This year Jonesy and I will be attending the 26th Dallas Videofest, the long running festival full of experimental movies and short films. This year, it will be taking place at the Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson, and we could not be more excited. It's taking place Oct. 9th, 2013, and now we have a press release of all of the movies that will be playing that weekend. Some of my anticipated movies include NINE GATES, BLACK METAL, VENICE: UNDER WATER, THE BOOK OF JOE and THIS AIN'T NO MOUSE MUSIC!
Check out the press release and more information about the festival after the break.
DALLAS,
September
17, 2013 – The Video Association of Dallas celebrates the films
of
the Dallas VideoFest Oct. 9-13, 2013. The
long-standing,
26-year-old VideoFest opens at Gilley’s in Dallas
on Wednesday, Oct. 9. It moves
to Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in
Richardson Thursday, Oct. 10 and more than 140
screenings take
place in Richardson until Sunday, Oct. 13.
The online schedule is available: http://DallasVideoFest.FestivalGenius.com/2013/Films
VideoFest
(VideoFest.org) is now the oldest and largest
video festival in the United
States and continues to garner
critical and popular acclaim. VideoFest prides
itself on
bringing films to the theater that are rarely available to be
seen
anywhere else. Films like Experimental/Art Films,
Animation, Narrative and
Documentary Shorts as well as
Documentary and Narrative Features and some
hard-to-find Classic
TV episodes and Classic Films are often in the
mix.
“Every
year, we like to
program films that will challenge us, help us see life from
a
different perspective, educate us and, of course, entertain
the VideoFest
audience. And this year, this is especially so,”
said Bart Weiss, founder and
artistic director of Dallas
VideoFest.
Full Film
List (in
alphabetical
order)
ADA (Canada)
Director:
Lindsay McIntyre
An
observational video portrait
of an Inuk elder addressing age and the passage
of
time.
Experimental
AFTER
TREATMENT (USA)
Director: Edith
Staubner
Humorously
detailed study of a hospital
waiting room. Repetitive movements, glances,
ticks, and calls
turn into a symphony of the banal and
everyday.
Experimental
ALL
THE LABOR: THE STORY
OF THE GOURDS
(USA)
Director: Doug
Hawes-Davis
Too
happy-go-lucky for the earnest
fans of roots music, too plaid and pragmatic for
the hippies,
too old and hairy for the mainstream, too young to be
called
legends. Sound like friends of yours? For nearly two
decades, the Gourds have
been the musical distillation of Austin
itself: A label-defying, unpretentious,
gregarious gang of
friends whose primary motive is to have fun and create
great
music together. ALL THE LABOR captures The Gourds'
enduring brotherhood and
magnetic musicianship through candid
conversations, raucous performances,
on-tour media interviews
and reflections and insight from friends and family.
Blazing
performances and candid interviews convey the life, labor
and
brotherhood of the Gourds, an Austin band beloved around the
world for its
genre-jumping music and unpretentious
vibe.
Documentary
Feature
ALWAYS
FOR PLEASURE (USA)
Director:
Les
Blank
First
a funeral: Allen Toussaint gives the
viewer a closer look into the spirit of
New Orleans. From a
funeral, to a lesson
in eating crayfish, to a St. Patrick's Day
party, New Orleans starts its
preparation for Mardi Gras - when
slaves used to gather on Sundays to prepare
for the one holiday
they could celebrate - this documentary brings the music,
the
dance, and the rituals.
Documentary
Feature
ANNE
BRADEN: SOUTHERN PATRIOT (USA)
Director: Anne Lewis and Mimi
Pickering
Hailed
by King as “eloquent and
prophetic,” the power of life committed to social
transformation
by Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering.
Documentary
Feature
AS
I AM (USA)
Director:
Alan
Spearman
The
struggle of a young man in one of
the poorest neighborhoods and cities in
America, as he battles
to escape grinding poverty.
Documentary
Short
BELLY
(USA)
Director: Julia
Pott
I
can feel you in my
belly.
Animation
BLACK
METAL (USA)
Director: Kat
Candler
When
a teen murders his math teacher in
the name of a black metal band, the lead
singer will have to
re-evaluate the two things the loves most - his music and
his
family. BLACK METAL, a dark drama,
follows Ian, a husband,
father, and musician, struggling with the guilt and
blame of a
senseless murder.
Texas
Show
BLIGHTED
BEAUTY (USA)
Director:
Joe
Brown
BLIGHTED
BEAUTY is a short documentary
that profiles urban explorer and photoblogger
Naaman Fletcher.
The film showcases the haunting beauty of urban blight
while
also explaining the appeal of urban exploration in
Birmingham, AL.
Documentary
Short
THE
BOOK OF JOE (USA)
Director: Mario
Pena
An
action/sci-fi short film that pits Joe
against Death, an Angel, and even Jesus
himself in an
apocalyptic battle for the future of Earth. Blending
vintage
science fiction, biblical imagery, and South Texas
Americana, THE BOOK OF JOE
is a unique, entertaining, and
action-packed take on the end of the world.
Narrative
Short
BROKEN
NEWS (USA)
Director: Lori
Felker
BROKEN
NEWS is an intimate attempt at
reporting, mediating and being mediated. This
comes from an
experiment/performance in which I had a news desk set up at
the
foot of my bed for 2 weeks. I would read only headlines all
day and then
deliver the “news” from memory at night. Then, I
would wake myself up in the
middle of a deep sleep and report
all of the newest news I could muster (my
dreams). The next step
was to gather those newscasts and send them off to
another level
of mediation: my graphics department (artist Chris
Royalty).
Using text from my nighttime headline news, actual
news, stream of consciousness
video clips I gathered and
variations on all of the above, he helped to create
the full,
overwhelming image of information dissemination.
Experimental
BUENOS
AIRES RECYCLERS
(USA)
Director: Nikki
Schuster
Buenos
Aires - tango, ear-splitting
traffic, and a treasure trove for litter. BUENOS
AIRES RECYCLERS
portraits the cultural, social, and urban fabrics of this
city
by means of experimental animation. The viewer is guided to
urban hideouts
where little creatures dwell. These are digitally
composed with collected trash
and typical local products. The
clatter of the limbs of these creatures
interacts with the
soundscapes of Buenos Aires.
Experimental
BURROW-CAMS
(USA)
Director: Sam
Easterson
Features
footage from cameras that
have been placed inside underground animal
habitats. Animals
showcased include:
burrowing owl, black-footed ferret,
porcupine, badger, prairie vole, swift fox,
deer mouse, and the
black tailed prairie dog.
Experimental
BUTTERFLIES
(Australia)
Director: Isabel
Peppard
A
young artist sits on the sidewalk,
struggling to make a living. She sells
drawings to passersby. A
businessman
recognizes her talents and offers her a paying job.
