Films

Bob - Matt Smith
Santa Monica, 16 minutes, 16mm

After screening Hunting Earl at last year's hi/lo film festival Smith is back with another installment in his series of meditations on men, aging, and life in the Oregon forests. This time they're wearing tuxes.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Chick - Blanca Palou de Comasema
Barcelona, 4 minutes, SVHS

See ya later cinema verité! The Spanish animator takes birds for her subjects but the limits of form quickly fall away leaving an homage to movement and if ever doodles were choreographed like a ballet this is what you'd get.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Death of an Anarchist - Bruce Miller
San Francisco, 12 minutes, 16mm

A man in his own world seeks to undo the corruption inherent in everyone else's. From physics lectures to pigeons ("I taught you everything you know!" he rails), to declarations of dream control and abstract terrorism this man is on a mesmerizing mission.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Don't Tell'em Ya Live in A Van - Jeffrey Gagnon
San Francisco, 18 minutes, SVHS

Jeffrey Gagnon knows where of he speaks. In his documentary about this San Francisco subculture he lets his subjects describe the hardships and practical requirements of living in vans. But he also lets them ruminate, in their own words and cadences, on the psychic effects of their marginal existence, on the injustices of living in a capitalistic society without capital, and on ceaselessly riding along around looking for a place to park, and call home.
screened on Sunday, November 15

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Enjoy - Julie Wyman and Gordon Winiemko
San Francisco, 14 minutes, HI8

In a series of ninja-like micro-commercial take-downs Wyman and Winiemko transform a fetish for a highway billboard into a devastating attack on the commodification of pleasure. They also explain semiotic theory better than our college professors. Have a Saussure and a smile!
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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A Few Repairs - Sarah Malakoff
Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts 10 minutes, 16mm

Malakoff asks an audience to fill in the blanks as she chronicles the evolving relationship of two school girls, the vacations they take, the games they play, the boys they meet, and the furniture they modify and carry around with them like so much emotional left-luggage.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Fish - Sarah Shute
Santa Monica, 9 minutes, 16mm

Ahh, there's nothing like quality time at the beach in the blustery Northwest. An old man heads out for some deep sea angling and genealogical reckoning.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Fishing with Ghandi (Feature) - Gabe Weisert
San Francisco, 75 minutes, 16mm

This film makes the case for High concept/Low budget movie making. Structurally based on Hamlet, in the Western Addition and in a pick-up on its way from Oregon to San Francisco, Gabe Weisert has created a film that succeeds with witty writing, convincing acting, simple cinematography and plentiful comic moments. Two rednecks with short attention spans and highly developed social and medical theories pick up Danno on his way back from his mother's wedding to his uncle. His friends, fearing for Danno's psychic state, arrange to throw him a potluck surprise welcome home party. Not surprisingly the acrimonious friends fail miserably in their endeavor while Danno seems to have a good time on the road.

Shades of The Graduate shine through along with a nod at Deliverance and, for good measure the social sarcasm of Alan Bennett too.
screened on Sunday, November 15

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Friendship of the Stones - Gojko
Cacak, Serbia, 2 minutes, Super8

Two brothers finally catch up after an improbable amount of time goes by at an unlikely meeting point and then their journey begins, or does it?
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Kadima - Killing My Lobster
San Francisco, 4 minutes, Digital Video

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly meets Duran Duran. The San Francisco Comedy Collective puts down on film what it means to compete for guts and glory in a recreational sport that no one can ever win, least of all Brad Tripplehorn.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Metal - Emma Dewing
London, 4 minutes, 16mm

A microscopic examination of common surfaces are rendered to appear positively extra-terrestrial.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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New York Impressions: A Worshipping of Space - Kathleen Abing
San Francisco, 3 minutes, Super 8

A reflection on light, a street corner, and a girl in a sundress doing dangerous things plays out on split screens and against a sound-track that is one part soothing drum and bass, one part high-brow university lecture.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Organ Cranker - Jon Foulk
Lenexa, Kansas, 6 minutes, 35mm

"There once was a shlomo who lived in a dirty barrel" and so begins the animated adventure of a curious species whose life and limbs are directed and connected by the sounds of an oppressive organ cranker.
screened on Sunday, November 15

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Outside Alamogordo - Alia Malley
Los Angeles, 2 minutes, 16mm

Following up on Max 12, which appeared at the 1997 hi/lo Film Festival, Mally returns with a series of luxuriant photos of telephone poles in rural nowhere radiating the stories they transport as ambient music passes by and calls into question the very reason for so many harried conversations.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Parental Guidance - Richard Walsh
San Francisco, 17 minutes, 16mm

If the 1970s were the golden age of gritty film, this SF State Film maker's homage to that era does Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman proud as two sisters reunite for a weekend of long drives, childhood memories, and live ammo! But in between the stylistic and narrative references (obvious and oblique) is an ensemble of raucous characters and a melange of wild artistic forays.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Scherzo - Mark Herzig
Sacramento, 7 minutes, 35mm

Sacramento never looked so good. With striking cinematography and a simple story of people connected to one another without even knowing it Herzig weaves together a beautifully shot story about a day in an urban space.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Swallow - Avigail Glazer-Schotz
New York, 6 minutes, Super8

A whimsical low-fi parable about kids who just don't fit into the sterile conventions of society as a fanciful Ingmar Bergman might have made it in a burnt out post-war Europe.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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What do you say, dear? - Angela Reginato
Oakland, 3 minutes, 16mm

A compilation of found footage layered over a narrated children's guide to etiquette results in a captivating critique about civil society.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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Zen on Belay - Dan Yawitz
San Francisco, 5 minutes, 16mm

A climber talks about his relationship to the rock. And his belay man and girlfriend talk about him.
screened on Friday and Saturday, Novemer 13, 14

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The Victoria Theatre
2961 16th St at Mission
San Francisco, USA
Tickets: $6

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