6:30 PM
to 8:23 PM
Strongman
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Stanless Steel can leg-press 10,000 pound dump trucks, drive nails through boards with just his bare hands, and can even bend a U.S. penny in his fingersÑa feat no one else in the world can accomplish. These are acts, he feels, not just of physical strength but of mental and emotional strengthÑdemonstrations of the kind of change possible through will-power and perseverance. Yet as Stan reaches middle age, career disappointments and difficult personal relationships begin to test these strengths and force him to struggle with the weaknesses around himÑincluding his own.
Befitting its subject's sense of integrity and artistic purity, Strongman uses a hard-core verite approach and applies it to a thoroughly modern story.
Befitting its subject's sense of integrity and artistic purity, Strongman uses a hard-core verite approach and applies it to a thoroughly modern story.
Tags Documentary Feature
6:45 PM
to 8:30 PM
Awaydays
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Paul Carty is 19, good-looking, funny, clever Ð and bored out of his mind. His mother died a year ago. He lives in middle class suburbia with his silently grieving father and feisty young sister, Molly. Carty works as a junior civil servant and spends all his wages on clubs, records, football and gigs. It's at a Bunnymen gig that he meets Elvis. Elvis changes everything.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.
Tags Narrative Feature
6:45 PM
to 8:11 PM
The 2 Bobs
34 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Just as they finish their groundbreaking violent video-game masterpiece, the two gaming legends known as THE TWO BOBS discover that their precious game-software has been stolen... and with it, their livelihoods, genius reputations, everything they own. To get back their game--and their lives--The Two Bobs and their fellow-geek employees MUNCH, DOOFUS, and THE DARK PRINCE are forced to "turn detective" and plunge into the strange world of Christian Venture Capitalists, aged Dixie Mafia hoodlums, and bizarre Internet Spammers that inhabit Austin Texas. Just as all seems lost, The Two Bobs meet THE TWO JANES, ("Sisters Against Spam"), and in a surprising development, the Bobs/Janes tension-filled first date finally unravels the mystery of the stolen game and reveals the villain behind it, The SPAM KING, and his dastardly plan to use their groundbreaking software to build a nefarious Internet/Cable porn empire... The Bobs and their allies must stop The Spam King and get back their game at all costs.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:25 PM
New World Order
40 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About New World Order is a documentary about conspiracy theorists. The film is a behind the scenes look at the underground anti-globalist movement. This growing movement targets the annual Bilderberg conference, and the 9/11 attacks as focal points in the alleged global conspiracy.
Alex Jones, a celebrity radio host, and underground cult hero, is the main character of the film. The film chronicles Alex (of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly), and four other conspiracy theorists, on their ceaseless quests to expose the 'massive global conspiracy' that they believe threatens the future of humanity.
Alex Jones, a celebrity radio host, and underground cult hero, is the main character of the film. The film chronicles Alex (of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly), and four other conspiracy theorists, on their ceaseless quests to expose the 'massive global conspiracy' that they believe threatens the future of humanity.
Tags Documentary Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:32 PM
Paper Covers Rock
10 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About A gripping drama about Sam, a troubled young woman who loses custody of her six year-old daughter in the wake of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. As Sam starts on her path out of darkness and into recovery, she is confronted with a desperate fight to regain the most precious thing in her life, her daughter.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:30 PM
7:00 PM
to 8:45 PM
The Square
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Escaping the monotony of a loveless marriage in a bleak small town, Raymond Yale becomes entangled in an affair with the beautiful and troubled Carla. He goes along with Carla's plan to take her lowlife husband's cash from his latest crime and escape their mundane world, but things go horribly wrong. And that's just the beginning. In an escalating spiral of blackmail, kickbacks, cover-ups, arson and murder, they find themselves in a nightmare of unforeseen events stemming from their simple plan..
Tags Narrative Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Charlie Hewson, 'Where Are You Going, Elena?'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Elena is fed up with bringing people their food, but when she runs away from her waitressing job, the utensils chase her down. Will she escape forever, or will a tenacious pepper shaker win her back?
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Chris Gordon & Dan Lubell, 'America, Let's Go'
Location Alamo Lamar 3
Location Alamo Lamar 3
About Travel America, Agnieszka style. From New York to LA, Poland's brightest rising star hip-hops her way through a picture perfect postcard world of patriotic kitsch. America's newest pop sensation has arrived! Inspired by music and characters from Karen Odyniec's short film DEADLINE.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Don McCloskey, 'Mister Novocaine'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About In a fever dream where hands are people, one hand fights the pleasure of the bottle by telling his story through song.
