Temporarily Closed
dir. Joe Cross
2022
Running time: 10 min.
Film
As teenagers, three best friends went to a filmmaking camp at a dying mall in Dallas where they learned how to make lo-fi short films that were often incomprehensible to anyone but them. The final year they attended, the mall owners had commissioned a commercial from the campers in a rebranding effort. Years later, the mall has closed and one of them isn’t sure if they want to make movies anymore. Temporarily Closed asks if these things are related while examining what happens when the creative process suddenly grinds to a halt.
Joe Cross
Joe Cross is a filmmaker, writer and editor from Allen, Texas. Cross has been film-obsessed since a young age and is interested in experimental and nonfiction filmmaking. During his time at Mizzou, Cross served as editor for the MOVE Angles section of Mizzou’s student newspaper, The Maneater, where he edited film reviews and wrote crossword puzzles. He has also been a part of the screening committee for the annual True/False Film Fest. After graduation, Cross hopes to move to New York and continue making experimental short films with some of the collaborators featured in Temporarily Closed, his first short film.