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
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
11:59 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.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Alexandria
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In the distant future, a bottle is found deep inside the rainforests of Southeast Asia. Its contents unlock the secret of what happened to three men in a bookstore at the end of civilization, and their attempt to live on.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Cochran
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Jim Cochran floats through his days dreaming about being somewhere else and reflecting on his past. He hates his job and despises the delivery truck he must drive. In his free time he finds solace in shooting clay pigeons at the local shooting range. In contrast to his delivery truck his shotgun is his favorite thing in the world and he considers it his 'nightly companion'. He also has a slight love affair with performing magic tricks, and practices them alone in his backyard. Jim's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:15 AM
Countertransference
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "Countertransference" is a comedy which looks at the frustration and discontent that can arise during therapy--especially with an unbalanced therapist at the helm. Carla Carthrop is a shy, socially awkward woman with massive self-esteem issues. She works in an antique store and her professional claim to fame is being selected to manage the basement. The core of the film revolves around Carla's attempt to walk away from her dysfunctional therapist. It's an irreverent, psychologically loaded exploration of the therapeutic process.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:02 AM
Hi Mom
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Hi Mom started out as a vague exploration of the filmmaker's view on her family, friends, and feelings, and ended up becoming a story about her mother. The video was shot on various consumer cameras, and includes stills either shot by the artist or stolen from the internet. She roped her family and friends into cooperating with her shoots without telling them what the final product would be. All camera work, sound, and editing was conducted by the artist. She is unaware of if her Mom has seen the piece.
Tags Documentary Short
11:00 AM
to 11:16 AM
HUG
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Drew is a virtuoso musical talent, with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew is off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:09 AM
Isis Avenue
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Isis Avenue intimately documents a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's excavation of the home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA. Shot in a single-camera verite style, the unobtrusive and unanticipated nature of the film's process casts loss, absence and apathy as characters in the aftermath of an unknown woman's death. The pasts of the professionals who specialize in homicides, suicides, decomposition and hoarding cases are as hauntingly present as that of the departed. In an era of reality subjects, Isis Avenue stands in subtle opposition, in process and form, to the inevitable reality series soon to champion the subject of crime-scene cleanup. The entire filmmaking process was performed in 17 hrs 47 min; a conceptual sliver of time in the white light of Angelino anonymity.
Tags Documentary Short
11:00 AM
to 12:21 PM
Reel Shorts 1
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Hug', directed by Khary Jones. Drew is a virtuoso musical talent, with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew is off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.
'Hi Mom', Amylee Belotti . An embellished look into the artist's view of her family and friends.
'Cochran', directed by James P. Gannon. Jim's Cochran's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking alone in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
'Alexandria', directed by Eric Elofson. Three men are trapped in a bookstore at the end of the world, and they must decide who or what can be saved before a massive flood drowns them all.
'Isis Avenue', directed by Paul Marchand. An intimate short film documenting a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's early morning excavation of a home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA.
'Winter Lilacs', directed by Stephen Gurewitz. Chet Harvey tries to get a date to impress his aging mother Bernadette.
'That's My Majesty', directed by Emily Carmichael. Princess Moon has arrived in NYC on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is busy architect. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
'Sunday Mornings', directed by Jannicke Laker. A story about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town.
'Countertransference', directed by Madeleine Olnek. An awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy.
'Hi Mom', Amylee Belotti . An embellished look into the artist's view of her family and friends.
'Cochran', directed by James P. Gannon. Jim's Cochran's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking alone in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
'Alexandria', directed by Eric Elofson. Three men are trapped in a bookstore at the end of the world, and they must decide who or what can be saved before a massive flood drowns them all.
'Isis Avenue', directed by Paul Marchand. An intimate short film documenting a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's early morning excavation of a home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA.
'Winter Lilacs', directed by Stephen Gurewitz. Chet Harvey tries to get a date to impress his aging mother Bernadette.
'That's My Majesty', directed by Emily Carmichael. Princess Moon has arrived in NYC on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is busy architect. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
'Sunday Mornings', directed by Jannicke Laker. A story about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town.
'Countertransference', directed by Madeleine Olnek. An awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy.
