The story of a person obsessed with numbers, measurements, and calculation. These compulsions help one to make order out of the disorder of life. But, when even the regimented day to day becomes too much how do we escape the counting?
USA 7 min EXP
Edie abandons her aging mother in a cornfield and is haunted by childhood memories.
USA 20 min NAR
Natural and man-made objects on a spin cycle accumulate, disintegrate, and multiply. Created by animating clay on glass, the film is a meditation on motion and the life cycle of matter.
- YM Sun 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- GA Sun 2/20 6pm Animations
- GA Sun 2/25 3:30pm Animations
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
USA 5 min ANI
(The Godfather's Lover)
The life of a young man changes when he gets to know a Santeria priest, who serves a businessman and a prosecutor.
MEXICO 28 min NAR
Composed of thousands of images of flowers, "anima mundi" reflects the "spirit of the world."
- YM Sun 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
- GA Sun 2/27 5pm EXP: Nature and structure
USA 4 min EXP
A comedic retelling of Don Quxiote featuring Jeff-nominated actor Kevin Viol as Winston Thomas, a former hipster who becomes the self-styled greatest, most authentic folk singer of all time.
USA 18 min NAR
**filmmakers will be in attendance 2/19
Unable to afford a fully-functioning boat, three characters have each bought a dilapidated craft, but will they make it out of the boat graveyard? Is there any need for a real destination?
UNITED KINGDOM 9 min DOC
Sheep's Heads
A Moroccan immigrant named Mourad looks back at his life on Aid El Kbir.
MOROCCO 13 min NAR
*filmmakers will be in attendance
of an Empire
Peaceful rise or potential threat? China's 21st century emergence as a global superpower affects every single one of us.
USA 86 min DOC
Two young Shakers prepare to depart their celibate community, and have second thoughts when they meet a broken family on the road. Based on a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
USA 14 min NAR
When men in a prison art class agree to collaborate with victims of crime to design a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide.
USA 55 min DOC
When Olivia Browning's husband, Hugh, is ravaged by Alzheimer's Disease, she must make a decisive choice regarding his right to die.
USA 22 min NAR
Cowboy, Amen is a visual portrait of the Cowboy Church. It demonstrates both the reality and myth of religion and the cowboy.
USA 8 min EXP
Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara's transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward patient to pioneering mental health advocacy. Crooked Beauty reshapes mental health stigmas through a new healing culture and political model for living with madness as a tool of creativity, inspiration and hope.
USA 30 min DOC
De Luce extends beyond the Kodak palette of color, by subjecting the film material to novel influences of pigmentation. Unfamiliar color and light sweep into and literally illuminate vegetative subjects. In this way the film alludes to but doesn't describe color in the natural world--rather it supplies visible evidence of surreptitious conspiracy between the artist, her materials, and photo-chemical occurrences.
USA 5 min EXP
A dancing fish/people extravaganza!
- YM Sun 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- GA Sun 2/20 6pm Animations
- GA Fri 2/25 3:30pm Animations
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
USA 2 min ANI
Over time, two houses slowly destroy each other.
- YM Sun 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- GA Sun 2/20 6pm Animations
- LB Tue 2/22 6pm Meditations
- GA Fri 2/25 3:30pm Animations
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
- GA Sun 2/27 5pm EXP: Nature and structure
USA 4 min ANI
In California's San Joaquin Valley agriculture and oil power the local economy. When immigrant farm laborers decide where to live based on where they work, adverse effects on their well-being may soon follow.
USA 14 min DOC
Just Like Her
Two sisters, one black, one white, spend the week at their famous father's summer home.
USA 85 min NAR
*filmmakers will be in attendance
Playful abstract animation that explores archetypes of the human face, patterning and cultural effigies that echo facial features.
- YM Sun 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- GA Sun 2/20 6pm Animations
- GA Fri 2/25 3:30pm Animations
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
USA 4 min ANI
Corporate Slug
A Pixelvision portrait of media visionary Gene Youngblood with commentary by investigative journalist Greg Palast who speaks about Youngblood's influence on his own work and, perhaps, all of us.
USA 4 min EXP
Mexico's spectacular masked wrestling has recently become a global commodity. Flexing Muscles asks: What does production look like when the product is identity -- masked, gendered, and variously complex?
- GA Sat 2/19 4pm Experimental: Form & Perform(ance)
- GA Fri 2/25 11pm Late Night Screening: Alt.docs
- GA Sun 2/27 3pm Performance, spectacle, sacrifice
MEXICO / USA 23 min DOC
Korean-Chinese people come to Korea from China with "Korean Dream" but they are not "Koreans" but just poor "foreigners" for South Koreans. They are floating around neither as Chinese in China nor as Korean in Korea.
KOREA 68 min DOC
*filmmaker will be in attendance
Thoughts on climate change. A three-part, recycled experimental video.
USA 10 min EXP
Hindsight is a poetic documentary that follows the changes of the seasons in a rural New England town. A rural symphony.
