Adventures in Lockdown

From the creators of Savage Love, HUMP!, and SPLIFF

Introducing the Confinement Online Film Festival– COFF! Volume 2!
We asked you to send us your homemade short films exploring our current reality of social distancing and self-quarantine. To say your response was overwhelming is an understatement! You sent us hilarious short films, incredibly poignant vignettes, dystopian nightmares, too real anxiety spirals, silly mini-dramas, and isolation mind fucks galore! We were completely blown away! The sheer creativity of these filmmakers, young and old, is pure entertainment any way you slice it. And so thanks to you, we are proud to bring you COFF– an evening of creative solitary entertainment!

Get your tickets now for this one-of-a-kind film festival made for a one-of-a-kind time in history!

 


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The Films!

  • SELFCARE

    One woman makes sure to check all her boxes on her quarantine to-do list.

  • BIRTHDAY IN QUARANTINE

    A Chaplin-esque vignette about how to make the best of your birthday in solitude.

  • BODIES APART, MOVING TOGETHER

    This touching performance digitally weaves together dancers from all around the world into one harmonious movement.

  • BRENDA’S MURDER MYSTERY BIRTHDAY PARTY

    Things take a horrific turn when a group of friends decide to play a seemingly innocent game on Zoom in this hilarious “whodunnit” romp.

  • CORONA PANDEMIC WORMHOLE THINGY P2

    After weeks in quarantine, the UK reports a pleasant mutation in the virus that allows people to travel outside with their minds. Or is it just a hallucination from extreme isolation?

  • COVID-19 INTERVIEW

    A real respiratory therapist recounts her experiences with the virus in its early spread in this illustrated testimonial.

  • FOR A FEW ROLLS MORE

    These days, the toilet paper isle feels more like a Wild West duel than a trip to the grocery store.

  • FRESHMAN FORTY

    An essential retail worker back home from her first year at college explains how the pandemic has affected her mind and body.

  • GETTING THERE

    Sometimes it takes everything you have just to pull it together for a shower in this existential peek into one man’s mission to just do… something.

  • LOVE AT FIRST SIGN

    Looking for love during a pandemic is hard – especially when you’re picking up on all the wrong signs.

  • NOT FAKE NEWS – CV19 25th ANNIVERSARY

    It’s been more than two decades since the virus reached the U.S. This very young journalist reports the long-term effects on the world since in this funny and adorable satire.

  • PART I – THE TALK

    Jason sits his dog Kima down to explain what’s happening as the world is swept into a pandemic and what to expect going into quarantine.

  • PRIDE & PANDEMIC

    A cute and charming look into the life of one woman’s experience in confinement through the lens of Jane Austen’s classic.

  • PRIME

    This artist’s world goes from black and white routine to technicolor expressionism in this haunting piece.

  • A QUARANTEAM

    Successfully hunkered down for stay-at-home orders, there’s only one thing left to do for these three roomies to do: shroom nachos!

  • REFLECTIVE-19

    Tension builds in this found-footage pastiche about two filmmakers gone missing during the 2020 pandemic.

  • SELF ISOLATION

    As instructed by authorities, one mother isolates herself in the woods behind her house. With little survival skills, she tries to help her son from afar in this quirky short.

  • SHOOTING STAR PASTY DROPS

    For as wild the world is these days, it’s comforting to know that things are staying weird in Portland, OR as our topless protagonists deliver pasties during quarantine.

  • THE GIFT

    Hand sanitizer is a rare commodity lately and sometimes we’re our own worst enemies.

  • THE PLAGUE DOC

    This short is comprised of 1 second clips from each day in the life of a plague doctor.

  • THE VIDEO CHAT

    Something sinister is afoot in the background of this video call between two friends.

  • THIS FEAST BETTER BE FANCY

    One demanding kitty will get its catchy chorus stuck in your head in no time in this feline frenzy of a music video

  • TOILET PAPER RUN

    All precautions must be taken before this agoraphobic woman is forced to venture out for a TP run. Can she make it?

  • TP – A GILMPSE AT CONFINEMENT LIFE

    Reality quickly runs out the door before this man’s toilet paper fetish gets delusional.

  • WHO’S THERE?

    A woman stumbles upon a little magical portal in her house into that of strange man’s.

  • XOXO

    After too many games of tic-tac-toe to pass the time, things start to get dizzy.

  • CORONA PANDEMIC WORMHOLE THINGY

    After weeks in quarantine, the UK reports a pleasant mutation in the virus that allows people to travel outside with their minds. Or is it just a hallucination from extreme isolation?

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