Winona Weber

A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.

Kersti Jan Werdal’s Test Piece critically examines the art of filmmaking as a synthesis of conceptual construction and intricate editing. Inspired by Straub-Huillet, the film deconstructs the fundamental elements of film, image, sound, and text, to create a space for reflection and thought rather than conventional narrative explanation or emotional immersion.

Apparatus Screen presents Purgatorio

This queer coming of age short film depicts the feeling of having to prove your own sexuality after coming out in high school.

When her boyfriend’s liquor store robbery doesn’t go as she dreamt it, a young woman begins to wonder whether her Hollywood fantasies will ever be realized.