The prospect seems
inviting, but the reality threatens to kill
her imagination.
Animation
CAT
SCANNED (USA)
Director: Michael
Guccione
According
to the filmmaker, “A few
years ago I became interested in how a TV image is
built
(scanned lines/alternating fields). I wanted to slow down what took
place
in nano-seconds to create a perceivable movie experience.
More recently, I came
across one of the first televised images
from the 1920s. RCA created this image
from a 13” papier mache
effigy of the Felix The Cat cartoon character spinning
on a
turntable. This work was inspired by that early TV
experiment.”
Experimental
CAMERA/WOMAN
(Morocco)
Director:
Karima
Zoubir
Working
as a videographer at weddings in
Casablanca, Khadija Harrad is part of a new
generation of young,
divorced Moroccan women seeking to realize their desires
for
independence while honoring their families' wishes. Mother of
an
11-year-old son and primary breadwinner for her parents and
siblings as well,
she navigates daily between the elaborate
fantasy world of the parties she
films and the demands from her
traditionally conservative family. Sponsored by
Women Make
Movies.
Documentary
Feature
CAMP
STORIES (USA)
Director:
David B.
Levy
Sometimes
you have to leave home to find
where you belong. In CAMP STORIES, a poor city kid
volunteers
at a summer camp and discovers a whole new world in
this animated documentary.
Animation
CHINESE
DEMOCRACY AND THE
LAST DAY ON EARTH
(USA)
Director:
Federico
Solmi
CHINESE
DEMOCRACY AND THE LAST DAY ON
EARTH begins idyllically in the Garden of Eden
and ends in a
bloody takeover of the Times
Square.
Animation
CIELO
LINDO (USA)
Director:
Iris
Lopez
At
the point of starvation, a young
homeless girl learns to cope with hunger and
her harsh reality
by exploring her own imagination.
Texas
Show
CIRCLE
IN THE SAND (USA)
Director: Michael
Robinson
In
a broken near future, a band of
listless vagabonds ambles across a war-torn
coastal territory,
supervised and sorted by a group of idle soldiers. Rummaging, stuttering, and
smashing through
the leftovers of Western culture, these ragged
souls conjure an unstable magic,
fueled by their own apathy and
the poisonous histories imbedded in their
unearthed junk.
Suspicion, boredom,
garbage, and glamour conspire in the languid
pageantry of ruin. Feel the breeze
in your hair, and the world
crumbling through your fingers.
Experimental
CITY
OF HATE - DALLAS AND
THE ASSASSINATION (USA - Preview
Screening)
Director:
Quin
Matthews
CITY
OF HATE: DALLAS AND THE
ASSASSINATION explores a politically turbulent city
preparing
for a presidential visit, the immense pride many Dallas
residents
felt to see the president in their hometown and the
city’s damaged reputation
that followed the death of President
Kennedy.
Documentary
Feature
C.L.U.E.
(COLOR LOCATION
ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE) PART 1
(USA)
Director: A.L. Steiner and
Robbinschilds
Inhabiting
the intersection of
human movement and architecture, A.L. Steiner and
robbinschilds
(Sonya Robbins and Layla Childs) present a full-spectrum
video,
set to a score by rock quartet Kinski. Edited in
succinct rainbow-hued sections, each sequence
features
robbinschilds in monochromastic gear, acting in
psychedelic contrast and
communion with their surroundings. The
artists traverse through desolate desert
landscapes, darkened
parking lots, and geological formations, responding to
the
environment through choreographed duets. In a style that is
obsessive,
persistent, and often humorous, robbinschilds reveals
their observations of the
human imprint on the
world.
Experimental
THE
COMPLECT VOICE (SUITE
FOR BIRDS AND MAMMALS)
(USA)
Director: Julie
Rooney
This
film seeks the collaborative efforts
of humans and animals to create musical
performances through a
scored musical suite. These videos apply the structure
of music
to the functional sounds made by animals from a variety of
sources
(alive, internet-based, taxidermied). Although union is
seemingly achieved, the
tension between the deliberate
manipulation of the animals, the blurred
distinction between
imitation sources, and the animal’s resistance to
the
formulation of music emphasizes what separates and relates
humans to other species.
Experimental
CORK'S
CATTLEBARON (USA)
Director:
Eric
Steele
A
young protege and his boss sit down for
a life-changing steak dinner in
Omaha,
Nebraska.
Texas
Show
A
DAY FOR CAKE AND
ACCIDENTS (USA)
Director:
Jesse Mott and Steve Reinke
This
film features a
cast of animal characters -- each of a different, though
often
indeterminate, species -- who struggle with impending
astrological despair and
engage in absurdist dialogs, confessing
various melancholic desires and
transgressive secrets in poetic
cartoon abjection. It is the third in a series of
short
collaborative animations.
Experimental
DESTINATION:
PLANET
NEGRO!
(USA)
Director:
Kevin
Willmott
In
1939, a group of African American
intellectuals propose an ingenious and
unlikely response to Jim
Crow America—to leave the planet and populate Mars.
Using
technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew
(plus
one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth's first working
spaceship on a
mission that will take them to a world not unlike
present-day America. Their
spacey adventure illuminates some
hard truths about American culture and
threatens to undermine
the time-line of history along the way.
Narrative
Feature
DIGBY
(USA)
Director:
Colette Copeland
“Maybe
there is a beast or maybe it's only us.”
―William Golding, Lord of
the Flies. A raft ride through
murky
snake-filled water. An abandoned tanker filled with blue
smoke haze. A rope. A
ritual.
Experimental
DINING
WITH THE ENEMY
(Norway)
Food
is
a universal language that brings people together. But what if the people
are
sworn enemies? In DINING WITH THE ENEMY, an experienced war
correspondent takes
an expert gourmet chef to a conflict-ridden
part of the
world.
NordicWorld.tv/Formats/Catalogue/19/Format/Format
Documentary
Feature
DRONES
IN MY BACKYARD
(USA)
Directors:
Deborah
Kaufman and Alan Snitow
DRONES IN MY
BACKYARDis a
funny and scary video mash-up about the coming of
aerial drones to the United
States. One day, a drone appears in
the filmmakers' backyard, hovering over
their heads. It’s the
catalyst for an extended meditation and free association
on the
presence of drones in war-making, the role of drones in
surveillance,
and the thrill of flying when you put on goggles
to see what the drone sees.
They follow us... and we listen to
the incessant buzzing of cameras
overhead.
