Short Film Program: (un)ease your feelings
This program of short films questions the fundament of human emotions when they are experienced through psychological and physical hardships or under extreme circumstances.
How do we relate to unpleasant or challenging emotions when they rise up?
On one hand, everybody strives for happiness, but what if the path towards it involves our darkest feelings? Most of us try to avoid the unpleasantness of anger or sadness, but what happens when all forms of escapism are no longer satisfactory?
Can faking our own death help with depression? Can we remain in touch with our humanity when everything that constitutes it has been taken away from us?
(un)ease your feelings raises the question: how do we relate to our emotions and feelings when they get the better of us?
From an old self-help tape, the spineless Lars follows guidance which leads him to kidnap his estranged father.
This short documentary offers a visceral snapshot of how inmates survive solitary confinement.
Groups of 30 or more individuals attend a regular seminar that includes activities like planning your own funeral, saying goodbye to your loved ones, and finally, as the lid closes on each individual’s coffin, an imagined facsimile of your own death.
Madness Made Me is a visual poem that grapples with two very different accounts of one person’s madness, and in doing so addresses issues of the power of language, asking: is there value in madness?
Paul has participated in various panel discussions, including panels at SXSW and Northside Festival.