COVID Dystopia is now an Official Selection of the Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival. It will screen online starting Thursday, November 14, 2024 to Sunday, November 24, 2024. It will be available to watch in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.
I have seem three of the other films listed near COVID Dystopia at other film festivals. Complications is a wonderful film from Norway about a virtual dominatrix who berated an old man on the other end of a Zoom call. The heated moment goes haywire when he collapses from a heart attack. She then dose everything in her power to save his life. There is a tenderness to her when the speak again, but tenderness isn’t what he needs. Confessions was a charming and hilarious film about two nuns who find another sister dead at the alter. They confide in one another considering what they have not yet done with their lives. The older actresses were stellar and this is one film I hope becomes a feature film. Dandelion is a computer animated film about a robot who breaks away from his drudgery of a job when he discovers a dandelion. His curiosity leads to the chaos of joyous discovery for all.
I will be flying to Pittsburgh for one day to see a few films and go the the awards ceremony. I need to leave myself open to the possibility that I might bump into someone who understands and needs my off balance world view.