Films in Competition Events
8:15pm
Opening Night Screening
Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
A selection of short films, featuring innovative new works in animation, documentary, experimental and independent cinema.
3:00pm
Music Videos in Competition
Films in Competition, Music Video, Themed Competition Programs
New music videos from Cults, Cave, J Mascis, Juliana Barwick, Matthew Dear and Devo’s AAFF award-winning 1976 film In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution. Martin Bandyke
7:00pm
Voluptuous Sleep
Experimental, Feature Length, Films in Competition
Feature in Competition Betzy Bromberg’s abstract film is a powerful and transportive meditation on the nuances of light, sound and feeling evoked through the poetic artifices of cinema — an
7:15pm
Films in Competition 1
Films in Competition, Short Film
New films by David Sherman, Deborah Stratman, Neil Beloufa and Marcy Saude that veer between fiction and non-fiction; with Craig Baldwin’s 1986 epic RocketKitKongoKit. Filmmakers David Sherman and Craig Baldwin
9:15pm
Films in Competition 2
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
New films and video by Mary Helena Clark, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Marc Pelletier, Scott Stark, Jonathan Schwartz, James Sansing, Chris Kennedy with newly restored films by Phil Solomon and Pat
9:30pm
Out Night with Barbara Hammer
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Narrative, Short Film, Special Presentations
A celebration of historic and influential LGBTQ films, featuring trailblazing filmmaker Barbara Hammer in person with her films. Tina Takemoto’s video Looking for Jiro (2011), Ira Sachs’ 1994 film Lady,
9:15pm
“The Strawberry Tree” w/ “FLIGHT”
Documentary, Feature Length, Films in Competition
Existing between anthropology, documentary and reverie, The Strawberry Tree is a mesmerizing cinematic poem that portrays the final sigh of one of Cuba’s last fishing villages. Preceded by Greta Snider’s
9:30pm
Films in Competition 3
Animation, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Short Film
New experimental, animated, and abstract works by Charlotte Pryce, Lawrence Jordan and Norbert Shieh, with the North American premieres of "Emblem" by Rei Hayama and "Vexed" by Telcosystems. Program begins
7:00pm
All Divided Selves
Feature Length, Films in Competition
Feature in Competition A lyrical and engaging documentary collage by Luke Fowler that examines radical and often controversial psychiatrist R.D. Laing.
7:15pm
Films in Competition 4
Animation, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Narrative, Short Film
New films from Martin Arnold, Janie Geiser, Rob Todd, Laida Lertxundi, Kerry Laitalia, Jodie Mack, Albert Sackl and Tina Frank. Program includes Gus Van Sant’s 1978 short film The Discipline
9:30pm
Animated Films in Competition
Animation, Films in Competition, Short Film
A dozen new animated films from China, Spain, Austria, England, Canada and the U.S., including the latest from the Quay Brothers. Program in memory of Karen Aqua (1954–2011) Filmmakers Bryan
11:00am
Films in Competition 5 (Ages 6+)
Family Friendly, Films in Competition, Short Film
This visually engaging program of 10 films includes animation, music videos, documentaries and a computer-generated 3D film made in 1971. Program includes the world premiere of Luciano Zubillaga's "The Arrousing
12:30pm
Films in Competition 6
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
New experimental and documentary films from Canada, Romania, Germany and Singapore featuring the world premiere of "Berlin Tiger" by Shioh Cinquemani, and the US premieres of "Forest Walk" by Mike
3:30pm
Films in Competition 7
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
New non-fiction films from Hayoun Kwon, Richard Wiebe, Robert Fenz, Fern Silva and the world premiere of Sasha Waters Freyer's "An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925". This program also
5:00pm
“This Our Still Life” w/ “Kid Beat Box”
Documentary, Feature Length, Films in Competition, Short Film
This Our Still Life is comprised of video and 8mm footage dating back to 1989; artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting has created an exceptionally warm yet unsentimental portrait of his
7:00pm
“As Above, So Below” w/ “Amos Fortune Road”
Documentary, Feature Length, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Narrative, Short Film
The world premiere of Sarah J. Christman’s feature-length documentary; As Above, So Below intimately examines various transmutations that reshape matter and its meanings. What separates the permanent from the
7:15pm