Tags Shorts Program
11:00 AM
to 11:09 AM
Sunday Mornings
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About SUNDAY MORNINGS is a video about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town. The scene depicts the woman's slow progress from the front door to the bedroom. The video is about an independent person finding herself in a comical, yet simultaneously humiliating situation.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:04 AM
That's My Majesty
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Princess Moon has arrived in New York City on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is a busy architect with little interest in governing a magical realm. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:06 AM
Winter Lilacs
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Chet Harvey lives with his aging mother Bernadette. When faced with moving her to an assisted living home, Chet attempts to make his Ma' proud by getting a date with "a beautiful girl.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
a'mare
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About ANDREA and FELICE are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water. Will their friendship survive the turbulent events that follow?
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:43 PM
Autopilot
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A bicycle propels forward with no rider and adolescent boys make internet videos. At home Mark's family drifts in isolation, escaping the lazy afternoon, when reality circles back.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:38 PM
Before the Sea
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
Tags Documentary Short
1:30 PM
to 1:35 PM
Happy 95 Birthday Grandpa
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Illumination comes to a young boy at his grandfather's 95th birthday.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
Ida y Vuelta (Round Trip)
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
John Wayne Hated Horses
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About On a hot summer day, a father and his young son struggle with their differing ideas about masculinity, boredom, and the proper way to play with army toys.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:37 PM
Little Pumpkin
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In the midst of his parents' divorce, a 5 year-old boy seeks out friendship with a gift his father left behind for him. The fact that the new found friend is a large pumpkin seems harmless at first, but Stephanie finds herself facing her own emotions, as her son grows more and more attached to the pumpkin in the absence of his father.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
Peter and Ben
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About As a young man, Peter visited the rolling lush green hills of a remote and hidden valley in Wales and chose to stay there permanently. Self-sufficient and alone, Peter was content. Then he met Ben. Peter found Ben, an orphaned newborn lamb, abandoned in a ditch. Now Ben has matured into a full-grown wooly sheep with ambitions to move into Peter's house with him. Peter, however, has other ideas. Peter and Ben is a touching and quirky story of how two "black-sheep" form an unusual and enduring bond.
Tags Documentary Short
1:30 PM
to 3:17 PM
Reel Shorts 2
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'John Wayne Hated Horses', directed by Andrew Betzer. A father and his young son share a house, a yard, and very different ideas about masculinity and appropriate uses of army toys.
'Autopilot', directed by J.B. Herndon. Adolescent boys ghostride bicycles. Inertia pulls a father and son toward an eerie kinship. And time is a circle.
'Before the Sea', directed by Charlene Music. A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
'A'Mare', directed by Martina Amati. Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.
'Peter and Ben', directed by Pinny Grylls. A man moves away from civilization and strikes up a relationship with the sheep.
'Tess and Nana', directed by M. Stewart Thorndike. Thirteen-year-old Tess wants to get out of sick grandmother's dark house.
'Round Trip', directed by David Martin-Porras. The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
'Sister Wife', directed by Jill Orschel. In a time when the practices of Mormon fundamentalism offer sensational fodder for the evening news, but little honesty, Sister Wife offers a rare and unflinching glimpse into a cloistered lifestyle.
'Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa', directed by Gary Huggins. A fleeting memory in five minutes.
VisitDirector: Gray MillerNYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
'Autopilot', directed by J.B. Herndon. Adolescent boys ghostride bicycles. Inertia pulls a father and son toward an eerie kinship. And time is a circle.
'Before the Sea', directed by Charlene Music. A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
'A'Mare', directed by Martina Amati. Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.
'Peter and Ben', directed by Pinny Grylls. A man moves away from civilization and strikes up a relationship with the sheep.
'Tess and Nana', directed by M. Stewart Thorndike. Thirteen-year-old Tess wants to get out of sick grandmother's dark house.
'Round Trip', directed by David Martin-Porras. The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
'Sister Wife', directed by Jill Orschel. In a time when the practices of Mormon fundamentalism offer sensational fodder for the evening news, but little honesty, Sister Wife offers a rare and unflinching glimpse into a cloistered lifestyle.
'Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa', directed by Gary Huggins. A fleeting memory in five minutes.
VisitDirector: Gray MillerNYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
Tags Shorts Program
1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
Sister Wife
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About DoriAnn is a Mormon Fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger biological sister. During a private bathing ritual, DoriAnn explores the surprisingly universal challenges of her marriage and reveals an unexpected explanation for why she chooses polygamy.
