Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 7:00 PM
Shorts Program #1: Experimental and Documentary
Red Bugs
Ted Passon
3:00, video, Philadelphia
A chance encounter at dawn between a man from the East and a man from the West.
Lo-Fi Green Sigh
Kristin Lucas
3:00, video, Los Angeles
After the intergalactic apocalypse, we will play badminton.
Big Screen Version
Aaron Valdez
3:00, video, Iowa City
A musical homage to the talking heads and flying graphics of Fox News.
Uso Justo
Scott Coleman Miller
22:00, video, Minneaplois
When an experimental filmmaker comes to the town of Uso Justo to shoot his latest film, the residents are at first enthusiastic...
Continuum
Ryan Jeffery
7:00, video, Portland
An icy world created for UK musician/producer, Scanner.
South Dakota Trilogy
Will O’Loughlen
3:00, video, Memphis
What do a shoe-tree, a convicted politician and an atomic power plant have in common? They're all in South Dakota.
The Bear Hunter
Mary Robertson
13:43, video, Brooklyn
An intimate portrait of one man and the complications that come with success.
A Eulogy for Memory
Karl Lind
2:17, video, Portland
Forgotten family moments brought back to life.
Planet of the Arabs
Jacqueline Salloum
9:00, video, New York City
A brilliantly edited mélange of found footage exploring the Arab alien--a mustache-wearing, Allah-worshipping, American-hating moron. Disturbing, yet humerous, Salloum dares to have a sense of humor about American media's mutilation of the Arab.
Kosmos
Thorsten Fleisch
5:11, 16mm, Berlin
Through growing crystals directly on film, their mystical qualities shine straight to the screen. Unfiltered, only aided by light, which gracefully breaks its rays into rich visual textures.
The Ataraxians
Ben Russell & Sabine Gruffat
6:00, 16mm, Providence
From the South of France, a science fiction film about the end of the leisure class and what came to replace it.
Harmony
Jim Trainor
12:00, 16mm, Chicago
A male God bestows the gift of self-awareness upon animals and ancient cultures, which they promptly use to express guilt for their behavior.