Films in Competition 8
Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
New experimental, animated and documentary films from Peru, Finland, Japan and the U.S. including Suzan Pitt's latest animation "Visitation" and the North American premiere of Minna Parkkinen's film "Circle". Please
9:15pm
“Palaces of Pity” w/ “And I Will Rise…”
Feature Length, Films in Competition, Narrative, Short Film
Palaces of Pity, a feature length film by Portugese filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes and American filmmaker Daniel Schmidt, is a parable on guilt and oppression set in ancient and modern Portugal; two
9:30pm
Films in Competition 9
Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Short Film
New abstract, experimental documentary and animated films from the U.S., England, and Germany including recent works by Jennifer Reeves, Fern Silva, Stephen Irwin, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Evan Meaney, Martin Arnold and
11:59pm
Midnight Movie: THX 1138
Feature Length, Films in Competition, Midnight Movies
The feature version of George Lucas’ student film, which screened at the 6th AAFF. Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel
11:00am
Films in Competition 10
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Short Film
New experimental films from David Gatten, Samantha Rebello and JB Mabe. Program includes the North American premiere of "Generator" by Takashi Makino and the rarely seen 16mm film "Porch Glider" (1970,
3:00pm
Two Years At Sea
Feature Length, Films in Competition
Ben Rivers’ nearly wordless portrait of a man called Jake who lives alone within miles of forest in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Jake is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing the
6:00pm
Award Screening 1
Films in Competition, Short Film, Special Presentations
Onstage announcement of the 50th AAFF awards followed by a select screening of awarded films.
8:00pm
Award Screening 2
Films in Competition, Short Film, Special Presentations
Additional awarded films from the 50th AAFF.
Films in Competition Films
Fiesta Brava
(Steven Woloshen, 2011)
For one day each year, bulls will run wild on the streets of Pamplona, Spain. This is what their stampede would look like....
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Landfill 16
(Jennifer Reeves, 2011)
Exhumed 16mm film from my own landfill in Indiana, constitute the canvas of LANDFILL 16. After finishing my double-projection WHEN IT WAS BLUE I was horrified by the bulk of...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
SiSiSiSiSiSiSiSiSiSiSi
(Juan Camilo González, 2011)
The never-ceasing repetition of polite gestures. A micro-universe is created in 4 sets of 11 pieces of paper with hand drawn animated cycles....
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Another Dress, Another Button
(Lyn Elliot, 2011)
The spare buttons have a field day on the dresser top. The spare button savers talk about why they do it, and how it makes them feel....
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
Kudzu Vine
(Josh Gibson, 2011)
Through images of kudzu-covered forms, photographed in black and white and radiating with the luminance of early cinema, this ode to the climbing, trailing, and coiling species Pueraria lobata evokes...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:00pm
The Deep Dark
(Laura Heit, 2011)
An elliptical cinematic song cycle, The Deep Dark journeys into the psyche with animation, projected shadows, fleeting lights, and ethereal vocal incantations. The film is composed of layers and cycles...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:15pm
Visitation
(Suzan Pitt, 2011)
The animated film VISITATION unwinds through a dark landscape of unending life and death; steeped in the alchemical and inner dream life the film explores a black and white landscape...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:15pm
663114
(Isamu Hirabayashi, 2011)
Every 66 years a cicada emerges from the ground, ascends a tree and sheds its skin. This tale depicts an unexpected change in this endless cycle....
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
In Between Shadows
(Tianran Duan, 2011)
While the sunshine casts on buildings, either on walls, stairs or floors, shadows will appear and form infinite space and mysterious structures, a combination of memories, subconscious and past time....
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Silly Bears
(Matt Brunson, 2011)
A maximalist and super-colorful interpretation of Akron/Family's music that follows a wayward cosmonaut's search for a lost teddy bear into every corner of the universe....
