Little Bird

Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls. As the paintings lock eyes across the room, an unspoken connection between them sets the stage for revolution. With a distinctive blend of live-action and animation, this short film by Evan Bode employs surreal metaphor to explore ideas about power, resistance, queer identity, visibility, and liberation from constructed borders.

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.

A Mini Market employee finds herself in a very terrifying situation: a robbery. This robbery is carried out by a man who, arguably, isn't the typical intimidating, burly robber we see in movies. Our protagonist doesn't fall for his games and threats, which leads to a very interesting resolution.

Armando, an energetic teen and son of a well-respected Sargent, accidentally commits a serious crime while playing a wild and dangerous game with his friends outside of the school campus. Now Armando will have to deal with the weight of his actions (literally).

Mary, an audacious fashion photographer, one day takes something that does not belong to her from a cemetery and experiences unnatural events afterward. She assumes that by returning the object to its original place, she can avoid these occurrences, but nothing goes as she imagined.