Sunday, May 4, 2008 @ 5:30 PM
Shorts Program #4: Experimental/Underground
Lake Affect
Jason Livingston
2 min/video/Ithaca, NY
A late season thunderstorm and its aftermath open a portal to the animal world.
The Drift
Kelly Sears
8 min/video/Glendale, CA
In this alternate American history, a space journey gone awry launches the 1960’s counter-culture revolution.
Wax and Wane
Cassandra C. Jones
4 min/video/Ojai, CA
Wax and Wane is a Snap-Motion Re-Animation made from 900 found photographs placed in order to re-create one full cycle of the moon.
Phantom
Luke Sieczek
6 min/video/Seattle
Phantom re-imagines a half-remembered midnight movie: the dying rays of a television screen are re-absorbed into a spectral, volatile afterimage.
One Thing After Another
Kara Hearn
28 min/video/Houston, TX
This experimental narrative takes a look at the way travesties large and small hang about; the way regret, grief, humiliation, and tension play themselves out after the fact, shifting in and out of consciousness, repeating endlessly, and being re-made along the way.
Case Histories in Psychotherapy – Richard: Pt. 2
Tony Gault
8 min/video/Glenwood Springs, CO
Case Studies in Psychotherapy follows the progress of Richard, a man undergoing psychotherapy in a previous film, Not Too Much Remember. What strategies has he employed since his last session?
Call and Response
Aaron Valdez
3 min/video/Grand Rapids, MI
Defining the fine line between catchy commercial jingles and mental paralysis.
Snake Trap
Thad Kellstadt
1 min/video/Chicago, IL
Two friends going nowhere fast.
Playing Alive
Mike Olenick
16 min/video/Columbus, OH
Playing Alive is an existential meditation on the career and persona of John Travolta. Focusing on his onscreen death scenes, of which there are many, the images of him dying parallel the cycle of death and resurrection present in his hit or miss career.