NYC online screening
May 21, 2020London Screening!
October 26, 2018
Watch The Film Here!
June 13, 2018Letterboxd
March 30, 2018
CINEMATISKE RÆDSLER I MØRKET
February 27, 2018
Audience Award Winner at Night Terrors!
February 11, 2018
Night Terrors Score Sheet
February 4, 2018
Collage
January 17, 2018
Shudder and Nitehawk!
January 2, 2018
Streaming on SHUDDER soon…
January 2, 2018Co-programmed by Sam Zimmerman (Curator, Shudder) and Caryn Coleman (Director of Programming, Nitehawk Cinema) these poignant and fun short films represent the very best of new horror voices.
The short films featured include: ELEGY (directed by CJ Gardella), UNDRESS ME (directed by Amelia Moses), THE MUSIC LESSON (directed by Adam R. Brown & Kyle I. Kelley), VORE (directed by Lauren Erwin), THE CALL GIRLS(directed by Juice), YOUR DATE IS HERE (directed by Todd Spence & Zak White), and CRESWICK (directed by Natalie Erika James).
“For access to the streaming platforms, please visit SundanceNow.com and Shudder.com. Visit the Nitehawk Shorts Festival official website for more information on the festival.”
https://hellnotes.com/awesome-the-nitehawk-shorts-festival-has-teamed-up-with-sundance-and-shudder/
Full Lineup Night Terrors FF…
January 1, 2018
Night Terrors FF…
December 31, 2017
Night Terrors FF, Denmark
December 30, 2017ELEGY will screen in Copenhagen on Feb. 7 and in Aarhus, Denmark the following day (!)
LA and UK screenings…
November 19, 2017
Panavision Grant from Nitehawk Short FF
November 13, 2017$7500 to put into the coffers for the next film…
Best of Shorts on Tap
November 5, 2017
UK Screening
November 1, 2017
Fest Announcements…
October 23, 2017
Shorts on Tap
October 7, 2017
Shorts on Tap- To Hell & Back Anthology
October 4, 2017
Video Nasty & Nightmares FF
September 24, 2017
Nightmares FF
September 19, 2017
Video Nasty FF
September 16, 2017
THE OFFICIAL SELECTIONS!
Attack of the Handface People
Todd Redenius
USA
Clowns Are Real
Erik Ros
NETHERLANDS
Croak
Matt Barrett
USA
Elegy
Chad Gardella
USA
Gelosia
Adriano Ingrao
GERMANY
Goodbye God, I’ve Gone To Bodie
Kirby Wright
USA
Haematophilia
Walt Bladt
BELGIUM
Meat
Antoine Osorio
FRANCE
Singularity
Alex Thornburg
USA
The Bootyman
Charlie Dunn
USA
The Defiler
Artturi Rostén
FINLAND
The Future Is So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)
Julien Eon
FRANCE
The Jerry Show
Stephen Stull
USA
Vertical Lines
Miles Shephard
USA
What’s For Dinner
FarmWig Hill Films
USA
Screening Deets…
September 9, 2017
Nitehawk FF/ NJ Horror Con
September 6, 2017
Avanti!
August 12, 2017
Verona IFF
August 4, 2017
Thanks Somerville IFF!
July 17, 2017
Best Narrative Feature Film
Halumim / Beneath the Sile by Erez Mizrahi and Sahar Shavit
Best Narrative Short Film
Tricks by Melina Maraki
Best Documentary Feature Film
Make Me Dance by Tatyana Bronstein
Best Underground Film
Elegy by CJ Gardella
Best Documentary Short Film
Sherry by Eliane Lima
Best Experimental Film
Prison Island by Susan DeLeo
Best Animated Film
Beetles in Boxes by Wojtek Skowron
Somerville FF
July 6, 2017
Bloody Judge Award Arrived
June 29, 2017A nice chunk of marble arrived in the mail today (!) Thank you director Richard Stanley and the Portland Horror FF for the kudos to ELEGY. It will go on the shelf next to my “Sparky” Spirit of Slamdance audience award for SHUNKA (2011).
Another review out of PHFF…
June 28, 2017“…A man and a woman walk the lonely halls of the house, attempting to not antagonize each-other, but rather understand the mysteries of the dead and the dying, and even returning back to a kind of existence. A strange kind of harmony exists, with the insects and those who feed off of death, and that which withers finds a kind of quiet beauty in its preservation…some kind of descent into madness to study the whole process of death, and perhaps, how love never actually dies.”
