20th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival presented by Regions

Cool Kids (USA-Alabama)
dir. Michael "Bear" Praytor
artist: MRYGLD
5 min
MRYGLD reflects on their high school personas and who they are now.

HEARD (USA-Alabama)
dir. Hope Leigh
artist: Kaye the Beast
4.5 min
Four vibrant boys, a worldly rapper, and a community of ethereal dancers share a bittersweet connection

Fighter (USA)
dir. Erica Eng
artist: Supa Good D Smoke feat. Jackie Gouché + Davion Farris
6 min
A cinematic portrayal of a WorldStar Hip Hop fight.

In the Pit (USA)
dir. Jorge Abarca
artist: Lil Jon and Skellism ft. Terror Bass
3.5 min
Lil Jon and his crew kidnap a businessman.

Purgatory (USA-Alabama)
dir. Avery Malik Banks
artist: Paco
3.5 min
An artist wanders the streets of Birmingham. 

Ice Teens (France)
dir. Thomas Vernay
artist: Maud Geffray
5 min
A girl integrates a strange training center

Simple Things (USA)
dir. Jorge Abarca
artist: Above Waves
5 min
A man laments the complexities of life.

Technology (USA)
dir. Benjamin Roberds
artist: Don Broco
4 min
The video focuses on the band through the point of view of a social media-scrolling smartphone, as Don Broco play a show during a catastrophic alien invasion, to the oblivious attention of the smartphone owner… until their own untimely demise.

Punk (USA)
dir. Michael Mihail
artist: Yelawolf ft. Travis Barker, Juicy J
4 min
Moshing. Fire. Genre-bending. What more could you want?

Tennessee River Runs Low (USA-Alabama)
dir. Tyler Jones
artist: Secret Sisters
4 min
A young girl in rural Alabama sets out to build a boat and float down the river to a better place.

Modern World (USA-Alabama)
dir. Chris Hilleke & Chris Lawson
artist: Future Elevators
4 min
A thought provoking portrait of everyday people living in the modern world of New Orleans, LA.

Crystalized (USA-Alabama)
dir. E. Luke Chandler & Grayson A. Welch
artist: Halter Kids
5 min.
"Crystalized" is the brutal reality of a break-up portrayed through an outlandish and out-of-touch criminal, Trip Wood, as he struggles to cope, rushing headlong into robberies, vandalism, and eventually into the back of a police cruiser.

The Ark (Belarus)
dir. Dennis Volkov
artist: Voidstock
5.5 min
An abstract view of beautiful Norwegian scenery.

Fade (Spain)
dir. Ainhoa Rodriguez
artist: Chloe Bird
6.5 min
Conchita, a conservative and septuagenarian woman, returns home after cremating her husband. She is fed up with the suffocating social norms that have surrounded her, so she decides to break free. Meanwhile, a menacing shadow roams the house as the only companion of her solitude.

Wild (India)
dir. Tanvi Gandhi
artist: Dhruv Visvanath
4.5 min
The city of Bombay is littered with faces, with infinite stories. Imagine all the things we gloss over, all the faces we ignore, and one starts to wonder what lies beneath the surface?

Wonder Me (USA-Alabama)
dir. Lily Ahree Siegel
artist: Riley Mitchell
3 min
A whimsical, wonderful color trip.

All My Friends (USA)
dir. Lucy Munger
artist: Lens Mozer
4.5 min
A meditative, seven second animation (filmed in stop motion with collage materials) is seamlessly looped and multiplied to hypnotic effect.

Faithful (USA-Alabama)
dir. Benjamin Stark
artist: King Kwofi
4 min
A noir-inspired hip-hop video that explores a man's internal struggle with his dueling identities.

Sleepwalking (USA)
dir. Emily MacKenzie & Sasha Solodukhina
artist: The Tumbling Wheels
5 min
An alligator cannot wake up from a fever dream. 

Machine Maker (USA-Alabama)
dir. Chris Hilleke
artist: Future Elevators
2.5 min
An android laments his life as a working class maker of other androids.