In addition to over 50 feature films, 11 short film blocks and over a dozen special presentations, the Atlanta Film Festival is also home to a highly buzzed music video competition. Showcased mostly at our special event The Goat Farm Arts Center Presents SOUND + VISION, nearly two dozen music videos will be seen and enjoyed by a wide audience as they compete for the Grand Jury Prize.

Attached to Features

• Metube - Daniel Moshel – USA - 2:00
  Paying tribute to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, George Bizet’s “Habanera” from “Carmen” has been reinterpreted by oratorio tenor August Schram and enhanced with electronic sounds . 

The Goat Farm Arts Center Presents SOUND + VISION - Experimental Film Block

• Forrest Swords - 'Thor's Stone' - Dave Ma – USA – 4:00
  An intense metamorphosis occurs as a man awakens on a dark empty street and struggles to gain working control of his body in order to get home.
• Go Softly - Josh Yoder – USA – 31:00
  A little girl and her doll mysteriously wake up in the middle of an otherworldly autumn woods. The two travel through this foreign place encountering some alien—often grotesque—characters along the way. *Experimental Short Film, Not a Music Video
• y2o - Dominique T. Skoltz – Canada – 29:00
  “y2o” navigates troubled water, between suffocation and exaltation, between consummation and relinquishment, between yes and no, from both under the ski and on its surface. *Experimental Short Film, Not a Music Video
• His Eyes Are Closed - Kathleen Lee - Australia – 5:00
  A visual exploration of the day to day human tendency to continuously strive for goals that are often unattainable and unneeded.

Music Video Competition

• “Lesson #16 For Beatmaster V/Fun”
  performed by Deathcrush, directed by Kenneth Karlstad
• “Atlantis 1997”
  performed by Futurecop, directed by Ariel Belziti
•  “Luma”
  performed by Man Ray Sky, directed by Andrew Sowerby
• “Hallucination Generation”
  performed by Biters, directed by Video Rahim
• “Separated”
  performed by Stan Lee Cole, directed  by Mark Borgions
• “Stop ou Encore”
  performed by Plastic Bertrand, directed by Georgia Fu
• “Plans”
  performed by Dead!Wait?, directed by John Henderson
• “Broken Doll”
  performed by Tesla Boy, directed by Darya Zhuk
• “Run Away”
  performed by Sandra Kolstad, directed by Yenni Lee
• “His Eyes Are Closed”
  performed by Kathleen Marylee, directed by Kathleen Marylee
• “Don't Let Me Go (She Ain't Mad)”
  performed by Ruckazoid, directed by Alexander Dueckminos
• “Switzerland”
  performed by The Dewars, directed by Brady Bigakle
• “Melt”
  performed by KAMP!, directed by Tomasz Wlazinski
• “Putin Lights Up The Fires”
  performed by Pussy Riot, directed by Erik Boccio
• “Kings”
  performed by CoastGaard, directed by Frank Jerky
• “Us”
  performed by Movement, directed by Dave Ma
• "Shadow Braid"
  performed by Del Vinicci, directed by Ian Cone
• "Synced"
  performed by Deadnote, directed by Rupert Hoeller & Bernhard Wenger