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
Secret Bee
(Gina Kamentsky, 2010)
Secret Bee ventures toward the sweet honey- spot where representation and surface push and pull each other like a two-headed lama. Film footage was produced frame by frame, painting and...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Palaces of Pity (Palácios de Pena)
(Daniel SchmidtGabriel Abrantes, 2011)
Palácios de pena is about a culturally inherited fear in Portugal, linked to political and social oppression during the Inquisition and Fascism. It revolves around two uppermiddle class adolescent Portuguese girls, juxtaposing their...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:15pm
Irma
(Charles Fairbanks, 2010)
Irma is an intimate musical portrait of Irma Gonzalez, the former world champion of women’s professional wrestling. Filmed in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl – a notorious district of Mexico City – Irma...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
BIRDBOY
(Alberto VazquezPedro Rivero, 2010)
A terrible industrial accident changes Little DINKI's life forever. Now DINKI's fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend BIRDBOY, a misfit who hides in the Dead Forest...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
The Strawberry Tree (El árbol de las fresas)
(Simone Rapisarda Casanova, 2011)
The remarkable first feature-length film by Sicilian born and Montréal-based filmmaker Simone Rapisarda Casanova. Existing between anthropology, documentary and reverie, El árbol de las fresas (The Strawberry Tree) is a mesmerizing cinematic poem...
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:15pm
The Renter
(Jason Carpenter, 2011)
A young boy is dropped off at an elderly woman's home for the day. A lone man, who rents a room, adds to the unsettling atmosphere. The savage slaughter of...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Traces
(Scott Stark, 2012)
A series of short 35mm films generated from digital still images and printed onto movie film. The top and bottom half of each image alternate in the projector gate, and...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
Voluptuous Sleep
(Betzy Bromberg, 2011)
“Forces of desire.” (BB) “Voluptuous Sleep is a mesmerizing two-part 16mm meditation on the nuances of light, sound and feeling as evoked through the poetic artifices of cinema. Bromberg’s close-up...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 7:00pm
The Impossibility of Knowing
(Tan Pin Pin, 2010)
The Impossibility of Knowing was borne out of the humble realisation that there is no way one can know everything significant about Singapore. The documentary visits and films locations where...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
Sounding Glass
(Sylvia Schedelbauer, 2011)
A man in a forest is subject to a flood of impressions; structurally rhythmic waves of images and sounds give form to his introspection. -SS "Waves of consciousness roll in,...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
Vexed
(Telcosystems, 2012)
As physicists are closing in on the particle described as the fundamental building block in our understanding of the Universe, Telcosystems show a far less conclusive particle theory; one that...
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:30pm
Assassination in Dreamland
(David Sherman, 2011)
A work inspired by the uncanny juxtaposition of the political murder of America’s 25th President during the fantastically realized 1901 World’s Fair, as filmed by Thomas Alva Edison. Assassination in...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 7:15pm
Soil
(Meejin Hong, 2011)
He flayed his skin to feed the people who donned it for twenty days straight. A rite of passage emerged from the rot as new life sprung from the old....
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
As Above, So Below
(Sarah J. Christman, 2012)
That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of the one only thing. - The Emerald...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:00pm
The Electric Embrace
(Norbert Shieh, 2011)
This silent hand-processed and optically printed film shifts like an electric current between positive and negative spaces to examine the electric pylons by the Los Angeles River. The geometric and...
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:30pm
To Quit, To Quiet
(JB Mabe, 2011)
A christmastime film in my grandparent's living room. "But to the end of time certain places of the world remain defined for him as the place where those sensations were;...
Showing Sunday, April 01 11:00am
Walt Disney’s “Taxi Driver”
(Bryan Boyce, 2011)
Walt Disney's re-imagineering of Martin Scorsese's classic film "Taxi Driver" follows Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City....
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Guañape Sur
(János Richter, 2010)
A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:15pm
Ceibas: Epilogue - The Well of Representation
(Evan Meaney, 2011)
In part a remake of Hollis Frampton’s Gloria! (1979), in part a repurposing of hacked, 16-bit video game technology; Ceibas: Epilogue - The Well of Representation asks us to reconsider...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
Saskatchewan
(Richard Wiebe, 2011)
16mm footage and Edison Voicewriter recordings introduce to me a family I never knew. I see my dad, age 7, in 1943 stand in front of a movie camera. I...
Showing Saturday, March 31 3:30pm
Untitled
(Neil Beloufa, 2010)
A cardboard decor and photographs reconstitute a luxury Californian-type villa in Algeria. Its inhabitants, neighbours and other protagonists imagine themselves there to explain why and how the latter was occupied...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 7:15pm
Conjuror’s Box
(Kerry Laitala, 2011)
Laitala recently finished the hand-made, hand-processed films entitled the "Muse of Cinema Series". Conjuror's Box, the last work in the series, was made using several D.I.Y.collage techniques including: CINEGRAMMING, hand-painting,...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Curious Light
(Charlotte Pryce, 2011)
A manuscript illuminated: illustrations retreat into the fiber of the page; a fleeting light dissolves into the emulsion of the film: an elusive story is revisited....
