TITE Film Festival: Camera Shorts (+Q&A)

CLUB 18+121 min

Is a camera your friend, or your enemy? Is it recording you for surveillance, or for the archive? Can you kiss the camera? Can a camera kill you? These are just some of the questions posed across ten ambitious, punk, dreamy, and textural films, opening up our relationship to everyday video cameras.

Screening followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Total runtime: 86’

RAT+CAMMIE=FOREVER (2025, Canada, 12’)

Dir. / Writ. Marissa Sean Cruz

Meeting on a digital self-help app and united by unrealized aspirations, a sentient webcam and an isolated ratgirl’s late night conversations develop into a profound connection.

Time Capsule (2024, USA, 5’)

Dir. / Writ. Constanze Brodbeck

Through interactions with a self who has yet to exist, Constanze creates a time capsule for herself in 10 years, exploring themes of aging, transition, and consciousness.

giiwe πρό bizhiw / bizhiw πρό giiwe (2025, Canada, 4’)

Dir. / Writ. mystery byrd

A home video, dedicated to the filmmaker’s baby.

Unhappy Sexy Girl (2025, Canada, 7’)

Dir. / Writ. Cassidy Civiero

Through revisiting achingly vulnerable phone videos, the filmmaker revisits his life pre-transition, when he could only cope by constantly using marijuana and sexualising himself for others.

Trans American (2025, USA, 11’)

Dir. JudebirdBR>

A diary film captures a group of trans friends visiting a fair after an anti-ICE protest in North Carolina.

Emile is Missing (2025, Australia, 16’)

Dir. Sam Carson & Félix Morreo Zisserman

Writ. Sam Carson & Olive Bilic

Following the disappearance of her girlfriend, a trans filmmaker discovers EMILECAM, a 24-hour livestream which had been devoted to spying on her.

How to Mosh (2024, USA, 4’)

Dir. / Writ. Ross Jeffers

Reflections on toxic masculinity catapult the filmmaker through webcam diaries, VRChat and a brief guide on how to handle yourself in a mosh.

Christ Complex (2025, USA, 5’)

Dir. / Writ. Constanze Brodbeck

Constanze examines her relationship to Christ, community, and embodiment through a series of phone diaries.

Blair’s Craft Projects (2024, USA, 2’)

Dir. / Writ. Jack Warren

In October of 2023, an influencer disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a DIY craft video. A year later this footage was found.

Vollúpya (2024, Brazil, 20’)

Dir. Éri Sarmet & Jocimar Dias Jr.

Writ. Hadija Chalupe & Éri Sarmet

An intergalactic traveller seeking traces of his ancestors discovers VHS tapes filmed in the queer nightclub Vollúpya, which transport him back to the dance floors of 1990s Brazil.