DFF Short Film Series

Enjoy the best in short film from the Driftless Area and beyond with this year’s DFF Short Film Series.

This year’s short film series lineup includes (subject to change):

🎥 About Time (14m) — After a year apart, two ex-lovers reunite and struggle to connect until an edible spurs an emotional night of dredging up past hurts and self-discoveries.

🎥 Mammoth (14m) — A fragile young woman takes her lifelike doll out in public for the first time, but a visit to the natural history museum triggers a dark childhood memory, forcing her to confront reality and let go.

🎥 Lucid (13m) — When a narcoleptic musician decides to go off her medication, her dreams become a dangerous source of inspiration as her cataplectic fainting attacks offer new musical possibilities. Q&A

🎥 Cup of Wallace (11m) — Three characters attempt to outsmart and outrun each other as they vie for the most precious artifact in all of human history…the cup of Wallace.

🎥 The J.O.A.T. Suit (9m) — When a lowly custodian at a spy facility gets his hands on the secret agent suit that can do everything, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a highly dangerous mission.

🎥 Static (8m) — Three friends discover a tape recorder that talks back if you repeat a phrase into it. When one of the friends says the phrase, they realize they might have invited something out into their world. Q&A

🎥 The Tillie Diffely Experience (6m) — An unskilled but fiercely optimistic dancer finally gets her big break, only to discover that the stage holds stranger things than just stage fright.

🎥 Step One (7m) — A woman makes the first step towards recovery from addiction.

🎥 RGBelieve (7m) — A person who lives in an empty world is entranced into trying something new, which when snapped creates a colorful environment unlike they’ve ever seen. Q&A

🎥 Good Neighbors Care (4m) — Corporate promises of community care and pure water dissolve as rivers and bodies merge in a meditation on what it means to exist in an imperfect environment.

🎥 Big Steps (14m) — A disillusioned office worker endures a lonely and mundane existence until he starts seeing visions of Bigfoot.

🎥 Timun Mas (11m) — A quirky retelling of a Javanese folktale by the 4th and 5th grade students of Crestwood Elementary School in Madison. Q&A

🎥 Embodied (8m) — A meditative exploration of the life and philosophy of collaborative dance artist Margaret Sunghe Paek, where the boundary between movement and everyday life dissolves.

🎥 Jane Wilcoxson: I Am An Artist (6m) — The owner of a Mineral Point Art shop, shares her personal journey into a universe of creative expression.

🎥 Té de Pasiflora (8m) — A collaboration between dancer Cuauhtli Ramirez Castro and filmmaker Tate Bunker for the dance program Dance for Diversity at DanceWorks in Milwaukee.