Saturday November 13 8pm
Sunday November 14 4pm

$7 - Short Film Program II

Burning Contour Matrix
Simon Tarr * University Park, PA
35mm & Digital Video, 3 minutes
3-D food for thought, intriguing textures form and reform in an engaging reminder that a "movie" is simply a moving picture.

Po Mo Knock Knock
Greg Pak * New York City
16mm, 3 minutes
This year's run away 16mm high-concept joke is for the wannabe semiotician in all of us. Not everyone can pack Barthes, Derrida, Maigritte, and farting balloons into 180 seconds, but fortunately someone did.

Ghost
Steve Hawley * Hong Kong
Hi8 video, 5minutes
Planes fly, people play soccer, images roll by. But something haunts this Hong Kong landscape, perhaps it's just the filmmaker and the lens he holds up for his audience to peer through.

Physical Pain
Laurie Collyer * New York City
16mm, 9 minutes
Collyer takes an honest look at the realities faced by young single mothers melding stark truths with earnest poignancy.

Fossils
Celia Mercer * Los Angeles
16mm, 2 minutes
Music comes alive and becomes a feast for the eyes as Mercer's abstract geometries dance to Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, in a delightful translation of rhythm and melody from the audio to the visual.

Part Of
Jenny Chapman * Lauder, Scotland
Digital Video, 9 minutes
An up close examination of water, rocks and the lyricism that lies in the natural world but just out of sight...until someone with a sinuous violin soundtrack, a patient eye and a poetic touch shows up to make a document.

Case 1724
David Dodge * San Francisco
Hi8, 3 minutes
The slowly returning memories of an amnesiac are overlayed with images of his present condition and the surrounding bureaucracy in a mesmerizing essay on data loss and psychological treatment.

Johnny Bagpipes
Todd Korgan * Portland, OR
16mm, 12 minutes
What does it mean to truly rock? Talent and desire force one man on a quest to redefine the limited scope of today's rock scene.

Cake
Christie Dagley * San Francisco
16mm, 3 minutes
A pleasant reminder that, if we really wanted to, we could have our cake and eat it too. And as long as we're at it, we might as well get gussied up real nice and go to the park.

Dozer
Anna Geyer * San Francisco
16mm, 15 minutes
With new technologies developing by the microsecond these days, cars and roads seem as natural as trees in any given landscape. Geyser presents us with one woman's captivating and personal remembrances of the development of the automobile, highway infrastructure, and the garage.

Tennis Match
Robert Ellman * Prague
Beta sp, 10 minutes
Uh, ok, how do you describe this one? There's this dog see, and he's kinda real but sorta animated and he lives in a morgue and then, well then there's this match at Wimbledon only.... Start again: if Terry Gilliam was really weird he might make something like this. No, not quite, howsabout: What the fuck are they smoking in Czechoslovakia? And how did a lawyer from Detroit end up making movies there?

Through a Series of Significant Gestures, the Artist Creates Value
Andy Nancarrow/Gordon Winniemko * San Francisco
Digital Video, 3 minute
Taking a cue from the Bay Area's turntablism scene, Nancarrow and Winniemko frustrate linearity and conclusion with a quizzical and intriguing repetition.

hi/lo Film Festival
--high concept/low budget films for the adventurous and disenchanted
because $40 million can kill a good idea

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