Every catastrophe starts small. A toast. A dinner bill. A chair. A ride home. A crossing guard who's had enough. Another chair. In this block of wildly escalating, oft-bizarre comedies, the mundane and the unhinged are separated by a single bad decision, a wrong turn, or in at least one case, a divine wind. 

These films share an almost mathematical commitment to the bit: take a simple premise, apply maximum force, and see what breaks. What breaks, it turns out, is usually everything. Mayhem is the throughline here, served up in a variety of styles ranging from martial arts farce to haunted house procedural to post-slasher errand comedy. 

These aren't comedies that announce themselves; the humor arrives sideways, on a delay, or occasionally disguised as something else entirely. Unpredictable, assured, and gleefully unhinged, this is some of the finest comic filmmaking working today — just make sure you choose your seat carefully.

**Uncle Morris | United States | 9 min.**  -Dir. Victor Tadashi Suarez & Max Azulay 

Morris tries to make a simple heartfelt toast for his brother's baby shower but instead completely unravels into a spiral of hit and run guilt, cultish east LA domestic rituals, and a tiny crown of destiny.

**Wall Udder | United States | 9 min.** - Dir. Alexandra Hayden

A dissatisfied woman confronts repressed feelings of malaise after her partner comes home smelling like milk.

**The Chair | United States | 7 min.** - Dir. Dustin Tan

A carpenter makes a chair for a customer, but it's not a normal chair.

**1-800-TIME-TRAVEL | Canada | 4 min.** - Dir. Michael Nusair

Frank gets the opportunity to go back in time to confront an internet troll. Things do not go as planned.

**Final Form | United States | 6 min.** - Dir. Jesse Rothenberg

Crossing Guard vs Car, the final showdown.

**Check Please | United States | 10 min.** - Dir. Shane Chung

Two headstrong Koreans can't agree on who's treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts deathmatch.

**A Story of Divine Wind (神風物語) | Japan | 9 min.** - Dir. Johnson Cheng

A divine wind blows through Edo.

**We're Not Them | United States | 8 min.** - Dir. Stirling McLaughlin & Wilder Konschak

A group of hapless survivors huddle in a desert cabin, surrounded by murderous cultists. But a far greater danger lurks in their midst: valid criticism.

**Halfway Haunted | Canada | 17 min.** - Dir. Sam Rudykoff

A tenant in a haunted house teams up with a ghost to stop a real estate developer from demolishing the home they share.

**CHÄIR | United States | 6 min.** - Dir. Chris McInroy

Carl just wanted to sit down. The chair had other plans.

**Blossom Needs A Ride Home | United States | 9 min.** Dir. Tim Schwagel

After defeating a bloodthirsty maniac, Blossom needs a ride home. What a hassle."