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Aug
15
3:15 PM15:15
Saturday Screen 2

Experimental Block Take 2

Spring II - Ed Carter

  • Two women encounter one another across dimensions, each perceiving the other as if a ghost. As they make contact, the structures of their dimensional cells begin to flicker and wane, and a possible transcendence presents itself.

Bookanima: Dance

  • BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, is Experimental Animation to give new cinematic life to book. It aims to create ‘Book Cinema’ in the third scope between Book and Cinema. Animation links Book to Cinema. Along the way, it experiments Locomotion based on Chronophotography Animation, paying homage for Edward Muybridge and Entienne Jules-Marey. It experiments locomotion of Dance along with its stream: Ballet-Korean dance-Modern dance-Jazz dance-Aerial Silk-Tap dance-Aerobic-Disco-Break dance-Hip hop-Social dance.

UnSound - Vivian Ostrovsky

  • A Russian can say, “I hear the smell…” A maestro has a vision of what a symphony should sound like. In a silent film how can one make the spectator see the sound? A vivid and noisy assemblage of archival and contemporary imagery meditating on the past and presence of film audio.

Fulfillment/ Marketplace - Christopher Thompson

  • A company returns to the site of its birth in search of actualization, an alchemist fulfills an order request sent from the future, and the invisible hand manifests to guide its children towards the divine.

Aquarium - Stephanie Mawell

  • Aquarium is a choreography of light and motion with a unique perspective on the exquisite beauty that is present in infinite abundance when one focuses attention on the motions of ocean water and its expressive optical qualities. In the first half of the film, composer Max Berlin has created a ‘jazzy’ arrangement of Saint-Saëns’ Aquarium composition (1886, Mouvement VII from the Le carnaval des animaux suite) for bass, piano and percussion that is then followed by an orchestral performance of the original Aquarium composition. Shot in the heavenly Bonaire, Caribbean -- in breaking waves, in tide pools and underwater.

A POTENTIALITY - Dana Berman Duff

  • A short, structured film adding the elements of time and sound to a graphic artwork by Susan Silton using five front pages of the New York Times from 1933 and 1934. Reports from home mixed with the rise of disturbing events abroad having an uncanny echo in our current news.

A Short Film with No Plot

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Aug
15
2:00 PM14:00
Saturday Screen 2

Music Video Block

Transition - Ryan Sanders

  • Two people come to terms with change. A music video from the band, Figure 8.

SAVED - Stefán Kubeja

Alive - Van Chriqui

  • Our hero is surrounded by four men who resemble his looks, each one of them representing a piece of his soul; perhaps an early memory or a moment in his life that dramatically affected him. We first see them as those who won’t let him thrive.; even when he moves away, they are still attached to him in a way. Their presence somewhat minimizes and limits him, and yet there is comforting familiarity in their relationship. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the four men act like one mind trying to control him and bring him down. He wants to let go, and they just want to keep him safe. Soon he will realize that this tension is too familiar to let go of just like that. He isn’t really sure what will remain of him should they leave, and the fear of the immeasurable emptiness takes over at times. He wants to come clean, and reorient himself and his life without chaining it to old patterns and past memories. The honest journey of letting go starts when - instead of trying to ignore the four men, fight them, and make them disappear - he finds a peaceful way to let them go: he looks inside and tries to understand, accept, and, perhaps, find a way to show them compassion. He knows it might be the only way out. The current version of him is enough, and as he realizes it, they do too.

SWIRL - Lance McDaniel

  • SWIRL is the story of a boy's first crush told through dance, exploring the journey your mind takes the first time you touch someone you love.

Pearl Cadillac - Clément Oberto

  • Gary Clark Jr. is heading down the road of life and looking back to where he came from. Shot in black and white super35mm, 'Pearl Cadillac' showcases moonlight as the image of a mother's love.

What Do Bad Girls Get - Lynette Cabrera

  • Deep in the woods, a sly fox visits an otherworldly cabaret during the holidays for some lively entertainment.

S.O.S. - Jeremy Mowery

  • A young punk band grapples with the decision to pursue their passion for music in order to escape the horror found within their own video game.

Faking Love - Xavia Chen

  • This animation is discussing about love. Always be a consultant between my friends, I found that people like to complain about their lover, and I can tell from their words that they want the other half changing to their ideal image. I was wondering does the ”ideal love” really exist? Is the prince charming a perfect lover for every girl?

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Aug
15
12:15 PM12:15
Saturday Screen 2

Laugh and Love Block

Flicker Free - Ricky Lewis Jr.

  • A famous silent movie character is stuck in an endless loop of one of his notorious scenes. His unlikely number one fan -a tablet computer- frees him from the digital realm, gifting fifteen minutes of freedom for a bite of the world's best hamburger and a chance at a love separated two screens apart.

Ice Cream Date

Cafe Diem - Christopher Kerr

  • Have you ever looked back on a missed opportunity and wondered what would have happened if you had just taken the chance? Or have you ever looked back on an opportunity you took and wondered what would have happened if you hadn’t? “Café Diem” is a romantic story about seizing opportunities in everyday moments.

Reservations & Chill - Baylee Sinner

  • Emma and Tyler's date night quickly takes a different turn.

The Stand In -Yousef Kazemi

  • Inspired by true events, "The Stand-In" tells the story of Bryan, whose wedding to his partner Jack doesn't go as planned when his biological mother refuses to attend."The Mountains We Climb

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Aug
15
11:30 AM11:30
Saturday Screen 2

Space & Beyond Block

Apollo 12: The Pinpoint Mission - Sonnet Apple

  • Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, and Richard Gordon launched from Cape Kennedy on Nov. 14, 1969, into a cloudy, rain-swept sky. Launch controllers lost telemetry contact at 36 seconds, and again at 52 seconds when lightning struck the Saturn V launch vehicle. Apollo 12's mission was far from ordinary and furthered our understanding of science beyond our world.

A.A. - Jacob Fijal and Christopher Warner

  • Edward Trumble, a man battling with addiction, finds himself at an A.A. meeting in hopes to find meaning in the universe.

Ways to Look at the Moon - Katherine Clark

  • Sensing their relationship is drifting apart, an artist attempts to reconnect with an astronomer but gets lost in a universe of her own making.

Damn the Torpedos - Scott G. Linson

  • When Chris takes Pat to his favorite watering hole on their second date, he learns that you should NEVER discuss two things on a date, religion or Sci Fi.

SPIRIT: A Martian Story - Stimson Snead

  • ASA sought evidence of life on Mars.That search begins with water, and the search for water begins with the study of the rocks and the soil. That was the historic mission of the rovers SPIRIT and OPPORTUNITY. This is SPIRITS story.

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