Psychopunk

2pm, Saturday, October 19

96 minute runtime

PAINT

Director:  Mora Carew

UNITED STATES

A brilliant but disturbed artist struggles to connect with his audience.

ThoughtScribe

Director:  Shivani Hassard

GERMANY

Miffi writes from a place within herself, but she's not sure that's good enough.

In a moment of self-doubt, she sees an advert for an artificial intelligence writing tool that connects to your thoughts. ThoughtScribe is marketed as a way to uncover latent creativity and authenticity, by tapping into your day-to-day feelings and judgements, and using it as content.

Faced with a deteriorating relationship and writer's block, Miffi finds that ThoughtScribe does not discriminate between private and public thoughts while harvesting content for her book. Soon she has to choose her loyalties.

HOLD YOU SO TIGHT

Director:  Eric Rudnick

UNITED STATES

At the end of a terrible tele-therapy session, a woman decides to take the advice of a friend and visit two men at a motel where they perform a procedure that frees you from the burdens of this world.

Claudia

Director:  Benjamin Kuffuor

UNITED KINGDOM

A man struggling to overcome a breakup goes to extreme lengths to bring his lover back into his life, even if it's in the realm of fantasy. Claudia is a twisted romance drama drawing on classic textures to tell a modern story of 21st century loneliness, isolation and distortion.

Gesture

Director:  Jesse Pickett

CANADA

After having a surgical procedure that was meant to cure her of pain and disability, Sydney now experiences memory loss associated with specific memories of her traumatic incident and certain physical gestures.

As Easy As Closing Your Eyes

Director:  Parker Croft

UNITED STATES

Academy Award-nominee Abigail Breslin presents:  As Easy As Closing Your Eyes.

The story of a grieving mother who battles her addiction to a black-market drug that gives her life-like dreams about the son she lost.

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