DAY THREE - 27.10.00
Klub 38
4:00 PM

EYES TO HEAVEN
Director Shane Hawks
16mm 88minutes 1999
The bizarre discovery of a woman buried alive sends a painter on a dark journey into the twisted world of serial killers. Ghosts that haunt these killers seduce him via a sadistic passion, which ignites their reality. His curiosity quickly fuels his artistic inspiration, but is his masterpiece worth the price of his soul? Black and white imagery creates an unsettling mood. The film's sound score is provided by Mike Allerd's Band , The Gear. With a $3000 budget and inspiration from Murnau, Tarkovsky, Kubrick and Lynch, Eyes to Heaven is a controversial film that will haunt the viewer long after the final credits role.

6:00 PM

AMERICAN GYPSY: a stranger in everybody's land
Director Jasmine Dellal
Video 79 minutes 40 seconds 1999
There are one million Gypsies, or Rom, in America, who most people know nothing about. Never before has a camera been allowed in to explore their world. Shot over the course of five years, AMERICAN GYPSY: a stranger in everybody's land is a feature length documentary exploring the secretive Romani culture and the history it came from. The combination of "Gypsy" and "American" cultures transports us to scenes that range from New Years in Las Vegas, to the arranged marriage of teenagers; and from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to car salesmen in Stetson hats driving Cadillac's.

7:45 PM

THE FORGERY
Director Erika Yeomans
16mm Film , 22 minutes 1999
THE FORGERY is a witty montage of stolen text and recreated images from over 40 popular books and films written and produced during 1948 to 1952. Inspired by late 1940's pulp fiction where murder and circumstantial evidence lay in wait for the unsuspecting double-crossing double-crosser. By weaving together these popular bestsellers and films of the period, everything from musical comedies to B noir thrillers, the video creates a demi-forgery of America's pop ideologies. THE FORGERY re-invents stock film iconography like, the sweaty urban male, the flighty blonde, the busty brunette and the effeminate villain. First developed as a site specific performance project, the theater piece was then re-imagined as digital cinema piece.

HAIR BURNERS
Director Ned Ambler
Video 45minutes 2000
Hair Burners is about three bad ass broads from the Bronx who are released from a woman's correctional facility and open a "banji" hair salon in a haughty New York upstate neighborhood. It stars Squid and Theo (lunachicks); Allison Luongo, Phylli (of Bangor Films); and Sophia Lamar. Music by Rap Mogul Princess Super star.
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