Picture Lock Shorts

Program lineup

• Myself When I Am Real (Angeline Gragasin, 2024)
  
  Set in the year 2000, a single mother and her teenage daughter struggle to make friends and find belonging at a Filipino Christmas party in suburban Wisconsin. Filmed on MiniDV tape in the style of a home movie, this award-winning short film explores memory, identity, and assimilation from the contrasting perspectives of childhood and adulthood. In English and Tagalog with English subtitles. (18 mins., DCP)
  
  Supported by a 2023 Film/Video Studio residency.
• Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way (Hao Zhou, 2024)
  
  In this award-winning documentary short, a queer costume designer living in Iowa returns to their island hometown in Guam to make costumes for a children's theater performance and reconnect with distanced parents. In English with English subtitles. (21 mins., DCP)
  
  Supported by a 2024 Film/Video Studio residency.
• Heart Shaped (Grace Mitchell and Sofia Theodore-Pierce, 2024)
  
  An experimental narrative that uses improvisation and collaboration to explore long-distance intimacy and the boundaries between self and stranger, Heart Shaped follows the transient lives of seven guests staying in a themed hotel in Wisconsin. Letters between the two filmmakers explore blurred identity and the eroticism of collaboration. (13 mins., DCP)
  
  Supported by a 2024 Film/Video Studio residency.
• Revolver Magic Wand (Cherry Nin, 2024)
  
  Set in a dystopic, urban environment, Revolver Magic Wand follows a prostitute named Haunted who is troubled by the murder of her girlfriend. Though physically alive, Haunted drifts through life like a ghost and seems trapped in a fragmented world. Meanwhile, her client John, growing increasingly paranoid that he is being watched, digs himself deep into a hole in his backyard. (24 mins., DCP)
  
  Supported by a 2024 Film/Video Studio residency.