Avantasia【🎧】Against The Wind (Piano Version)

Released on: 2025-02-28

SHORT FILM 🎬 The Cardinal & The Computer

 

Cardinal Thomas is a priest and religious dignitary summoned by Dylan, a tech visionary, to meet his newest creation. He's asked to put on special glasses and go into a glass room, where he meets Ari, an A.I. creation that takes the shape of a young woman. Cardinal Thomas is against artificial intelligence and doesn't understand why he's there. But when Ari proclaims she is a Christian, the cardinal is skeptical but intrigued. 

Director: Scott Fitzloff 

Writer: Scott Fitzloff 

Stars: Emma Reinagel, Will Mueller, Daniel Fitzgerald

 

Akinom :: AI-Generated Images

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SHORT FILM 🎬 The Cab

 

The Cab explores the mind of a woman with depression through a fantastical ride in a NYC Taxicab. The film follows the passenger, Eva, as she discovers she is in no ordinary cab, but rather a purgatory space to determine her final resting place after dying by suicide. With the help of the Cabbie, she must dive deep within and come to terms with the darkest parts of herself to guarantee safe passage. 

Director: Nicole Melillo 

Writer: Nicole Melillo 

Stars: Michael Siberry, Hana Chamoun

 

Shail Patel :: AI-Generated Images

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SHORT FILM 🎬 The Dentist

 

A Dentist is traveling north in search of a town where he can practice. Along the way he is robbed by a cowboy. The dentist is broke and can only offer help with the robber's infected tooth. But it's not that simple. 

Director: Michael Brian Rawlins 

Writers: Travis Jager, Michael Brian Rawlins 

Stars: Travis Jager, Michael Brian Rawlins, Noah Woods

Marek Boguszak :: Dunescapes

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SHORT FILM 🎬 MOP

 

Ayu (Mia Sabrina Mahadir) works for Cecilia (Lim Mei Fen) at her family's furniture store. But there is something else going on in their relationship, and over lunch break, the two play out a wild, sexual game that exposes their power dynamic.  When the employee makes a simple mistake – forgetting the chili sauce in her boss’ order – it unleashes a situation that reveals the true nature of their roles. In Mop, writer/director Joon Fong Goh paints a gripping portrait of a complicated and twisted sadomasochistic relationship between two women, whose workplace hierarchy is established by pushing the limits of his concept and playing with the audience’s expectations. Goh confessed that the core idea of the film came from his children, who used him first as a chair, and later other pieces of furniture, when they were playing. “I thought it could be an interesting metaphor for the ways we are dependent on each other, and the ways we use each other”, he explained. Adding that he believes “every relationship is sadomasochistic” and that “we hurt each other” and “love each other”. A realization that prompted him to capture this ever evolving shift in power dynamics, using a tangible metaphor to depict them in a way that is both delightfully twisted and effective. “I wanted to make visible the invisible, and bring to the surface all the messy, fucked up things we do to each other”, he adds. 

Director: Joon Goh 

Writer: Joon Goh 

Stars: Mia Sabrina Mahadir, Mei Fen Lim