The
Short Films F-O for 2004
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Sunday, August 1, 9 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Genre: Animation (*
in competition)
Guard
Dog
 Description:
This film was inspired by a dog Bill saw in the park that
was barking incessently at innocent objects. Why was this dog
so angry at these harmless items? This film answers that mystery.
Year:
2004, Length: 5 min., Shot on: ,
State and Country of Origin:
New York, U.S.A.
Producer/Director:
Bill Plympton; Camera: Lori Samsel,
Editor: Biljana Labovic; Music: Maureen
McElheron, Hank Bones
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 Friday,
August 6, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods
Hole Fire Station
(Emerson
- Latent Image Awards)
Hillside
Morning
Description:
A bedroom landscape set in the waking moments of young intimacy.
Tasteful exposure of the streamline female figure, meets a subtle
erotic punch-line. Hillside takes queues from the documentary
convention of Cinéma Vérité, as well as
the French New Wave genre.
Premiere:
, Year: 2004, Length: 3.5 min.,
Shot on: 16mm B&W/Color, State and Country
of Origin: New York, U.S.A.
Filmmaker:
Giovanni P. Autran; Music: Chopin
Cast: Rachel Castillo, Giovanni P. Autran
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 Thursday,
August 5, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods
Hole Fire Station
Genre: Experimental
(*
in competition)
Ice
 Description:
Once every 10 years or so the ice on Lake
Champlain freezes,
clear across from Vermont to New
York, like glass. It is often a bit dangerous as black ice and
open water often appear similar. Both the sparse beauty and
a bit of blood, miles from any land, are real.
 Year:
2003, Length: 4 min., Shot on: DV,
State and Country of Origin:
Vermont,
U.S.A.
Filmmaker:
Arthur Bell; Music: Sigur Ros
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 Sunday,
August 1, 4 PM
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Genre: Drama
(*
in competition)
Junebug
and Hurricane
Description:
Snow
clouds hover over the beach. Sharks swim in a glass tank. A
daughter peeks up her mother’s nose. Lunch might be full
of poison. Are these two just playing games, or are they running
from something?
Year:
2004, Length: 11 min., Shot on: Super
16, State and Country of Origin:
New
York, U.S.A.
Producer:
C.C. Webster; Director/Writer: James Ponsoldt;
Camera: Ken Seng; Editor: Nadar Kurtz;
Music: Claire Campbell, Alex Neville
Cast: Janeane Garafalo,
Ramya Pualt, Kai Schmoll
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 Friday,
August 6, 9 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Film
Festival
Genre:
Documentary (*
in competition)
LSD
a Go Go
Description:
In the early hours of November 19, 1953, a man plunged to his
death from 10 floors above the streets of Manhattan. Things
like this happen in a city as large as New York, however, this
case was different. The man who jumped out the window was army
officer Frank Olson. Olson had recently participated in trial
tests given by the Central Intelligence Agency which was experimenting
with their new wonder drug - LSD! Using material culled from
educational "drug scare" films, National Archive,
Ford Presidential Library photos, and recently declassified
security memos, LSD A GO GO briefly describes a slice of the
CIA's history with their LSD program known as MK-ULTRA amd traces
the Frank Olson case, tying it to recent developments that reach
into some of the highest offices in the US government.
Year:
2003, Length: 10 min, Shot on: DV,
State and Country of Origin: Texas, U.S.A.
Producer:
Scott Calonico, Jeff Radice; Filmmaker: Scott
Calonico
Cast: LSD Hot Dog
Lady (as herself), Sonny Bono (as himself), Stacey Mead (Narrator)
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 Saturday,
August 7, 8 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Making
Up
Description:
Mother and daughter face off in this delightful short comedy
about becoming a woman one dab of lipstick at a time.
World
Premiere; Year: 2003, Length: 3min.,
Shot on: 35mm, State and Country of Origin:
New
York, U.S.A.
Filmmaker:
Jennifer Gauthier; Music: Mary Halvorson,
Jessica Pavone
Cast: Elisabeth Delcourt, Amanda Sprecher
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 Sunday,
August 1, 7 PM *
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire
Station
& Friday, August 6, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods
Hole Fire Station (Emerson
- Latent Image Awards)
Genre: Documentary
(*
in competition)
The
Master
Description:
A documentary portrait of Murray Turnbull, an unconventional
chess master who makes a living playing chess for money in Cambridge,
MA. Through footage of his philosophical musings and competitive
chess playing in Harvard Square, to that of his apartment filled
with dusty chess memorabilia, "The Master" looks at
how pride, insecurity and obsession contribute to one man's
identity.
Year:
2004, Length: 7.5 min., Shot on: DVpro,
State and Country of Origin:
Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Producer:
Jone Tamargo, Laura Keriva; Director: Laura
Kerivan; Camera: Laura Kerivan, Jone Tamargo &
Kelsang Choedon, Music: John Fahey
Featuring: Murray Turnbull
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 Saturday,
August 7, 8 PM *
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire
Station:
& Friday, August 6, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods
Hole Fire Station
(Emerson - Latent Image Awards)
Genre: Comedy
(*
in competition)
Mr.
James and the Plug of Mystery
Description:
A short film following the mysterious hi-jinks of Mr. James
and his magical mystery plug. What starts off as a simple audio
plug soon turns into the key to a dorm room full of unforeseen
possibilities. Curiosity takes control as Mr. James plugs himself
into a world of mystery.
