The Phoenicia Playhouse is proud to present the next in our Local Film Makers Series for our 50th Season: “Local Shorts Night” with the Cellar Door Cinema Club, Hosted by Jack Warren!
Friday May 22nd @ 7:00 pm
Tickets available at the door or in advance here: https://our.show/localshortsnightcellardoor/localfilmmakerseries
The Cellar Door Cinema Club presents “Local Shorts Night” - featuring short films by queer local film makers, curated and presented by Jack Warren.
Program:
Opener - dir. Véra Haddad (running time: 12:23)
Safety - dir. Beatrix Herriott O'Gorman and Jack Warren (Music Video)
Masquerade - dir. Cody Victor (running time: 8:01)
En sus manos - dir. Elle Rinaldi (running time: 16:31)
When the Man Comes Around - dir. Jack Warren (running time: 8:52)
Dummy - dir. Francesca Pazniokas (running time: 13:21)
1. Opener dir. Véra Haddad
In a dry and biting comedy, a queer musician navigates the male dominated music scene in her semi-rural hometown. Having just moved back home for unknown reasons, she settles into the familiar but subtle ghosts of her past. Between the venue she is about to play and the guitar shop where she has to replace a broken string, she comes across a cast of surreal but all-too-real characters who test her patience not knowing whether to laugh, scream, or cry. She finds moments of solace in a queer cashier, an ex-lover, and finally, playing music.
2. Safety dir. Beatrix Herriott O’Gorman and Jack Warren
Dublin-based punk band The Amniotics encounter a mysterious stranger while trying to catch a bus home in this narrative music video.
3. Masquerade dir. Cody Victor
A student arrives at prom with a peculiar date: his dead girlfriend, possessing another student's body. As prom draws to a close, the possession takes its toll and the couple must face their inevitable separation once again.
4. En Sus Manos dir. Elle Rinaldi
Three generations of women and girls prepare to perform at the Cuban circus in Havana, Cuba, each for different acts, on different occasions, but all under the same enchanting red and white striped tent, an otherworldly space which pulses with reflections on age, femininity, and dreams.
Rome International Film Festival: Official Selection
Time & Space Ltd.: New Directors New Visions
Hudson Valley Film Fest: Official Selection
5. When the Man Comes Around dir. Jack Warren
Father and son chop wood in the early morning sun, navigating the unsteady ground of their changed relationship while old resentments rise beneath the surface. Featuring local actors Lee Sorge and Robert Burke Warren, and shot in Phoenicia!
6. Dummy dir. Francesca Pazniokas
An aspiring cabaret singer struggles to break free from her controlling mother — a ventriloquist dummy who was once a star herself. DUMMY! is a surreal technicolor melodrama about fearing you weren’t built for the world you’re meant to inhabit.