Documentary
Short
DUSTY
STACKS OF MOM: THE
POSTER STORY (USA)
Director:
Jodie Mack
Interweaving
the forms of personal
filmmaking, abstract animation, and rock opera, this
animated
musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a
nearly-defunct
poster and postcard wholesale business; the
changing role of physical objects
and virtual data in commerce;
and the division (or lack of) between abstraction
in fine art
and psychedelic kitsch. Using alternate lyrics as
voice-over
narration, the piece adopts the form of a popular
rock album reinterpreted as
a
cine-performance.
Experimental
ECHOES
(USA)
Director: Van
Blumreich
David
and Jonie's son, Micah, has
disappeared into the woods. When he comes home, all
is not what
it seems in this haunting short
film.
Texas
Show
EVERY
TUESDAY: A PORTRAIT
OF THE NEW YORKER CARTOONISTS
(USA)
Director:
Rachel Gordon
Loube
The
New Yorker Magazine is famous for its
pithy, witty, and occasionally
incomprehensible single-panel
cartoons. The cartoons are well known, but the
cartoonists are
not. This film follows four of them—Sidney Harris, Emily
Flake,
Drew Dernavich, and Zack Kanin—through their creative
process and their weekly
shared lunch.
Documentary
Short
FALLOUT
(USA)
Director: Paul Turano
A
futile gesture marking the one-year
anniversary of the collateral calamity at
the Fukushima nuclear
power facility, surveying a more invisible tsunami.
Scientific
predictions of the residual effects are undercut by the
cheerfully
benign day-glow colors assigned to the threat. A
gradual contamination of the
image and increasing waves of fear
give way to an irradiated bloom.
Experimental
FAR
FROM VIETNAM (France)
Director:
Chris
Marker
In
seven different parts, Godard, Klein,
Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show
their sympathy for the
North-Vietnamees army during the Vietnam-war.
Documentary
Feature
FILMAGE:
THE STORY OF
DESCENDENTS/ALL
(USA)
Directors:
Matt Riggle and Deedle
LaCour
Long
before Green Day and Blink 182
inflicted punk-rock's puncture wound on the map
of mainstream
music, the Descendents were in a garage concocting the
perfect
mix of pop, angst, love, and coffee.
Sponsored
by Charlie Uniform Tango. Director of photography,
Justin Wilson in attendance
Documentary
Feature
FINDING
HILLYWOOD (USA)
Director: Leah
Warshawski
Set
amongst the hills of Rwanda,
FINDING HILLYWOOD chronicles one man's road to
forgiveness, his
effort to heal his country, and the realization that we must
all
one day face our past. FINDING HILLYWOOD is a unique and
endearing
phenomenon film about the pioneers of Rwanda's film
industry.
Documentary
Feature
FOREVER
IN HIATUS
(Australia)
Director: Andy
Nguyen
A
washed up former pop star lives in
exile pedaling a xich lo (bicycle taxi)
aimlessly in the streets
of Ho Chi Minh City, until he meets a 16-year-old girl
who
discovers who he is.
Narrative
Short
FORMER
MODELS (USA)
Director: Benjamin
Pearson
Tells
the tragic story of Milli Vanilli
member Rob Pilatus' transition from embodied
subject into pure
image. A public and private history undo themselves as
together
they encounter the trials of Labor, Love, Loss, and
Planned
Obsolescence. A body desires its other and a simulation
is transgressed and the
ultimate price is
paid.
Experimental
FORTY
YEARS FROM
YESTERDAY (USA)
Directors:
Robert Machoian And Rodrigo
Ojeda-Bec
After
an unexpected and tragic event,
Bruce is forced to face the inevitable
questions we spend our
lives avoiding.
Narrative
Feature
FREEDOM
FIGHTERS (USA -
Ten Minute Excerpt)
Director:
Jamie Meltzer
There’s
a new detective agency in
Dallas, Texas, started by a group of exonerated men,
with
decades in prison served between them. They call themselves the
Freedom
Fighters, and they are looking to free innocent people
still behind bars.
FREEDOM FIGHTERS is a character-driven
documentary that follows these
change-makers as they rebuild
their lives and families, learn to investigate
cases, work to
support each other, and campaign to fix the criminal
justice
system.
Documentary
Short
FREE
RADICALS: A HISTORY
OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM
(USA)
Director: Pip
Chodorov
This
feature-length documentary
provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately
personal
introduction to one of the most important, yet
perpetually
marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde
cinema.
Experimental
FREE
THE
BUTTERFLY/UWOLNIC MOTYLA
(Poland)
Director:
Joanna
Frydrych
Catherine
Rosicka-Jaczyńska used to
have money,
beauty, and fame, until she got sick. While ALS
kills in average after four
years, she lives more than a dozen.
This disease takes the possibility of any
movement, and
Catherine is exceptionally active. She is not able to speak
a
single word, but wrote a book that became a bestseller.
Catherine achieves
everything she wants, except one of the most
important
things.
PolishDocs.pl
Documentary
Feature
A
GAMEBOY LIFE (USA)
Director: Jose Cortez
A
forgotten video game device decides to go on
an adventure to find the
excitement he's been missing for many
years.
Animation
GEORGE
GIMARC TALKS ABOUT
THE SEX PISTOLS AT THE LONGHORN BALLROOM
(USA)
Presenter:
George
Gimarc
A
band is sent on a self-destruct mission
across the USA and ignites a cultural
shift uniting misfits in
their wake.
Special
Program
GIRLS LOVES HORSES
(USA)
Director: Jennifer
Reeder
A
professional woman, traveling alone,
recalls and reenacts an incident from her
adolescence after
injuring herself off-camera. This experimental
narrative
unravels patiently and points to melodrama as a
potential form of plot
structure. An adult female and the girl
ghost from her past emerge and retreat
within real-time
exchanges and previously recorded footage. The linearity
is
disrupted by magical b-roll and a constant shift between the
actual and
imagined. This is a fractured little story about a
business trip, a bloodstain
and being okay.
Experimental
GOOGLE
GLASS
With Google Glass Owners: Rob
Garner,
Michael Stancil, Cameron Gawley,
Ryan Plesko and Luke Wallace
The Dallas VideoFest has had a long
tradition
of showing off new technologies and talking about how they
will
affect us. Ever since the first videos of Google Glass on
YouTube, it has
captured the imagination of the geek-o-sphere.
Like all new technologies,
the backlash and cartoons have been
extreme. Clearly this Glass has touched a
nerve. For many of us,
this is there is a very high curiosity factor.
So to scratch that itch and ask
the
questions you wanted to ask, VideoFest brings you a panel of
people who live
and walk among us in DFW who have been using
them. They will talk about their
experiences, what they like and
don’t like, and you can ask them the questions
you have wanted
to ask. Along the way, we will show a few videos made with
and
about Glass. We have come along way since the days of the
Virtual Reality goggles
and gloves.