Year:
2004, Length: 5 min., Shot on: 16mm
B&W Reversal, State and Country of Origin:
Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Filmmaker:
Michael Humphrey; Music: Jim Hanft
Cast: Matt James
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 Sunday,
August 1, 4 PM
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Genre: Drama
(*
in competition)
Nativity
Description:
Nativity tells the story of the unwelcome presence of a
mentally ill woman during a Christmas Eve church service. Based
on a Christmas sermon that re-tells an actual event, Nativity
challenges the audience to consider the why and the how of divine
presence in the world.
Premiere:
World Premiere, Year: 2004, Length:
22 min., Shot on: Mini DV, State and Country
of Origin: Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Producer/Director/Editor:
Sandra Luzzi; Writer: Sandra
Luzzi, Fred Sneesby; Camera:
Nathaniel Hansen; Music: Vladimir
Martinka
Cast: Felicity Salmon,
Stephanie Biernbaum, Seth Reich, Mary Bolduc
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 Saturday,
August 7, 8 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Genre:
Comedy
(*
in competition)
Nike
Kids
Description:
A
parody of the popular Nike ads of the eighties.
Year:
, Length: min., Shot on: , State
and Country of Origin: Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Producer/Director/Writer:
Kevin Anderton; Camera: Doug
Emmett & Kevin
Anderton;
Editor: Nicole Siggins; Music: Zev Rieser
Cast: David Cain, Molly
Cain, Erin Hurley, Colin Hurley
Official
website:
members.tripod.com/waisumproductions/Nike_Kids.htm
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 Saturday,
August 7, 8 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Genre:
Comedy
No
Regrets
Description:
Mona
is tired. Tired of men who come to her, trying to be charming,
trying to be cute. Why can't they just be themselves? It
may not matter anyway, she is so closed off to any advances,
she's likely to miss a genuine one. Enter, Adam. For just a
moment, two people may have found each other, until....
Year:
2003, Length: min., Shot on: , State
and Country of Origin: California,
U.S.A.
Producer:
Michael Matzdorff, Shawn Nee; Director/Writer/Editor:
Michael Matzdorff; Camera: Bobby Eras
Cast: Sarah
Scott, Patrick Burke, Lance Krall, Shawn Nee, Martha Lindquist,
Annie Humphrey
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Thursday,
August 5, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Genre:
Animation
The
Oak Dresser
Description:
Premier:
; Year: , Length: min., Shot on:
, State and Country of Origin:
Producer:
; Director: ; Writer: ; Camera: ; Editor: ; Music:
Cast/Featuring:
Official
website:
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 Sunday,
August 1, 4 PM
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Genre: Drama
(*
in competition)
The
Observer
Description:
Fairhaven, Massachusetts,
is a classic New England commercial fishing town. It is also
the home to The Observer, a local newspaper, infamous for reporting
on bad weather news, both on land and worse, the stories that
take fisherman's lives out on the sea. Do
Dead Men Really Tell Tales? Well, in Fairhaven, most of
the tales are told by a woman with a special gift to another
woman whose job at The Observer is to report and write this
news to locals. Mandy, the reporter, is sure to count on three
things this stormy, chilling and frightening night: she won't
be able to sleep, her husband Richard will also be wide awake
and her personal source and informant Lydia McCaffrey will be
waiting next door in the middle of the night to tell a tale
of the living…or of the dead.
Year:
2004, Length: 14 min., Shot on: Super
16mm, State and Country of Origin:
Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Producer:
Andrew Z. Paquin, Euald Redore, Jodi Lawaich;
Director/Writer: Jodi Lawaich; Camera: David
Christopher; Editor: Alyer J. Breau; Music:
MaryAnne Kovachi
Cast: Marilyn Matarese,
Cyndia Geller, Peter Berkrot, Peter Darvigo
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 Thursday,
August 5, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods
Hole Fire Station
Genre:
Experimental (*
in competition)
Odious
Description:
"Man in the distant future will be a far more perfect
creature than he now is. It is an intolerable thought that he
and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation
after such a long continued slow progress. To those who fully
admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of
our world will not appear so dreadful." - Quote by Charles
Darwin
Year:
2004, Length: 15 min., Shot on: DV,
State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Producer:
Zipper Knight, Brian Whitman; Director/Writer/Camera:
Richard Gervin, Nicolas Gervin, Editor: Richard
Gervin; Music: Richard Gervin, Nicholas Gervin
Official
website:
freewebs.com/m81productions
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 Sunday,
August 1, 4 PM
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Genre:
Drama (*
in competition)
One
of the Oldest Con Games
Description:
In 1959, while history's greates con artists - Nixon and Kruschchev
- trade brickbats on live TV in the Moscow Kitchen Debate, a
grieving widow (Fionnula Flanagan) outcons two con artists trying
to take her for every cent she's got. Based on a short story
by renowned mystery writer Robert L. Fish ("Bullit.")
Year:
2003, Length: 20 min., Shot on: Super
16mm, State and Country of Origin: Calfornia,
U.S.A.
Producer/Director/Writer:
Leslie King; Camera: Michael A. Genne;
Editor: Jack Tucker; Music: Larry Goldman,
Tom Adams
Cast: Fionnula Flanagan,
Grant Bowler, Robert Musgrave, Peter Hansen
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