The third and fourth installments of a block of powerhouse short films at the 6th annual Independent Film Festival of Boston really took me by storm. Benh Zeitlin’s GLORY AT SEA, shot over the course of a year in New Orleans, accomplishes in its short lifespan what many docs, news reports and stories on Katrina have tried to do: connect us with the humanity behind the loss. From the eloquently sincere score and casting to the camera’s eye, which lingers lovingly on collages of crushed dreams, the film is nothing short of a love letter to survival. Equally brilliant is LARRY: THE ACTOR, an indescribable homage to a down and out actor living in Los Angeles. It may or may not be a documentary - filmmakers Eric Poydar and Brett Portanova have called the film a “mofaux doc” - but it doesn’t matter; any artist of any stripe who has ever questioned his resistance to the corporate dragon will hail the film’s commitment to expressing Larry’s fiery, cuss-word-filled conviction. In many ways, Larry speaks for us all.