SHORTS: LARGER THAN LIFE

Portraits of everyday characters. Tiger Hood (USA, 7 min., Christopher André Marks) profiles Patrick, an urban golfer who has a mean trashcan handicap. Pink Boy (USA, 15 min., Eric Rockey) shows us that real boys wear tutus. Inventor Dominic wants to make everyone’s life sweeter in The Reinvention of Normal (UK, 8 min., Liam Saint-Pierre). Dunk Tank Clowns (USA, 14 min., Daniel McGuire) talk about roasting strangers and getting soaked for laughs. Criminal attorney Frank Rothman (USA, 20 min., Nader Sadre) made sure he didn’t grow up like his small-time gangster father. In Heavy Fog Tonight (USA, 19 min., Nathan Reich), meet Conrad, chief engineer at Pratt Institute, and keeper of the steam whistle.