- YM Sun 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- LB Tue 2/22 6pm Meditations
- SC Fri 2/25 11pm Late Night Screening: Alt.docs
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
- GA Sun 2/27 5pm EXP: Nature and structure
USA 14 min EXP
Three muslim women, three generations, one family - HÜLLEN portraits Sevim (78), Emel (49) and Sumeyye (26). Emel Zeynelabidin, who takes off the headscarf after 30 years of wearing one, is this documentary's central character.
SWITZERLAND 73 min DOC
Water balancing a boat that balances a woman that balances a tree. The fragile balance in between man and creation.
- GA Sat 2/19 4pm EXP: Form & Perform(ance)
- YM Sun 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- LB Tue 2/22 6pm Meditations
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
ISRAEL 2 min EXP
The host gets infected by the foreign species; this interference leads to chronic wounds and even death.
- GA Sun 2/20 6pm Animations
- SC Thu 2/24 11pm Late Night Screening: Bizarre
- GA Fri 2/25 3:30pm Animations
USA 4 min ANI
A young nude couple accidentally falls to their death from a roof. The world laughs. Jonathan doesn't. A sad-funny story of obsession turned inspiration, of life abundant, and the importance of connecting.
USA 81 min NAR
*filmmakers will be in attendance
Stuck in Purgatory, literary pirate Andy Adams recounts the last year of his life and, in doing so, discovers he just may have a chance to get it all back.
USA 23 min NAR
Irma is an intimate musical portrait of Irma Gonzalez, the former world champion of women's professional wrestling.
MEXICO / USA 12 min DOC
A little chicken is late to school, but her excuse is too wild to believe: getting kidnapped on the way to school. You believe not not, this chicken is a really good actress and Kung fu master! After her explanation, you have to believe that her adventure is so true.
- GA Sat 2/19 6:15pm NAR Shorts: Farce
- GA Sun 2/20 6pm Animations
- YM Wed 2/23 6pm Whimsy
- GA Fri 2/25 3:30pm Animations
CHINA 4 min ANI
A son searches for his mother in a world populated with men crawling on their hands and knees, chained to leashes; women writhing in biblical ecstasy; giants falling to their knees after being dealt a death touch. The Laying on of Hands is a personal journey that takes place at the crossroads of two unusual worlds: that of martial arts death dealers and the world of biblical faith healers.
USA 8 min EXP
A Story of Home (sneak preview)
The Lower 9: A Story of Home, reveals the displaced culture and community of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward through generations of memories that fill the abandoned homes, buildings and streets of the Lower Ninth Ward community.
USA 58 min DOC
Vaishali Sinha
MADE IN INDIA shows the journey of an infertile American couple, an Indian surrogate and the reproductive outsourcing business that brings them together. Weaving together these personal stories within the context of a growing international industry, MADE IN INDIA explores a complicated clash of families in crisis, reproductive technology, and choice from a global perspective.
USA 97 min DOC
"Meditations" is a series of short films about simple, reflective moments in everyday life.
USA 10 min NAR
A loving remake of Bruce Conner's seminal 1958 found footage film A Movie using appropriated material from video sharing sites YouTube and LiveLeak.
USA 12 min EXP
Inspired by the true story of Kevin and his family of friends, NONAMES follows the twenty-somethings as they struggle with adulthood and the confines of their small town. After an unforgivable event threatens the uneasy peace of their extended adolescence, one final event changes their lives forever. It's easy to be forgotten when you let your life fade away.
USA 108 min NAR
(Because we were beautiful)
Filmmaker Frank van Osch traveled through Indonesia where he searched for former "comfort women", together with photographer Jan Banning (World Press Photo Award 2004) and journalist Hilde Janssen. During the Second World War these women were forced to carry out sexual activities in military brothels, encampments and Japanese barracks.
HOLLAND 61 min DOC
A young bird reaching out, vulnerable to the unknown, craving freedom from the struggle, against the conformity imposed upon by the flock's expectations.
TAIWAN / USA 5 min ANI
*filmmaker will be in attendance 2/25
Theodora, grandmother to the filmmaker, recounts the story of her childhood in Greece during WWII. She fled with her sisters and mother to the mountain village of Perista. There, they struggled to survive and outlast the war.
USA 6 min ANI
Anna Geyer
Hypnagogic visual phenomena inspire a seven-minute odyssey of flowing abstract visual music. Anna Geyer manipulates analog film with traditional paint and engraving, plus other esoteric alchemical techniques. Aaron F. Ross animates this source material in high definition video, provides generative 3D computer animation, and also contributes the musical score.
- GA Sat 2/19 4pm EXP: Form & Perform(ance)
- YM Mon 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- GA Tue 2/22 6pm Meditations
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
USA 7 min EXP
"The Big Mystery"
Meet POM POM, a hero with heart!
- YM Sun 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- GA Sun 2/20 6pm Animations
- SC Thu 2/24 11pm Late Night Screening: Bizarre
- GA Fri 2/25 3:30pm Animations
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
SOUTH KOREA 8 min ANI
Skating softly, but carrying a big stick Kristin Elliott engages in an interlocking series of skits involving simple, slapstick activities performed by a pristine outdoor pool and in a venetian blind windowed corner of a room. Bodies of water-an aquarium is transported into the interior space-become a major link between these two settings. These containers of water end up functioning as both wombs and graves.
