Cruising Electric (1980)

Fresh from the warped minds of global short film art masters, these hilarious and seriously strange shorts are worth staying up late for. Eric Kissack (“Missed Connections,” TCFF ‘12) returns to the festival with “The Gunfighter,” in which a bloodthirsty narrator voiced by Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”) tries to set off a shootout in the Wild West; the blackly comic “Happy B-Day” shows how a well-intentioned birthday surprise can go horribly, horribly wrong; “Cruising Electric (1980)” imagines a retro ad for a kids’ toy tie-in to the classic Al Pacino serial-killer movie “Cruising;” and two teddy bears go hunting endangered (and delicious!) creatures in the spectacularly twisted “Unicorn Blood.”