Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival

A journey into the uncanny and strange.

The Morrigan | Directed by Colum Eastwood | 16 min. | Ireland, United Kingdom, 2014. East Coast premiere.
A young couple's remote holiday cottage comes under attack from malevolent forces when they give refuge to a mysterious young girl.

One Night in Hell | Directed by James Hall, Jason Jameson | 7 min. | United Kingdom, 2014. East Coast premiere. 
A devilish and spectacular animation short that tells the story of a skeleton's journey into a stereoscopic hell.

Mrs. K | Directed by Dongneok Seo | 14 min. | South Korea, 2015. East Coast premiere. 
Mrs. K, a 9 months pregnant thirty-something housewife, starts to suspect her wealthy husband of something sinister.

Silent Night | Directed by Nastassja Djalog | 11 min. | Australia, 2014. East Coast premiere. 
Carly is a nurse who works the evening shift at a clinic, preparing people for their syringe. All her patients are on government lists that have been classified as insignificant and superfluous to the needs of the city. The city is evolved and developed but we just came up with more sophisticated ways to determine who should live and who should die.

Teeth | Directed by Tom Brown, Daniel Gray | 6 min. | Hungary, USA, United Kingdom, 2015.
Things of worth are often neglected in favour of that which might be more immediately gratifying. Unfortunately, the things that are neglected are often lost forever, irreplaceable. This is the story of a man with a misguided and intense focus – one which started in his youth and carried on to old age. His life events are chronicled through the loss of his teeth – and how his obsessive efforts to amend what was damaged bring on yet further destruction.

Basilisk | Directed by Nikolai Hamel | 14 min. | United Kingdom, 2015
With the discovery of a conceptual virus that has the power to kill, three terrorists holed up in an underground layer debate the effectiveness of their discovery until one turns it against the other two.

What If | Directed by Riza-Rocco Avsar | 3 min. | Germany, 2015. East Coast premiere. 
We have learned to be the creators of our own lives in the decisions that we make, and often we take this for granted. The human mind bares the ability to think freely but what if, all of a sudden, we forfeit our ability to chose? 

Larry Gone Demon | Directed by Matt Lawrence | 14 min. | USA, 2014. 
A frenetic, punk-rock nightmare centering on one asshole of a roommate. 

After the End | Directed by Sam Southward | 11 min. | United Kingdom, 2015.
For René Fustercluck, life was bad, the Apocalypse was awful and then Gordon arrived. 'After the End' is the world's first post-apcolyptic rom-com that explores the possibility that the only thing worse than being the last man on earth, is being the second to last man on earth.

Cat Bird Coyote | Directed by Amy Raasch | 3 min. | USA, 2015. 
In a stark laboratory, a ruthless bird scientist's experiments cause a freak explosion, freeing one of his subjects. An abused cat escapes from her captor as a coyote digs through trash. Once free, the animals must not only fend for themselves, but face each other in the wild.