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Bensenville Arts Council presents the first
Bensenville Short Film Festival March 2, 2023 | 7:00 PM This year's fest features some of the best short films from throughout the world. Comedy, action, drama, suspense, documentary, and more. Purchase tickets while you can! Tickets will also be available before the show begins. The festival starts at 7:00 PM at theBensenville Theatre, 9 S. Center St. Bensenville, IL 601016. |
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Family Directed by David L Bradburn Running time: 3 minutes 40 seconds What appears to be a random act of helping is really a familial one. Intersections Directed by Hart Ginsburg Running time: 5 minutes Recently, we had the chance to visit family in Tokyo and Kanagawa, Japan. Years have passed since living there, so naturally memories revisited us. It was more of the everyday movements: the trains, local grocery markets, homemade tofu and seemingly ubiquitous interactions with others. Without a deliberate intention to film, only traveling with a cell phone and notepad, a dangerous thought emerged: What about visiting the infamous Shibuya intersection?
Becoming Santa Directed by Dawn Spinella Running time: 10 minutes 13 seconds After an exceptionally magical visit with Santa, a precocious materialistic girl sets out to keep a promise of kindness. The Facts Directed by Chris Bernstorf Running time: 1 minute 5 seconds A video for a love poem of the same name. Herman Directed by Ira Childs and Lionel L Chapman Running time: 4 minutes 36 seconds A family dinner outing turns cold, when a young boy stumbles upon a masked man hungry for chaos. Wicked Plans Directed by Lee Chambers Running time: 5 minutes 35 seconds Style Dayne, the Pizza Guy from Deadpool stars as a foreign extremist from Amadajiya, who accidentally chooses Halloween to enact a moment of terror. To his surprise, he discovers that North American life and culture is truly special, unique and sweet. |
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Bye bye! bipolar Directed by Yoli Shen Running time: 1 minute 10 seconds Dedicate to all people who is suffering from and suffocated by bipolar. Endless Directed by Douglas Williams Running time: 9 minutes 50 seconds A newly created startup tries to help a grieving widow by using "companion re-enactment" techniques. Bride's Dream Directed by Joe Chang Running time: 7 minutes This is a story about a bride who is separated from her soldier husband by life and death. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, a civil war was launched in order to compete for power and positions, and the people suffered from exile and exile. The man, Wang Hui, had been married for less than a few months and was forcibly conscripted into the army.
A Little Girl Who Reads Directed by Lindley Farley Running time: 6 minutes 33 seconds A young girl is bullied at school for not owning a cell phone. Her father insists she use the library to further herself instead. Her new knowledge is too much for her tormenters at her school. Daisy's Final Goodbye Directed by Steven Elton Long Running time: 4 minutes 45 seconds An Animated true story of Steven a Veteran with PTSD who must say goodbye to his faithful Service Dog Daisy. It is almost too much for him to bear. Filmmaker Steven Long makes this short 5 years after Daisy passes as a tribute to her and all the other dogs who have loved us like family. The Conglomerate Directed by Teresa Martinez Moore Running time: 4 minutes 53 seconds Congrats on graduating spy school... getting a job is murder. After spy school, you get the job you kill for... Parallel Directed by Mia Vera Sekulovski Running time: 1 minute 48 seconds Parallel combines pictures, music, and a narrative to show the struggles of life and how to overcome them. Spaced Directed by John Padraig Graham Running time: 1 minute 51 seconds A rotoscoped short visually depicting feelings of anxiety on a social and apocalyptic scale. Friday Night Blind
Directed by Scott Krahn and Robb Fischer Running time: 13 minutes 31 seconds It’s another Friday night at Burnham Bowl. Strikes, spares, gutter balls. With no shortage of trash talking and victory dancing. But the group that’s making all the noise isn’t just another bowling league. The Milwaukee Beer Barrels Blind Bowling League is an eclectic mix of visually impaired and sighted bowlers with a simple focus. Making friends, having fun, taking life one frame at a time. Friday Night Blind is the warm, quirky, inspiring story of three visually impaired bowling friends and the way they roll. Moon Shadows Directed by Hart Ginsburg Running time: 3 minutes An image of a child looking towards the evening moon visited my thoughts one day or maybe it was a dream, from there an imaginary dialogue or dance emerged between the moon and the child. But who is guiding who in this planetary dance, is it the moon or the child? I often wondered how a distant moon could influence the ocean’s rhythms and tides, in a kind of inter-planetary dance beyond distant horizons. From these uncertain thoughts, lyrics and dance followed thanks to the artistic contributions of those near and far. With gratitude to our journey and the shadows that follow us along. Local God Directed by Adam "Red" Millard Running time: 8 minutes 18 seconds Plagued with writers block, Orion Rose seeks the remedy in unthinkable ways. A Stable Holiday Directed by Jess Elfring-Roberts Running time: 9 minutes 59 seconds Sceptic of sappy seasonal films, Sarah finds herself in the center of a holiday love movie with a twist. |
