perfectly a strangeness
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Cannes 2024 Official Selection
TIFF Canada's Top 10
Chicago International Film Festival Silver Hugo Award
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Grand Prize Award
Website: https://perfectlyastrangeness.com/
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/989176547
TIFF Canada's Top 10
Chicago International Film Festival Silver Hugo Award
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Grand Prize Award
Website: https://perfectlyastrangeness.com/
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/989176547
To tell a tall, uncontrived, surprising tale in picture and sound and re-define what a story can be.
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of the soul.”
Ingmar Bergman
#oscars2026
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of the soul.”
Ingmar Bergman
#oscars2026
December 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
To tell a tall, uncontrived, surprising tale in picture and sound and re-define what a story can be.
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of the soul.”
Ingmar Bergman
#oscars2026
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of the soul.”
Ingmar Bergman
#oscars2026
🎬 perfectly a strangeness will be screening in New York and Los Angeles as part of the 2026 Cinema Eye Honors Shorts List. With the other great films being shown, it's not one to miss!
New York: www.dctvny.org/s/firehousec...
Los Angeles: vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-...
#cinemaeyehonors
New York: www.dctvny.org/s/firehousec...
Los Angeles: vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-...
#cinemaeyehonors
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🎬 perfectly a strangeness will be screening in New York and Los Angeles as part of the 2026 Cinema Eye Honors Shorts List. With the other great films being shown, it's not one to miss!
New York: www.dctvny.org/s/firehousec...
Los Angeles: vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-...
#cinemaeyehonors
New York: www.dctvny.org/s/firehousec...
Los Angeles: vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-...
#cinemaeyehonors
🎞️ Honoured that Tramway Film Festival has awarded it's Best Film CINE SIN FINE award to perfectly a strangeness!
🫏 🏜️ 📡 🌌
#tramwayfilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
🫏 🏜️ 📡 🌌
#tramwayfilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🎞️ Honoured that Tramway Film Festival has awarded it's Best Film CINE SIN FINE award to perfectly a strangeness!
🫏 🏜️ 📡 🌌
#tramwayfilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
🫏 🏜️ 📡 🌌
#tramwayfilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
🎞️Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival has selected perfectly a strangeness as its 2025 Best Canadian Short!
We're honoured to receive this recognition. Planet in Focus is inspiring in how they use film to create discussion on diverse environmental issues and solutions
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We're honoured to receive this recognition. Planet in Focus is inspiring in how they use film to create discussion on diverse environmental issues and solutions
🫏 🏜️ 📡
October 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🎞️Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival has selected perfectly a strangeness as its 2025 Best Canadian Short!
We're honoured to receive this recognition. Planet in Focus is inspiring in how they use film to create discussion on diverse environmental issues and solutions
🫏 🏜️ 📡
We're honoured to receive this recognition. Planet in Focus is inspiring in how they use film to create discussion on diverse environmental issues and solutions
🫏 🏜️ 📡
The Cinema Eye Honors 2026 Short List has recognized perfectly a strangeness!
It's a great honour to be included with the other great short films on the list 🎞️ 🎉
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
It's a great honour to be included with the other great short films on the list 🎞️ 🎉
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Cinema Eye Honors 2026 Short List has recognized perfectly a strangeness!
It's a great honour to be included with the other great short films on the list 🎞️ 🎉
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
It's a great honour to be included with the other great short films on the list 🎞️ 🎉
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
🎊 Very excited to announce that perfectly a strangeness will be having it's Midwest Premiere at Indy Shorts International Film Festival!
🕐 17:15, Thursday, July 24th
📍 Living Room Theaters
#IndyShorts2025 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
🕐 17:15, Thursday, July 24th
📍 Living Room Theaters
#IndyShorts2025 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
July 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🎊 Very excited to announce that perfectly a strangeness will be having it's Midwest Premiere at Indy Shorts International Film Festival!
🕐 17:15, Thursday, July 24th
📍 Living Room Theaters
#IndyShorts2025 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
🕐 17:15, Thursday, July 24th
📍 Living Room Theaters
#IndyShorts2025 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
🇨🇦 What could be a better way to spend Canada Day than watching Canadian cinema?
🔗 Check out the link in bio to watch perfectly a strangeness on Crave now!
#crave #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm #streaming #canadaday
🔗 Check out the link in bio to watch perfectly a strangeness on Crave now!
#crave #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm #streaming #canadaday
July 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🇨🇦 What could be a better way to spend Canada Day than watching Canadian cinema?
🔗 Check out the link in bio to watch perfectly a strangeness on Crave now!
#crave #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm #streaming #canadaday
🔗 Check out the link in bio to watch perfectly a strangeness on Crave now!
#crave #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm #streaming #canadaday
POV of the donkey POV
#behindthescenes #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm
#behindthescenes #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm
June 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
POV of the donkey POV
#behindthescenes #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm
#behindthescenes #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm
🎬 Catch perfectly a strangeness at the 27th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival this Sunday, June 22nd, at 11:00!
📍 The Bioscope Independent Cinema, 44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf
#Encounters27 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
📍 The Bioscope Independent Cinema, 44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf
#Encounters27 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
June 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
🎬 Catch perfectly a strangeness at the 27th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival this Sunday, June 22nd, at 11:00!
