In February 2012, the Farnsworth Art Museum and The Strand Theatre in Rockland, Maine, inaugurated a new series of short creative films entitled Rockland Shorts: An International Short Film Series. The series, shown in The Strand, includes an hour of short films selected from an open call to filmmakers. As part of the screening, select filmmakers and media artists included in the series will join in a discussion at The Strand in person or via Skype for a conversation with the audience.

Immediately following the screening, please join us in the museum for an after-event hosted by The Collective. More information on the after event may be found here.

The April 2013 screening is as follows:

• Opening work by Walter Ungerer
• Monarda – local – looping 10 minutes – abstract
• Pneuma – 1 minute – abstract
• Night Hunter – USA – 16 minutes – animation
• 38°-39°C – Korea – 8 minutes – animation
• Danse Macabre – Canada – 8 minutes 
• Secret – local work by Adam Küykendall – 3 minutes – abstract
• Du Ska Komma, Sjunger Omma – Sweden – 5 minutes – live action
• Palimpsest – USA - 17 minutes – live action
• She Who Measures – Croatia – 6 minutes – animation

Films tickets will be sold at the door prior to the screening: $8.50 general admission; $6.50 Farnsworth members. Collective members: Free!

The Program Director for Rockland Shorts is Sally Levi.

The films in the series are not rated. Please be advised that some of the films contain adult language and sexual content, and they are not suitable for young audiences.

Filmmakers are able to submit directly to:
Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland, ME 04841
All entries will be no longer than 25 minutes and will be chosen solely on the quality of the material.
 
Rockland Shorts will strive to show contemporary, questing, independent films that help define the digital generation without restriction of culture, format, formula or genre. This series is being organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum’s Education Department and Program Director Sally Levi.