20 minutes

A quiet afternoon in the neighborhood spirals into a chaotic and surreal thriller when Sarah asks her parents for a cat and is forced to learn a valuable life lesson: be careful what you wish for. Cat and Mouse features a cast filled with visual artists and includes dozens of backgrounds hand painted by the director.

Starring: Emma Kindall, Kate Shannon, and Blake Turner

With: Charlie Sharp, Jeff Hazelden, Cameron Sharp, Eugene Allen, Derek Stewart, Melissa Vogley Woods, Todd Finney, Stacie Sells

Original Score by A.E. Paterra.

"A child asks her parents for a cat and accidentally unleashes a brightly colored suburban nightmare. Constructed from hand-painted backgrounds, bluescreen performances, childhood artifacts, and aggressively artificial visual design, Cat and Mouse transforms domestic space into a surreal psychological funhouse where whimsy, dread, comedy, and emotional instability coexist in the same cracked cartoon reality. Somewhere between children's television, experimental collage, and suburban horror, the film spirals through a handmade hallucination with the logic of a bad dream and the texture of a forgotten public-access broadcast.” - Chicago Underground Film Festival