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Super Awesome kickass shorts program

  • AFS Cinema 6259 Middle Fiskville Road Austin, Texas, 78752 United States (map)

One afternoon, six wildly different music stories.

4:00 PM

A Golden Buzzer moment, a cult hit's origin story, a coming of age tale told through sound, a family history in dreamlike fragments, an Austin band's medieval Western strangeness, and a punk record that finally gets its due. Grab a ticket and see all six.

Mama Duke, "Feels So Good To Be You" (Music Video)

3:41

An America's Got Talent Golden Buzzer moment, set to the song that changed her life. The official music video for the track Mama Duke has called, in her own words, "the song that changed my entire life."

OH YEAH!

Directed by Nick Canfield | 17:00

The song everyone knows from Ferris Bueller's Day Off finally gets its origin story. This Tribeca Festival premiere, acquired by Documentary+ and Rolling Stone Films, digs into Yello's cult 1980s hit with on camera interviews from actor Alan Ruck and musician-comedian Reggie Watts.

Sound Again

Directed by Carlos R Correa | 12:21

A 12 year old's choice to get cochlear implants opens up a whole new way to hear, and make, music. A quiet, personal coming of age story about a boy with degenerative hearing loss who finds an unexpected path back to sound through a high school music engineering class.

Las Hijas de Rosalia

Directed by Maria Mealla | 19:55

Two sisters, four decades, and one mother's love, told in dreamlike fragments. A series of vignettes tracing how two sisters carry their family's memory, and each other, across a lifetime.

Ring of Stones (Tele Novella Music Video)

Directed by Vanessa Pla | 3:48

An Austin duo's medieval Western sound gets a music video as strange and beautiful as the song itself. The official video for Ring of Stones, a 2026 single from Tele Novella, the Lockhart, Texas duo released on the legendary indie label Kill Rock Stars.

Meat Joy: America's Entertainment Nightmare

Directed by Lauren Yap | 28:57

A forgotten Austin punk band, a future Oscar nominee, and the album that finally gets its due. The untold history of 1980s Austin punk band Meat Joy, whose lineup once included future Academy Award nominee John Hawkes and beloved Austin music icon Gretchen Phillips.

Director Q&A to follow screening!

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