by Trevor Sheffield The short film is a time-honored genre. Sometimes informative, sometimes thrilling, and sometimes absolutely mind-boggling, the short film is a place where documentarians, animators, and storytellers can experiment and hone their craft on a smaller scale. This year at the Heartland Film Festival, audiences were able to observe the crème of the crop from Heartland’s Short Film Festival this past summer, and to put it bluntly, it’s nuts.
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Directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr The Burden Min Börda The BurdenThe Happiness Machine
Directed by Rebecca Blumhagen The Burden The Happiness Machine$30 To Antarctica
Directed by Joey Chu $30 To AntarcticaAlternative Math
Directed by David Maddox Alternative MathFeatured Image: Heartland
