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Sunday 18th of October, 1998

 

NIGHT RUNS RED
1997. 16mm, B/W. Director Edward Holub. New York. 90:00.

A dangerous love triangle including an ex-con, a drug dealer, and a desperate Femme Fatale, who seal their fate when they plan a high stakes art heist. Music by PschoKitty, The Maquis de Sade, Dante’s inferno and Downward

 

Short films from Switzerland, Argentina and The US.

ACCIDENT
1997. 35mm. Director Peter Besson. Flower Mound, Texas. 6:15.

An accident on the side of the road involving the little boy of a young family is not exactly what it seems to be.

UNGLAUBLICH ABER WAR
1997.Super 8 and video. Director Karim Patwa. Switzerland. 21:00.

See a reporter on a desperate search on a trip between reality and fiction. See a weird doctor searching for aliens transplants. See a religious alien who works as an under cover bus driver on holiday on earth.

THE LAST SUPPER
1998. Video. Director Paul Unges. Arlington, Texas. 23:00.

A tale told in the language of primordial and phantasmagoric images. THE LAST SUPPER lays bare the inner workings of one man's search for spiritual growth.

A CONVERSATION
1995. 16mm. Director Alvin Ecarma. Potomac, MD. 6:00.

"My Dinner with Andre" meets "Enter the Dragon" when a costumed vigilante known only as"The Badger" rescues a pacifist street musician form a would-be mugger and the two engage in a philosophical debate over the pros and cons of non-violence.

THE LETTER P, THE STORY OF PULCINELLA
1997. HI-8, B/W & Color. Director Margaret Fisher. Emeryville, CA. 25:00.

The Letter P is a ride with Pulcinella on a roller coaster of European history, politics, language and culture. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Italian commedia dell'arte introduced the hunchback Pulcinella for the mirth and mockery of its audiences.

PELETERO (FURRIER) 1997. 16mm, Black & White. Director Sebastian Monaco. Argentina. 17:00.
This is the story of Jorge De La Serna, a successful furrier who sells his tailor-made fur coats to the ladies of high society. De La Serna's shop is like any other, but it has one differences: a basement where he hides his faithful slave Felix, a freak who makes the coats with a very special material.


MEDUSA
Greece 1998, 35mm color. 85 min. Rez/Dir. George Lazopoulos (Athens)

The film follows the traditional myth of Medusa except for one essential difference? Medusa only turns the men who see her face to stone and the women who see her face turn into the old Medusa, while the old one turns into a pile of sand. A mystery combining an old Greek myth with a modern twist.

Short films From Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Scotland.and The US.

WISLA
1996. 16mm, B/W. Director Josef Dabernig. Austria. 8:00.

Wisla is in many respects, a successful exercise in the art of well-judged abbreviation. (Claus Philipp)

Night Shift
1998, Color Director Sunny Sunynsky. Bulgaria. 5:00 minutes.

Fear is the only thing we have to fear.

DARKLY MACHIEVER
1998. 16mm, B/W & Color. Director David Birnbaum. Canada. 22:00.

A farcical fable about one of the "little gray men," a cog in a corporate wheel, who goes about his business without quite knowing his purpose. One day he begins to wonder about his role in the proverbial Grand Scheme of Things.

FRUITCAKE
1996. Hi-8. Director Huck Botko. Brooklyn. 9:00.

A son gives his father a fruitcake for Christmas with a special added ingredient.

LYCANTHROPHOBIA
1998. 16mm. Director Harry Victor. Los Angeles. 15:00.

A Smokey bar on a full moon. An innocent businessman, a disturbed loner who believes he's hunting werewolves and two gay bashers...Tonight, all four will come face with the darkness inside themselves and each other.

SALT - WORKS
1997. Video B/W. Director Sunny Sunynsky.. Bulgaria. 8:00.

A salt shaker in the middle of the table is the viewer’s eyes as a table of young men talk about the pleasures of earth.

REEL MIX
1997 35 mm to be shown on video. Director Valentine Valtchev. Bulgarian with English subtitles. 30:00.

Mixed reels of old Soviet negative film stock (whatever found in Bulgaria). Then mix: The American dream, Bulgarian superstition, drugs, motorbikes, Elvis Presley, Jesus Christ, NBA stars, a Ghost and a porcupine and mix it all together and you have five shorts that make up the Reel Mix. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. 1997.

THE LAST DROP
Scotland 1997 16mm color. 14 min. Dir. Nick J. Thermes (Edinburgh)

Somewhere in Scotland in the late 1700's, Rab MacTavish unsuccessfuly takes up the executioner's rope from his recently deceased father. Rab's brother relates the tale older brother's failure to a wandering youth.

CHICO AND THE PEOPLE
USA 1992 19 min. Rez./Dir. Lech Kowalski
Documentary about street musician Chico Freeman and his jazz band in Tompkins Square Park in New York City and the community of devoted fans who he plays for.

ROCK SOUP
USA 1992. black&white  81min.

Dir. Lech Kowalski - A gritty documentary about the homeless in Thompkins Square Park in New York city and their fight against City Hall's plan to close down their soup kitchen. Winner of 1992 Golden Gate Award.