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Natalie Schwan on ‘Last Stand at Butte City’

In Last Stand at Butte City, writer-director Natalie Schwan turns the familiar language of the Western inward. Set against the vast landscapes of 1880 Montana, the short follows Charlotte, an isolated rancher whose fight to save her homestead from the advancing railroad forces her to confront decades of buried grief.
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‘Body of Work’ Review: A Life Reframed

Blending intimate interviews, archival footage and evocative 16mm recreations, Cassidy Rast and Odin Wadleigh’s Body of Work traces artist Eric Anfinson’s extraordinary journey from life-altering injury to creative discovery. The result is a moving and visually accomplished portrait of a man whose relationship with his body, his art and his identity has been continually reshaped.
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Hoj Jomehri Talks ‘The Last Mullet’

In 2010, Iran banned a number of so-called “Western hairstyles,” including the mullet. Iranian-American filmmaker Hoj Jomehri turns that strange but very real chapter into The Last Mullet, a darkly comic short about Shervin (Bobby Naderi), an ordinary man whose beloved hairstyle suddenly makes him an outlaw.
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Hamish Sturgeon on ‘Gossamer’

In Gossamer, writer-director and actor Hamish Sturgeon transforms grief into a quiet process of reinvention. Set within the confines of a single house, the intimate short follows Jack as the boundaries between memory, performance, and identity begin to dissolve, gradually revealing Shirley as an expression of the self he has long kept hidden.