This classic tale of loss and woe features Pablo Ribba (illuminados para el fuego) as Adan the troubadour. Adan's innermost woe drives him from his lonely and tortured existence to the numbing satisfaction of the bottle.
In this world, one can almost hear the tortured cry of a soul in despair as Adan plays the guitar from place to place, his head hung low, his spirits sagging. The weight of the world virtually rests on his small shoulders.
Though, in this case, they are not only shoulders, but the most expressive fingers you have ever seen.
This classic tale of loss and woe features Pablo Ribba (illuminados para el fuego) as Adan the troubadour. Adan's innermost woe drives him from his lonely and tortured existence to the numbing satisfaction of the bottle.
In this world, one can almost hear the tortured cry of a soul in despair as Adan plays the guitar from place to place, his head hung low, his spirits sagging. The weight of the world virtually rests on his small shoulders.
Though, in this case, they are not only shoulders, but the most expressive fingers you have ever seen.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Fleet Foxes, 'White Winter Hymnal'
41 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Alone in a dark wood, 5 lonesome old men sit and ponder the meaning of their solitude. But they are not alone on this cold winter night. For a man older than time itself stands ready and willing to change everything with one swift motion. And he does, setting forth a chain reaction causing the world to spin wildly out of control, the forest grows and shrinks, snow lifts from the ground to the sky, dead mushrooms rise and shrink back to the earth, and the 5 lonely men grow slowly back to their young selves. This animated music video captures the cyclical nature of the Fleet Foxes tune in a magical, fantastically beautiful way.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Gnarls Barkley, 'Going On'
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A young man discovers how to travel to another dimension, but he has no idea what he will find when he gets there, or how he will get back. His friends all want to explore, but one by one, the fear of the unknown overwhelms them, and they are too scared to continue with him. Eventually finding another soul to brave the porthole with him, they jump throughÉ
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:15 PM
I Love You, Man
134 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About The film centers on a man who, upon getting engaged, realizes he has no close male friends and must find someone to be the Best Man at his wedding.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Javelin, 'Soda Popinski'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The Sea Floor Sea Urchin Dance Troupe dance to Javelin's "SODA POPINSKI."
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Kaki King, 'Pull Me Out Alive'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About PULL ME OUT ALIVE is the music video for the lead single from Golden Globe-nominated musician Kaki King's album, Dreaming of Revenge. Co-directed by Edward Boyce & Doug Karr, with photography by Guy Godfree and animation design by Patrick Jasin, PULL ME OUT ALIVE was made without film camerasÑit consists of 5000 still photographs shot on Nikon D30s. There are no special effects; all of the light trails were created by hand, with up to eight individual light animators flashing LEDs and flashlights on and off over an eight second shot exposure.
PULL ME OUT ALIVE follows Kaki as she travels through the city en route to a gig, collecting luminous experiences along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara and Hesta Pryne of Northern State.
PULL ME OUT ALIVE follows Kaki as she travels through the city en route to a gig, collecting luminous experiences along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara and Hesta Pryne of Northern State.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Krista Muir, 'Leave Alight'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About With the flick of many switches, Krista Muir leads us out of the darkness with her powerful voice and resonant baritone ukulele. Light is the central character in this poignant performance piece.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Megachurch, 'Hyper Gospel'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The members of Mega*Church invite you to join them for a hyper-colored take on religious pomp and circumstance--joy, life, love, fabric, neon, baptism, and cookies!
