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BIFF Shorts: Time Stands Still

Virtual Screening

October 7-11, 2021

BIFF Shorts: Time Stands Still

A series of shorts making sense of the last year. 116 minutes.

Time Time Ki Baat (A Matter Of Time)

Abhiiruchi Lovel Risshi (Dir), 18 minutes, India, US Premiere

On the anniversary of her husband’s death Neeta (Supriya Pathak) goes in search of a mechanic for his well worn wrist watch, what she finds is the original watchmaker.


Chokablok

Cameron Carver (Dir), 19 minutes, UK, NY Premiere

Playful, neurotic, and existential; Chokablok is a surreal exploration of our obsession with achievement and the perpetual anxiety of trying to keep up, as seen through the eyes of a Chase (David Coomber) who always feels like he’s falling behind.


Faith

Carol Butrón (Dir), 19 minutes, Spain, WNY Premiere

Haunted by the memory of a missing childhood friend, Teresa (writer/director Carol Butrón) searches in an alternative dimension for him.


Disappearing Pathways

Michael Covello & Elizabeth Schneider (Dir), 13 minutes, USA, WNY Premiere

Narrated by Ian Ross, this evocative animated drama explores the emotional baggage inherited through family, genetics and upbringing as we collectively strive to maintain traditions while embracing individuality.


Lilies

Joni Renee Whitworth (Dir), 9 minutes, USA, NY Premiere

In quarantine, the personal and the political collide and comingle, forcing one woman to interrogate birth, becoming, class, femme health, and gay sufficiency against a backdrop of farm simulator games, archival agricultural footage, intimate b-roll, domestic scenes, and psychedelic abstractions.


What If?

Katia Shannon (Dir), 15 minutes, UK, NY Premiere

At each step, Elena’s (Izabella Malewska) agoraphobia reinforces her sense of mortality but, as anxiety spreads around her like wildfire, she finally sees a way out in this compelling and mysterious drama.


Ships in the Night

Katherine Bourne Taylor (Dir), 12 minutes, USA, NY Premiere

To combat her growing isolation in the time of COVID and her strained relationship with her sister, Christan (writer/director Katherine Bourne Taylor) turns to an online fandom community and begins writing fanfiction about the characters she is fixated on.


Tornado Lake

Tiffany Deater (Dir), 11 minutes, USA, World Premiere

This video essay merges the philosophical and scientific through its exploration of our relationship to insects and “undesirable” animals.


Watch the filmmaker Q+A with Katherine Bourne Taylor, Tiffany Deater, Michael Covello + Elizabeth Schneider here!

Time Time Ki Baat (A Matter Of Time)
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Time Time Ki Baat (A Matter Of Time)

Directed by:

Abhiiruchi Lovel Risshi

Video from

Chokablok

Directed by:

Cameron Carver

Video from

Faith

Directed by:

Carol Butrón

Disappearing Pathways
Still from

Disappearing Pathways

Directed by:

Michael Covello + Elizabeth Schneider

Lilies
Still from

Lilies

Directed by:

Joni Renee Whitworth

What If?
Still from

What If?

Directed by:

Katia Shannon

Ships in the Night
Still from

Ships in the Night

Directed by:

Katherine Bourne Taylor

Tornado Lake
Still from

Tornado Lake

Directed by:

Tiffany Deater

October 7-11, 2021

Chokablok

🎥 Dir by @camcarv

Playful, neurotic, and existential; a surreal exploration the perpetual anxiety of trying to keep up, as seen through the eyes of a Chase who always feels like he’s falling behind.

🎟 Rent + Watch Online with #BIFF21 Shorts: Time Stands Still

— BIFF 2022 | Buffalo Int’l Film Festival (@BuffaloFilmFest) September 25, 2021

Faith

🎥 Dir by @carolbutron_

Haunted by the memory of a missing childhood friend, Teresa (writer/director Carol Butrón) searches in an alternative dimension for him.

Screening with #BIFF21 Shorts: Time Stands Still

🎟 Rent + Watch Online pic.twitter.com/XFuFhaHn7x

— BIFF 2022 | Buffalo Int’l Film Festival (@BuffaloFilmFest) September 30, 2021

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