RHBFF 2026: Red Hook Shorts

Overall runtime: 51 min

007 dir. Steven Carmona

Dancer & Choreographer Maggie Beutner Cheung & Filmmaker Steven Carmona explore expression and it’s relationship to the camera and being seen.

Broadchannel dir. Mia Martelli, Makenna Finch

Broadchannel is a dance-poem-music video. Moving between the Rockaway Peninsula of New York City, South Brooklyn shorelines, and a public school auditorium, the audience scopes in and out of a diary, a dance recital, a news headline, and a magic urban beach.

Brooklyn Breeze dir. Alex Budovsky

“Brooklyn Breeze” is a 2D animated musical short film. It is a visual journey through different parts of Brooklyn, some of the iconic spots and others not often seen by the visitors.

Sequester dir. Ben Schroff

Alone in a remote cabin, Mercer’s retreat turns into a nightmare as an unseen entity feeds on his isolation. As Mercer’s grip on himself weakens, it’s mirrored by his physically exploitative relationship with Theo. Caught between the two, Sequester explores a queer descent into isolation, intimacy, and the horror of being used while no one is truly listening.

Something To Be Said dir. John J. Andrews

John Andrews is a musician and animator based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. While working a temporary NYC Parks job in the neighborhood last spring and summer, broom in hand, the idea for this video took shape; A hazy love letter to a town on the cusp of inevitable change.

The Great Harvest Caper dir. Melody Bates

A classic bank heist takes a fruitful turn

The Hot Box dir. Jake Caddeau

In this traumatic-comedy, brothers rehash an incident from their childhood in a sauna.

White Point dir. Stepan Liubimov

An experimental dance short. It was an exploration of combining AI, human movement, and nature: the character’s improvisation, a drone making decisions based on its own algorithms, and nature existing by its own rules.

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