2026 Official Selection: Music Video
A haunting meditation on a life well lived, where the weight of excess slowly gives way to the fragile line between fulfillment and self-destruction.
🏆 Winner:
Grand Jury Award: Best Music Video
Filmmakers Award: Outstanding Direction – Music Video
Filmmakers Award: Outstanding Cast Performance – Music Video
Watch from the festival:
Program 16 – Shorts Block- Visionary Spotlight · Sun, Aug 23, 2026 · 2:00 PM
- Director(s): Jessica c Moncrief
- Writer(s): Jessica c Moncrief, Soda Gardocki
- Producer(s): Jessica c Moncrief
- Key Cast: Soda Gardocki, Vanessa Burgundy
- Editor(s): Jessica c Moncrief
- Cinematographer(s): Jessica c Moncrief
- Production Designer(s): Jessica c Moncrief and Vanessa Burgundy
- Sound Designer(s): Jessica C Moncrief
- Composer(s): Soda Gardocki
Language: English
Runtime: 3m
Country: United States
Synopsis: Accompanying an original song by Punk/Americana legend Soda Gardocki, this music video reflects on a life shaped by experience and excess. Set within a custom designed world lit primarily by practical lighting and candlelight, the film unfolds through evocative imagery that blurs the line between pleasure and reckoning. Conceived, produced, lit, shot, directed, and edited by Jessica Moncrief.