Special
Program
GREAT BLOOD
SACRIFICE
(Canada)
Director: Steve Reinke
GREAT
BLOOD SCRIFICE traces the movement of a
voice from being rooted in a particular
body (the artist's) to
its dispersal through a variety of dummies. Whatever is going on on top,
there’s a
precise machine at work below, and this machine is
digging little grooves, and
these grooves slowly join together
and become the conduits by which all meaning
is drained from the
world. A comedy but not a pretty
one.
Experimental
HARDCORE
EL PICANTE (USA)
Director: David
Hernandez
HARDCORE
EL PICANTE is a doc short
about the DIY punk scene hosting shows at the oldest
Taqueria in
Denton,
TX.
Documentary
Short
HOME
MOVIE DAY
Home Movie Day events provide
the
opportunity for individuals and families to see and share
their own home movies
with an audience of their community, and
to see their neighbors' in turn. It's
a chance to discover why
to care about these films and to learn how best to
care for
them.
Media archivist and
media
philosopher, Rick Prellinger, talks about how it is
important to look at the
ephemeral media to really understand a
culture. It is industrials, educational
films, and home movies
that tell us so much about who were are and were, what
we wore
how we treated each other, what we valued, and what we, at that
moment,
thought was worth preserving. Home movies are often
discarded, until
someone dies or we are looking for a reason to
embarrass someone. There
was a therapist who asked their
patients to bring in home moves of them as a
kid to see what
their parents were really like. Rarely do those images
match
the memory.
So here on Home Movie Day
at
VideoFest, we celebrate those memories as they were
preserved. Bring us
your past and share it with us.Presented by
Video Association of
Dallas and the Dallas Municipal
Archives.
Special
Program
A
HOLY THING (USA)
Director: The Perennial
Plate
In
Gujarat, spending two days with Bhaskar
Save–the Gandhi of Indian farming after
visiting his family, the
viewer sees their way of life and cuisine. The filmakers were inspired to
compose a type
of visual “poem” out of his non-violent
philosophy.
Documentary
Short
IN
REPS OF LONG-PLAY
(USA)
Director: Olivia
Ciummo
The
curtain opens and Greek pillars mark
an entry point to staged happenings. The
imagined stage actors
command movement as the director controls stillness and
points
out spots for the viewers to look.
Experimental
INTRIGUE
AND THE
RONCHES
(USA)
Director:
Kurdwin
Ayub
"No
matter when, no matter where I´ll be,
I´m looking for a woman that will satisfy
me." A penis performs
a cult hit by the Sonics, swings its
"hips" and gathers a group
of vaginas around it. As groupies do, they
are looking to be
close to the lead singer, but things turn out differently.
Experimental
THE
INVISIBLE WORLD (USA)
Director: Jesse
McLean
In
this video, materialism, emotional
presence, and the adaptive nature of human
beings are broadly
considered through the lens of time. A variety of
time-based
materials are collected and collaged, revealing the
filmmaker’s own hoarding
tendencies. The present world is packed
with objects that evidence human
productivity, yet the desire to
possess things remains somewhat mysterious.
Lifeless objects
become imbued with emotional significance and possessions
are
linked with personal identities - even as these objects bear
a cool and distant
witness to human struggles. The rapidly
arriving future portends an intangible
new world of virtual
experience.
Experimental
IRRESISTIBLE
(USA)
Director: George
Wada
In
George Wada's music video
"Irresistible", singer-songwriter Tommy
Homonym strolls through
Paris in the 1963 thriller Charade, pining for both
Audrey
Hepburn and Cary Grant.
Music
Video
KANZEON
(Japan)
Director: Neil Cantwell and Tim
Grabham
A
mystical film journey from the
timeless to the modern looking at the ritual
role of sound in
Japanese culture and religion.
Documentary
Feature
LA MIRADA PERDIDA
(Argentina)
Director:
Damián
Dionisio
Argentina,
1976. Claudio is forced to
live with his family in hiding, due to his political
ideals. The
house in which they live is discovered by the militarists. No
time
to flee, Teresa tries to shelter his daughter in a fantasy
world to avoid
seeing the horror they are about to
live.
Narrative
Short
LATENT
(USA)
Director: Nate
Kantor
A
curious young girl discovers the
unrevealed secrets of a
benevolent
photographer.
Narrative
Short
LEVIATHAN
(France)
Director:
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and
Verena Paravel
A
documentary shot in the North
Atlantic and focused on the commercial
fishing
industry.
Documentary
Feature
LIE
BACK AND ENJOY IT: A
FILM ABOUT JOANN ELAM
(USA)
Director: Jessica
Bardsley
JoAnn
Elam was an experimental
filmmaker, postal worker, and social activist. This film remixes JoAnn's
footage as a way of
introducing viewers to her life and
work.
Experimental
LINE DESCRIBING YOUR
MOM
(USA)
Director: Michael
Robinson
This
is the new choreography of
devotion, via the vlog of Southern nightmares. This
is the light
that never goes out. This is the LINE DESCRIBING YOUR MOM.
Experimental
LITTLE
LIONS (USA)
Director: Tony
Costello
Cosmo
spends his days rough-housing
with his little brother and sister, and the games
don't stop
when he discovers an injured bird in their backyard. LITTLE LIONS
is
the story of a boy who's just starting to figure it
out.
Texas
Show
LIVING
CONDITION - BILL'S
STORY
(USA)
Director:
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi
Talisman
LIVING
CONDITION is an animated
documentary that tells the stories of four families
living with
a relative condemned to execution. Each family bears witness to the impact of
capital punishment on whole
communities, a perspective that is
rarely, if ever, heard. This film opens up discussions
surrounding
the Death Penalty and offers new perspectives on
crime, justice, human rights,
costs to society, and questions of
racial equality. This is a screening of the story of
BIll.
Screened in partnership with Make Art with Purpose for MAP
2013.
Animated
Documentary
Short
LUCKY
(USA)
Director: Laura
Checkoway
Masked
in tattoos and armed with an
indomitable spirit, Lucky Torres has forged a path
all her own.
Spanning five years, this intimate survival story delves deep
into
the fringes of NYC to reveal a life etched in wounds,
longing, resilience, and
dreams.
Documentary
Feature
MARTINDALE
(USA)
Director: Bug
Davidson
MARTINDALE
is a collaborative work from
Bug Davidson and Two Left Feet Dance Company. The
filmmakers
sought lost memories, history, and a trace of domesticity in
the
rural southwest. Once a thriving agricultural community, the
city of
Martindale, Texas now awaits a purpose. Its structures
are in a state of
instability as a new era makes its mark on the
town. This work questions the possibility of
marginalized
identities to make a historical impact on these territories as
apparitions.
