If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula: A Michigan Shorts Program

Powerful Solutions by DarrenCorp: Crisis Resolution

8:00 PM, Friday, 10/6, Zeitgeist Zinema 1
*Multiple filmmakers in attendance

Unemployees - Directed by Joel Potrykus
Two recent college graduates enter the work field seeking gainful unemployment.
26:00, Narrative, MI USA

The Plant Boy - Directed by Dylan Mitchell (in attendance)
A botanist, who is sick, closes himself off from the outside world to create a medicine that will cure his sickness.
15:00, Narrative, MI USA

Nature Bear Exxxtreme - Directed by Toko Shiiki
A mockumentary that chronicles the development and production of a durational performance piece called, Nature Bear Exxxtreme, in which a serious method actor plays a brown bear.
03:25, Narrative, MI USA

Powerful Solutions by DarrenCorp: Crisis Resolution - Directed by Darren Herczeg
'Tina's co-worker, low-level data processor Jim Papasan, has just showered her in coffee and stormed out of her office with no explanation -- how should she resolve this crisis?
18:07, Narrative, MI USA

Trouble With Johnny - Directed by Paul Echeverria
Trouble with Johnny uses found footage as a method for emphasizing the cinematic boundaries of audio and visual construction. Working within the margins of structural filmmaking, Trouble with Johnny creates a visceral experience of fragmented sounds and cyclical imagery.
04:33, Experimental, MI USA

You Have Been Lied To - Directed by Mitch McCabe (in attendance)
A verité documentary portrait of the push and pull outside a voting site on the U.S. Election Day, 2020 in in Macomb County, Michigan-- one of the most politically erratic and well-studied counties in the country.
06:52, Doocumentary, MI USA

Island - Directed by Jack Cronin
A filmic postcard from Isle Royale National Park.
02:39, Documentary, MI USA