Junk Dump Film Festival 2025: Day One

Museum of the Moving Image and Junk Dump Magazine will present Junk Dump’s fifth annual short film festival. Junk Dump Magazine is a not-for-profit arts organization that produces a semi-annual print publication and events like Junk Dump Film Festival, which highlights emerging and underrepresented filmmakers working at the intersection of video art and storytelling. The festival presents a curated program of narrative, animated, and experimental short films made by artists using unique processes to tell singular and engaging stories. 

This year’s selection was curated by guest judges from two New York-based production companies. Guest Judge Jessica DiMento represents Analoga, an independent New York City–based production company that champions emerging filmmakers by producing unconventional and offbeat narrative and commercial work. Guest judges Erica Pappas and Jake Silbermann represent Secret Beach Productions, a full-service production house based in Brooklyn that develops dynamic stories from visionary voices from idea to final cut. Together with a network of talented creatives, Secret Beach creates projects that are thoughtful, provocative, innovative, and unforgettable. Their award-winning films have been featured at festivals worldwide. 

Day One programming will include the selection of seven narrative shorts. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and a reception in the lobby. Go to Day Two, June 27. 

Screening run time approx. 100 min. 

Featuring: 

All Boys 
Dir. Nic Inglese, U.S., 2024, 11 mins. A Catholic school retreat goes off the rails when four boys and a priest play a disastrous game of telephone. 

Shrink 
Dir. Aliza Jawahar, Canada, 2024, 19 mins. Dr. Harper Angst, disillusioned with her stagnant therapeutic practice, faces a pivotal moment when her client, Lewis, confronts her. 

Something’s Wrong with Kit 
Dir. Lida Everhart, U.S., 2024, 19 mins. A newly turned teenage vampire struggles to keep her violent nature a secret from her overbearing mother. 

Awit Natin (Our Song) 
Dir. Pacqui Pascual, U.S., 2024, 10 mins 

Mamie 
Dir Pedro Tamames, Spain, 2024, 15:00. Carla receives a disturbing call from her mother, Anne. Her grandmother, Mamie, wants to die. With this news they decide to travel to be together, for the last time, the three of them and say goodbye to Mamie. The meeting, initially affectionate, turns muddy as old grudges buried under a history of family abandonment come to light. 

All Day Elliptical 
Dir. Boothe Carlson, U.S., 2024, 11:00. An older woman, Clara, cannot find her way to a child’s birthday party. Interactions with strangers reveal the chasm between herself and the world around her. Wandering the city, Clara is in movement but covers little distance. 

Breadwinner 
Dir. Camila Grimaldi, U.S., 2024, 16:23. An obsessive baker moves in with her boyfriend just as her sourdough starter develops a sinister craving. 

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.