Tags Documentary Short
1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
Tess and Nana
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Tess gets out of her grandmother's house for the day.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:37 PM
Visit
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About NYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Saint Misbehavin' reveals the true story of cultural phenomenon Wavy Gravy Рa man whose commitment to making the world a better place has never wavered. We experience the impact one person can have and connect to the hope that each one of us can make a difference while keeping our sense of humor.Wavy Gravy is known as the MC of the Woodstock Festival, a hippie icon, clown, and even a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor. In Saint Misbehavin' we meet a true servant to humanity who carries his message through humor, compassion and a song he sings, called "Basic Human Needs".Saint Misbehavin' weaves together intimate verité footage, reflections from an array of cultural and counter-cultural peers, and never-before-seen archival footage to tell a story that is bigger than the man himself.
Tags Documentary Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:22 PM
Winnebago Man
33 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of -- after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man."
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 11:01 PM
Best Worst Movie
47 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In 1989, unwitting Utah actors starred in the undisputed Worst Movie in History: TROLL 2. Two decades later, the legendarily inept film's child star unravels the improbable, heartfelt story of an Alabamadentist-turned-cult movie icon and an Italian filmmaker who come to terms with this genuine, internationally revered cinematic failure.
Tags Documentary Feature
11:59 PM
to 1:35 AM
Pontypool
23 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Grizzled morning radio legend Grant Mazzy has pissed off a lot of people in the radio business. That's why he finds himself announcing school closures and traffic reports from the basement headquarters of 'The Beacon' in the icy remote hamlet of Pontypool. On his way to work on a particularly frigid Valentine's Day morning, Mazzy is accosted by a dazed and mumbling woman banging at his car window who then suddenly disappears into the blizzard. As the workday continues, Mazzy and his radio station staff slowly discover that this seemingly innocuous occurrence may be linked to bizarre outbreaks of murder and bloody mayhem throughout the town. Veteran character actor Stephen McHattie (Hollis Mason/Nite Owl in the upcoming Watchmen movie) delivers a brilliant performance within the structure of writer Tony Burgess' taut War-of-the-Worlds-inspired script. Pontypool deftly sidesteps genre clichés and conventions, delivers plenty of white-knuckle suspense and enough post-movie-conversation fodder to last you to the end of the festival.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:30 AM
to 11:45 AM
A. Effect
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Two actors struggle to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese. A. Effect is loosely scripted and highly improvised as the actors adlibbed the majority of their dialogue and contributed ideas to their characters throughout the process of production. The characters were based on who the actors were in real life so they were essentially playing themselves and adding to the realism to blur the lines of narrative filmmaking.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:38 AM
Non-Love-Song
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 12:53 PM
Reel Shorts 3
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Thompson', directed by Jason Tippet. Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things that go fast. But as their last days of high school speed by, the two friends find that their go-carts, dirt bikes, and RC cars can't outrun adulthood.
'The Better Half', directed by Rebecca Rodriguez. A disconnected man keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his room in NYC. Encounters with three women gradually reveal the origin and importance of the legs and ultimately raise the question, can you ever get all of someone?
'Unlimited', directed by Andrew Luis. A travelogue that follows Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, as he cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
'Thick as Thieves', directed by Chris Demarais. When a successful businessman encounters an eccentric mugger in an alley, he decides that maybe banking isn't really his forte.
'Non-Love Song', directed by Erik Gernand. On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
'Wing It', directed by Julio Quintana. When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
'The Golden Pose', directed by Lance Alton Troxel. A street performer grapples with artistic perfection...and mimes.
'A. Effect' directed by Mike Ott. Two aspiring actors do their best to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese.
'The Better Half', directed by Rebecca Rodriguez. A disconnected man keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his room in NYC. Encounters with three women gradually reveal the origin and importance of the legs and ultimately raise the question, can you ever get all of someone?
'Unlimited', directed by Andrew Luis. A travelogue that follows Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, as he cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
'Thick as Thieves', directed by Chris Demarais. When a successful businessman encounters an eccentric mugger in an alley, he decides that maybe banking isn't really his forte.
'Non-Love Song', directed by Erik Gernand. On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
'Wing It', directed by Julio Quintana. When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
'The Golden Pose', directed by Lance Alton Troxel. A street performer grapples with artistic perfection...and mimes.
'A. Effect' directed by Mike Ott. Two aspiring actors do their best to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese.