Narrative
Short
MERCY
MERCY: A PORTRAIT
OF A TRUE ADOPTION
(Denmark)
Director:
Katrine Riis
Kjaer
MERCY
MERCY gives a rare look at all
participants in the adoption process, including
the parents who
give their children up. Two loving Ethiopians parents,
Sinkenesh
and Hussen, have just been diagnosed with HIV and told they only
have
one year to live. They make the painful decision to give
their two youngest
children up for adoption, handing them over
to a Danish family. In an emotional
departure, the Danish family
promises to stay in touch, and the adoption agency
agrees to
broker the relationship. What seems like the best decision for
the
children becomes a series of tragic and painful events for
all, unveiling that
the well-being of children is not always the
main priority in the adoption
process. Greed, selfishness,
unrealistic expectations, and skewed cultural
perspectives
collide in this powerful story.
Documentary
Feature
MIRACLE
BODY EPISODE 1:
“USAIN BOLT, SECRET OF CIVILIZATION’S FASTEST”
(Japan)
Director: Yoriko
Koizumi
A
look at the body of Usain Bolt. Bolt
is the Jamaican sprinter who is widely
regarded as the fastest
person ever. He is the first man to hold both the 100
meters and
200 meters world records.
Documentary
Feature
MOMS
MABLEY: I GOT
SOMETHIN' TO TELL YOU
(USA)
Director:
Whoopi
Goldberg
Comedy
pioneer Moms Mabley, often
referred to as “the funniest woman in the world,”
comes to life
again, complete with rolling laughter and measured eloquence,
in
Whoopi Goldberg’s directorial debut. This astute documentary
feature showcases
Mabley’s talent and pays homage to a woman
whose relevance still resonates
today. A role model for Whoopi
Goldberg
herself, Mabley’s legacy is defined through rich found
footage and interviews
with some of the world’s best comedians,
including Bill Cosby, Kathy Griffin,
and Eddie Murphy. They show
how Mabley paved the way for female comedians and
performers
everywhere with her boundary-pushing stand-up routines and
innate
ability to transcend racism, sexism, and ageism. The
documentary dives
whole-heartedly into Mabley’s comedy -
political and social - and is still
hilarious. A passion project
for Goldberg, it celebrates Mabley’s historical
significance and
profound influence as a performer vastly ahead of her
time.
Documentary
Feature
MOTOR
WEST (USA)
Director: Ren
Rowland
MOTOR
WEST is an animated
post-apocalyptic portrayal of a futuristic father taking
his son
on a nostalgic journey following in the paths of the early 20th
century
motorists who had the dream of traveling America on
Route 66.
Texas
Show
MR.
BEAR (Spain)
Director:
Andrés
Rosende
It's
Christmas again: family, presents,
parties... the worst time of the year for
Steve. Driving through
New York City for Christmas Eve dinner, his car breaks
down and
he accidentally stumbles upon a crime scene. Mistaken for
the
notorious cleaner, Mr. Bear, Steve has to face a difficult
choice: dismember
and get rid of some bodies or become a corpse
himself.
Narrative
Short
NATAN
(Ireland)
Director:
Paul Duane and David
Cairns
How
did the man who—more than any
other—paved the way for French national cinema
become completely
forgotten, especially so in France? Why was Bernard Natan's
name
erased from the history of cinema, despite the fact that he dominated
the
French film industry for most of the 1920s and '30s? David
Cairns and Paul
Duane have excavated an extraordinary tale that
aims to rewrite the history of
European cinema. **Warning:
Viewer discretion is advised. This show contains
scenes that
some viewers may find disturbing.
Documentary
Feature
NINE
GATES (USA)
Director: Pawel Wojtasik
Wojtasik's
NINE GATES explores the possibility
of transcendence through sexual
passion. Exposing close-up
images of all
openings of the female body, Wojtasik's camera,
while moving slowly, searches
and probes the orifices.
Deliberately interlocking anatomy and pornography,
Wojtasik
reflects through sensuous camera work and careful editing the
question
of beauty within the context of the human condition, by
examining the
operations of desire in the act of looking. This
piece boldly addresses the nature of love and visuality by
using
the body as a portal, overcoming the raw reality of the
visible and directing
the viewer toward the implications of
perception superseding actuality by
entering the realm of
fantasy and ultimately reinstating a universal
polymorphous
state of bliss.
Experimental
NOT
TORN (ASUNDER FROM
THE VERY START)
(Canada/USA)
Director: Steve Reinke
The
archive is not a repository of cultural
memory, but of dreams–a bank of dream
material. Both memory and
archive embrace death from contrary positions. The
archive is a
mausoleum that pretends to be a vast garden. Memory is
an
irradiated zoo in which the various animals are mutating
extravagantly and
dying slowly.
Experimental
ON
THE COAST (Turkey)
Director: Merve Kayan and Zeynep
Dadak
A
short essay film on the ephemeral
feeling of summer, observed in Erikli, a
small coastal town on
the Aegean Sea in Turkey. The film reflects the nature of vacation, as it is a
transformed version
of reality, the fantastical counterpart to
winter.
Experimental
ON
THE SPOT (ISRAEL)
Director:
Eszter Cseke and
András S. Takács
The
film takes place in the
West Bank. The protagonists are the Jewish settlers who
live in
the Palestinian area to fulfill the Biblical prophecy, to populate
the
land of Israel according to what borders are recorded in the
Torah. The mission
of the settlers is surrounded by brutal
murders and military actions. The filmmakers, Eszter Cseke and András
S.
Takács show the settlers' movement from as close as many have
never seen
it–with much curiosity, honesty, and
bravery.
Documentary
Feature
OUR
NIXON (USA)
Director:
Penny
Lane
OUR
NIXION shows the 37th president as
""just a person."" With audiotape of a casual phone
conversation
in the new documentary, OUR NIXON reveals a
startling fact about President
Nixon and his staff: that they
were unfamiliar with the most popular television
program in
America at the time, ""All in the Family.""
Documentary
Feature
OWNERBUILT
(USA)
Director: Lawrence
Andrews
Hurricane
Katrina destroyed Noel's home
and as he rebuilds, he evokes the past, but his
memories are
complicated by the tragic events of Danziger Bridge.
Animation
PEARL
WAS HERE (USA)
Director:
Kate
Marks
A
little brat finds solace in a sea of
stuffed
animals.
Narrative
Short
PETITE
HISTOIRE DES
PLATEAUX ABANDONNÉS
(Italy)
Director:
Rä di
Martino
Abandoned
movie sets are scattered all
around the South Moroccan deserts. In this film,
they are used
again, but the actors are two local kids, born not far from
the
film studios near Ouarzazate. Together, the two kids
re-enact a few lines from
movies that have been shot there.