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:30pm
It’s such a beautiful day
(Don Hertzfeldt, 2011)
Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems, in this final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's "Everything will be OK" trilogy....
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Maska
(Quay Brothers, 2010)
"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The screenplay is the adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s novel of...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Lack of Evidence (Manque de Preuves)
(Hayoun KWON, 2011)
In Nigeria, twins can be a blessing or a curse. One day, the father of Oscar and his brother tried to kill his two sons during a ritual ceremony. By...
Showing Saturday, March 31 3:30pm
Moxie
(Stephen Irwin, 2011)
A pyromaniac bear misses his mother....
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
And I Will Rise if Only to Hold You Down
(Jennifer Reeder, 2012)
Filmmaker Jennifer Reeder in attendance. Nova and Candice, both 14, prepare for the high school dance while discussing the afternoon Candice spent with her birth mother. The girls express a...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:15pm
Adam Roberts
(Isaac Sherman, 2011)
Music video for “Adam Roberts,” a song by the band CAVE from Chicago. Features a swirling girl, flashy lights, repetition, and hard hits. Filmmaker in attendance....
Showing Wednesday, March 28 3:00pm
Pilgrimage (Pèlerinage)
(Marc Pelletier, 2011)
A simple walk in the park can become a spiritual experience, a moment of discovery, a pilgrimage. This film explores the meditative nighttime allure of the Parc Lafontaine in Montreal,...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
Snakes and Ladders
(Katherin McInnis, 2011)
A flicker film of possible narratives, including an excavation of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and associated tabloid frenzy, and the cyclical nature of financial crisis. Soundtrack by Akiko Suzuki....
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Craig’s Cutting Room Floor
(Linda Scobie, 2011)
Craig is a collage artist with an eclectic archive of 16mm prints. His floor is full of spliced off and discarded film frames left to pile, corrode and live out...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
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The Sea [is still] Around Us
(Hope Tucker, 2011)
The postcard of a vacation spot usually enhances the reality. The contrast is more stark in Corinna, Maine, a former woolen mill town on the shores of Lake Sebasticook, where...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925
(Sasha Waters Freyer, 2012)
An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925 is a lyrical essay film which captures the spirit of excess and adventure embodied by The Great Gatsby (published in 1925) in fragments...
Showing Saturday, March 31 3:30pm
Verses
(James Sansing, 2008-2012)
Verses is a film that animates counselors' logs that were found in an abandoned juvenile detention center. The ink stains and mold growth thread their way through the veins of...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
Remote
(Jesse McLean, 2011)
In the collage video Remote, dream logic invokes a presence that drifts through physical and temporal barriers. There is a presence lingering in the dark woods, just under the surface...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
Taxonomy
(Karen Aqua, 2011)
The animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms reside in a state of constant flux, reflecting a world of transience, mutability, and impermanence. Through the metaphor of visual transformation, this film explores...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
River Rites
(Ben Russell, 2011)
“Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship with others.”—Graham Harvey, Animism A...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Tokyo - Ebisu
(Tomonari Nishikawa, 2010)
JR (Japan Railway Company) Yamanote Line is one of the Japan's busiest lines, consisting of 29 stations and running as a loop. The film shows the views from the platforms...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Sangre de Cristo
(Marcy Saude, 2011)
In Sangre de Cristo, the titular mountain range is examined as a site where embedded layers of oppositional history converge and are revealed through traces of the past in the...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 7:15pm
Village, silenced
(Deborah Stratman, 2011)
A reworking of Humphrey Jennings’ 36-minute 1943 docudrama The Silent Village, wherein coal miners from the Welsh village of Cwmgiedd collectively reenact the Nazi invasion and annihilation of the resisting...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 7:15pm
Heavy Eyes (Schwere Augen)
(Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 2011)
In this hand-processed inscription of cinema negation, unnamed players in found-footage fragments shimmer hypnotically in faint exchanges as a sound engine bears down heavily from above. Darkened figures outline themselves...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
349 (for Sol LeWitt)
(Chris Kennedy, 2011)
A digitally animated version of Sol LeWitt¹s Wall Drawing #349. Recreating LeWitt¹s geometric vocabulary and primary colour palette, 349 careens through emblazoned emblems, lifted from walls and transported into dialogue...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
If the War Continues
(Jonathan Schwartz, 2012)
For ascending: “and before I could be noticed again and taken to task, I spoke to the tiny blessed star within me, shut off my heartbeat, made my body disappear...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
By Foot-Candle Light
(Mary Helena Clark, 2011)
Scenes from the proscenium wings. A film imagined and recounted by foot-candle light. You close your eyes and, suddenly, it is dark.—Mary Helena Clark...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
Solar Sight
(Lawrence Jordan, 2011)
A question I had in mind was: what's the place of the human being in the cosmos? More and more we think about what is 'beyond.' Less and less is...
