Toronto Int'l Spring of Horror & Fantasy Film Festival

Screening: Friday - April 5 @ 6:30 PM with Last Sunrise & Jog
Director: Alya Michelson
Country: USA
Run time: 4 min

Description: Los Angeles-based artist ALYA transports us into a world where mankind crawls at the bottom of animal kingdom in her new video “Animals.” It’s a surreal film where we see humans garnishing like animal trophies on the walls, living in cages, and locked inside a fish tank. Visually haunting, “Animals” is cinematically spellbinding where its nightmarish beauty is found in the shocking depiction of how weak and majestically decorative our own species can be.

Website: http://www.alyaofficial.com

bad coffee

Screening: Sunday - April 7 @ 6:30 PM with D-Railed & False Light & Synthetic Love
Director: Mike Onley
Country: Canada
Run time: 5 min

Description: Bad Coffee is a dark comedy narrative in the form of a music video. A human coffee cup is on the lam after robbing a convenience store - through flashbacks we reveal how he got into the situation he is in.

Website: http://www.mikeonleymedia.com/

Buzz lightyear

Screening: Saturday - April 6 @ 7:15 PM with Time Perspectives & Terra
Director: Half an Orange (Michael Maloof & Andrew Spellman)
Country: USA
Run time: 5 min

Description: Musical duo, Half an Orange, brought their music to life by directing, illustrating, and animating it into a short film themselves. Follow them on an adventure through space as they rediscover old memories. The film is called 'Buzz Lightyear'; because they, like the famous character from Toy Story, can't fly away from their problems. This is Half an Orange's directorial and animation debut.

Website: http://halfanorangemusic.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/halfanorangemusic

Cockroach Brain

Screening: Sunday - April 7 @ 9:00 PM with The Final Ride & Third Wheel & The Chicken's Revenge
Director: Ryan Bayne
Country: USA
Run time: 4 min

Description: Music video directed by Idaho filmmaker Ryan Bayne in collaboration with Boise trash-rockers Mantooth.

Badcamp: https://mantooth1.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toothman46/

cuts you up

Screening: Friday - April 5 @ 9:00 PM with The 27 Club & Transcend
Director: Ken Amlin
Country: Canada
Run time: 6 min

Description: Music video for the song "Cuts You Up" by Konqistador. A woman mysteriously wakes in a manicured garden in the shadow of an ancient castle. Alone and confused, she seeks refuge in the castle but a dark force is awaiting her and won't let her leave. Shot on location in Ireland and Canada, staring Emma Amlin and Elizabeth Graham.

Judge Me

Screening: Saturday - April 6 @ 1:30 PM with Livescream & Hello, Houston
Director: Ashleigh Harley
Country: UK
Run time: 3 min

Description: Big, heart thundering taiko drums charging the beat of a toe-tapping melody, ‘Judge Me’ tells the story of a young women as she runs away from the repressive clutches of the state.

Part of Ashleigh Harley's epic expanded universe known as The Wall of Lyon, 'Judge Me' acts as a continuation of the award winning series.

Skinny Days - Alright Right Now

Screening: Saturday - April 6 @ 9:15 PM with Reborn & Exorcism & Girl Trip
Director: Mats Udd
Country: Poland / Sweden
Run time: 3 min

Description: The story of five people in an abandoned factory in Poland.
When an old man suddenly enters nothing will ever be the same.

This psychotic and gross video is the collaboration between a Swedish director, the Norwegian band Skinny Days and a Polish film crew. This is the band Skinny Days first single but even though their music is far away from horror, not even the bands from the Norwegian black metal scene made videos like this.

Thirsty eyes - 838

Screening: Saturday - April 6 @ 5:10 PM with No Man's Land & The Devil's Due
Director: Ioan Gavriel
Country: Austria / Poland
Run time: 6 min

Description: 838 is a music-video taking place in its own dark & obscure Eastern European world, a constant escape from oneself in a schizophrenic nightmare. Triggered by a sudden encounter on a lonely road, the protagonist’s grasp of reality starts to fall apart — at fast pace.

V.A.S.T - She is Murder

Screening: Sunday - April 7 @ 4:00 PM with Far From The Apple Tree & Skin Deep & The Collector
Director: Clint Lewis
Country: Australia
Run time: 4 min

Description: A man succumbs to his sensors as a Geisha lures him deeper

Website: http://www.redtapepictures.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedTapePictures/

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