This work
also gives a vivid introspection of the uncontaminated
landsquares of the Draa
Valley and how its surrounding nature
withstands the test of time.
Documentary
Short
PHOTOS
IN THE WIND, A
JOPLIN TORNADO STORY
(USA)
Director: Abbey
Hoekzema
A
community in small town in Carthage,
Missouri works to rescue, preserve and
return lost photographs
after the deadly May 22, 2011 EF5 tornado that
struck
neighboring city, Joplin.
Texas
Show
PHYSICAL
EXAMINATION
(USA)
Director: Mauri
Lehtonen
Homage
to Owen Land. PHYSICAL
EXAMINATION is a short structural film that shows
viewers the
elements of film stock that usually cannot be seen during
movie
projection, like sprocket holes and sound track area. It
also shows an examination of breasts.
Experimental
A
PIZZA CHEGOU (Brazil)
Director: Joe
Tripician
A
young Brazilian girl has been
evicted from a local slum along with her entire
family. She
delivers pizzas by motorbike to support them. By chance,
she
encounters the man who evicted them, and faces a choice
between forgiveness and
revenge.
Narrative
Short
PUNK
JEWS (USA)
Director:
Jesse Zook
Mann
Profiling
Hassidic punk rockers, Yiddish
street performers, African-American Jewish
activists and more,
PUNK JEWS explores an emerging movement of provocateurs
and
committed Jews who are asking, each in his or her own way,
what it means to be
Jewish in the 21st Century. Jewish artists,
activists, and musicians from
diverse backgrounds and
communities are defying norms and expressing their
Jewish
identities in unconventional ways. In the process, they are
challenging
stereotypes and breaking down
barriers.
Documentary
Feature
THE
REALIST (USA)
Director:
Scott
Stark
An
experimental and highly abstracted
melodrama. A "doomed love story"
storyboarded with flickering
still photographs, stoic department store
mannequins, and
located in the visually heightened universe of
clothing
displays, fashion islands, and storefront
windows.
Experimental
THE
RIVER (USA)
Director: Sam
Handel
A
short comedy starring Lauren Ambrose,
Jay O. Sanders, Adam Driver, Michael C.
Hall, Kate Skinner, Ron
McLarty, Matt Hopkins, Anthony M. Corbett, Asa Palmer,
Jake
Shmerechniak
Narrative
Short
THE
ROAD LED HERE (USA)
Director: Jennifer
Hardacker
THE
ROAD LED HERE tells the story of a
discontented voyager who finally finds a
place to end her
journey, but what is it about this
place?
Experimental
ROBERT
WILLIAMS MR
BITCHIN’
(USA)
Directors:
Mary C Reese and Nancye
Ferguson
MR
BITCHIN’ delivers insight into
multiple American countercultures by following
the great
American artist and underground legend Robert Williams. From Hot
Rods
to Punk and Metal, to LSD, to the top of the art world, the
influential
paintings of Robert Williams defied categorization
until they became their own
art movement.
Documentary
Feature
ROLLING
STONE: SOME GIRLS
IN TEXAS '78
(USA)
Director:
Lynn Lenau
Calmes
The
Rolling Stones 1978 tour of the USA
in support of that year's “Some Girls”
album is considered by
fans to be one of their very best. By the time the band
arrived
in Texas in July, the album had hit the #1 spot on the US charts.
The
tour took a back-to-basics approach; with the band and their
music very much at
the forefront and little or no elaborate
staging. Filmed at the Will Rogers
Memorial Center in Fort
Worth, Texas, on July 18th, 1978, this concert is
typical of the
tour, with the Rolling Stones delivering a raw,
energetic
performance in front of a crowd who is clearly loving
the show. Originally shot
on 16mm film, the footage has been
carefully restored and the sound remixed and
remastered by Bob
Clearmountain from the original multi-track tapes. This
is
undeniably the Rolling Stones at the peak of their
form.
Documentary
Feature
RUBIES
(USA)
Director: Lizette
Barrera
A
single mother throws a birthday party
for the manipulative father of her child
in order to rekindle
their relationship.
Narrative
Short
SCIENCE
GIRL TV SHOW (New
Zealand and
USA)
Director:
Andrew Dean and Kaleta Doolin
(Executive Producer)
At
a high school in New
Zealand, girls in the band Science Girl are assigned to
write a
song about water purity. Their quest to create the perfect song takes
a
twist when the school’s water turns murky, and a sleuthing
adventure commences
involving helicopters, laboratories, cows,
and creepy
janitors.
Narrative
Short
SHELDON LEONARD'S WONDERFUL LIFE (USA)
Director:
Allan
Holzman
Hollywood
producer Sheldon Leonard looks
back on his legacy, creating some of the most
influential
sitcoms on television, with some of the biggest television stars
of
all time. The roster of shows Leonard produced and/or
directed include “The
Andy Griffith Show,” “The Danny Thomas
Show,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “I
Spy,” “Gomer Pyle, USMC,”
and “My Favorite Martian,” most of which still air
in
syndication decades after their initial
run.
Documentary
Feature
SHORED
UP (USA)
Director: Bill
Kalina
A
documentary that asks tough questions
about our coastal communities and our
relationship to the land.
What will a rising sea do to our homes, our
businesses, and the
survival of our communities? Can we afford to pile enough
sand
on our shores to keep the ocean at bay? In Long Beach Island, New
Jersey,
and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, surfers,
politicians, scientists, and
residents are racing to answer
these questions. Our development of the
coastlines place us in a
tough predicament and it’s time to start looking
for
solutions.
Documentary
Feature
SIGGRAPH 2013
(USA)
Director: Faythe Levine and Sam
Macon
The
world's premier conference on computer
graphics and interactive techniques,
welcomed 22,549 artists,
research scientists, gaming experts and developers,
filmmakers,
students, and academics from 79 countries around the
globe.
Compilation
of Computer
Animation
THE SILLY BASTARD
NEXT TO
THE BED (USA)
Director: Scott
Calonico
One
of the most popular US Presidential
phone call recordings celebrates its 50th
birthday on July 25,
2013. In the phone call, recorded on July 25, 1963,
President
John Kennedy berates an Air Force general in the Pentagon
for
wasteful expenditures, using some rather salty language.
Documentary
Short
SKINNINGROVE
(USA)
Director:
Michael
Almereyda
A
photographer shares unpublished
images chronicling time spent among the
"fiercely independent"
residents of a remote English fishing
village.
Experimental
SMALLER
THAN THE
SKY
(UAE)
Director:
Rebekah
Louisa Smith
What
happens when everything that
you took for granted was lost in an instant? What
would you do,
when you can’t do anything? This film is set entirely within a crashed car and
takes the audience...
