SHORTS PROGRAM II
Friday March 29 @ 10pm
Saturday March 30 @ 8pm
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The Bullies Courtney Booker & Greg Rozum, San Francisco DV, 2 min The second installment of Booker and Rozum's brilliant and beautifully animated karate series (the first, Lesson One, was seen at hilo '01), our young nerdly hero Roger's world of swift chops and kicks is thrown into chaos because, as he explains, "quite frankly, one punm... one more pummel is one pummel too many [sic]." |
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Final Exit Joe Gibbons, Malden, MA 16mm, 5 min The sad and ugly truths of the values of living are revealed as a man makes case for euthanasia to his moribund friend. |
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Store! Casomir Nozkowski, Brooklyn DV, 9 min A puzzling encounter in the back aisles of a convenience store between an average joe and a man who's apparently never had food before but is nonetheless planning a feast of old and dusty canned goods. |
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Jon's Point, LA Jack Beck, Rochester, NY DV, 4 min The city as filmed from afar is transformed into a mesmerizing, whirling, bleeping, extra-terrestrial display of lights and sound. |
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Calling All Cars Alfonso Alvarez, Berkeley 16mm, 5 min Recut and recolored found footage and sound explaining the function of police in our society calls into question not only our changing perceptions of law enforcement, but also our methods of teaching basic social concepts to children. |
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0 EPT ANIS Michele Beck & Jorge Calvo, New York City DV, 1 min "Hello?... Hello?" How can I know you're there if I can't see you? This is the question mumbled but not answered by two filmmakers whose heads are bound together by hundreds of rubber bands. |
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Exiting the Tate Tony Remple, Minneapolis Pixel Vision, 7 min It doesn't get much more lo-budget than Pixel Vision, Fisher Price's discontinued medium for capturing black and white video on audio-cassette tape. And arguably it doesn't get more high concept than following pedestrians, birds, and cars as they wander out of London's modern art museum in a stream-of-consciousness cinematic style. |
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Procastination Meesoo Lee, Vancouver video, 6 min A docu-voyeuristic look at middle-class suburban malaise and lack of perspective, Procrastination is a literal cry in the dark to no one, as a young man makes his midnight confession to the camera regarding his frustration and total inability to complete any school work from the backseat of his parents' car. |
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Smackers Tara Miele, Los Angeles Animaton, 2 min In less than 120 seconds Tara Miele tells you everything you need to know about junior high. |
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To The Hills: Dancer Fritz Donnelly, New York City DV, 5 min One might argue that Dancer is an irreverent analysis of the random meaningless of teachers and their areas of expertise. One might also argue that Fritz Donnelly is a weirdo mugging for the camera. Either way, one is right, and this exercise is a joy to behold. |
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The Provider Matt Smith, Santa Monica 16mm, 20 min For the past five years (see Hunting Earl, hilo '97, Bob, hilo '98, and Lunch, hilo '01), Matt Smith has made an almost-scientific foray into the deconstruction of human behavior with his films, developing a bizarre and moving oeuvre in which the actions of people, animals, and plants are conflated and/or reassigned. In his latest, his patient style is further honed in an engaging and melancholy examination of fatherhood. |
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Session: Possible Greg & Kristin Rozum, San Francisco Video, 5 min Beautiful and ridiculous, the Rozums (brother and sister) examine the marginal position of dreamers as an oddly costumed skater careens through the city streets attempting the impossible, and, for the most part, succeeding on his own terms. |
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