Matt Alfano

A group of singing, child-friendly puppets' world is shaken up when they graduate from letters and numbers and are transferred to an inner-city high school filled with drugs, gangs, and violence.

“Just Short of Reality” is a series of interlocking shorts that show the mundane serendipities of everyday life through the genres of surrealism, silent film, and dance. Dreams and reality collide through seven individuals in one neighborhood who are faced with adversity and choice as they dance through their days.