Documentary
Short
SOFT IN THE HEAD (USA)
Director:
Nathan
Silver
With
nowhere to go, Natalia wanders New
York City, crashes a family's holiday meal,
stays at a men's
shelter, and drags everyone down with her. An ode to lost
souls
and New York, SOFT IN THE HEAD is an intriguing narrative
film.
Narrative
Feature
SOMETHING
FROM NOTHING
(USA)
Director:
Hal
Samples
SOMETHING
FROM NOTHING is a film about
the the power of serving others, the risk and
rewards of
allowing yourself to experience relationships, redemption,
our
search for family, community and home and the beauty and
truth that is often
found in seemingly unlikely
places.
Documentary
Short
A
SONG OF TYRANY (USA)
Director: Federico Solmi
The
prelude of the trilogy, A SONG OF TYRANY,
introduces the Chinese ruler/tyrant
hell-bent on the invasion of
America getting interviewed by
American
journalists.
Animation
SPRING
EDDY (USA)
Director: George
Anson
This
offbeat comedy sprawls from murder to
love as a cast of uncommon characters
runs from each other, into
each other, and away with each other. With Bruce
Debois from
Undermain Theater
Narrative
Feature
STRYNGS
(USA)
Director:
Derek
Presley
Ambrosio
the Great is near death. His
beautiful puppet show is ignored by the village
children and his
body aches more and more each day. In his fading moments
on
Earth, he tries to gather enough strength to create one last
show that no one
will ever forget.
Texas
Show
SUITE
ANCIENNE (USA)
Director: Roger
Deutsch
SUITE
ANCIENNE takes the viewers via
auto, boat, and plane to an unexpected
destination. World
premiere with filmmaker in attendance.
Experimental
THEIR
HOUSES (USA)
Director: Cam
Archer
Filmmaker
Cam Archer examines and
explores his ordinary, suburban neighborhood in search
of hidden
truths, new narratives and a better understanding of his
fading,
creative self. Combing heavily
degraded
video with personal photographs and real life
neighbors, Archer re-imagines the
concept of 'home video'. In
an attempt
to distance himself from his subjects, actress Jena
Malone narrates the piece
as Archer in the first
person.
Experimental
THIS
AIN'T NO MOUSE
MUSIC! (USA)
Directors:
Chris Simon and Maureen
Gosling
Roots
music icon Chris Strachwitz is a
detective of deep American music—music that’s
the antithesis of
the corporate “mouse music” dominating pop culture. Born
a
German count, Strachwitz is the legendary founder of Arhoolie
Records. His life
has been a relentless quest to track down and
record the best of American roots
music—New Orleans jazz, down
home blues, Cajun, Zydeco, and Norteño. Directors
in
attendence.
Documentary
Feature
THIMBLERIG
(USA)
Director: Jesse Malmed
Body
swaps, time manifest and made literal,
multiverse tears, two minds to a body,
dream babies, singtalk,
represented realities.
Experimental
TIME
PRESENT (USA)
Director: Alfred
Guzzetti
A
wordless meditation on the present
moment by a composer and a filmmaker.
Experimental
TRUE
TALES (USA)—World
premiere with filmmaker and Tammi True in
attendance
Director:
Katie
Dunn
Just
two days after Lee Harvey Oswald’s
assassination of President John F. Kennedy,
a little-known
Dallas strip club operator named Jack Ruby murders Oswald
on
live television. Why did he do it? Despite decades of
theories and speculation,
the question has never been
satisfactorily answered. Until now. Shunning the
press for
nearly 50 years, Tammi True—a top-billed stripper in Jack
Ruby's
Carousel Club—is finally ready to reveal the answers. AMS
Pictures presents
TRUE TALES, an original docudrama exploring
the bizarre world of 1960s Dallas
burlesque through the eyes of
its preeminent entertainer. Featuring dramatic
re-creations shot
on actual locations, TRUE TALES immerses you into the
events
that led to one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th
Century. Evening will
be celebrated with a performance by Ruby
Revue, the Dallas Burlesque Show.
Documentary
Feature - Opening Night
Film
TURNING A CORNER
(USA)
Director:
David B.
Levy
A
chance encounter leads a poor kid from
Brooklyn with college dreams to fight
the fates for a chance to
change his life.
Animation
UNITED
IN ANGER: A
HISTORY OF ACT UP
(USA)
Director:
Jim
Hubbard
The
film explores how the diverse
members of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash
Power) came
together to save their own lives and to change the world.
Documentary
Feature
AN
UNREAL DREAM: THE
MICHAEL MORTON STORY
(USA)
Director:
Al
Reinert
In
1986, Michael Morton's wife,
Christine, is brutally murdered in front of their
only child,
and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a
quarter
century, he is forgotten by all but his parents and a
small team of dedicated
attorneys. In this “unreal dream,”
the
price of a wrongful conviction goes well beyond one man's
loss of freedom. Screened
in partnership with Make Art with
Purpose for MAP 2013.
Documentary
Feature
UNSPOKEN
SPEECH (USA)
Creative
Directors: Peter Wood and
Cliff Simms
A
preview of a series of short films
showcasing the speech JFK was schedule to
give at the Trade Mart
in downtown Dallas 30 minutes after the time of
his
assassination. Fifty years after his assassination and as a
tribute to JFK, the
Citizens of Dallas deliver the essence of
his Unspoken
Speech.
The
Shorts:
·
BOTH TEXAS AND TEXANS: Julie Curtis, of local Dallas alt rock
band,
The Bright, set part of JFK's speech to
music.
· DISSIDENT VOICES: 50 patrons
from a local Dallas coffee shop
looking through an art book
created from the speech edited together to make a
stop-motion
animated film.
· ONLY AN AMERICAN: 1960s
Dallas based civil rights activist,
Clarence Broadnax,
articulates Kennedy’s thoughts.
· OUR
ADVERSARIES: Filmed inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s holding cell
in
the Dallas Municipal Building. Features DFW high school students
speaking
Kennedy’s words about worldwide terror and threats to
our freedom.
· WORDS ALONE
(USA)
81 Dallas citizens hold signs with words from JFK's
Unspoken
Speech photographed around Dallas. Music composed by
Matthew Slater featuring
world-renowned cellist Caroline
Dale.
Documentary
Shorts
VENICE:
UNDER WATER (USA - WORLD PREMIERE)
Director: Chip Lord
VENICE:
UNDER WATER is a meditation on the
water level rising in Venice and how it is
being over-flooded
with tourists. Directed by Chip Lord, an original member of Ant
Farm.