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 8:50 PM
Music Videos
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Yeasayer 'Wait for the Summer'Director: Mixtape Club
Kaki King 'Pull Me Out Alive'Director: Doug Karr
Temposhark 'Blame'Director: Motomichi Nakamura
Terp 2 It 'F@ck This City'Director: Drew Baldwin
The Hidden Cameras 'In the Na'Director: Joel Gibb
The New Pornographers 'Myriad Harbor'Director: Marc Lemond
Megachurch 'Hyper Gospel'Director: Lara Gallagher
Talkdemonic 'Duality of Deathening'Director: Orie Weeks III
Prefuse 73 'Aborted Hugs'Director: Jurassic Technology
Roots Manuva 'C.R.U.F.F'Director: Jessica Lux
Javelin 'Soda Popinski'Director: Ian McAlpin
Thunderheist 'Jerk It'Director: That Go
Charlie Hewson 'Where Are You Going, Elena'Director: Josephine Decker
The Sword 'Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians'Director: Mike Colao
Christopher Gordon 'America, Let's Go'Director: Karen Odyniec
Don McCloskey 'Mr. Novocaine'Director: Peter Rhoads
The Dirty Hearts 'Record Store'Director: Jose Jones
Tycho 'Meridian'Director: Brian Levi Bowman
The Saturday Nights 'Count it Off'Director: Travis Senger
Fleet Foxes 'White Winter Hymnal'Director: Sean Pecknold
Octopus Project 'An Evening With Rthrtha'Director: Phillip Niemeyer
Krista Muir 'Leave a Light'Director: Kara Blake
Gnarls Barkley 'Going On'Director: Wendy Morgan
Oren Lavie 'Her Morning Elegance'Director: Oren Lavie
Kaki King 'Pull Me Out Alive'Director: Doug Karr
Temposhark 'Blame'Director: Motomichi Nakamura
Terp 2 It 'F@ck This City'Director: Drew Baldwin
The Hidden Cameras 'In the Na'Director: Joel Gibb
The New Pornographers 'Myriad Harbor'Director: Marc Lemond
Megachurch 'Hyper Gospel'Director: Lara Gallagher
Talkdemonic 'Duality of Deathening'Director: Orie Weeks III
Prefuse 73 'Aborted Hugs'Director: Jurassic Technology
Roots Manuva 'C.R.U.F.F'Director: Jessica Lux
Javelin 'Soda Popinski'Director: Ian McAlpin
Thunderheist 'Jerk It'Director: That Go
Charlie Hewson 'Where Are You Going, Elena'Director: Josephine Decker
The Sword 'Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians'Director: Mike Colao
Christopher Gordon 'America, Let's Go'Director: Karen Odyniec
Don McCloskey 'Mr. Novocaine'Director: Peter Rhoads
The Dirty Hearts 'Record Store'Director: Jose Jones
Tycho 'Meridian'Director: Brian Levi Bowman
The Saturday Nights 'Count it Off'Director: Travis Senger
Fleet Foxes 'White Winter Hymnal'Director: Sean Pecknold
Octopus Project 'An Evening With Rthrtha'Director: Phillip Niemeyer
Krista Muir 'Leave a Light'Director: Kara Blake
Gnarls Barkley 'Going On'Director: Wendy Morgan
Oren Lavie 'Her Morning Elegance'Director: Oren Lavie
Tags Shorts Program
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Oren Lavie, 'Her Morning Elegance'
Location Alamo Lamar 3
Location Alamo Lamar 3
About The video animates the fantastic dream of a sleeping woman without ever leaving her bedroom, using her mattress as the canvas of the dream and her bed frame as the dolly of her journey.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Prefuse 73, 'Aborted Hugs'
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About An Ingenue is tormented by a Gentleman Caller, and her own sexuality in this expressionistic music video about paranoia, jealousy, filth, and rage.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Roots Manuva, 'C. R. U. F. F.'
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A boy's journey through a nightmare toy war, set to a track by Roots Manuva.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Talkdemonic, 'Duality of Deathening'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A robot lives alone in a tiny apartment. He's made a choice to be human, hoping that determination alone might allow him to make it so. He pretends to be a person, eating, laughing, talking with homemade dummies, all the while having no real idea why he's doing any of it. He figures there are just some things you do when you're human. He is given a vision. In the dream state he sees humanity for what it truly is, and realizes at once the error he's made. It isn't so bad, not being human.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 7:33 PM
Temposhark, 'Blame'
Location Alamo Lamar 3
Location Alamo Lamar 3
About The music track is about loneliness, frustration, anger and hope. The story in the animation evolves arounda boy who is trapped in the lonely inner city and he keeps on trying to stay strong with hope for a bettertomorrow.The song title is Blame from the debut album The Invisible Line, written by Robert Diament and Youth (Martin Glover) Distribution in USA through Defend Music
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Terp 2 It, 'F@ck This City'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Nerdcore rapper Terp 2 It hates the city of Orlando, Florida so much, he wrote the song 'Fuck This City' and then made a music video so everyone could feel and understand his hatred. Produced by internet comedy video group Studio 8, 'Fuck This City' turns the usual flashy hip hop music video conventions on their heads and smooshes you deep inside Terp's angry head. Yet lurking beneath the hearty mixture of no-holds-barred trash talk and abrasive imagery hides the goofy soul and wit of Terp 2 It. By the end of the video, you might find yourself wondering whether you should be more afraid for Orlando or for Terp, should the two ever cross each other's paths. 'Fuck This City' can be found on Terp 2 It's debut album The Freshest Dude from Studio 8 Records.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Dirty Hearts, 'Record Store'
Location Alamo Lamar 3
Location Alamo Lamar 3
About Inside a Small Record Store, a teenager steals the new "Dirty Hearts" album, which leads to an over the top chase sequence, after a run in, with a local officer.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Hidden Cameras, 'In The Na'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Pairing the gestures of contemporary dance with an ecstatically high-energy pop song, In The Na depicts a scientific experiment in hypnotism and human behavior gone awry.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The New Pornographers, 'Myriad Harbour'
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Hairband as interpreted by Fluorescent Hill.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Octopus Project, 'An Evening With Rthrtha'
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The music video "An Evening with Rthrtha" is a high-velocity psychedelic stop-motion animation made from thousands of photos on hundreds of layers using an eclectic array of analog animation techniques. The final result is a horrible/splendid array of bats, butterflies, that depicts "An Evening with Rthrtha".
