Comedy Shorts

We’ve feuding couples and over-endowed actors, a murderous bird and a cute cockroach, revenge from beyond the grave, and quite a lot of sexual confusion in a programme guaranteed to give the funny bone a good rattle.

LAST WILL & TESTAMENT, INC
(Wri / Dir / Prod / Cast: John Venable, Prod / Cast: Charles Baker, Charles Halford, Patrick Sane, USA, 2016, 9 min)
A father finds a novel means of taking revenge on his next of kin after his death…

STUCK
(Dir: Mathijs Geijskes, Wri: Jelle Van Der Schaaf, Prod: Ralf Verbeek, Netherlands, 2016, 10 min)
Following a car crash, middle-aged married couple Harm and Helena find themselves trapped, upside down in their car by the side of a remote road. Can their relationship survive?

THE LOG
(Wri / Dir: Teemu Nikki, Prod: Jani Pösö, Finland, 2016, 7 min)
The director wants frontal nudity, but the actor has too much to show.

OUIJA SEX
(Dir: Mondo Ghulam, Wri: Leander Thom, Benedetta Basile, UK, 2017, 4 min 36 sec)
When a heart-broken man tries to contact his deceased girlfriend, he discovers she wants more than just a chat…

FROM THE GUT
(Wri / Dir: Jay Hollinsworth, Prod: Ashland Viscosi, USA, 2016, 12 min 28 sec)
Gerald Lindsay, an outwardly normal guy-next-door possesses the mysterious ability to vomit objects out of thin air.

MOZART
(Wri / Dir: Anders Lindved, Prod: Thomas Meldgaard, Denmark, 2017, 7 min 14 sec)
A caged bird plots a murder on its owner to gain its freedom…

#SELFIE
(Wri / Dir: David M. Lorenz, Prod: FILMMENSCHEN Filmproduktionen, Germany, 2016, 7 min)
The ending of a relationship as seen through a mobile phone.

PENTHOUSE SWEET
(Wri / Prod / Dir: Marcus C. W. Chan, USA, 2017, 8 min 53 sec)
A sit-com actress must decide whether to apply the lesson her character learns in the show to a real life crisis when she loses her phone on which she has stored some sensitive videos.

GIRL MEETS ROACH
(Dir Christopher Zatta, Wri / Prod / Star: Alison Zatta, USA, 2017, 17 min)
Dumped just before Christmas, a broken-hearted young woman forms an unlikely friendship…with a cockroach.

THE HONEYMOON
(Wri / Dir: Ruth Pickett, Prod: Square Cat Films, UK, 2017, 12 min 35 sec)
A newlywed Christian couple go on their honeymoon to what they believe to be a quaint B&B in the Welsh countryside. But the cottage turns out to be a sex den, and events go horribly wrong.

Part of Kinofilm Festival. See the full Burgess programme here. See the full Kinofilm programme here.