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DAY ONE
Nov 19

 

PROGRAM 1
Narrative Shorts

Dot Down
Director: Christophe Duvert
16 mm. 15:14 1999

After he argues with his girlfriend, Ezee goes out for a walk…

The Rise and Fall.
Director: Tyler A.
Super 8. Color 8:00 1999.

This dysfunctional narrative explores the inner turmoil of a glam has-been, aspiring film director who murders his super model girlfriend in an attempt to further his own career. Fueled by fear and confusion, his life spins out os control and erupts into a technological breakdown.

 

Swinger's Serenade.
Director: Danny Plotnick
16 mm./B & W 24:00 1999

A tawdry tale of suburban sexual malaise plus a lesson arcane film history rolled into one sin-tillating package!

 

 

Let's Get Medical
Directors: Jon Tojek and Peter Juneau
35 mm 3:00 1999

A 3-D animated film about Dr. Scott, a professional man who is a failing surgeon. When he goes home at night he is once again the hero as his fantasy world comes to life. Medical tools, former patients, and happy organic creatures welcome him back to dance and frolic 'til dawn.

Crazyheads
Director: Roberto Lopez
16 mm. Color 12:00 1998

A young woman and her boyfriend, just out of jail, reunite in a wild night of sex and drugs. Afterwards, they head to he subway where they spot a preppy guy minding his own business. They decide to play a game on this stranger, and what starts as a game quickly escalates into a life and death situation.

Running Time 62 minutes.

 

 

PROGRAM 2

Cine Mamembe, o Cinema Descobre Brasil
Directors: Lais Bodanzky and Luis Bolognesi
35 mm. 56:00 1999

Two filmmakers journey to the interior of Brazil, screening short films to different audiences in public squares. They discover a country that goes to the movies and see themselves on a big screen for the very first time at the dawn of the 21st century. Running time 56:00


 

PROGRAM 3
Film and Video Made for Under $500

RRRRRing…RRRRing
Director: Louanne Ponder
Video Color 3:37 1999

"Hi, my name is kitten and I make my yummy living talking on the telephone. Call me."

In Sickness
Director: Hunter Rodriguez
16 mm. 9:00 1999

The story of a young couple engaged to be married. What begins as a romantic evening at home becomes a frantic aural montage of hedonistic pleasure and pain, questioning the limits of reality and consciousness.

The Noise of Angry Candy
Director: Justin Hennard
Super 8. 6:00

A young boy honed to the anther and ovaries of Helianthus and Oenothera Speciosa. Trying to converse the pollinia to silence with the gentleness of the gay science muttered to a thousand sepals. To little avail…

Civil Twilight.
Director: John Harrigan.
Hi-8 6:00 1998

This work deals primarily with the commercialization of 'the image' under the pretense of virtue. It is made up of short segments that act as "commercials' revealing the realistic meaning of corporate imagery in surrealistic terms.

Pixelfiction Volume II
Director: Kyle Cassidy.
Pixel 20:00

Frankenstein 2000
Director: David Crawford.
16 mm. 2:00 1998

This experimental narrative takes a humorous look at the increasingly blurry line between man and machine as we swifty approach the year 2000.

Universal Leader.
Directors: Gary Tseng, Ted Mills and Dave LaDelfa.
Video 5:27 1998

A humorous satire of the pretentious side of experimental filmmaking.

Kung-Fu Kitchen
Director: Jeff Warmouth
Hi-8. 5:00. 1998

An epic of vegetable proportions; this live-action kung-fu satire with an all-vegetable cast is an ironic tribute to the martial arts film genre. Running Time 55 minutes

 

PROGRAM 4

Night Train
Director: Les Bernstien
80:00 1998

Crossing the borders into Tijuana. Joe butcher looks for his brother Zack. He finds he was killed by a car. Joe sets up to find answers and uncovers a sordid underground scheme to make and sell "snuff" in which his brother was key player.