Shorts #4: Got a Hold on Me
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Shorts #4: Got a Hold on Me
Brace yourself. The films in this program are not concerned with comforting you; they’re here to grab you by the throat and shake all your preconceptions loose. It’s a daunting task, but if you can open your mind and put yourself in a vulnerable space, you might find yourself changed on the other side. Are you ready to see this world in a new way?
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Shorts #4: “Got a Hold on Me”
She’s Clean
Directed by: Jenn Harris
USA, 2023, 15m
Jenn Harris (“Island Queen,” FFF 2020) writes, directs, and stars in this achingly personal story of a woman who chooses to share her most intimate space—her bathroom—with her lovers, exposing herself to a plenitude of reactions.
Shorts #4: “Got a Hold on Me”
Tender
Directed by: Samm Hodges
USA, 2023, 17m
When his mother’s boyfriend flies into an irrational rage, a sensitive teen is presented with an opportunity to decide what kind of man he wants to be.
Shorts #4: “Got a Hold on Me”
Edvard Takes a Lover
Directed by: Tom E. Brown
USA, 2022, 4m
Stricken by his isolation, an aging loner is inspired by a famous movie to look for companionship from an improbable partner in this new film from FFF award-winning director Tom E. Brown (Pushing Dead, 2017).
Shorts #4: “Got a Hold on Me”
Play This at My Funeral
Directed by: Ray Smiling
USA, 2022, 8m
A mixtape of three quick-moving tales from NYC, threaded together by the foundational importance of music in everyone’s lives.
Shorts #4: “Got a Hold on Me”
Mahogany Drive
Directed by: Jerah Milligan
USA, 2023, 13m
Three Black men struggle (with varying degrees of success) to maintain their composure as dead white women begin to mysteriously pile up on the floor of their Airbnb in this outlandish horror-comedy.
Shorts #4: “Got a Hold on Me”
Lollygag
Directed by: Tij D’oyen
USA, 2022, 10m
In Greek with English subtitles
A young woman watches, with a complicated sort of envy, as the sexy bisexual boy next door lounges by his pool, taking lover after lover, and living a sensual life devoid of inhibition.
Shorts #4: “Got a Hold on Me”
Write a Song about Heartache
Directed by: Jonny Look
USA, 2023, 13m
Desperate to get back into the limelight, a has-been country-western singer (Whitmer Thomas, The Civil Dead, FFF 2022) browbeats his captive muse to write a new hit song.
Shorts #4: “Got a Hold on Me”
Run Amok
Directed by: Nitzan Mager
USA, 2023, 12m
In the wake of a tragedy, a precocious student composes a musical drama, centered on her harp, to memorialize the fallen, but her school’s administrators balk at the content.