As the band explained to the directors, "Rthrtha" is a large ancient and convivial pink bat that could fight large beasts on the order of Godzilla and Cthulu, but actually prefers a wild night out with friends.
As the band explained to the directors, "Rthrtha" is a large ancient and convivial pink bat that could fight large beasts on the order of Godzilla and Cthulu, but actually prefers a wild night out with friends.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Saturday Knights, 'Count it Off'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About In a distinct Sesame street style, The Saturday Knights reinvent the kids show as a hip-hop singalong with puppets, numbers, kids and more.Shot on vintage tube cameras and with hand-drawn animation, this video is a blast to the past.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Sword, 'Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians'
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Under the light of a century old broken moon, a caravan of humanity's last survivors march through the civilized bones of wasteland earth to find one of "The Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians."
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Thunderheist, 'Jerk It'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Jerk it is our first music video, made for the band Thunderheist. It features skin giggling in slow motion, strobing animal prints, and a girl with a large rooster. After winning the band's contest, it premiered on pitchfork.tv. It has since received more attention than we ever imagined and for that we are humbled and truly grateful. We would like to thank Anna, Mike, Tristan, Caleb, Diana, Carey, Jennifer, Yoshiko, Eric, and Bronwyn for volunteering their time. Without them this video would not have been possible. We are also grateful to Grahm and Isis of Thunderheist and their manager Tash, and to all the bloggers and festival programmers who posted the video and took an interest in our work. Thanks!
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Tycho, 'Meridian'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter. Fundamentally, material composes all things and all phenomena are the result of material interactions; therefore, matter is the only substance and can neither be created or destroyed. Hence, we are all made of only what came before us yet discretely conceived through form; we are all made of earth and sky and stars.
Meridian uses time lapse footage coupled with a live action environment to describe the material connection between the ethereal universe and human perception. Featuring the track "The Daydream" by the ambient artist Tycho, star-scapes intersect a city and a female protagonist in the process of discovery within the context of ordinary life.
Meridian uses time lapse footage coupled with a live action environment to describe the material connection between the ethereal universe and human perception. Featuring the track "The Daydream" by the ambient artist Tycho, star-scapes intersect a city and a female protagonist in the process of discovery within the context of ordinary life.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Yeasayer, 'Wait for the Summer'
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Inspired by Yeasayer's polyphonic harmony and tribal sound, this video follows migrating beetles, cosmic apple orbits, and primal spirits through the cycles of the planets and seasons.
Tags Music Video
9:00 PM
to 10:27 PM
Medicine for Melancholy
17 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San FranciscoÑa city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:15 PM
to 10:38 PM
Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
24 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Described by the New York Times as "Second City-seasoned masters of long form improv", Tj Jagodowski and David Pasquesi have become living legends in their field. Their performances of entirely improvised, character-driven, often hilarious and wholly original one-hour plays have mesmerized audiences worldwide. Exploring the folds of faith that underlie their relationship and the transcendental forces that govern their improvisation, TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP features an unforgettable live performance recorded at New York's Barrow Street Theater. Whether you're a student of improvisation or simply interested in the underpinnings of human imagination and the depths of mutual understanding, this journey will leave you laughing, guessing, and in awe of this altogether remarkable feat.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 10:49 PM
Blood Trail
8 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About At times war photographer Robert King resembles a heroic misfit straight out of the pages of Scoop, thrown into the heart of battle, struggling to adapt to the brutal environment he finds himself in. Occasionally comic, often touching, more often dark, Blood Trail, the tale of Robert King, is a unique and personal journey, a film which follows him over 15 years and through three wars.
