REALITY BITES

MORNING: YUKON RIVER

> Dir. Dan Sokolowski

> 3 mins | CANADA

The mist rises on the Yukon River.

Segment 30

> Dir. Tanner Masseth | 3 mins | USA Segment 30 updates Chris Marker's musings on arcade violence and catharsis to the realm of virtual reality games and pornography.

Public Surfaces

> Dir. Gillian Waldo

> 11 mins | USA

Through landscapes of Baltimore and depictions of its sculptures, the film explores the failures of modernism, the neglect of the school system, and asks who public art can really serve.

Staging Death

> Dir. Jan Soldat

> 8 mins | AUSTRIA

A document about death in movies, based on the countless deaths of Udo Kier, sampled from his over 350 cast tiles.

UNTITLED / UNFINISHED

> Dir. Matthew Victor Pastor

> 17 mins | AUSTRALIA

In an existential panic a film director makes a TikTok and goes viral with millions of views. Met with racial abuse & hate comments the experience causes him to reflect on the Asian Australian identity.