USA 9 min EXP
Retrograde Premonition looks and sounds like floating mind, the vicissitudes of thought, feeling, and the senses. Not limited by the portrayal of actual events, this video works to encourage a roaming consciousness through images and sounds that may or may not be present.
USA 6 min EXP
Man On a Mission
This documentary follows fantasy video game designer Richard Garriott on his lifelong quest to follow in his father's footsteps - into outer space.
USA 83 min DOC
Inspired by St. George and the Dragon, The Sacrifice is a moody retelling of the classic myth.
- YM Sun 2/20 1pm All Ages Screening
- GA Sun 2/20 6pm Animations
- YM Wed 2/23 6pm Whimsy
- GA Fri 2/25 3:30pm Animations
- LB Sun 2/27 4pm All Ages Screening
USA 3 min ANI
*filmmaker will be in attendance 2/20
Once Removed
On a family vacation, distant cousins Naomi and Jo-Jo are left alone for the night in a motel room. Against her grandfather's permission, Jo-Jo leaves the room in search of soda, playing cards and mischief.
USA 11 min NAR
A deep immersion into a simple process with ambiguous goals.
USA 2 min EXP
The story of an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking village of San Agustin Oapan, Guerrero, Mexico. Told with a lyrical combination of lingering imagery and ethnographic detail, "Silvestre Pantaleon" follows the protagonist as he struggles to pay for a curing ceremony and provide for his family. He dedicates himself to the only remunerative activities he knows: handcrafting rope for religious ceremonies and building seldom-used household objects that he alone still has the skills to produce.
MEXICO / USA 65 min DOC
Something Taken
Ru Kuwahata
Everyone who enters a crime scene, leaves something behind and takes something away. Something Left, Something Taken is a dark comedy about a vacationing couples' encounter with a man they believe to be the Zodiac Killer.
- GA Sat 2/19 6:15pm NAR Shorts: Farce
- GA Sun 2/20 6pm Animations
- YM Wed 2/23 6pm Whimsy
- GA Fri 2/25 3:30pm Animations
USA 10 min ANI
Stories from an invisible Los Angeles: an intimate portrait of people who found their home in the rhythms of street life and cheap downtown hotels.
USA / GERMANY 83 min DOC
A poetic black and white celluloid film depicting the city landscape (San Francisco) in the state of constant change.
USA 16 min EXP
This seductive film of a remote house eclipsed by waves crashing against a rocky shoreline is a gripping enactment of the explosive power and destructive force of nature.
USA 8 min EXP
A wife is convinced her husband is having an affair and one night decides to follow him when he sneaks out of the house. To her shock and horror she learns that while he is not cheating on her, his unusual drinking habit aids his peculiar desire.
UNITED KINGDOM 12 min NAR
a homecoming
For filmmaker Jen Heuson, the Black Hills of South Dakota hold much more than national icons. The Hills are home to her most prized childhood memories. Following the death of her grandmother, Jen takes her grandfather Harvey on one last trip to the Black Hills.
USA 18 min DOC
While enjoying a swing on the roof, an elderly patient is reminded of the value of his life.
TAIWAN 4 min ANI
(The Stitches Speak)
Tanko Bole Chhe (The Stitches Speak) is an animated documentary which celebrates the art and passion of the Kutch artisans associated with Kala Raksha. The film traces multiple journeys made by the participants towards defining their identities and towards forming the Kala Raksha Trust and the School for Design.
INDIA 12 min ANI
This film documents several pieces of body art that draw on the history of sexual representation and video art.
USA 23 min EXP
*filmmaker will be in attendance
The Wind-Up Life depicts the connection between what we dream at night and the stress we feel during the day.
TAIWAN 5 min ANI
Florina Titz
Spandex is the shit!
- GA Sat 2/19 6:15pm NAR Shorts: Farce
- YM Wed 2/23 6pm Whimsy
- SC Thu 2/24 11pm Late Night Screening: Bizarre
USA 9 min NAR
My father was a wrestler before me. You never stop being a wrestler.
USA 5 min EXP
An emotionally suppressed teenager travels through a strange odyssey after breaking up with his girlfriend who has been cheating on him.
USA 12 min NAR
in late december
"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,
And human love will be seen at its height.
Live in fragments no longer."
1) Vernacular furniture
2) Strategies for overcoming deflated motivation
3) Filming every cold day in the final month of the year
4) Iowa
- GA Tue 2/22 7pm Women negotiating identity
- SC Fri 2/25 11pm Late Night Screening: Alt.docs
- GA Sun 2/27 5pm EXP: Nature and structure
USA 7 min EXP
Sing It for Them
Margot Fassler
Traditional church choirs are shrinking in congregations across the country. In African American churches, many fear that if the choir disappears, so too will their diverse religious repertoire: arguably, the greatest body of music created on American soil.
USA 69 min DOC