His journey starts in Sarajevo in 1993, a 23-year-old fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize. His dream proves elusive. Fired by his photo agency and struggling to make ends meet, any swashbuckling allusions Robert holds for the career he has chosen quickly evaporate: as he realises this is one of the toughest professions in the world.
Despite himself, Robert stays in the game, over time establishing himself as a respected professional, his work making the front covers of global media titles. Over 15 years Blood Trail records Robert's life from boy to man, to husband and father. It is a biography, which leads from reckless naivety to maturity hardened by war and softened by family. It is a story, which forces Robert to inevitably question why he chose a profession, which involves an endless trail of death and destruction.
His journey starts in Sarajevo in 1993, a 23-year-old fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize. His dream proves elusive. Fired by his photo agency and struggling to make ends meet, any swashbuckling allusions Robert holds for the career he has chosen quickly evaporate: as he realises this is one of the toughest professions in the world.
Despite himself, Robert stays in the game, over time establishing himself as a respected professional, his work making the front covers of global media titles. Over 15 years Blood Trail records Robert's life from boy to man, to husband and father. It is a biography, which leads from reckless naivety to maturity hardened by war and softened by family. It is a story, which forces Robert to inevitably question why he chose a profession, which involves an endless trail of death and destruction.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 10:44 PM
Know Your Mushrooms
29 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About From the award-winning director of COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL, GRASS, GO FURTHER and a host of paradigm-shifting films reappraising the backwaters of popular culture, Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi with his newest piece of cinema, KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 10:51 PM
You Wont Miss Me
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:45 PM
to 10:56 PM
Monsters From The Id
27 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The 1950's was an idealistic time in American History. It was also the Atomic Age where new technology promised to both save humanity as well as destroy it. All of these factors gave birth to the most prolific genres in film history, 1950's Sci-Fi Cinema. More then just little green men, 50's Sci-fi Cinema provided inspiration for the generation who achieved one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind; Spaceflight. Monsters From The Id weaves the intersecting themes of over 30 films in order to tell the untold story of the Modern Scientist and his role in inspiring a nation. The film continues to explore the psychological and cultural impact of 50's Sci-Fi cinema in America and asks, 'where is science inspiration found today?'
Tags Documentary Feature
10:00 PM
to 11:31 PM
ExTerminators
41 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About "Ex-terminators" is a black comedy centering on Alex (Graham), a lonely accountant whose one act of rage results in her being sentenced to court ordered therapy. There she meets Stella (Coolidge), the owner of a small extermination business who uses her car as a weapon; and Nikki (Heard), a dental technician with the face of an angel and the mind of a sociopath. Together these women will form their own 'silent revolution', wrecking havoc on the men of Texas.
Tags Narrative Feature
10:00 PM
to 11:20 PM
The Snake
21 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A no-budget romantic comedy -- without the romance. The Snake is a desperate cad who fixates on a troubled young woman, joins her support group, and enables her eating disorder. It only gets worse from there.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:30 PM
to 12:57 AM
Lake Mungo
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is recovered and a verdict of accidental death returned, her grieving family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist. He discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. A series of clues lead the family to Lake Mungo where Alice's secret past emerges. Lake Mungo is a mystery, a thriller and a ghost story weaved into a 'documentary' that illustrates how the dead can forever haunt the living.
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11:59 PM
to 1:50 AM
Ong Bak 2
60 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The first ONG BAK hit the world like a heat-seeking guided missile. A missile in the shape of Tony Jaa, touted as the new Bruce Lee and the can't-miss martial-arts superstar of his generation. This prequel, set in medieval Thailand, features Jaa as a young nobleman who masters many martial arts disciplines in his journey of revenge. Expect stand-up-in-your-seat excitement as Jaa flies through the air; twisting, turning and demonstrating the utmost contempt for the laws of gravity. And now that he has added a full range of martial-arts styles to his repertoire, Jaa is twice as deadly and twice as exciting.
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11:59 PM
to 1:31 AM
Zift
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About A Bulgarian neo-noir murder mystery about Moth, a man who is freed from prison on a wrong conviction. His quest for truth leads him into a diabolical city of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets and bizarre characters. Through flashbacks, hallucinations and sensual encounters, Moth finally gets to the bottom of the conspiracy.
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