Tags Shorts Program
11:30 AM
to 11:45 AM
The Better Half
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Gordon keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his bedroom. Encounters with three women gradually reveal his fixation and ultimately ask the question: Can you ever have all of someone?
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:38 AM
The Golden Pose
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About A street performer grapples with artistic perfection ... and mimes.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:38 AM
Thick as Thieves
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About While walking through an alley on his way home from his job as a bank teller, Marshall Jones is jumped by Emmanuel, a scraggly yet intimidating hoodlum. However, once Emmanuel notices an odd commonality, the two become unexpected partners in crime. Sort of.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:40 AM
Thompson
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things that go fast. But as their last days of high school speed by, the two friends find that their go-carts, dirt bikes, and RC cars can't outrun adulthood.
The story follows two best friends through a rough patch in their relationship. Matt is working hard to become a professional fisherman and finish his senior year of high school. Ryan was recently expelled from Hart High for calling in a bomb threat. As the year winds down, Ryan is running out of options while his best friend Matt is moving on in a different direction.
The story follows two best friends through a rough patch in their relationship. Matt is working hard to become a professional fisherman and finish his senior year of high school. Ryan was recently expelled from Hart High for calling in a bomb threat. As the year winds down, Ryan is running out of options while his best friend Matt is moving on in a different direction.
Tags Documentary Short
11:30 AM
to 11:40 AM
Unlimited
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An impressionistic evocation of nighttime New York, Unlimited explores the hidden backrooms and marginal neighborhoods of the city as Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:37 AM
Wing It
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
Tags Narrative Short
2:00 PM
to 3:40 PM
Animated Shorts
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Milbe '(Mite), directed by Karl Tebbe. A short animation about a grandmother, Oma Grete, and gigantic house dust mites that threaten to destroy the world. 6:00
'Birth', directed by Signe Baumane. A young woman is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
'Rosa Rosa', directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrire. While war is thundering at the gates of the city, Rosa and her lover live serenely together, trying to preserve a fragile normality.
'Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes', directed by Simon Hawkins. What may possibly have happened to Luca Brasi after he was assassinated. 3:00
'Sweet Dreams', directed by Kirsten Lepore. A stalwart cupcake escapes from his native land to discover what lies beyond the sugar skyscrapers and candy-condos. His violent shipwreck on a foreign shore forces him to adapt to a new lifestyle. 10:00
'Photograph of Jesus', directed by Laurie Hill. Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. 4:00
'Solitude Past', directed by My Sandstrom, Ingrid is the loneliest woman in the world. She feels sorry for herself and begrudges others their happiness. When she gets close to another person she can no longer deal with her emotions and is swallowed up by her longing.
'Haunted House', SXSWClick Winner
'Tourist', directed by Matthew K. A tourist fights the crowds as he attempts to snap the perfect picture of New York. In a city full of landmarks, there will always be someone to ruin your shot. 4:00
'Here's the Stapler if You Need It', directed by Lance Myers. It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his manager has given him one very important directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back. 2:00
'Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood', directed by Lara Gallagher. The quiet anxieties of wood. 5:00
'You're Outa Here', directed by George Griffin. A feisty descendant of Betty Boop has finally had enough: she kicks out her clueless boyfriend while delivering a taunting, full-throated indictment, based on the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. 5:00
'Trepan Hole', directed by Andy Cahill. A dance between figures, clay, thought and sexuality.
'Paradoxes and Oxymorons', directed by Kate Raney. An animated version of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." Narrated by DJ Spooky.
'Shaman', directed by Luc Perez. Waiting for the bus on a rainy day in Copenhagen, the old shaman Utaaq sees a rare bird from his past. This makes him reminisce his youth, and a beautiful tale about the forces of nature begins.
'Birth', directed by Signe Baumane. A young woman is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
'Rosa Rosa', directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrire. While war is thundering at the gates of the city, Rosa and her lover live serenely together, trying to preserve a fragile normality.
'Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes', directed by Simon Hawkins. What may possibly have happened to Luca Brasi after he was assassinated. 3:00
'Sweet Dreams', directed by Kirsten Lepore. A stalwart cupcake escapes from his native land to discover what lies beyond the sugar skyscrapers and candy-condos. His violent shipwreck on a foreign shore forces him to adapt to a new lifestyle. 10:00
'Photograph of Jesus', directed by Laurie Hill. Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. 4:00
'Solitude Past', directed by My Sandstrom, Ingrid is the loneliest woman in the world. She feels sorry for herself and begrudges others their happiness. When she gets close to another person she can no longer deal with her emotions and is swallowed up by her longing.
