Nashville Film Festival 2022: Shorts Roundup

Stoney Keeley offers up his thoughts on four different shorts screened as apart of the 2022 Nashville Film Festival!

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One of my favorite aspects of a good film festival is the selection of shorts. Why? Well, I don’t usually watch shorts except for at festivals, so I guess the mere existence of shorts connects me to that festival feeling of taking in more movies than anyone should in a short amount of time. I also think a good block of shorts can stand up with any feature from an enjoyment standpoint any day. I didn’t get to watch as many as I would’ve liked to during my coverage of the 2022 Nashville Film Festival – spoiler alert, I’m actually a football writer, and it just so happens to be football season. But, what I did get to watch, I found (mostly) thoroughly entertaining.

Aspirational Slut – A chance encounter with a pizza delivery driver sends Rosemary down a path of giving up love and just going for the cheap sex. Ellyn Jameson and Jake Nordwind were hilarious in this one, and I found it to be about the easiest 15 minutes you could ask for. This one was equal parts charming and sweet.

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know – The most obnoxious and self-absorbed person you know invites you out to an AirBnB for the weekend and then asks you to tell him something you hate about him. What could possibly go wrong? I can still feel the knot that this short put in my stomach, and I mean that in complimentary fashion. It was uncomfortable, and I never really shook the feeling that this man was going to kill everyone in the house.

Mate – A profile of a deadbeat dad doing his best to completely self-destruct, I found Mate to be two things. On one hand, it was a frustrating story of failure, toxicity, and disfunction with a guy with little to no redeeming qualities at the center of it. On the other, it was a hopeful, albeit bleak, reminder of the importance of understanding when to accept someone for who they are and walking away. It was a deeply affective short that stuck with me for awhile after I watched it.

Intimacy Workshop – I can certainly say I appreciate Eddie Prunoske‘s reminder that intimacy isn’t something that can necessarily be taught if it doesn’t come naturally, and I really dug the drab aura surrounding this story. But, it might’ve leaned a little too gray for my liking. And, there was definitely too much bloody snot.

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Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley

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