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1998 EDITION FILM LINEUP
 ACCIDENT
(Short) Dir: Peter Besson. COLOR, 16mm. (6 min) An accident on the side of the road involving the little boy of a young family is not exactly what it seems to be.
BLOOD BATH/TRUE BLOOD
(Experimental) Dir: Charles Gatewood (8 min) COLOR
BORIS THE DOG
(Experimental/Animated) Dir: Cevin D. Soling. COLOR, 35mm. (5 min) Boris is an apparently happy-go-lucky dog living in a more innocent time, dreaming of seeing the big city. As his family will not let him leave, he must come up with a clever plan. Boris' actions are quite disturbing, as his displays of surreal adult violence on the idyllic childhood world in which he lives, lead to an unexpected ending. Currently being developed as a half-hour series for television with MTV and has aired as part of MTV's "Cartoon Sushi"
CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN
(Feature - Out of Competition) Dir: Marco Ursino. COLOR, 16mm. (84 min) Mark Abele is a young man who seems to be making a go of his life. He has kicked his drug habit, he is a staff member at Daytop Village, and is married to a beautiful woman. But like the Magellanic Clouds being sucked in by the Milky Way, he is being engulfed by the forces that nearly destroyed him, and is losing touch with his goals. Revisiting his past through numerous flashbacks, he finds the key that might help him to unlock the path to a more stable, brighter future.
CLOVEN HOOFED
(Experimental) Directed by Dietmar Post COLOR, 16mm. (12 min) Ray sits in a cold room, sharpening his knife. His mounting rage at his woman's betrayal impels him to an act of violence. The opposition of love and need is only a semantic distinction, and this is explored by juxtaposing contextually sexual obsession and drug withdrawal.
CURE FOR SERPENTS, A
(Short) Directed by Elise Mac Adam. B&W, 16mm. (14 min) No dirt. No touching. No germs. No life... until Lucy decides to let her boyfriend inside.
DODGERS SYM-PHONY, THE
(Documentary) Directed by Pegi Vail. COLOR, Beta SP (28 min) The Dodgers Symphony presents the history of the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers Sym-phony Band. Taking an un-traditional approach to the subject of sports in documentaries, it features an in-depth look at these famous "fans", and their incredible devotion to one of baseball's most mythic of teams The Brooklyn Dodgers.
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
(Feature) Dir: Michael Davis COLOR 35mm. (93 min) 17 years old Peter is madly in love and spends days and nights in the backyard of the girl of his dreams trying to steal her heart. During the process he witnesses radical changes in the lives of very peculiar characters living in the same environment. [more]
winner: Audience Award
FALLING
(Short) Directed by Christopher Young. B &W, 16mm. (18 min) High in the mountains. A climbing accident. A man begins a journey with the broken weight of the woman he loves. When he can no longer carry her, he must continue alone through the brutal landscape. At the very end of his strength, he finds the only thing that could end his struggle.
FIXER, THE
(Feature) Dir: Charles Robert Carner. 35mm. (115 min) Jack Killoran (Jon Voight), second generation political mover and shaker, is at the top of Chicago's power game when a near fatal accident causes him to reassess his lifestyle, including his business practices. This awakening proves troublesome to his close associates who rely on Killoran to "fix" situations, including a murder committed by one of Chicago's most prominent citizens.
FLYING WITH THE ANGELS
(Experimental) Dirs: Richard Newton & Nancye Ferguson. B&W 35mm. (17 min) The diary of a woman's subconscious as she takes the spiritual journey from her relationship with a man to her relationship with herself.
GOREVILLE USA
(Documentary) Dirs: Seth Henrikson & Dave Sarno. B & W, 16mm. (64 min) A documentary examining the issue of gun control and the birth of a grass roots militia movement through the eyes of Goreville, Illinois, a small town with a law mandating that every head of household own a firearm... with ammunition.
GUIDELINES FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING
(Experimental) Dir: Jim Jacob. COLOR, VHS. (5 min) Ways to be interesting. Ways to pace and organize the speech. Ways to use the hardware of public speaking. A humorous, simple presentation of the do's and don't of public speaking
HOLE IN THE HEAD, A
(Documentary) Dir: Eli Kabillio. COLOR, Beta SP (58 min) This hour-long documentary about trepanation the process of boring a hole in the skull, tracks the development of "modern" trepanation as used by several people in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and the United States for the purpose of reaching a higher level of consciousness.
HOLY TORTILLA
(short ) Dir. Lauren Ivy Chiong. COLOR 16mm. (23 min) Is the story of Margarita she works in a beauty salon. One day the face of Jesus appears in her tortilla and she begins a quest to prove that miracles can happen. A comedy about food, faith and believing in miracles.
HOUSE DIVIDED, A
(Short) Directed by Kenneth Grady. COLOR, 35mm. (30 min) It is the eve of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. A House has recently been passed from father to son. Clay, a white, conservative law student who, through mourning the death of his mother, has yet to face the deeper meaning of this tragedy. When Amanda arrives on the scene, Clay begins to look within himself. Their emotional landscapes mirror each other, even though their exterior personalities are opposite.
JANIE
(Short) Directed by Andrew Berends COLOR, 16mm. (10 min) Janie, a young girl, evading the advances of her older boyfriend, inadvertently causes a ten year-old boy to be hit by a car. With the accident cleared, and her boyfriend driving off, Janie is left to absorb the images to which she is subjected. She glides through the city, a world in which no person's story is necessarily more important or significant than another's.
