When Sophie Stark uploads her silicon artwork online — it takes the Furby toy of the past and reinvents it in organic and often disturbing ways — she becomes a viral success and goes into business full-time selling her creations.

I really loved Pacey Hansen’s film, as it makes one confront the expected nature of a toy from the past but when the expectation of what we see it as is changed by removing the fur or making it out of other organic matter, it becomes upsetting to some. When the familiar changes just enough, it edges toward horror, as if we skipped directly from Mickey Mouse’s first incarnation and then never saw the steps to where he is today. The streamlining would hurt our eyes.

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You can see Sophie Stark’s artwork on her official page and Instagram. To see videos of her work being created, visit her YouTube page.

There’s a first part of this — Cubed Row is the second issue in the ongoing series This Space Space — so I have no idea how much I’ve missed, but judging on how little of this I could comprehend, I’m going to say it was a metric fuckton.

Wilde and the other beings discover the structure and inevitable collapse of the Ovra, which means that these aliens all dressed in form-fitting costumes must now work to continue all existence from, well, existing.

This anthology series is supposedly not connected, so maybe I didn’t miss anything. I’ll be on the lookout for whatever comes next, because it was so delightfully weird.

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Directed by Patrick Scopick, this short sounds like 2000s Evanescence and goes completely over the top as a young woman wakes up from a nightmare and begins working her way through a strange new world. This feels — again — as mid-2000s Hot Topic as it gets and I say that with perhaps some nostalgia.

Just look at the description the filmmakers give: “A musical odyssey inside a strange world torn apart by psychedelic incoherence, where music alters reality.”

Wake me up indeed.

The artist whose music makes up this short, A Band Named Desire, state that “The Laws of Nature are written by the act of Observation. If a mass hallucination were induced, an incoherence would be created. We would no longer be spectators of reality, but rather, the authors of it.”

You can see some more of the videos that make up this movie on their Instagram and YouTube pages.

There’s definitely some talent from everyone in this. And it’s definitely earnest. Your mileage may vary based on how much Nightwish and Lacuna Coil you’ve listened to.

In this claymation short, a man discovers that the minutes and hours tick down at his mundane job, he is growing older and can’t stop it from happenig. Is there any purpose in his life? Or is he a cog turning toward oblivion?

Are all of our jobs just pushing the same red button over and over again? If I miss one paycheck, my life would tumble into a decline that I could never recover from, my rock I push up the hill rolling over and over me, grinding me into wet bones, as I struggle even now to make payments on bills that grow larger than the roof of my home.

So I get it. Even if I’m not made of clay and pushing a red button.

“There’s a room where the light won’t find you. Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down. When they do, I’ll be right behind you.”

Writers, directors and stars Addie Doyle — who plays Bob — and Lee Hurst — who plays Joe — have survived the end of the world only to battle over who rules the world, whatever is left of it, and then one of the last living mice on Earth gets killed and the two fight it out.

Basically, if our current apocalypse has taught me anything, the armageddon in this movie is much more likely than anything in Mad Max. 

I really liked how this all came together. It took me a bit of time to get on board, but by the end, I wanted this to be a much longer film.

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By a stream in the woods that exists between between worlds, two women — played by Amanda Seyfried and Sharon Washington — meet one another as they stand ankle deep in the water. It is a time of letting go of where they have been and discovering the world that is to come in this meditative and beautiful short film.

Directed by Samantha Soule and written by Daniel Talbott, who also worked on the upcoming films Midday Black Midnight Blue and Ain’t It Though together, this was a nice moment of zen amongst the normal blood and sleaze that runs in this home theater.

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Based on the Carlton Mellick III novel Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen, Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes, this movie lives up to its title because there’s a cute boy named Ethan and there’s a cute girl with strange eyes and spiders in her hair and they go on a cute date and then her face fucking explodes. It lives up to the title and then some.

This whole movie is the sweetest of ice cream, jet age Americana and Disney Channel-looking teenage daydream glitter-coated make your heart flutter romcom and then, you know, faces fucking explode.

There aren’t enough stars to rate this movie.

Plus: Anthony Cousins, who directed and wrote this, also made “The Night He Came Back Again! Part IV: The Final Kill” in the near-perfect Scare Package.

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Horizon Research System has changed the world.

And they’re sorry for that.

In my advertising life, I’ve had to make corporate videos — one for Snausages had a client say the most amazing phrase I’ve ever heard in my career, “You’ll use Smashmouth in the video and you’ll fucking like it!” followed by the phone getting slammed like a cartoon bad guy — and I’ve had to make apology statements, so this stock footage driven short, brought to you by Horizon Research Systems, who wants to help you achieve the life of your dreams as well as the life you deserve feels like something I’ve had to make. Like the thank you for working for us videos with Starship’s”We Built This City” or the new year kickoff video about all the new oceans ahead that started with the Titanic getting launched and we couldn’t talk any of the creative directors out of it or explain to them why it was a bad idea.

This, however, is a very good idea.

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Man, this movie looks gorgeous, as an astronaut drifts through space in a ruined spaceship, sifting through both space and memory in order to better understand his place in the universe. It’s all imagery with words over top, a lament for a dead world, achieving near poetry in both visual and audio form.

Director and writer Casey T. Malone has made nearly twenty projects in the last ten years; this is the first that I have seen but I am now hunting down the rest. I also love that the character in the story is called The Space Man. His voice is from Mario Andre Alberts and it’s perfection to these ears.

You can see more of Malone’s work here.

The Chattanooga Film Fest ends tomorrow at 11:59 PM EDT. To get a Last Gasp Pass for just $32, visit the official site now.