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:30pm
Emblem
(Rei Hayama, 2012)
Using a fixed camera remotely operated within a bird sanctuary and trained on a mess of twigs and leaves, Rei Hayama’s Emblem uses the steady and unbroken gaze of this standard ornithological...
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:30pm
A Lax Riddle Unit
(Laida Lertxundi, 2011)
In a Los Angeles interior, moving walls for loss. Practicing a song to a loved one. A film of the feminine structuring body. –Laida Lertxundi...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Ricky
(Janie Geiser, 2011)
The realms of childhood, war, and loss echo through Ricky. Double vision illuminates, and simultaneously obfuscates, what can be remembered, lost, or retrieved. A found sound recording forms the spine...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Undergrowth
(Robert Todd, 2011)
A blind predator dreams through its prey’s eyes. – RT...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Point de Gaze
(Jodie Mack, 2012)
Named after a type of Belgian lace, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest....
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
In the Open (Im Freien)
(Albert Sackl, 2011)
Using time-lapse technique Sackl explores the energetic interaction between man-made construction and camera rhythm, cant, and shudder in the textural particulars of a remote mountainous landscape in Iceland. One image...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Vergence
(Tina Frank, 2010)
Vergence, a term from the field of optics, refers to the convergence or divergence of light rays. It also designates slow involuntary movements made by the eyes to center an...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
August Song
(Jodie MackEmily Kuehn, 2011)
A collaboration with Kent Lambert's ROOMMATE documenting a feline daydream....
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
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The House (Das Haus)
(David Buob, 2011)
The dream of the little girl is to care for her grandmother, but aunt and mother do not let her do so. There is only one way out....
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
Back to Land
(Tijana Petrovic, 2010)
Back to Land is a meditation on the sight of a blue whale beached on a California shore. After being hit by a boat, the whale’s enormous body landed on...
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
The Arousing of Thought
(Luciano Zubillaga, 2012)
An act of faith sets the pace for a structure, a protocol of work and a wordless semantic form of writing. Then a 1991 music theme remix develops into an...
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
TATAMP
(Mirai Mizue, 2011)
One living thing. One sound. Becomes chaos. Becomes melody. - MM...
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
Lázslo Lassu
(Ben Popp, 2011)
Using cut out animation and shot on Hi-Con 16mm film, hand processed and transferred to HD, this music film for the band A Hawk and A Hacksaw tells the story...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
A Different Bunny
(Danijel Zezelj, 2010)
A small bunny in a big city looks for love in the wrong place....
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Forest Walk
(Mike Hoolboom, 2011)
This brief black and white sojourn finds a father and son wandering, midway upon the journey of their lives, as the saying goes. Vincent Grenier adds slow motion heat to...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
Berlin Tiger 13h00-16h30
(Shiloh Cinquemani, 2012)
A tiger in captivity. ...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
Tin-Pressed
(Dani Leventhal, 2011)
Opening with jarring violence, Dani Leventhal’s Tin Pressed, proceeds to negotiate a balancing act between the bewildering tonal variances of daily life—with all of its unnamable and enchantingly fragmented specifics—and...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
Quest (Cautare)
(Ionut Piturescu, 2010)
Two persons, a carriage and a horse. Nobody knows who they really are. Few wonder. Less care. Where are they going? Towards what? Joy, torment and undefinable music. Vulnerable, yet...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
XXX!
