Sunday August 20, 2006
Screening @ 2pm

Alice
15:00 min

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.

Orange Boy: An Inquiry
5:30 min

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.

Happy Birthday Yemima
19:00 min

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.

Off the Leash
6:26 min

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...

Otros Autos (Other Cars)
2:06 min

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.

Antique Humans
9:17 min

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

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.

Vika
16:00 min

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.

On Alzheimer's
7:56 min

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.

My Coffee With Andrea
9:30 min

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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