Experimental
VESSEL
(USA -
Preview
Screening)
Director:
Diana
Whitten
Captain
Rebecca Gomperts and her
organization, Women on Waves, work with a global
network of
locally based organizations to transport women 12 miles
offshore,
just outside of domestic jurisdiction, where doctors
provide safe, legal,
medical abortions at sea. Their actions
shock the church, infuriate the
government, exhilarate the
media, and provoke mass debate among the voting
population, but
break no laws. They hope, instead, to save lives.
Documentary
Feature
VINCENT
VALDEZ: EXCERPT
FOR JOHN
(USA)
Director:
Mark Walley and Angela
Walley
Filmmakers
Mark and Angela Walley follow
artist Vincent Valdez as he paints a powerful
portrait of a
friend and soldier lost in the fog of war.
Texas
Show
WE
REAL COOL (USA)
Director: Alex Ruiqing
Ma
A
newly adopted teenage girl of minority
ethnicity hangs out late at night with
her old friends on her
birthday, only to find her Caucasian guardian waiting
for her
worriedly when she tries to sneak back home. She then realizes what home really
means to
her.
Narrative
Short
WE
REGRET TO INFORM YOU
(USA)
Director: Wago
Kreider
The
Church of Contemporary Art provides
secular fellowship to cultural workers
throughout the world, and
offers a creative response to the excesses of the art
market and
dwindling arts funding. Addressing the inequities that
today's
artists face, CoCA creates and supports collaborative
projects which provide
synergistic alternatives to the current
model of the individual, branded
artist.
Experimental
WHAT
ONCE WAS (Argentina)
Director: Julieta
Averbuj
What
once lay behind the images.
Experimental
WHEN
I WALK (USA)
Director: Jason
DaSilva
WHEN
I WALK chronicles one man’s
inspiring journey following his multiple sclerosis
diagnosis.
For Jason DaSilva, life’s most challenging and joyous moments
are
yet to come.
Documentary
Feature
WHERE
WE STARTED (USA)
Director: Chris
Hanson
When
there's a line you know you
shouldn't cross...what makes you cross it anyway?
Two married
strangers who have reached the age where life's
disappointments
begin to add up consider other options when a
chance meeting leads to a
possible romance in this
drama.
Narrative
Feature
WHITE
ASH (USA)
Director: Leighton
Pierce
WHITE
ASH is an inexorable dive into
edges of consciousness. While grounded in
recognizable images
and sounds captured from reality, WHITE ASH is designed
to
scrape through the patina of normal perception, leading to an
embodied
associational state—something “to the side” of
narratives and perceptions.
Experimental
WHITE
COAT PHENOMENON
(USA)
Director: Kristin
Reeves
Finding
sex in an unexpected location
requires some examination.
Experimental
WILT
CHAMBERLAIN: BORSCHT
BELT BELLHOP
(USA)
Directors:
Caroline Laskow and Ian
Rosenberg
In
1954, before his senior year of
high school, Wilt Chamberlain took a summer
job. He worked as a
bellhop at Kutsher’s
Country Club, a Jewish resort in the
Catskill Mountains. By day, he was getting great tips from
the
awestruck guests as he lifted their luggage through a second
floor window while
standing outside on the ground.
At
night, he played on the Kutsher’s basketball team. Mixing
rarely-seen archival
video and interviews with people who lived
and worked with Wilt during that
magical summer, this
documentary short reveals an unexplored and pivotal
chapter in
the life of one of basketball’s greatest players.
Documentary
Short
XXX
(USA)
Director: Julie
Orser
XXX
appropriates porno magazines in an
animated video to take an abstract and
satirical look at the
porn industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s when the
use of
videotape gained popularity.
Experimental
YAMASUKI
YAMAZAKI (Japan)
Director:
Shishi
Yamazaki
When
you're insanely happy, you're so
happy to be happy that you forget what made
you happy in the
first place.
Animation
YA-NE-SEN
A GO GO (Japan)
Director: Shishi
Yamazaki
Shishi
Yamazaki dancing through Yanaka,
Nezu, and Sendagi area in Taito-Ku, Tokyo.
Animation
YOU
DON’T NEED FEET TO
DANCE (USA)
Director: Alan
Govenar
An
intimate documentary about a man who
overcomes his disability one day at a
time. Alan Govenar's new
film reveals the extraordinary life of African
immigrant Sidiki
Conde, who balances his career as a performing artist with
the
almost insurmountable obstacles of life in New York City.
Documentary
Feature
YOUR
MOVE (USA)
Director:
Nick
Gibbons
The
story of two men enjoying a simple
game of chess that quickly spirals down a
dark Hitchcockian well
of intrigue.
Narrative
Short
History
of
VideoFest: Cutting-Edge Art
Merging art
and
technology since 1987, VideoFest has specialized in
independent, alternative,
and non-commercial media, presenting
hard-to-find works rarely seen on
television, in movie theaters,
or elsewhere, despite their artistic excellence
and cultural and
social relevance. Even in a Web 4.0 environment where
everything
is seemingly available on the Internet, the VideoFest
provides
curatorial guidance, a critical voice in the wilderness
navigating the vast and
diverse landscape of media, helping to
interpret its cultural and artistic
significance. The event
provides a communal environment for real-time,
face-to-face
dialogue between makers and audiences.
Dallas
VideoFest 26 Sponsors
Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas–Richardson;
Alford Media Services, Inc.; AMS Pictures; Charlie Uniform Tango;Dallas Film
Commission; Dallas Office of
Cultural Affairs; Dallas Producers
Association; Double Tree Hotel–Richardson; KD College;KERA/KXT; KellyKitchensPR.com; la Madeleine; Mark
Ridlen; Matthews Southwest;The McKinney Avenue
Contemporary;
Reid Robinson;Selig Polyscope Company; Sell.com;
SullivanPerkins; Texas
Commission on
the Arts; Texas Film Commission.
ABOUT
VIDEO ASSOCIATION OF
DALLAS
The
mission of the Video Association is
to promote an understanding of video as a
creative medium and
cultural force in our society, and to support and advance
the
work of Texas artists working in video and the electronic arts. The Video
Association of Dallas (VAD) is a
501(c)(3) organization
incorporated on April 25, 1989. It began in 1986 as a weekend event,
“Video
As A Creative Medium”, presented at the Dallas Museum of
Art by independent
curators Barton Weiss and John Held. That
first event, which included two
nights of video by selected
local and national video artists, was a great
popular success,
which led to the founding of the Dallas Video Festival (DVF)
in
1987. Video Association of Dallas also presents the 24 Hour Video Race,
the
Texas Show Tour, North Texas College Film Festival, Texas
Independent Film
Network screenings, Texas Fllmmakers Production
Fund workshops, Three Star
Cinema, and other programs throughout
the year.
VIDEO
ASSOCIATION
OF DALLAS 1405 Woodlawn Dallas, TX 75208
Tweet
No comments:
Post a Comment