'Haunted House', SXSWClick Winner
'Tourist', directed by Matthew K. A tourist fights the crowds as he attempts to snap the perfect picture of New York. In a city full of landmarks, there will always be someone to ruin your shot. 4:00
'Here's the Stapler if You Need It', directed by Lance Myers. It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his manager has given him one very important directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back. 2:00
'Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood', directed by Lara Gallagher. The quiet anxieties of wood. 5:00
'You're Outa Here', directed by George Griffin. A feisty descendant of Betty Boop has finally had enough: she kicks out her clueless boyfriend while delivering a taunting, full-throated indictment, based on the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. 5:00
'Trepan Hole', directed by Andy Cahill. A dance between figures, clay, thought and sexuality.
'Paradoxes and Oxymorons', directed by Kate Raney. An animated version of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." Narrated by DJ Spooky.
'Shaman', directed by Luc Perez. Waiting for the bus on a rainy day in Copenhagen, the old shaman Utaaq sees a rare bird from his past. This makes him reminisce his youth, and a beautiful tale about the forces of nature begins.
Tags Shorts Program
2:00 PM
to 2:11 PM
Birth
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Amina, a young woman (17) is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advise she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:10 PM
Haunted House
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The Haunted House is a bastardization of the classic comedy story, told from the perspective of scum-bag puppets and their terrible deaths.
Tags Narrative Short
2:00 PM
to 2:04 PM
Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Detailed, handcrafted dioramas set the stage for the quiet anxieties and revelations of three faceless wooden characters. Still photographs, slight animation, and an empathetic narrator cast emotions on an otherwise motionless world of meals spent alone, over-priced kitchen gadgets, and insincere apologies.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:06 PM
Milbe
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About MILBE (MITE) is a short animation film about my grandmother, Oma Grete, and gigantic house dust mites that threaten to destroy the world.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:01 PM
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About An animated interpretation of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." A meditation on shapes, lines and language.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:06 PM
Photograph Of Jesus
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:08 PM
Rosa Rosa
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite lineups, traffic jams and shortages they manage to live a peaceful life with their little girl. Rosa Rosa is the interweaving of individual and collective fates via a love story told by the couple themselves. It consists partly of reworked photos, the images superimposed on each other to create a stylized realism in which public and private spaces overlap. With its evocative soundtrack and plain, simple narration, this film by director Félix Dufour-Laperrire offers a touching look at happiness in hard times.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
Shaman
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Utaaq, an old Inuit, is at a bus stop in Copenhagen when he spots a bird from his native Greenland above his head Ð a rare visitor to these climes. It reminds him of his youth: As a young hunter, Utaaq discovered that a qivitoq was using a tupilak to kill local hunters. Tupilaks are magical creatures that obey their masters. Utaaq went off into the mountains where he became a shaman, and on his return, he used his powers to destroy the qivitoq. Back to Utaaq at the bus stop, we see a weary old man nostalgically watching the bird É
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
Skip and Lester: Here's the Stapler if You Need It
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his boss has given him only one directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:03 PM
Snake
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Deceptively playful, Snake is a film about stubbornness in the face of change. The film chronicles a failure to deal with time (and teeth) passing while using appealing characters and sounds to glorify the obdurate attempt to replace what is lost.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
2:00 PM
to 2:09 PM
Sweet Dreams
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About This stop-motion animation, made almost entirely with real food, tells the tale of a stalwart cupcake yearning to find something beyond his world of sugar cube skyscrapers and frosting-covered friends. When his makeshift boat crashes on foreign shores, he makes a shocking discovery that changes him forever.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:04 PM
The Godfather Musical: Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "The Godfather Musical Part III: Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes" is the third and final installment of a Godfather-inspired musical. Part III imagines what happened to Luca Brasi after his assassination.
