Objects of Infection Block (4 films | rehearsal hall)
Briefcase | Directed by John FreelyKirk | 2025 | USA
A jogger encounters a masked stranger in the woods, who insists she looks inside his briefcase.
The Rug | Directed by Sean Cisterna | 2024 | Canada
Made with a crew of creative senior citizens, this short horror film centres around Edna, a senior aged woman who discovers that a discarded throw rug she has found will, for lack of a better word, digest anything left under it. The more it digests, the more it wants. After devouring her pesky landlord and a nosey cop, the rug has gotten so frisky that Edna finds herself trapped in her own home with no way out.
El Jardin | Directed by Ben Labadia & Olivia Wezdenko | 2025 | USA
A man becomes so dangerously obsessed with his garden that he will sacrifice anything to help it flourish.
Firecrow | Directed by Markham Samuels | 2024 | Canada
Two farm workers are tasked with moving a cryptic scarecrow one day, which unbeknownst to them, has been afflicted with a powerful curse.
