LA LOFT MOVIE CLUB presents MAN MARRIES CAR! – A One Minute Film Festival!

The Philosophical Research Society is excited to welcome LA Loft Movie Club – a quarterly one-minute film festival which showcases the best of animation, comedy and video art – for their first screening of 2025 – MAN MARRIES CAR!. This special evening promises to bring a one of a kind, mindblowing, twisted, and hilarious collection of 60 second films exploring the wide open-to-interpretation prompt of humans/object love!

Since the inaugural screening Your Lunch Break is One Minute!, the festival has kept each prompt as outlandish and open to interpretation, with other titles like Above the Clouds, Below the Earth and Strike in the Arena!. By soliciting submissions based on a theme rather than asking for preexisting works, LLMC aims to bring together a whole that’s more than the sum of its parts, a kaleidoscopic thrill-ride of every possible interpretation of a given phrase. The sign-up-to-participate model is also an iteration of the festival’s DIY ethos— believing in the ability of artists to create great work at every stage of production value, of commitment, and of their career. The one minute model is designed to give filmmakers the excuse to put as much or little effort into executing their idea as they see necessary. This mix of mediums, interpretations and approaches create a kind of collective unconscious response to the prompt which must be seen to be believed.

Their first festival of 2025, Man Marries Car! pushes the LLMC filmmakers beyond the reaches of typical romantic love… into the realm of love between man and object! Collections, obsessions, favorite toys or trusted machinery, this program of one-minute films will span different mediums and go deep into some previously unexplored quasi-romantic territory.

On February 2nd, LLMC is excited to partner with the Philosophical Research Society for the first time in a program that will delight and shock you!

ABOUT LA LOFT MOVIE CLUB

LA Loft Movie Club is a quarterly one-minute film festival, showcasing the best of animation, comedy and video art since 2022. Originally housed in a DTLA loft, they’ve gone on to screen at venues like Whammy! Analog Media, Braindead Studios, and even New York’s Roxy Cinema. They feature a strong community of interdisciplinary artists who come together four times a year to make one big, crazy amalgamation of one minute movies.

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