Animation by Richard Ramazinski
Animation by Richard Ramazinski
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:04 PM
Tourist
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A tourist braves the busy city streets as he tries to snap the perfect photo of New York, only to find that the Big Apple seems to be a bit camera shy. In a city full of landmarks, there is always someone there to ruin his shot. Action! Intrigue! Sightseeing! Animated on location in New York City.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:06 PM
Trepan Hole
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Andy Cahill abstractively drew the lines well on surrealistic discourse about a fission and unification, so this animation could be fully said to be 'synthetic'. Stripes wrap not only his clays, but also my whole impression, and the hole remains as a sort of obsession in the brain.
- Shon Kim, Film Programmer
- Shon Kim, Film Programmer
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
You're Outa here
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About A feisty descendant of Betty Boop tells her no-good boyfriend to hit the road, her litany of complaints set to the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. "You're Outa Here" starts with stride-master Dick Hyman playing the high-voltage intro to "The Minor Drag." Our animated leading lady strides forth to make her case for the immediate ejection of her boyfriend from their apartment. Her cat clock, dog and pet piranha also demand his exit. She attempts to oust him from his Barcalounger, badgers him to start packing, and recounts his various shortcomings. He's lazy, he sleeps around, he called her doorman "Pancho" and her Uncle Bob "a queer." The film includes two rotoscope dance sequences. This Neo-Soundie was sung by Lorraine Feather, who also wrote the lyrics, and animated by George Griffin.
Tags Animated Short
4:30 PM
to 4:33 PM
100 mg
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Peeking with a passive curiosity that lingers a little too long. Then we go in and things begin to change.
Tags Experimental Short
4:30 PM
to 4:52 PM
BigBand
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About BigBand is a journey into contemporary urban world that happens among situations that are theoretically distant in time and space but come together with radical turns of the narrative. In this way a zapping effect that transports the audience from one place to the next and challenges them to create the relationship between the scenes is created, forcing a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes, like the transformation of our environment, the passage of time and urban chaos.
Tags Experimental Short
4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
Cattle Call
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have created images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. This hallucinogenic study of what Werner Herzog has termed 'the poetry of capitalism,' will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.
Tags Documentary Short
4:30 PM
to 4:54 PM
Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About World Premiere! Sarah Jane Lapp's semi-fictional, hand-drawn animation, scored by Mark Dresser and made possible by interviews with eulogists galore, follows a eulogist-in-training and his encounter with the interstitial spaces our communal memories create between mortality and immortality. A decade in the making, a portion of this film exhibited internationally, won a Black Maria Jurors' Choice Award, and, yes, screened both with SXSW 2006 and on SXSWPresents/PBS.
Tags Animated Short
4:30 PM
to 4:41 PM
Dear Texas Highways
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Dear Texas Highways is a cinematic sequence of still photographs that illustrate a darkling letter written to Texas Highways magazine.
The narrated letter is a fractured rumination of a disintegrating consciousness.
The photographic images are an interpretation of the visual climate thatthe narrator navigates over the arc of a single day on the road.
Dear Texas Highways is at once an absurdly cryptic suicide note and an appeal for redemption and mercy.
The narrated letter is a fractured rumination of a disintegrating consciousness.
The photographic images are an interpretation of the visual climate thatthe narrator navigates over the arc of a single day on the road.
Dear Texas Highways is at once an absurdly cryptic suicide note and an appeal for redemption and mercy.
Tags Experimental Short
4:30 PM
to 5:44 PM
Experimental Shorts
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'The Idiot Stinks', directed by Helder Sun. Animation, Angst, Media, Martians and Miscommunication.
'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H. Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.
'Dear Texas Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy ending.
'100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first couple weeks of starting antidepressants.
'Bigband', directed Daniel Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes.
'The Nature Between Us', directed by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style.
'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H. Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.
'Dear Texas Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy ending.
'100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first couple weeks of starting antidepressants.
'Bigband', directed Daniel Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes.
'The Nature Between Us', directed by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style.
'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
Tags Shorts Program
4:30 PM
to 4:31 PM
The Idiot Stinks
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Animation Angst. Media, Martians and Miscommunication.
35 mm scratch on film lasting 1 minutes and 45 seconds, directed by Helder K. Sun with sound by Shinro Ohtake / EYE.
35 mm scratch on film lasting 1 minutes and 45 seconds, directed by Helder K. Sun with sound by Shinro Ohtake / EYE.
