Sixteen Film Institute

From critically acclaimed directors, rare and unseen documentaries to raising new voices, Sixteen Film Institute’s mission is to invite its audience to discover new visual territories. Since 2021 we have screened online for free more than 50 short films.

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  1. Work Out

    Directed by Jack Davison and styled by Ai Kamoshita, this short film is a surrealist take on work out session.
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  2. Drink Wild Air

    An ode to California's surf town San Clemente, directed by Ward&Kweskin.

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  3. Fran This Summer

    Teenage lovebirds, sensitive Francis and skater Angie, spend the summer together while Fran begins their transition.
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  4. L'heure Bleue

    End of the school year. Start of summer vacation. Alice steals her brother's car to accompany Diane, her best friend, to an unknown destination.
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  5. Moving

    A woman makes a Sisyphean attempt to get a mattress up the staircase into her new walk-up apartment.
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  6. Slapper

    Taylah is a rebellious, destitute teen from rural Australian suburbia. After a brief sexual encounter, Taylah must scrape together money for the morning-after pill, before it’s too late.
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  7. Rodeo Queen

    A young rodeo queen from California gets ready to compete for the ultimate pageant, the Miss Rodeo America competition in Las Vegas.

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  8. Christone "Kingfish" Ingram

    Christone "Kingfish" Ingram directed by Rahim Fortune his home town of Clarksdale, Mississippi for Sixteen Journal Volume 6.
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  9. Puebla York

    Directed by Ricky Alvarez
    Styled by Marcus Correa

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  10. Cerro Alto

    Directed by Xavier Encinas and styled by Victoire Simonney, Cerro Alto is an ode to Mediterranean mysticism.
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  11. Makaya McCraven x Carhartt WIP

    Fruit of the collaboration of Carhartt WIP and Sixteen Journal, this film captures the live performance of American jazz drummer Makaya McCraven and its group during a private concert in Paris in 2020.
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  12. The Sound of New York

    The Sound of New York features the new generation of Hip-Hop artists like Diani, Fly Anakin, Pink Siifu and Savannah Harris for Sixteen Volume 6.
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