In honor of our fifteenth anniversary, we have curated a selection of short films from the Full Frame vault, a title from each year of the festival. The fourteen shorts will screen in three separate programs.

Vault One features A Thousand Words from the 2004 festival, Caretaker for the Lord from the 2011 festival, For a Miracle from the 2005 festival, and Salt from the 2009 festival. Films are listed in screening order. The total running time is 72 minutes.

A Thousand Words
Directed by Melba L. Williams
2003 / US / 9 minutes
Williams’s lack of communication with her father, especially after a stroke silences his memories, leads her to his home movie footage and accomplished still photos from the Vietnam War, which speak of a fettered artistic soul.

Caretaker for the Lord
Directed by Jane McAllister
2010 / Scotland / 17 minutes
The maintenance man of a church in Glasgow’s East End muses about its future as he mops floors and changes light bulbs. The run-down church ministers to more members of its vulnerable community than those in charge realize.

For a Miracle (Po Cud)
Directed by Jarek Sztandera
2004 / Poland / 18 minutes
This astonishing film of the national pilgrimage of disabled people and their caregivers from Poland to Lourdes by train—under the auspices of Catholic clergy—is a surreal passage that inspires faith and mercy, anxiety and despair.

Salt
Directed by Michael Angus, Murray Fredericks
2009 / Australia / 28 minutes
A photographer ventures to the middle of a desolate salt flat in South Australia, pitching camp at its core. With neither land nor water in sight, he looks into the abyss and finds that, in the midst of nothingness, there is everything.