Time Helmet (2025)
Donald Voltmann invents a Time Travel Helmet to turn his life around, but instead becomes embroiled in a plot by…
NOVEMBER 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 — 2026 (+Nov 16)
Program
Four worlds. Four nights. The detailed screening schedule will appear here as selections are announced.
The Harbinger Evening — Soft-Serve Sci-Fi & Dark Comedy
A TwoFerOne Mike Night, featuring Mike Jackson's "Time Helmet" and Mike Rinaldi’s dark comedy "TwoFer". A special pre-festival evening added retroactively, from the future! Distinct from the Four Worlds, yet integral to a Unified Festival.
Magical Realism
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Capsule (2024)
A dark short comedy about the human need for connection
Salamander: A Mystery: Episode 1 Radio Signal
Erik Fisher is living in his van down by the river. Without much going for him, besides his 2-4 listeners…
The Opening (2024)
Don't Enter the Time Drain Jackass
The Reach (2025)
Stella Flanders is the oldest woman on Goat Island. Throughout her life, she has never crossed the reach that separates…
Woodman (2017)
A man made of wood and a woman with secrets connect online, sharing truths that break them out of the…
Hard Sci-Fi
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Don’t drop your hammer!
A sci-fi workplace safety music video for the Lovecraft-themed rock band ‘The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets’, from the album…
I’m Not a Robot (Ik Ben Geen Robot) (2023)
A music producer spirals into an existential crisis after repeatedly failing a CAPTCHA test-leading her to question whether she might…
Lost in the Sky
After a long search in a strange galaxy, a lone rescue robot locates a surviving astronaut, but must reach her…
Salamander: A Mystery: Episode 2 Van Trip
Erik Fisher is living in his van down by the river. Without much going for him, besides his 2-4 listeners…
Philip K. Dickensian
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Anxious Oswald Greene
Oswald Greene must cure his crippling anxiety, even if it means trusting a blind nurse, talking fly and flamboyant doctor…
Cronos (1993)
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key…
Salamander: A Mystery: Episode 5 In The BAG
Erik Fisher is living in his van down by the river. Without much going for him, besides his 2-4 listeners…
Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank (2026)
After the tyrannical President Rabbit monopolizes the world’s carrots, a pair of husband-and-wife rabbits from the countryside risk their lives…
Puppets / Stop Motion
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Iniskim-Return of the Buffalo (2019)
A cinematic wonder & incredible opportunity to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing. A group of puppeteers are transformed by…
Inkwo for When The Starving Return (2024)
Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, discovers the gifts and…
Madame Tutli-Putli
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She…
My Roommate, the Puppet
Marty Henderson, a 21-year-old college student, has suddenly transformed into a blue puppet with spiky green hair. In this mockumentary…
Salmon Cove
A handmade paper-cut story of a boy from a fishing village who embarks on a journey to save his salmon.
The Girl Who Cried Pearls (2025)
A poor boy’s love for a girl whose tears turn to pearls leads him into a perilous bargain between love,…
The Last Fifteen Minutes (2026)
The Last Fifteen Minutes is a short film and marionette musical about the queer residents of an apartment building in…
The Maker
A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.
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