SHORTS PROGRAM I
Friday March 29 @ 8pm
Sunday March 31 @ 6pm
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To the Hills: Instructor Fritz Donnelly, New York City DV, 5 min Education by example. Fridge doors open and close, various vegetables are employed but in the end has the language lesson really taught us anything about communication? Or are we just distracted from noticing a messy kitchen by a made up version of Esperanto? |
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Greatest Show on Earth Anne Paas, Brooklyn 16mm, 5 min A macabre allegory pitting familiar circus icons against one another on a Coney Island boardwalk dance of death. The quixotic characters create their own universe just as mesmerizingly as Paas blends original and found footage to set up her multiple ethereal realities. |
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A Can of Pop Meesoo Lee, Vancouver DV, 2 min On the one hand this is a compelling analysis of identity, anthropomorphosis, cloning and the 20th century's fetishization of consumer addiction abetted by technical innovation, on the other it's just some cans some dude put on a record player and started spinning. |
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Scooter 8th Bobby Watts, San Francisco DV, 3 min American Gothic updated for the video age. With musical accompaniment provided by the middle school band a filmmaker captures his nephew's 8th grade graduation with nary a frame of his nephew. |
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Friction Robert Ellman, Prague Beta, 4 min Crazy. Just crazy. Robert Ellman's Tennis Match screened at hilo '99 and at least that had some semblance of a narrative, even if it was surreal about a dead puppy winning Wimbledon. But this one? Beats us. It's just too too weird. But even if we don't understand it, Mr. Ellman has something to say and a dazzling, mind-fucking way of saying it. |
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Life After Death Francis Theberge, Montreal DV, 2 min Fusing music by Front Line Assembly with a blaze of collapsing imagery, this is what MTV might look like if anybody in the media had balls, or did a lot more acid. |
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Armor of God Jim Havercamp & Brett Ingram, Durham 16mm, 13 min Jim Havercamp (Last Pack hilo '01) returns with a beautifully filmed documentary about an insouciant solo noise artist who plays the chainsaw, beats the ground with sticks and dresses himself up in bells all for the greater glory of Christ. |
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House Wago Kreider, Brooklyn Beta, 6min The captivating, hilarious, and surprising story of a domicile's demolition as told from the perspective of a few planks of wood. |
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Duncan Holly Klein, Brooklyn Beta, 3 min With Gumby and Pokie-like nonchalance our animated protagonists rhyme their way through a grade school episode of getting the hots for someone as geeky as you. And then it gets kinda randy. |
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Strip Mall Trilogy Rober Beebe, Gainsville, FL Super8, 9min A Super8 specialist points his camera at the signs and symbols of his new hometown, where the tallest building is a four story motel. In three installments the filmmaker displays a ferocious eye for detail and a monumental love of the editing room. |
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The Strange and Terrible Fate of Sir Robert Scott Nicholas Johnson/Ross Island, Antarctica Video, 17 min The first ever hilo film from the South Pole, made by technicians at the McMurdo Research Station in their off -hours, is the low-fi wacked out answer to the recent spate of doomed polar explorer docs to hit the big screens. Historical integrity bows down before surreal horsing around as three guys with cut-out masks of Sir Robert Scott and a couple of ponies gallop around the ice, collecting rocks, and alternately cannibalizing and cloning one another. |
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State of the Union Brian Boyce, San Francisco Video, 2 min Following up his hilo '01 films Special Report and Election Collectibles TV tweeker Brian Boyce is back forcing the Teletubbies and our very own President to deal with one another with disastrous consequences. Especially if you like bunnies. |
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