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#48: Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention 13

#48

Well, this was an experience! Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention 13 was my eleventh Wild Wild West Con and its theme was Steampunk Halloween, so I had plenty of opportunity to get dark. I programmed a mixture of films, because I'm simply running out of new material. There aren't many people making steampunk short films any more and, as always, not all of them are great. Now that AI is widely available, that's the go to tool for creating this sort of thing and, while some of the art is pretty, not one of them is good enough to screen in a Roadshow set, even if we discount all the ethical concerns, which I wouldn't. So Friday's set was made up of entirely old material (previously screened at Wild Wild West Cons 3, 4 and 6), while Saturday's set was all brand new and Sunday's set included a couple of repeats and three films that I've screened elsewhere, like at Gaslight Steampunk Expo, but not at Wild Wild West Con. And I'm not going to tell you what most of that material was because the convention was closed down by the Yaqui Pascal tribal council for medical reasons (best guess: norovirus outbreak) on Saturday afternoon, after the better half's fashion show that I MC but before my film set. So nobody got to see the new material, which I'll now shift to Wild Wild West Con 13 in 2026 instead.

Short Film Set #1

#	Title	Year	Length	Director	Company	Country	Review	IMDb	Online?
1	The Last Fairy	2016	7m	Ben Gratton	University of the Creative Arts	UK		IMDb	Vimeo
2	The Mechanical Grave	2012	15m	Jon Keeyes	Highland Myst Entertainment	USA		IMDb
3	Airship Dracula	2012	8m	Adam Roberts	Fourth Wall Studios	USA		IMDb	Vimeo
4	The Tale of the Rat That Wrote	1999	14m	Billy O'Brien	Film 4 British Film Institute Irish Film Board	UK Ireland		IMDb	Vimeo

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