Sunday
August 20, 2006
Screening
@ 2pm
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Alice |
15:00
min |
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Produced by Gabriela Ribeiro
Directed by Rafael Gomes
A young couple drifted apart by distance and time try to
meet again, in spite of the fear an uncertainty their love
brings. They wander around the city, feeling and rediscovering
it, as they look for each other.
Built as a metaphor of emotional loss, caused by life's gaps,
"Alice" is a film that speaks to the heart, an experience
of beauty and subtlety. |
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| Orange
Boy: An Inquiry |
5:30
min |
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Directed by Hokwon Kim
This is a revenge story between a man and insects. In an
interrogation room, a fly and louse come to get revenge. Even
though a man (UK) insists that he is innocent, they start
to attack him by using pins they brought. After their attack
is failed and the louse is dead, the fly decides to do ‘Kamikaze’.
In the nick of time, the man also decides to pull out his
teeth because he doesn’t have any way to protect himself
from this attack. (The man got handcuff and is tied with rope).
He successes to protect himself by spitting his molar tooth.
But, after the fly dies, its daughter comes to get revenge
continuously. |
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| Happy
Birthday Yemima |
19:00
min |
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Produced by Sebastian Cabot and Eliraz Orian
Directed by Yishai Orian
Yemima's family believes that she is the reincarnation of
her late grandmother. Yemima plays her role with devotion
and takes care of her dad and the rest of family. On her 28th
birthday, the house plumbing explodes and the plumber who
comes to take care of the problem disrupts Yemima's strange
way of living. |
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| Off
the Leash |
6:26
min |
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Directed by Andrew Frueh
It's Junior's first day of learning to draw with his dad.
Senior puts together a simple still life and tells him to
draw it. Junior, however, has plans of his own. Instead of
the still life, he'd rather draw his favorite thing in the
whole world: dogs! He finishes his drawing and presents his
masterpiece to his dad. Startled by what he sees on the page,
Senior scolds Junior and sends him back to try again.
Junior is undeterred. He tries everything to make his dad
like his drawings, but finally Senior has had enough and sends
him to his room. Sullen and dejected, Junior begins his long
walk back from the studio. But along the way he happens upon
a piece of paper his father had dropped earlier. He takes
a moment to read it, and then realizes this will change his
life forever... |
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| Otros
Autos (Other Cars) |
2:06
min |
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Directed by Javier Horacio Alvarez
At night, we look, through the dirty glass of the back window
of our car in movement, at what happens inside the other cars
that pass nearby. When they get closer, we can hear the sound
of their insides. Afterward we turn around and see our own
car’s inside: a man drives alone on the front seats,
and the child that looks at other cars falls asleep in the
back.
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| Antique
Humans |
9:17
min |
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Directed by Luke Rajnoha
Ever since he was a young boy, Leonard
Perkins has had a fascination with the elderly. Now an adult,
his captivation has grown into a ragtag collection of old
folks. |
|
| Ride
at Your Own Risk |
19:35
min |
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Directed by Michael Novelli
"Ride at Your Own Risk" is a documentary that will
examine the reasons why BMX bikes are not allowed to ride
in free, public skate parks. Ever since the first televised
X-Games in 1995, extreme sports have become increasingly popular
in the United States and throughout the world. This documentary
will show the harassment that local BMX riders experience
from police, park district officials, and community members.
They face fines, tickets, verbal assaults, and even risk getting
arrested in an attempt to practice their sport in these designated
parks. |
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| Vika |
16:00
min |
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Produced by Chana Zalis
Directed by Tsivia Barkov
After a long stint in her boarding school, Vika, 12, returns
home for the weekend: A new sister awaits her filthy and crying.
Vika suddenly understands the gravity of the situation when
her mother decides to mix Vodka with milk to calm the baby. |
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| On
Alzheimer's |
7:56
min |
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Directed by Vanessa Woods
On Alzheimer’s is an experimental animation that explores
one woman’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease.
The film was created by animating photographs taken in the
subject’s apartment, combined with her family photographs,
her physical objects, and the filmmaker’s diary. Words
and imagery repeat themselves in the film, unfolding in alternate
rhythms to emulate the mental obfuscation of Alzheimer’s.
There are two running tropes in On Alzheimer’s: pearls
symbolizing the filmmaker’s physical connection to her
subject, and water signifying fleeting memories and their
metaphoric drowning. Both tropes serve to visually articulate
the subject’s descent into figurative darkness. Part
2 of On Alzheimer’s moves frenetically, employing shorter
cuts, giving the viewer a sense of the rapid state of deterioration,
and the subject’s ensuing frustration in coping with
Alzheimer’s. |
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| My
Coffee With Andrea |
9:30
min |
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Directed by Gene Landry
“My Coffee with Andrea” is a dialogue about potential
vs. actual, what could be vs. what is, expectation vs. deliverable.
These ideas apply not only to the interpersonal relationship
of the two characters in the film, but also the relationship
of the film’s characters to the viewer.
Like its inspiration, “My Coffee with Andrea”
relies entirely on the dialogue of the two characters to drive
the narrative. The entire film is one continuous shot with
no editing or compositing allowing the actor’s performances
to lead the viewer through the twists and turns of a complex
and, sometimes, profound conversation.
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