The second Cans Film Festival was held on June 27, 2024 at NODEHAUS Media

  • Wavelengths

    Dir. Ian Gilbert

    Documentary, Local Music • Runtime: 13:41

    A documentary about synthesizers and the people who love them. The film centers around three synth creators and musicians and their loves and struggles with the synthesizer community in Grand Rapids.

  • Seeing Double

    Dir. Charlie Baker

    Music Video • Runtime: 2:44

    This video explores the realms of original bluegrass music, mountain biking, and an allusion to me filming myself. My dad and I made and recorded the music, filmed everything on local trails and my backyard, and I spent upwards of 50 hours editing.

  • We Could Live Near the Beach

    Dir. Megan Christine Raisch

    Personal Drama • Runtime: 12:50

    Two sisters prepare for an upcoming shift in their relationship as they depart from beloved childhoods and enter the reality of adult life.

  • Junk Genius

    Dir. Kelley Wolf Griffith

    Documentary, Local Story • Runtime: 15:25

    Damon Drummond takes us through his process of finding worthless junk and turning it into something valuable.

    ►AUDIENCE FAVORITE, 1st place

  • Entropy - Bus

    Dir. Carly Nichols

    Music Video • Runtime: 3:59

    Boy meets girl, but only in the romantic fantasy between them riding the bus across from each other.

  • The Hallway Between Death and Rebirth (El pasillo entre la muerte y el renacimiento)

    Dir. Sebastian Rivera-Mendoza

    Personal Drama • Runtime: 12:11

    Pancho Jiménez, a young twenty-something year old man, finds out his estranged father passed away in the house he was raised in.

  • The False Finish of Thee Spyder

    Dir. Jacob J. Wilkins

    Documentary, Local Story • Runtime: 11:36

    A 43 year old man from Detroit finds new meaning in life by pursuing his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. 

    ►AUDIENCE FAVORITE, 3rd place

  • Murphy's Law - For Those Moving On From College

    Dir. Aagosh Chaudhary

    Spoken Word Poetry Film • Runtime: 10:55

    Murphy's Law is a film poem about life in college, letting things go, and coming to terms with the popular adage: Whatever can happen, will happen.

  • It's As Shrimple as That

    Dir. Bailey Blyveis

    Animation • Runtime: 2:51

    A shrimp cook learns to make it big, but does this make him happy? 

    ►AUDIENCE FAVORITE, 2nd place

  • Proteus

    Dir. Tanner Hamilton

    Sci-Fi Thriller • Runtime: 11:42

    Two stranded astronauts descend into paranoia and madness after a mysterious deep-space accident.

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