(Dietmar Brehm, 2011)
A dark rose montage of image-things, their sequence and arrangement veiled by an untold story in the ghostly cast of white shadow and black candle flame. Wig-sporting skulls, wedding cake...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:00pm
Shadow Cuts
(Martin Arnold, 2010)
The first in a four-film series, Martin Arnold directs his deconstructive impulses to the heritage of Walt Disney. The result is a neurotic re-animation that comes to life in the...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Soft Palate
(Martin Arnold, 2011)
The second film in Martin Arnold's series of Disney deconstructions; Soft Palate rhythmically builds Mickey’s sleeping body out of the darkness of his bedroom one body part at a time,...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Self Control
(Martin Arnold, 2011)
The third film in Martin Arnold's recent series. "Arnold uses subtle loops and rhythmical effects to unearth what Hollywood productions and Disney features repress, releasing suppressed gestures and suggesting associations...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Haunted House
(Martin Arnold, 2011)
The frames of a 40’s cartoon film are dispersed into their original graphic elements by means of digital de- and reanimation, the character in the foreground as well as the...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
The Evil Eyes
(Bobby Abate, 2011)
An homage to the death of the soap opera, The Evil Eyesis a 1960's era story of a grandmother faced with her mortality, a mother in mid-life crisis, and a...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:00pm
Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances
(Samantha Rebello, 2010)
Flesh, blood, milk and meat are the subject of a film which tries to get inside “substance” via medieval imagery. An attempt to explore “what things are” through juxtaposing bestiary...
Showing Sunday, April 01 11:00am
Joshua City
(Kevin T. Allen, 2011)
A cross-cultural camera roll of two desolate landscapes. One half shot in the Mojave Desert of Joshua Tree in California, the other half in the industrial ghost town of Industry...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:00pm
Chevelle
(Kevin Jerome Everson, 2011)
In Chevelle, Kevin Jerome Everson captures two workhorse GM cars at a moment of drastic transformation. A junkyard crusher puts metal to metal and smashes the cars into tidy rectangular shapes while the...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:00pm
Passage Upon the Plume
(Fern Silva, 2011)
Plumes dust the arid land, east to west, shapeshifting as they lift in ascension. Something lowers. An ark ran aground where revolution took root: ropes raise stones in baskets. Hearts...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
Peril of the Antilles
(Fern Silva, 2011)
Peril of the Antilles was filmed at the beginning of November 2010 while visiting a friend in Haiti. At this specific time, the cholera epidemic was on its way to...
Showing Saturday, March 31 3:30pm
Generator
(Takashi Makino, 2011)
North American premiere of Makino's most recent work with a score by Jim O'Rourke. The film recently was given the Tiger Award for Short Film, IFF Rotterdam. The images reach...
Showing Sunday, April 01 11:00am
Sack Barrow
(Ben Rivers, 2011)
Sack Barrow explores a small family run factory in the outskirts of London. It was set up in 1931 to provide work for limbless and disabled ex-servicemen until the factory...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
20 Hz
(Semiconductor, 2011)
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:15pm
Circle
(Minna Parkkinen, 2010)
"Circle" illustrates the devastating sorrow caused by the death of a loved one, the interim survival, and slow recovery. The film, which is the final part of a trilogy, depicts...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:15pm
Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain
(Robert Schaller, 2011)
Made with a rudimentary pinhole technique, traces of a mountain landscape are captured in black and white. 'The structures of our thought filter what we see, and in fact there...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:15pm
A Preface to Red
(Jonathan Schwartz, 2011)
A single recording, recorded in a tunnel that one passes through after exiting a boat taking you from one continent to another, where people are selling bright colored toys and...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:15pm
Looking for Jiro
(Tina Takemoto, 2011)
Looking for Jiro is a queer meditation on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. At age 38, Jiro Onuma was imprisoned at Topaz concentration camp in Central...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:30pm
Kid Beat Box: Twenty-two Tapes, Edit Nine
(Stephen Wetzel, 2012)
Kid Beat Box: Twenty-two Tapes, Edit Nine consists of thirty-five 10-second bits of video lifted from twenty-two standard digital video tapes. "I don't know Kid Beat Box, or I know...
Showing Saturday, March 31 5:00pm
This Our Still Life
(Andrew Kötting, 2011)
“The film moves through the four seasons, but mostly it’s a flickering and wilful impression of family life, characterised by found footage edited together with Kötting’s thoughts and a score...
Showing Saturday, March 31 5:00pm
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