FogFest V: Flesh & Frame: Short Film Block

Flesh & Frame: Short Film Block

Time slips, bodies betray, and reality glitches beyond recognition. These 18 works of art take you on a mind-bending journey through the many ways we explore horror and science fiction. The block opens with seven animated shorts (six of them stunning stop-motion) before spiraling into a string of weird, visceral and deeply unsettling live-action tales. It’s Saturday Morning Cartoons meets Midnight Madness..and nothing is what it seems.

Featuring Canadian, Atlantic Canadian and Newfoundland premieres from Canada, United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Poppa
Dir. Peter Ahern
Runtime: 1m 19s
United States
Atlantic Canadian Premiere

An unlucky dude encounters a sticky situation after accidentally swallowing bubblegum.

Cosmic Crash
Dir. James Smith
Runtime: 1m 40s
Germany
Newfoundland Premiere

When an otherworldly being crashes near a lab, chaos is unleashed.
Content Warning: Violence, Gore/Disturbing Imagery, Death.

VHX
Dir. Alisa Stern, Scott Ampleford
Runtime: 4m 54s
United Kingdom/United States
Atlantic Canadian Premiere

A collection of home movies languish on a shelf, longing to be watched again. Little do they know, there's a fate far worse than being forgotten.

VHX is a stop motion animated short made with real vintage VHS tapes.

Nostril
Dir. Michael Dondero, Shengnan Dong
Runtime: 4m 30s
United States
Newfoundland Premiere

Nostril is a stop-motion animated short film about Lala, a sleep-deprived woman kept awake by her husband’s obnoxious snoring. When the sound becomes so powerful that it quite literally sucks her into his nose, Lala finds herself in a terrifying battle against the boogery germ creatures that dwell within. Blending comedy and horror, Nostril looks at the things we put up with for love, highlighting relationship struggles with a light-hearted tone.

Visceral
Dir. Leah Galarneau
Runtime: 1m 37s
Canada
Newfoundland Premiere

Visceral is an exploration of love and vulnerability found in new relationships. Utilizing meat and organs under camera, we go through a broken heart, a crush, a marriage and finally opening up to the other completely.

Autophagy
Dir. Edie Lawrence
Runtime: 11m 4s
United Kingdom
Newfoundland Premiere

A waterborne disease ravages a town, the affliction slowly morphing you into an octopus. With the societal hatred towards those suffering building, a couple have the limited choice: afford the medication to carry on living, or drink the water and suffer being shunned.

DAGON
Dir. Paolo Gaudio
Runtime: 6m 7s
Italy
Newfoundland Premiere

DAGON is a stop motion animation short film freely inspired by the story of the same name by cult author H.P. Lovecraft. In 1919 San Francisco, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that led him to the brink of suicide: the encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Old One, DAGON.
Worm Burner
Dir. Anthony Leroy
Runtime: 7m
Canada
Atlantic Canadian Premiere

Nearly thirty years after the strange disappearance of a Canadian baseball team, a recovered VHS tape reveals their shocking final moments as they’re hunted down by a backwoods psychopath.

Content Warning: Violence, Gore/Disturbing Imagery, Death.

Skeeter
Dir. Chris McInroy
Runtime: 3m 55s
United States
Atlantic Canadian Premiere

Every party has a buzz kill.

Content Warning: Gore/Disturbing Imagery, Death.

Frame
Dir. Olivia Cordell, Libby Morris
Runtime: 5m
United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere

An isolated woman discovers strange photos appearing on a digital picture frame.

My Lily
Dir. Kashika Kaushal
Runtime: 6m 9s
Canada
Canadian Premiere

Haunted by the expectations of her domineering in-laws, a widowed Mae races against time to repair her relationship with her daughter.

Living in Hanna
Dir. Robin Careless, Kayle Jo Farris
Runtime: 10m 25s
Canada
World Premiere

The footage of a lifestyle influencer's last recorded video shows her mind unraveling in the wake of an unearthly encounter.

RUN!
Dir. Adam Marley, Jonathan Brito
Runtime: 7m
Canada
Newfoundland Premiere

A group of strangers find themselves preyed upon by a sadistic killer after awakening in a subterranean race track and soon discover there is only one way to survive: RUN!

Content Warning: Violence, Gore/Disturbing Imagery, Death.

Devil’s Prism
Dir. Kika Magalhães
Runtime: 11m 9s
United States
Canadian Premiere

Shown entirely from Gabi's perspective, the film follows a thief who joins her friends for a routine heist which finds her in an unsettling encounter with a mysterious, evil object that unleashes a dark entity, possessing her.

Content Warning: Violence, Gore/Disturbing Imagery, Death.

Meat Crayon
Dir. Richard Rotter
Runtime: 5m 45s
Canada
Atlantic Canadian Premiere

Kimberly's favorite teacher always brings her the best crayons. He just won’t say where he gets them.

Content Warning: Allusions to child abuse, Violence, Gore/Disturbing Imagery, Death.

Slow
Dir. Rebecca Berrih
Runtime: 7m 3s
United States

A field recorder’s life shatters when she encounters a sinister force that manipulates time and must outwit it to escape a nightmare where every second feels endless.

Cadabra
Dir. Tiffany Wice
Runtime: 6m
Canada
Atlantic Canadian Premiere

An amateur magician receives more than he anticipated when he purchases a cursed hat from the estate of his deceased hero.

Berta
Dir. Lucia Forner Segarra
Runtime: 16m 48s
Spain
Spanish w/English Subtitles
Newfoundland Premiere

Berta wants Alex to understand the harm he caused her years ago and will do whatever it takes to explain it to him.

Content Warning: Violence, Gore/Disturbing Imagery, Discussions involving Sexual Assault.