{"id":26488,"date":"2017-10-03T01:07:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T05:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26488"},"modified":"2017-10-03T02:05:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:05:29","slug":"the-shorts-of-philadelphia-unnamed-film-festival-2017-philadelphia-unnamed-film-festival-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/the-shorts-of-philadelphia-unnamed-film-festival-2017-philadelphia-unnamed-film-festival-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shorts of Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival 2017 [Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival 2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The staff at Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival makes a great effort to bring all kinds of horrific, kooky, and fun shorts to their fest.\u00a0 The films chosen are of a wide array and all different from each other.\u00a0 Here are a few shorts reviews for a few of these short films:<\/p>\n

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I’ve Got My Mind’s Eye Set on You: and Part of Me Knows What You’re Thinking (USA) (2017)
\n<\/strong>In writer\/director Samuel Valenti\u2019s short film, a woman afflicted with what looks like visions and paranoia tries to handle life and what comes at her as best she can.\u00a0 This short is created to have a strong effect on the viewer.\u00a0 The images overlay at times and are edited to be busy visually, to create a visual chaos.\u00a0 The sound design is invasive, even a bit too much at times, successfully adding an auditory chaos.\u00a0 These two aspects paired with the writing and acting creates one of those shorts that is effective, invasive, and disturbing and it works.\u00a0 The feeling this create is total discomfort, something along the line of what the lead is feeling with her visions and her situation.\u00a0 It\u2019s both complex and simple, but most importantly, it works.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Season\u2019s Greetings from Terriorate (USA) (2016)
\n<\/strong>In director Gonzalo Nosal\u2019s short, a young man answers letters from random people asking for help with a variety of problems.\u00a0 This short film is one of those that is very visually interesting, it feels almost like an old Twilight Zone meets Pee Wee meets general weirdness.\u00a0 The set and d\u00e9cor are super busy visually with all kinds of stuff crammed in all available nooks and crannies.\u00a0 It\u2019s all a lot to look at and visually busy, but it adds to the film\u2019s tone and feel.\u00a0 This feel is of general WTF-ness but is not annoying.\u00a0 It may be odd for the sake of odd but it\u2019s oddly charming and it works as a whole.\u00a0 It\u2019s also possibly the cutest credits design seen this year so far.<\/p>\n

Get Yourself Together, Mikey
\n<\/strong>A short without an IMDB page, one that seems to have come from left field but that is quite good.\u00a0 Here a man is hired to play a part in a student film solely because he looks like a famous local actor.\u00a0 As he goes to meet this actor to discuss things, life goes for the messed up.\u00a0 This short starts up low-key weird and slowly builds up the oddity before going full blown fucked up.\u00a0 The acting is good and the performances by the lead are great, giving him a chance to explore both sides of some of the situations he finds himself in.\u00a0 This leads to an odd watch, but it\u2019s fantastic to watch.\u00a0 It\u2019s shot well and keeps the visuals and audio simple to give the story plenty of room to work and give the actors the space and time they need within the confines of the short film format.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Signal to Noise (USA) (2017)
\n<\/strong>In this end of the world, political short film, writer\/director Jarret Blinkhorn builds a world eerily realistic and lets the viewer make their own mind as to what is really going on by not giving much away but showing just enough.\u00a0 The cast including Rob Pierce and Diana Porter adds to the mystery and odd situation unfolding helping the film pass a message that is not completely clear and very much left to interpretation.\u00a0 Each viewer will see what they want in it and interpret the film as they see fit.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the rest of the fest can be purchased at<\/strong> https:\/\/filmfreeway.com\/festival\/PhiladelphiaUnnamedFilmFestival\/tickets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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