Spontaneous

13:59, 16mm to video, 2020

Documentary short

You never know when someone is miscarrying; it could be happening right next to you.

SLIGHTLY LONGER SYNOPSIS:

I had a miscarriage while attending a film festival in 2016. This is a story about bad timing, ignorance, public isolation, choice, and the taboo.

Available on The Criterion Channel as of September 2022- September 2025

AWARDS:

• Best Experimental Documentary – Doc.Sydney Documentary Film Festival, Australia
• Jury Mention – Athens International Film/Video Festival, Athens, OH
• Best Experimental Film – Nepal America International Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
• Best Documentary Short – New Jersey Independent Film Festival
• Best Documentary Film – Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, Wan Chai, HK
• Best Underground Film – Super Shorts New York, Brooklyn, NY
• Best Experimental Film – Super Shorts London and Los Angeles
• Best Documentary Film – Sydney World Film Festival, Sydney Australia
• Best of Fest – Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, IL
• Jury Award – That One Film Festival, Muncie, IN
• Audience Favorite award – Uppsala Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
• Best Documentary Film – Obskuur Ghent Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium
• Director’s Choice Award – Spectral Film Festival, Stevens Point, WI
• Audience Award – Film Maudit 2.0, Los Angeles, CA

PRESS:

Reiser, Ben, Programmer. “Lori Felker: Spontaneous and Not You.” Cinematalk Podcast, April 2021.

Christoffer Ode, Programme Director Uppsala Short Film Fest. “Top 5 Films of 2020.” Kinoscope, April

Jillian Corsie, Programmer/Moderator. Q&A, Spontaneous. Salute Your Shorts Film Festival, Aug 2020.

Stojiljković, Marko. “Review: Spontaneous (2020).” Ubiquarian, October 2020.

Obsatz, Kevin, host. ”Lori Felker.” Cellular Cinema Podcast, episode 7, July 2020.

Sachs, Kat. “Lori Felker: Intrusions and Interruptions.” Cine-file, February 2020.

SCREENINGS 2020-2022:

World Premiere: 2020 Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, UT)

Brussels Independent Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium)

Cosmic Rays (Chapel Hill, NC)

Maryland Film Festival (Blatimore, MD)

FLEX: Florida Experimental Film Festival (Tampa, FL)

WORM (Rotterdam, NL)

Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY)

Oak Cliff Film Festival (TX)

Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Conversations at the Edge (Chicago, IL)

Alchemy Live (Scotland)

Kindot (St Petersburg, Russia)

Onion City Film Festival (Chicago, IL)

Salute Your Shorts (Los Angeles, CA)

VIDEOEX Festival (Switzerland)

Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, Canada)

That One Film Festival (Muncie, IN)

Moviate Underground Film Festival (Harrisburg, PA)

Kassler Documentary Film Video Festival (Germany)

Dallas VideoFest (Dallas, TX)

Uppsala Film Festival (Uppsala, Sweden)

Lucca Film Festival & Europa Cinema (Lucca, Italy)

Mallorca Evolution Film Festival (Spain)

Spectral Film Festival (Stevens Point, WI)

Rome International Film Festival (Rome, GA)

Film Maudit 2.0 (Los Angeles, CA)

Obskuur Ghent Film Festival (Belgium)

Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI)

2021 SPE Media Festival (Denver, CO)

International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund (Germany)

Ghent Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival (Belgium)

Peripheral Experimental Film Festival (Boston, MA)

Sydney World Film Festival (Australia)

Nepal America International Film Festival (MD)

New Jersey Independent Film Festival (NJ)

Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI)

Flicker Fair (online festival)

Winnipeg Underground Film Fest (Canada)

Milwaukee Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)

Super Shorts, NY, LA and London

Boston Short Film Festival  (Boston, MA)