FANTASTIC SHORTS COMPETITION – CHAPTER II
Hauntings are less uniform than horror films have led us to believe. Not always ghostly, they can take the shape of unresolved feelings that possess our every thought or painful patterns that play over and over like old records in an endless loop. Artists–often obsessed or haunted by their own process–can exorcize anguish through creativity or use their art to breathe life into a dying world, celebrating old but hardly forgotten ways. By the same token, their work can trigger an uneasy communion with the dead, summoning traumas either personal or historical like spectres that transfix a moment in time. In ways both harrowing and hopeful, SLASH is coming to haunt your soul.
A 90’s art student digs deep to find her true artistic voice, expressing it in a truly bizarre and gory way, shocking and delighting those who underestimated her talents.
When the daughter of a controversial performance artist inherits her late mother’s home archive, an unexpected visitor comes to claim the most notorious artwork…as they discover this legacy may be more of a curse.
A haunted composer uses music to contact the dead in this hyper-sensory ghost story.
A pianist unwittingly agrees to a last-minute gig at a plantation wedding. Upon tuning the piano, he encounters the unexpected, and fragments of the past are brought to light.
A Black family in rural Vermont attempts to live a life of solitude and cope with the ghosts living on their property.
In a dystopian future, a travelling trio of musicians explore the ruins of the old world. Upon discovering a particular vinyl LP in an abandoned house, the bandmates attempt to make out the degraded lyrics to one of its tracks when inspiration takes hold.
The last man on Earth has a smartphone and a stable internet connection. It goes without saying that he would livestream his experience, wouldn’t you?
The day of his anniversary, a widow farmer receives the clone of the woman he lost years ago under tragic circumstances.
