This week’s film is “Moving,” a short by Megan Griffiths, a nominee for the 2012 Genius Award in Filmmaking and the director of Eden and The Off Hours. Shot in 2008, and staring Lynn Shelton, the 2008 recipient of The Stranger Genius Award and director of the indie hit My Sister’s Sister, the film is about a close and yet problematic relationship between an arty aunt and her dreamy/impressionable nephew.

Next Wednesday at the SIFF Film Center, Flickering Genius will present the short works of the three local filmmakers ( Shaun Scott, Drew Christie, and Megan Griffiths) nominated for this year’s Genius Award in Film. And on the night of September 22, Lynn Shelton will present the award to the winner.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...