Empathy Fatigue

Alone in grieving the disappearance of her daughter 4 years prior, Venus makes a pilgrimage to see her estranged father after hearing him on public radio discussing a wormhole in the Pacific Ocean.

A lonely gay black man summons his soulmate through a DIY seance, only to manifest a straight white man from the 1970s –forcing both to confront the ache of love, memory, and the fluidity of identity across time.

Latine twentysomething, Gema, is forced to confront the looming threat of gentrification head-on — after having no choice but to let an overeager stranger move in or risk being evicted. The uneasy peace soon turns sinister, exposing her to something far more invasive.

A filmmaker's project begins to parallel the budding romance between two strangers as the three lives converge, interweaving with strange occurrences that blur the lines of reality's boundaries.

A digitally-addicted twentysomething experiences a literal moment of release in the middle of sex, realizing that the messiest moments in life might actually be the most revealing.

CONFLUENCE is a meditation on ancestry and identity through the diasporic lens of Asian American and queer experiences filmed during moonroom's 2019 PHASE, a showcase series celebrating Asian Pacific Islander and Desi American Heritage Month with underground events throughout Los Angeles and surrounding areas. This hypnotic mix of ethereal images and heartfelt, first-person testimonies explores the inner turmoil of being othered while persevering with creative expression, shattering both community and perceptual barriers.

An extreme clown collective takes us inside Los Angeles’ burgeoning underground clown scene for its final alley way performance, where grotesque spectacle, absurdity, and radical play become a strange antidote to an increasingly curated digital world.