📍 The Bioscope Independent Cinema, 44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf
#Encounters27 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
📍 The Bioscope Independent Cinema, 44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf
#Encounters27 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.
June 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.
The sun goes down, night comes, and the observatory come to life
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm #donkeys
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm #donkeys
June 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The sun goes down, night comes, and the observatory come to life
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm #donkeys
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm #donkeys
“It was really amazing to work with a composer like Ben who works with instruments that many people won’t know. I wanted a sense of improvisation, and not wearing this hat of ‘I’m a composer in the film.’ For me, the music was the soul of the observatory.”
- Alison McAlpine
#shortfilm
- Alison McAlpine
#shortfilm
June 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“It was really amazing to work with a composer like Ben who works with instruments that many people won’t know. I wanted a sense of improvisation, and not wearing this hat of ‘I’m a composer in the film.’ For me, the music was the soul of the observatory.”
- Alison McAlpine
#shortfilm
- Alison McAlpine
#shortfilm
perfectly a strangeness will be screening in New York at Rooftop Films on June 5th at 7:00pm as part of the Farm-to-Screen Shots!
Details here: rooftopfilms.com/event/roofto...
#rooftopfilms #brooklyn #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
Details here: rooftopfilms.com/event/roofto...
#rooftopfilms #brooklyn #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
May 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
perfectly a strangeness will be screening in New York at Rooftop Films on June 5th at 7:00pm as part of the Farm-to-Screen Shots!
Details here: rooftopfilms.com/event/roofto...
#rooftopfilms #brooklyn #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
Details here: rooftopfilms.com/event/roofto...
#rooftopfilms #brooklyn #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
🎞️ Exciting news — perfectly a strangeness will be apart of the 25th Annual Nevada City Film Festival in the Documentary Shorts Program!
The film will be screening on Saturday June 21st at 7:00pm in the Onyx Theatre.
#nevadacityfilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
The film will be screening on Saturday June 21st at 7:00pm in the Onyx Theatre.
#nevadacityfilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
May 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🎞️ Exciting news — perfectly a strangeness will be apart of the 25th Annual Nevada City Film Festival in the Documentary Shorts Program!
The film will be screening on Saturday June 21st at 7:00pm in the Onyx Theatre.
#nevadacityfilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
The film will be screening on Saturday June 21st at 7:00pm in the Onyx Theatre.
#nevadacityfilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival
🇩🇰 🎥 We are delighted to announce that perfectly a strangeness has been selected for the Odense International Film Festival!
Check it out in Odense, Denmark, from 25th - 31st August.
#OFF25 #odensefilmfestival #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
Check it out in Odense, Denmark, from 25th - 31st August.
#OFF25 #odensefilmfestival #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
May 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🇩🇰 🎥 We are delighted to announce that perfectly a strangeness has been selected for the Odense International Film Festival!
Check it out in Odense, Denmark, from 25th - 31st August.
#OFF25 #odensefilmfestival #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
Check it out in Odense, Denmark, from 25th - 31st August.
#OFF25 #odensefilmfestival #shortfilm #filmfestival #experimentalfilm
The technological marvels of the La Silla Observatory stand in stark contrast to the vast, barren beauty of the Atacama Desert around it.
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm
May 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The technological marvels of the La Silla Observatory stand in stark contrast to the vast, barren beauty of the Atacama Desert around it.
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm
Palomo, Ruperto and Palaye — three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm #donkeys
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm #donkeys
May 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Palomo, Ruperto and Palaye — three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm #donkeys
#perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival #stargazing #experimentalfilm #donkeys
Thrilled to share that perfectly a strangeness has won the Silver Gentian for the best artistic-technical contribution at the Trento Film Festival!
We're proud to be recognised by a unique festival dedicated to the mountains, culture and the environment.
#trentofilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness
We're proud to be recognised by a unique festival dedicated to the mountains, culture and the environment.
#trentofilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness
May 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Thrilled to share that perfectly a strangeness has won the Silver Gentian for the best artistic-technical contribution at the Trento Film Festival!
We're proud to be recognised by a unique festival dedicated to the mountains, culture and the environment.
#trentofilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness
We're proud to be recognised by a unique festival dedicated to the mountains, culture and the environment.
#trentofilmfestival #perfectlyastrangeness
On April 26th perfectly a strangeness screened at Festival Internacional de Cine Lebu, an Oscar and Goya qualifying festival.
Amazing to show the film in the country where it was filmed alongside a number of other amazing films!
Amazing to show the film in the country where it was filmed alongside a number of other amazing films!
April 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
On April 26th perfectly a strangeness screened at Festival Internacional de Cine Lebu, an Oscar and Goya qualifying festival.
Amazing to show the film in the country where it was filmed alongside a number of other amazing films!
Amazing to show the film in the country where it was filmed alongside a number of other amazing films!
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February 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The clippity-clops of donkey hooves fuel the offbeat donkumentary 'perfectly a strangeness', screening this weekend as part of TIFF's Canada's Top Ten. 🫏 povmagazine.com/alison-mcalp...