An Odd Turn

The Celebrity Interview

November 2021 •English

A man finds a woman on the side of the street and decides to interview her.

Mosquito

November 2023 •Spanish

Reducing Creme

May 1934 •English

Willie Whooper, doused in reducing creme, shrinks to the size of a mouse and is chased by a cat throughout a house. Finally Willie returns to normal size and angrily covers the cat in reducing creme. The cat now shrinks to mouse size, and gets a black eye from the mouse he habitually torments.

Fleeced

Invalid date •English

Owen is hiking through the countryside when he meets a strange sheep with human features. The story follows them both as Owen takes the sheep-man into his home and they gradually become friends.

Friend Indeed

December 1937 •English

Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and now has to depend upon the dog to lead him in his daily rounds. 'Sparky" was the dog who was responsible for the Interstate Commerce Commission passing a special ruling allowing guide-dogs to travel first-class in Pullman cars to accompany their blind partner, and not as animals confined to the baggage car. Smith shows how 'Sparky' went to Washington D. C. with his master and helped sell the change to the legislators.

Ninja Fireball in Edo

November 1935 •Japanese

A short story about a young ninja.

Coup de Grâce

August 2015 •German

At a remote mountain lake a bound man with cemented shoes is being dragged to the water by two other men and his request for a coup de grace escalates into a clash.

Person to Person

January 2014 •English

Waking up the morning after hosting a party, a man discovers a stranger passed out on his floor. He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.

The Duke: Based on the Memoir 'I'm The Duke' by J.P. Duke

October 2016 •English

Mired in a concussed haze, an ex-NFLer struggles to adjust to life off the field during Super Bowl Sunday.

Pickled Puss

September 1948 •English

The cat and mouse are in their usual game of chase-and-pursue until the mouse hides in a pickled-herring barrel. The cat gets intoxicated from inhaling the fumes and immediately becomes the mouse's newest best friend. He defends the mouse from a mean alley cat, and the mouse invites him to come home with him. There, the mouse takes care of him and sobers him up, and the cat immediately begins to chase him again. He reaches the barrel again and regains his newest best friend. Charlie Chaplin deserves an (uncredited) story listing.

Pozole

February 2019 •English

When Maia, a mixed race Latina woman, sets out to reconnect with her traditional Mexican roots on her Nana's 100th birthday, things go terribly wrong.

The Sunny Side

September 2014 •English

Little boy Dennis sat on a wall, wondering what would become of it all. The Sunny Side takes us on a short self affirming-journey through the entire life of a person, from the 1960's to the present day.

The Big Score

March 2022 •English

This film was made in 52 hours for the Belhaven B52 Film Challenge. It won in the College/Adult Category. The prompts given were: There must be a theme of perseverance. There must be a water bottle. And there must be something orange. Clifford has found out about a big score and he convinces Tweety Bird to go along with him to get it.

The Watchmaker Monkey

February 1938 •Spanish

El Mono relojero is a 1938 Argentine animated short film directed by Quirino Cristiani. It is the only film from this director that exists up to this day, since all his other productions (including the first two animated feature films, El Apóstol (1917) and Sin dejar rastros (1918), as well as the first animated film with sound, Peludópolis (1931)) were lost in a series of fires at the facilities where the negatives and copies were stored.

Caminandes: Gran Dillama

November 2013 •English

A young llama named Koro discovers that the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence).

Reagan's Nightmare

January 1983 •English

If Frankenstein's Monster is to the dark side of science, King Kong is to the Great Depression, Alien Invaders (like The Blob and The Thing) is to the Communist Threat, Godzilla is to the bomb, and The Milpitas Monster and Hedorah the Smog Monster are to pollution. Now, this robotic dinosaur made of various technological devices from Japan is to Japanese consumerism and possibly globalization!

It's in the Stars

August 1938 •English

Musical short about a fraternity and a sorority that call a halt to dating between their houses to improve their grades.

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

February 2014 •English

A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.

Boy's Vacation

October 1988 •Slovak

A father/son get-together trying, in their inept way, to do some repair work to their home that they have out in the country.

The Little Book of Calm

Invalid date •English

Lin Wei, plagued by undiagnosed illness, crosses paths with her roommate CiCi, an online mukbang streamer battling anorexia nervosa due to cyberbullying. Desperate, CiCi enlists Lin Wei to fill in for her in a sponsored livestream. Overwhelmed, Lin Wei suffers a mental breakdown, leading to the termination of CiCi's contract and her departure from LA. Lin Wei's condition remains undetermined, leaving her in a paradoxical trap. Amidst her breakdown, she resumes livestreaming, inadvertently saving CiCi's career. Though life moves forward, Lin Wei's struggle persists, unredeemed.