ShortsFest Opening Night

Shorts packages at SIFF are usually a bit spotty, but at least for the opening package this year they seem to be surprisingly consistent.

Standouts include 2081, an adaptation of a Vonnegut short story in which the future has become "equal" by the calculated addition of weights to handicap the strong and intelligent; The Bake Shop Ghost, a somewhat sacharine but well done story of a lonely old woman; and my personal favorite, Next Floor, a fantastically surreal presentation of a party that just won't stop.