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HOT DOGS OF love. That's what Killing My Lobster wants to bring you. To be precise, wieners lip-synching to Air Supply in Michelle Dean's short "Making Love (Out of Nothing at All)." Killing My Lobster, the brilliantly wiseass comedy troupe, presents the sixth annual Hi/Lo Film Festival, which celebrates the best in big-concept and no-budget pairings. Imagine if Hitchcock had two-figure funding for North by Northwest. Would he have given up right then and there? Maybe not if he knew there was a festival where folks would dig both the good idea and the fact that he had to hold up the plane himself and make whirring noises out of the side of his mouth. Alec Joler employs this exact technique in "Fast Forward 1," a massive vision of pyrotechnic action executed with Legos and human sound effects. The Hi/Lo collection of shorts revels in indie film at its silly strangest, but serious works such as Bob Hurst's "Addendum" find a place in this festival too. Hurst's ragged, uneven film about a friend dying of Alzheimer's is pulled together from the remnants of a ruined documentary. Be sure to catch Julia Sarcone-Roach's "Call of the Wild," a trippy and adorable animated flick featuring kitties, bats, a flossing walrus, and prank-calling bunnies. See Rep Clock for show times. For more information go to www.hilofilmfestival.com. (Laurie Koh)