Another Sinking Sun & In The Dark

Our short film is “Another Sinking Sun” by Tyler Rubenfeld.

This movie masterfully plunges both its characters and its audience into a profound state of hypnagogia. This liminal space exists precariously between the sharp, undeniable clarity of the waking world and the hazier, often more elusive territory of dreams and deeply buried memories. The piece’s core unfolds through a strikingly intimate, yet entirely one-sided, phone conversation. In this exchange, a figure identified only as the Narrator offers a mesmerizing stream of recollection, focusing on a presence from their past—a presence that, despite the passage of time and the strangeness of memory, remains curiously comforting.

Rubenfeld’s lens for this past is anything but simple sentimentality. It is, instead, marked by a jaundiced sense of nostalgia... The piece serves as a concise, yet profound, meditation on memory’s unreliability, the haunting nature of comfort, and the peculiar ways technology shapes our retrospective view of self.

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Our feature is “In The Dark” by Clifton Holmes.

A fantastically edited, lo-fi exercise in craftsmanship and a spacious container for dark ideas. Its “rough” form follows function, with the images’ ugliness never yielding to beauty. While not as scary as advertised, In the Dark‘s themes and methods are genuinely unsettling, as is Kim Garrett’s unstudied, extraordinary lead performance. Her character, Jane, is defined by an equal sense of agency and bottomless lack thereof, culminating in a final close-up suggesting complicity and complacency are one and the same.

This unreleased, almost forgotten SOV horror-thriller starts deceptively innocuously before slowly accelerating into absolute lunacy. It is engrossing and seriously sinister.

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