot right now in the world of self-doubt, dissociation, loss, and loneliness.

Ride alongside an introspective surfer. Hear the world in a way it should never be heard. Love a friend for who they are and not who you want them to be. Get dirty to clean your dishes. Be careful what you summon. Be careful what you suppress. Consider the universe through the eyes of a painter and through the eyes of a donkey. Drink in the vast breadth of cinematic expression and all the feelings you find there.

– George Luke

Programmers: Melinda Green, George Luke, Kevin Monahan

NADIR: A documentary about surfing in Newport, Rhode Island in the summer and most of the other times as well
Jack Galvin, USA, 18 min.
A director’s surfing documentary spirals into dramatic reenactments and shady schemes as he grapples with his anxieties over riding the waves that are “a little bigger than we are comfortable with.”

The Audacity
Desmond Spranklin, USA, 9 min.
A college student fears for his sanity when he begins hearing things. The same things as before, but not the same.

Good Boy
Colin Russell , USA, 18 min.
Still grieving the loss of his beloved dog, a solitary widower questions his hasty decision to take in a new best friend.

How to Clean the Dishes
Benjamin Thomae, Canada, 5 min.
You need to be told how to clean all these naughty dishes.

Rabbit
Nathan Catucci, USA, 2 min.
A fragmented nightmare of an unfortunate summoning.

Belly Belly
Gabriel Carnick, USA, 12 min.
Alex and Alyssa’s suppressed urges are pushed to the breaking point on a dinner date that spills over into Alex’s kitchen.

perfectly a strangeness
Alison McAlpine, USA, 15 min.
While its lenses point to the heavens, a mountaintop observatory is visited by three travelers from below.

Macula
Julietta Korbel, Switzerland, 17 min.
Hanna searches her late grandfather’s studio for a lost painting. The search is interrupted when a presumptuous neighborhood boy invites himself in.

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