PROGRAM 1
Narrative and Experimental Shorts from US and Canada
The Phonebook
Director: Christine Stewart
Video 10:00 1998 Canada
A witty and thoughtful exploration of naming and the importance of names in knowing who you are and where you come from, particularly in a world where you meet so many people but get to know so few.Tristeza
Director: Andres Sanz
16 mm./B & W 29:00 US
A week in the life of a woman who suddenly loses sight in her right eye but discovers she is able to see vision of different places and people when she covers her left eye. She begins to wonder if she is linked to another person's sight.
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Director: Daniel Polster
16 mm. 24:00 1999 US
In the distant future, at his wife's funeral, Edgar begins to remember their wedding. The only problem is the wedding isn't the way he remembers it. Memories that have lied dormant for over fifty years now rise to the surface. Now he becomes a slave to the past, unable to tell truth from fantasy. He travels down the road of insanity, opening doors better left unopened.
Running time: 63 minutes
PROGRAM 2
N.Y.H.C.
Director: Frank Pavich
Video 87 minutes 1999 US
N.Y.H.C is a window into New York's rawest underground music scene that started in the early 1980's, Hardcore. The scene draws a diverse young audience- from Long Island suburbanites to Bronx inner-city youth to Hare Kirshnas. NYHC is surprisingly a non-exploitive look into this vibrant musical phenomenon. Featured musicians: Crown of Thornz, District 9, Madball, No Redeeming Social Value, 108 25 TA Life, Vision of Disorder.
PROGRAM 3
Narrative and Experimental Shorts
A Primer for Dental Extraction
Director: Carl Wiedermann
16 mm.B/W 4:30 1999 US
The protagonist, garbed in a pressurized suit, aggressively cleans her teeth and chain-smokes. Pursued by a traveling camera, she kicks and smacks the lens.
Framed
Director: Mennan Yapo
35mm. 18 minutes 1999 Germany
Beck and Dana are on their way to see a movie. On the screen a man in a straight jacket lunges towards the audience. Dana leaves to go to the bathroom; a dramatic psychological struggle takes place in the theater between Beck and the man on screen. The boundaries between fiction and reality begin to merge. The situation spins out of control. On screen as well as in the theater a desperate fight for survival ensues.
Honey Pot
Director: Todd Lincoln
Super 8/16mm found footage Color 15 minutes 1998 US
If Larry flint produced Sesame Street, it might look like this. The Townhouse of Rose
Director: Carlos Jeffers
Hi-8 Black/Blue 10:34 1998 Germany/US
Rose must choose between the promise of a friend she has never loved and the uncertainty of a lover who has become a stranger.
The Great Coagulator
Director: Geoffrey Chadwick
16 mm. B/W 8:00 1999 US
Inspired by some of the very first "talkie" films ever made, and using much of the same equipment, the film showcases The Great Coagulator in the heyday of vaudeville.
Breathe
Director: Laura Nespola
16 mm. 6:00 1999 US
Through such techniques as bleaching, toning and handpainting frames, "breathe" injects life into a seemingly dead limestone quarry. The combined manipulation of image and sound peels away the surface of the quarry; revealing a detailed look at the beauty and vitality within the now inactive machinery and wasteland surroundings.La Boca
Director: Charles LoVerme
Video/Color1 28:00 1998 US
Different truths and meaning about erotica are sought through digitalization.
Nonslip London
Director Tim Metzger
Super 8. 19:11 1999
England
An experiment in the self-destruction of a junior businessman. Exultation and madness intersect when a nine-to-fiver wakes to find himself trapped by a mysterious woman. Inspired by Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy", the film follows life, death and rebirth in a manmade world.
Running time 65 minutes Bury Me in Kern County
Director: Julien Nitzberg
16mm/Color 90 minutes 1999 US
It's the mid-eighties in rural Kern County and Sandra Winthrop has to figure out a way to rise $660 in one night to pay for the funeral of her speed dealing boyfriend's mother. Featuring a soundtrack produced by the Dust Brothers and including new songs by Beck, the muffs with C.C. Deville and The Upper Crust and Sukia, BURY ME IN KERN COUNTY is a wickedly funny dark comedy about one American Family.
PROGRAM 4
Narrative Shorts
Parental Guidance
Director: Richard Walsh
Video 17:04 1998 US
A story of two sisters coming to terms with their changing relationship andthe chaotic nature of the world around them. They reunite for a weekend oflong drives, childhood memories, and live ammo. Desensitized by mass media and the influence of their father, they try to cope with their environment the only way they know how… But why is there a lone gunman checking into the same hotel?
HITCH
Director: Bradley Rust Gray
16 mm. 18:00 1999 US
Two reunited friends travel through insects, change and the male libido on a desert road trip.Kalin's Prayer
Director DeSales
16 mm. 29:58 1999 US
Based on a true story, kalin's prayer is a trippy ride that sticks you inside the tortured mind of a charismatic lesbian model as she battles for love and against her demons in the bible belt of Tulsa and the streets of New York. Running time: 65 minutes
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