A man pursues his childhood dreams of reaching the final frontier by assembling a team of unqualified cadets to start a space crew.

The last evacuation ships are about to launch and leave a dying earth for good. But our hero, Marcus Staley, is delayed, and thus he needs to find a way to hold the launch.

Successful suburbanite Erin is slowly realizing that not every neighbor is super-dee-dooper.

"social etiquette can be challenging"

There was an astonishing discovery in Milwaukee several years ago. An incredibly rare version of Korean map called Daedong Yeojido was discovered in the library at UWM. The map is a national treasure in Korea and nobody knows why this map has been placed at UWM before the moment that American Geographical Society Library makes public. There is a Korean language school near Greenfield in Milwaukee. Korean Baptist Church of Milwaukee has managed this program for the Korean children who are born

A dramatically absurd stand-up comedy performance that destroys convention through overindulgence. Starring Johnny Pemberton.

A low-on-luck man takes a house-sitting gig in a small factory town. Soon laid off, bored and lonely, a childhood love of science and naturalism is stirred by an incredible discovery. Elk Mound, the 8th film by renown visual artist Chris Mars, speaks of the confluence of unemployment, isolation, latent passions stirred, and mental illness. Told in a the artist's signature visual style, live action is set within a unique surrealist environment built of reality, fantasy and texture.

Back in the place of her childhood, in an oddly sinister port city, a young woman plagued with traumatic memories will discover that her destiny is even more cruel than the creatures running after her...

A tense but darkly comic story about a four-way Mexican standoff in space, between three space pirates and a corrupt Consortium freighter pilot.

A regular Joe just wants his cup of jo. And in a world where coffee is illegal, that's easier said than done. "Dark Roast" follows Joe, a coffee fanatic, who will stop at nothing to get one last cup of the caffeinated drink. Trouble is brewing.

A man obsessed taking photographs of everything around him discovers that his cellphone camera can suddenly show him the world 3 minutes into the future.

The Struggle of Libations is a short film by first time writer / director Erin Mullally and stars long-time character actor Des Braiden (The Boxer, The Tudors) alongside newcomers David McGowan and Nadia Dibbs. The film is a “dramedy” and tells the story of a man who undertakes a nighttime odyssey across Dublin while questioning his only meaningful relationship… the one he maintains with his loyal post-work pint. Eight minutes long and independently produced, cinematographer Ronan Hand and cre

Two children speculate late into the night what their parents might be doing.

Michael Paul Smith, a reclusive model builder, doesn't seem to enjoy talking about his childhood. In this short documentary about the remarkably detailed town he built by hand, Smith alludes to memories of bullying, violence, and dark family secrets. Elgin Park is a "dreamlike recreation" of his past, he says, polished with the glossy sheen of mid-century suburbia. Filmmaker Danny Yourd zeroes in on this tension, drawing it out through the relationship between Smith's childhood and his models.

A man awaiting trial receives an unexpected offer from his lawyer.

Alex, excited to have befriended the popular girl at school, will do anything to stay in her good graces. When her new friend wants to play house, Alex innocently plays along and develops feelings she doesn't understand.

A young man struggles with the balance between his love for dinosaurs and his social responsibilities.

A Lounge Singer with a odd name has a strange past

An abstract, surrealist narrative: a young woman retreats into her subconscious sanctuary to escape the impending fate of a worldwide cataclysm. Drifting between a dark limbo and tranquil forests, she discovers that her real world fears are seeping into her sanctuary, manifesting themselves in frightening ways.

A player learns the hard way that you don't dip your chocolate into another man's peanut butter. Entered into the 2014 Project Greenlight competition.

A kaleidoscopic video experiment utilizing the revolutions of a car tire.

In the late seventies David Boswell created Reid Fleming, the World’s Toughest Milkman, a comic book anti-hero and counter culture icon. By the following decade, Warner Brothers was preparing a Hollywood feature film. Now, over 30 years later, the character is still mired in contractual limbo, or development hell. Narrated by Academy Award-Winner Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense), I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! combines stop motion animations with interviews from

Devil-may-care gadabout W.B. Pennywinkle tries his hand at camping. A real "fish out of water" tale made for the Madison 2014 48 Hour Film Festival. Anthony Wood won "Best Wisconsin Film" with Patrick Holland for the short film, Baden Krunk at our 2011 Festival.

Dave and Crystal have just finished their first date. Years of romantic failures have stunted both of them as they try to come face to face with their feelings for each other. It's all going well until Dave's roommate shows up and the night get uncomfortable and awkward. Can they work through their issues and find true love?

Alan (Johnny Vegas) searches for answers in all the wrong places and this time he thinks he's found them...on the internet in the form of a highly trained deadly assassin. But he's about to learn the true price of entering the 'dark_net'. Tom Marshall previously won Best Film in 2008 for bigboy_74, and he screened Happy Clapper at our 2011 festival.

A man invites his friend over one night to show off his latest invention: a trap for catching aliens

A man failing to connect to life, goes into a self induced trip to get a part of himself back, through emotion, metaphor, and triumph.

A seemingly unremarkable man spends a day taking a bizarre test at a mysterious facility. Through his day he interacts with the odd, detached employees of the facility, guiding him from section to section, obscuring the intentions or duration of the test.

Breaking through the self-constructed barriers that isolate us and touching the human being beyond--the dream of any interpersonal relationship. How do we make this dream a reality? In this short film by J&J Productions, we follow a man who wishes to be left alone with his thoughts, drawings, and dreams. Until he is greeted one day by a saleswoman who guarantees to improve his life with a necklace. With the incentive of hope, the man tries to go out and recreate his dream in reality. But dreams