Presented by the Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority
MIDWEST PRODUCTS is a regional short film showcase that will light up your cinematic synapses—from running and digging to sniffing and eating to diving into realms of ourselves and the unknown—this program "rooted" in Midwest filmmaking will surely activate your senses.
A runner sets out for an anxiety liberation run at dusk. She's not the only one. A remarkable encounter reveals the power of pain and unspoken camaraderie.
For Ajit’s wife, his voyage to the United States is to complete his PhD in Engineering. For Ajit, it’s an opportunity to temporarily escape the clutches of an arranged marriage.
After Ajit cuts himself off from his cultural roots he finds himself isolated in a new world and remedies his guilt of running away through the solace of a company called Bliss Burger.
This is a story about an immigrant’s assimilation into America’s national religion of Consumerism and the search for God’s warm embrace through cheeseburgers.
These invasive weed trees are coming soon to a yard near you.
The color, composition, and brushstrokes of a painting in his mother’s home leads the filmmaker to analyze the relationship between his parents, his brother, and himself.
Sniffer is about a serial armpit sniffer of strangers who is trying to find happiness.
When Heather decides to lose her virginity for her 15th birthday, Mom’s wife must convince Mom, and Mom’s ex, and Mom’s ex’s partner that it’s time for Heather to have “the talk”. Which mom is ready to help Heather make a big decision? It’s a mother-daughter story. Times four.
An exploration into the dark, organic worlds hidden inside objects that we are surrounded by every day.
A history of bad boys and mating rituals, from Palatino to suburbia.
After a mission goes wrong, two agents seek help from an underground Doctor and receive more than they expected.
"The Korean word 'Han' has been explained as the emotional state of sorrow, grief, anger, lament, or resentment attributed to personal and historical trauma. It is also thought as a complex, ambiguous, paradoxical, unspoken and untranslatable emotional pain hidden deep inside the psyche. As a person whose native language is not Korean, I resonated with the thought that 'this' condition may be a common human theme, even though Han is Korean people's particular variation. The personal and historical stories woven together in the emotion of Han are all different from each other, but perhaps all human - regardless of divisions of nationality, gender, or generation - all can feel it in their own ways. In fact, there are many words in different languages which express the concept of Han via their own personal and cultural history.
In films, as in life, the bathtub is often considered a private space for women - a place not only to groom, but to relax, to think, to grieve, to be alone, to find sanctuary. For Hollywood, though, it's also a place of naked vulnerability, where women narratively placed in harm's way have no escape.
The Lethal Weapon franchise reduced to sax riffs. I'm too old for this shit.
