GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Attention filmgoers! Ever wonder what makes a hi/lo filmmakers tick? We knew you did. So we took a little time to climb inside their minds, asking them the following five questions:

1) What three movies would you recommend to someone paralyzed with indecision at the video store?
2) What other art experience (album, book, play, 'happening', dance craze, etc.) would you encourage someone to devour to blow out their inner-minds?
3) Five words or less: what is wrong?
4) Five words or less: how do we fix it?
5) Cake or pie?

Their answers are below - come to the festival, chat them up at intermission, and hassle them about their answers. Or drop them an email and tell them why "pie" is in fact the correct answer to #5.

FRITZ DONNELY
To the Hills: Instructor and Dancer
fritzdonnelly@yahoo.com

1) Man Bites Dog (Realism)
Dog Day Afternoon (Action)
Chien Andalou (Surrealism)

2) Try books by Russians, on the bus or on the train, especially, Doestoevsky, Chekov, and Salinger.

3) Who lives in outer space?

4) Build a spaceship.

5) Canadian pie

JIM HAVERCAMP
Army of God
hovercraft@ipass.net

1) "Vernon, Florida" by Errol Morris--You might not have known your neighbors are geniuses, in their own way.
"The Conversation" by Francis Ford Coppola--no wonder San Francisco makes me paranoid!
"The Adjuster" by Atom Egoyan--Don't trust movie directors, and for god's sake, don't let them in your house (unless you secretly want everything to burn down)

2) Old-time banjo music

3) Capitalism

4) First, let's unplug the televisions

5) Pie! With coffee!

MICHELLE BECK
O Ept Anis
speaking@hotmail.com

1) The Mirror- Tarkovsky, Julien Donkey Boy- Harmony Korine, Love is the Devil

2) José Maceda "Gongs and Bamboos" (CD- Tzadik label)

3) George W. Bush

4) Speak the truth

5) Sushi

WHISPERED MEDIA
Boom! The Sound of Eviction
wm@whisperedmedia.com

1) Brazil, Soylent Green, The Panama Deception

2) lee 'scratch' perry, deltron 3030, or just 7 days in a forest wilderness

3) if you don't know...

4) fun, hard work and revolution

5) the pie's the limit...

TARA MIELE
Smackers
T_miele@hotmail.com

1) Rushmore, The Jerk, Dr. Strangelove. On the flip side of that--Wings of Desire, Elizabeth, and Holy Smoke.

2) Mark Halperin's book A Winter's Tale --so good.

3) George W. Bush... Bush Bush.

4) more pretzels.

5) ice cream

GAD HOLLANDER
The Palaver Transcription

1) Carl T Dreyer's "Vampyr"; Godard's "Eloge de l'Amour"; Parajanov's "The Color of Pomegranates"; Orson Welles' "The Immortal Story"; Bresson's "Mouchette"; Tarkovsky's "Mirror"; Pasolini's "The Gospel According to St Mathew"; Scorcese's "Raging Bull"; (take your pick, I can't count)

2) Rilke's Duino Elegies, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, all his letters; Sandor Ferenczi's Thalassa; any bunch of lines from Emily Dickinson; Christian Boltanski's installations/books; THINKING before you think...

3) I/we can't count

4) By educated guesswork

5) bread

KRISTIN ROZUM
Session: Possible
krozum@reef.com

1) Amores Perros, Running on Empty, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

2) An Unexpected Light, Jason Elliot

3) it's a me and them world, not an us world

4) make art, crack jokes, and be generous daily

5) to be truthful, brownies, but i'll go with pie

ANTHONY REMPLE
Exiting the Tate
mnchld@juno.com

hope these answers fit the bill. obviously I could go on with the first two for hours, so paring down to three a piece was almost impossible, hence they are pretty much the first three things off the top of my head. in retrospect they all seem kind of pretentious (except king cat, which everyone should read and is my favourite "thing" right now), but hey, I'm guilty.

1) Passion of Joan of Arc (dir. Carl T. Dreyer)
The Last Picture Show (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Faces (dir. John Cassavetes)

2) comics: King-Cat Comics & Stories (by John Porcellino)
book: Franny & Zooey (by J.D. Salinger)
music: Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet (by Gavin Bryars)

[numbers three (3) and four (4) are absolutely impossible for me to sum up in the space you afforded. I could write something witty, but would definitely wince at my answers later, so I'll simply decline.]

5) cake

BRYAN BOYCE
State of the Union
bb@dangeroussquid.com

1) "Exterminating Angel" by Luis Bunuel, "Sherlock Jr." by Buster Keaton, "The Unknown" by Tod Browning (available at Le Video)

2) "White Noise" a novel by Don DeLillo

3) media mega-mergers

4) make yer own damn culture

5) pie (pumpkin or strawberry-rhubarb)

ROGER BEEBE
Strip Mall Trilogy
rogerbb@english.ufl.edu

1) Seconds, Speaking Directly, To Have and Have Not

2) ONE experience? You must be kidding. (Donald Barthelme, storm&stress, Ken Vandermark 5, etc. Is this an essay question?)

3) The damn system.

4) Don't work. Spend less.

5) Pie. (The illusion of healthy fruit. The indulgence of desert.)

CASIMIR NOZKOWSKI
Store!
casimir2k@hotmail.com

1) AFTER HOURS dir. Martin Scorsese
KING OF THE HILL dir. Steven Soderbergh
FRESH dir. Boaz Yakin

2) HOKUSAI, ICE CUBE (The Predator), HARUKI MURAKAMI (Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World), PRINCE PAUL, Putting a lot of bottles into a drier and making it go (It makes an unbelievable sound), MARK TWAIN (Life on the Missisippi), ...Brooklyn, VERMEER too!

3) I was born without superpowers!

4) Become a master at sleight-of-hand!

5) flan!

LEENA PENDHARKAR
Dreaming in Code
lspendha@yahoo.com

1) the wizard of oz, harlan county USA, the goonies

2) reading good books, listening to music and surfing the Net for artful, mindblowing web sites

3) too much confusion

4) everyone should just chill

5) this is a very tough question.... though i guess if both were presented to me at the same time i'd go with pie, just because it's not always easy to get

MATT SMITH
The Provider
Thuja@loop.com

1) Zardoz (dir. John Boorman)
Night of the Hunter (dir. Charles Laughton)
Corey Haime: Me, Myself, and I (dir. Corey Haime)

2) Blindness by Jose Saramago

3) Mites.

4) Death of mites.

5) Pie.

GREG ROZUM
The Bullies, Session: Possible
terbocilia@yahoo.com

1) Brighton Beach Memoirs, Le Samourai, The General

2) Pixies - "Surfer Rosa", Encyclopedia Brown definitive collection, anything featuring Bill Cosby

3) creativity can be a formula

4) do something new

5) pie