JESUS 2000
(Short) Dir: Eric L. Cooper. What if Jesus came now rather than he originally did? We channel-surf news reports surrounding the last week of Jesus' life through the eyes of the media. Rumors, facts, and half-truths fly around interchangeably.
LINE-UP
(Short) Dir: Elisa Blatteis. COLOR, 16mm. (19min) Theresa McDonough needs a man fast. She's one man short for a police identification line-up until she finds Sam Hyde. He agrees to help, but doesn't know how much help is needed. Is he the man she's searching for?
LUNCH WITH LOUIE
(Short) Directed by Peter Robinson. COLOR, 35mm. (11 min) A comic film about communication, compassion, and the possibility of contact in a society of isolated individuals. With only one line of dialogue, "Lunch with Louie" shows that there are ways to communicate, other than by using words.
MEMORIES DO NOT BURN
(Documentary) Dirs: Paul Dokuchitz & Marianne McCune. 16mm Hi8. (30 min) Sarah Jessica Parker narrates this documentary which takes the viewer to the tiny island of Badija in the Adriatic Sea, where a summer camp for children traumatized by war in the former Yugoslavia is run by American, Bosnian, Croatian, and international volunteers of all ages.
MEN CRY BULLETS
(Feature) Dir: Tamara Hernandez. COLOR, 35mm. (106 min) A dark comedy about a truly perverse love story. A man, trapped in his nightmares and memories, falls in love with a sexy yet sadistic older woman. Through their sordid romance she eventually strips him of his dignity, leading him down a path of mayhem and murder. [more]
winner: Best Feature
MOVING PRIME
(Short) Dir: Laurent Benedick 35mm. (29 min) An opportunistic young American sees the dollar sign when his estranged mother dies leaving him an apartment in Italy. To sell it he must evict it's only remaining tenant, an old English butler, who's loyal neighbors, an ultra religious widow and her daughter, will fight to keep him there at any cost. What do you do if the buyer is the mafia and they make you an offer?
NEW YEAR'S DAY
(Documentary) Directed by Kate Judge. B &W, Beta (1 min) New Year's Day is celebrated by the Coney Island Polar Bear Club as an open call to all those brave enough to swim in Brooklyn's Atlantic ocean in January. A poetic document with a voyeur's voice over, "New Year's Day" is a bittersweet look at the frolic of Coney Island characters by a local transient.
PARANOIA
(Feature) Dir: Larry Brand. COLOR, 35mm. (90 min) Jana, a twenty-something NY interior designer, is still dealing with the traumatic experience of witnessing the brutal murder of her entire family, twenty years earlier. The impending release of her family's murderer, and his apparent taunting of her via the Internet from his prison cell have increased the pressure on Jana to deal with her past.
PISHADOO
(short subjects) COLOR 35 mm. (15 min)
QUIET CHAPTER, A
(Short) Directed by Nara Garber 16mm (18 min) Samantha's already tense relationship with her mother has been pushed to the breaking point by her grandmother's deathbed tales of adoption. Eager to escape the frustrations of her daily existence, Samantha retreats into fantasies of the mother she never knew.
RETURN OF THE BODY, LANGUAGE 4
(Experimental) Directed &Produced by Miguel Ventura. Beta (15 min) A pseudo-ethnographic document of different didactic activities specific to diverse language groups of unknown tribes The notion of guidance, control and teaching are presented here as a necessary factors for social integration. The viewers presented with a teaching methodology for a grammar of an alien and unidentifiable language, by means of a writing system and a bizarre dance technique, in which the movements are based on glyphs.
SEX SHOPS
(Short) Dir: Oren Moverman. COLOR, 16mm. (12 min) After a few years of absence, Noah White returns to NY's heart of darkness, the infamous 42nd Street, to discover it has been taken over by a new sleazy industry. As he searches for Joe Fish, a sly sex shops' owner who promised him a respectable porno managerial position, he is dragged into the sunny, mind-numbing dictatorship of merchandised family entertainment.
SIMPLE GIFTS
(Feature) Directed by Joseph Paul Stachura. COLOR, 35mm. (89 min) A research psychologist looks dispassionately at her subjects emotionally disturbed children with the black and white perspective her profession demands until one man, with the innocence of a child, forces her to interact.
SKA PROBLEM, NO PROBLEM
(Documentary) Directed by Luisa Quintavalle. COLOR, Beta SP (22 min) Two different historical moments of a strange and isolated country. A film about the Albanians, their cult for Italy, television, and dignity.
SPLIT
(Experimental) Dir: Erik Deutschman. COLOR, 16mm. (11 min) This delirious experimental narrative uses a variety of filmic technics to create an intimate, implosive exploration of a man confronting the nature of his physical existence.
SUMMERTIME'S CALLING ME
(Short) Dir: Frances Yount. COLOR, 16mm. (17 min) 17 year-old Tami thought being a camp counselor meant a summer of fast boats, collegiate co-workers and getting tan. She forgot about one thing... the kids.
SWING BRIDGE
(Experimental) Directed by Reynold Weidenaar. COLOR, VHS (5 min) A video-art-music work featuring processed images of the hundredth anniversary celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge May 24, 1983, and a clarinet solo accompanied by processed old swing recordings.
VISITOR
(Experimental) Directed by Franco Antico COLOR, 16mm. (12 min)
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