- Location: Boulder Library
- There were a lot of shorts that didn't have much to do with one another, so I made a list.
- Hippie Go Yuppie: The winner of the Shootout 24-hour Filmmaking Festival in Boulder last year. It was an entertaining enough exploration of hippie vs. yuppie culture in Boulder, if a little on-the-nose. Mostly it served as a reminder that good films take more than 24 hours to make. The director, writer, and an actor were on hand.
- Touch: Of all the shorts, this one probably featured the best acting and cinematography. Set in a subway station, a nervous young woman talks an older woman out of killing herself. Maybe the young woman is an angel, but the film somehow floats that question without being completely cheesy. The director was on hand.
- Miracle Lady: This may have been my favorite short. An immensely creative claymation bit on fate. Moths and bugs abound in an old woman's apartment as she awaits her lost love. Her neighbor wants to die, but cannot. Perhaps an unexpectedly hilarious solution will present itself?
- Shotgun: A decent and humorous twist on heist films. Those French classics about robbers coming out of retirement all missed the chance for a joke.
- Roar: Competently directed and acted, but fundamentally uninteresting stalker fare. When the bathrobed victim grabs scissors, I was reminded of two great Hitchcock films that I would rather have been watching.
- Pigeon: Impossible: Visually unremarkable (except for an unexpected North by Northwest reference!) but very funny look at James Bond vs. a pigeon. The Washington Monument hides a rocket, as it turns out.
- Glen Owen Dodds: What if God were a lot like Ricky Gervais' character from The Office? It's a terrifying prospect, but a damn funny short film. The highlight for me was a post-it note about an asteroid strike. Starring David Wenham.
- Careful With That Power Tool: Somehow this was less entertaining than a film about a kid and a nailgun should have been.
- This was all part of the Boulder International Film Festival.
