Movies Gone Mental

Film aficionados usually have to wait months between their favorite festivals, so they end up feeding their craving for indie cinematography by binge-watching Wes Anderson and creeping Sundance previews. But the Miami Short Film Festival looks out for its friends with a monthly screening, so you can get your film...

By Hannah Sentenac

July 24, 2014

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Film aficionados usually have to wait months between their favorite festivals, so they end up feeding their craving for indie cinematography by binge-watching Wes Anderson and creeping Sundance previews. But the Miami Short Film Festival looks out for its friends with a monthly screening, so you can get your film fix every four weeks. July’s installment is dubbed Moments of Insanity and features an assortment of films showcasing, well, moments of insanity — a universal human phenomenon to which we can all relate. (Right, World Cup crazies?) The rare times when we throw reality checks out the window and act on emotional impulse are when our true colors come raging into view (be they green and yellow or red, white, and blue). The evening’s lineup includes Natural Selection by England’s Brett Foraker, Devil’s Temptation by South Korea’s Cineryong, Peekaboo by Australia’s Damien Power, Chambre Double by Belgium’s Mathieu Mortelmans, Bull Under My Skin by Norway’s Nicolai Aass, and Profile by Germany’s Timo Pierre Rositzki. The flicks cover everything from hard-core stripping to the dark side of social networking. Because in film, as in soccer, being batshit crazy is the common thread that unites all the nations of the world. Ain’t it grand?
Wed., July 30, 7:30-10 p.m., 2014

Hannah Sentenac covers veg food, drink, pop culture, travel, and animal advocacy issues. She is also editor-in-chief of LatestVeganNews.com.

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