Portland Horror Film Festival 2017: Longer-Length Horror Shorts
Somerville IFF!!
June 23, 2017
Bloody Judge Award from Richard Stanley
June 16, 2017“We aim for diversity both in our film offerings and in critical viewing. We asked Guest Judge Richard Stanley (Director of Hardware, Dust Devil) to weigh in and choose his favorite film. I think the one that rises to the top of the pack must be ‘ELEGY’ …with its artsy Terence Malick style introspection. With intense and gorgeous close-up nature photography, lyrical transitions, and sound design, “Elegy” is an extremely accomplished experimental film. Gardella deftly weaves images together, creating an emotional and existential catharsis.”
Nightmarish Conjurings Review
June 15, 2017
CJ Gardella’s ELEGY is grotesquely alluring; lovely images of nature decaying, extreme close-ups of bugs with way too many legs, and the emotional toll of a loved ones death that you just can’t shake…
Bloody Judge Award at PHFF
June 12, 2017Pleased to announce that ELEGY has won the “Bloody Judge Award” at PHFF- the favorite film chosen by a guest celebrity judge. This year, Richard Stanley director of Hardware (1990) and Dust Devil (1992) served said duties. BIG thanks to the Portland Horror Film Fest, Brian and Gwen Callahan, for inviting ELEGY to this year’s fest!!
Goule D’or (Festival Director’s Award):
Lilith’s Awakening – Dir. Monica Demes
Main de Gloire (Jury Award):
Black Ring – Dir. Hasan Can Dagli
Bloody Judge Award (guest Judge Richard Stanley):
Elegy – Dir. CJ Gardella
Horde Award (Audience Choice):
Happy Hunting – Dir. Joe Dietsch/Louie Gibson
Funny Bone Award (Best Horror Comedy):
Death Metal – Dir. Chris McInroy
Abby Normal Award (for Innovation):
Earworm – Dir. Tara Price
Best Bumper:
Popcorn Slasher – Dir. Steven Jackley
Masque Rouge (Best Performance):
John Crosthwaite in The Dark Hunger
Encore screening in London
June 11, 2017
Poster by Josh Bayer
June 9, 2017
London Shorts on Tap Film Festival
May 25, 2017
Screening Times
April 26, 2017
Film Program
April 25, 2017
Going to MdFF
April 22, 2017
Some pics from the KS Screening
March 1, 2017
Thanks Keith for the pics.
Thomas Ligotti
February 9, 2017“Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real. And to suffer a solitary madness seems the joy of paradise in which one’s own madness merely emulates that of the world. I have been lured away by dreams; all is nonsense now.”
-excerpt from The Sect of The Idiot
Quote
February 2, 2017“I believe that we’re all haunted houses. We all are spooked by the ghosts of people we’ve hurt and who’ve hurt us, people we’ve loved and lost.”
-Peter Rollins
Finishing Touches
January 23, 2017
KS Update, Mix is D-O-N-E
December 31, 2016BIG thanks to Mariusz, Martin, Jay Rubin, Jay Pack and Kuri for carrying us through the mix. A few tweaks and screw tightening to picture and she’s done!
Kickstarter Update
December 14, 2016We’re nearly there! We still have some final tweaks to picture and sound. Once finished, we’ll arrange a screening. It’ll be great to see everyone and for those that can’t make it, to share the finished film.
There’s a tradition of ghost storytelling during Christmas. M.R. James would tell stories to the students at Eton on Christmas eve. One of those (nearly) students curiously enough was the actor Christopher Lee…actually went to Wellington, but they met and he later played M.R. James in a BBC Christmas special. A lesser known, still living author, American too, that I highly recommend for a good ghost story on Christmas is Thomas Ligotti. His story The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise evokes the spectral mood and seasonal ambience with skillful exactitude.
“Around Christmastime the many-faceted windows of my aunt’s residence took on a candied glaze in the pink, blue, green and other-colored lights strung about their perimeters. More often in the old days- Remember them, Jack- a thick December fog rolled off the not-yet-frozen lake and those kaleidoscopic windows would throw their spectrums into the softening haze. This, to my child’s senses, was the image and atmosphere defining the winter holiday: a serene congregation of colors that for a time turned our everyday world into one where mysteries abounded.”
–The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise, Thomas Ligotti
This time last year, shootin’ in the cold:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/375515153/elegy/posts/1764027
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