Tags Animated Short
4:30 PM
to 4:34 PM
The Nature Between Us
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About An old VHS camera reveals a bonkers back-alley gang, struggling for a sense of identity. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, they stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style. As the two worlds collide, the characters discover The Nature Between Us.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 4:36 PM
Turning Trick
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About In a scene from Truffaut«s Les Mistons from 1957, fiveboys chase each other, then stop abruptly and pretend toshoot at one another. One by one, they fall to the ground. InTurning Trick, we see five girls in a park. At first it looks likethey are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops intosomething quite different.
Tags Narrative Short
7:00 PM
to 8:46 PM
Adventureland
87 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), an uptight recent college grad, can't wait to embark on his dream tour of Europe. But when his parents (Wendie Malick and Jack Gilpin) announce they can no longer subsidize his trip, James has little choice but to take a lowly job at a local amusement park. Forget about German beer, world-famous museums and cute French girls-James' summer will now be populated by belligerent dads, stuffed pandas, and screaming kids high on cotton candy. Lucky for James, what should have been his worst summer ever turns into quite an adventure as he discovers love in the most unlikely place with his captivating co-worker Em (Kristen Stewart), and learns to loosen up.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:30 PM
to 10:55 PM
Four Boxes
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Trevor Grainger, Amber Croft and Rob Rankrus run Go Time Liquidators Ð an ambulance-chasing eBay auction business. In a dead man's destroyed suburban house they start watching a bookmarked surveillance-cam website called fourboxes.tv. If fourboxes.tv isn't just more internet BS, then a crazed creep they call Havoc is building enough bombs to, like, kill everybody.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:00 PM
to 12:30 AM
Brüno Sneak Peek
35 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Come early to guarantee admission.
No badge needed! Free! (A select number of SXSW Badge Holders will have priority access)
Vassup!
No badge needed! Free! (A select number of SXSW Badge Holders will have priority access)
Vassup!
11:59 PM
to 1:35 AM
Pontypool
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Grizzled morning radio legend Grant Mazzy has pissed off a lot of people in the radio business. That's why he finds himself announcing school closures and traffic reports from the basement headquarters of 'The Beacon' in the icy remote hamlet of Pontypool. On his way to work on a particularly frigid Valentine's Day morning, Mazzy is accosted by a dazed and mumbling woman banging at his car window who then suddenly disappears into the blizzard. As the workday continues, Mazzy and his radio station staff slowly discover that this seemingly innocuous occurrence may be linked to bizarre outbreaks of murder and bloody mayhem throughout the town. Veteran character actor Stephen McHattie (Hollis Mason/Nite Owl in the upcoming Watchmen movie) delivers a brilliant performance within the structure of writer Tony Burgess' taut War-of-the-Worlds-inspired script. Pontypool deftly sidesteps genre clichés and conventions, delivers plenty of white-knuckle suspense and enough post-movie-conversation fodder to last you to the end of the festival.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:59 PM
to 1:33 AM
The Horseman
16 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The Horseman is the feature-length debut from 26 year old Australian director Steve Kastrissios. This raw, action-filled revenge drama, which received awards for both Best Australian Film and Best Australian Director at the 2008 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, signals the emergence of a serious new talent. The Horseman tells the story of Christian Forteski (played by veteran Australian actor Peter Marshall) whose drug addicted daughter dies after appearing in an amateur porn video. Christian deals with his grief by burning, kicking, smashing and stabbing his way through the network of pornographers involved in the video. The Horseman is a lean, tight film that boils down the revenge formula to its most essential, time-tested elements: an engaging story, interesting characters, and a powerful dose of skull-pounding violence
Tags Narrative Feature
4:00 PM
to 5:31 PM
Goodbye Solo
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man's American dream is just beginning, while the other's is quickly winding down. But despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit. Through this unlikely but unforgettable friendship, GOODBYE SOLO deftly explores the passing of a generation as well as the rapidly changing face of America.
Winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 'Goodbye Solo' is the latest film from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ('Chop Shop,' 'Man Push Cart'). 'Solo' has been hailed as 'A force of nature!' by Roger Ebert. And The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has 'an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world.'
Winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 'Goodbye Solo' is the latest film from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ('Chop Shop,' 'Man Push Cart'). 'Solo' has been hailed as 'A force of nature!' by Roger Ebert. And The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has 'an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world.'
Tags Narrative Feature
6:30 PM
to 8:00 PM
The Slammin' Salmon
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Former heavyweight boxing champ, Cleon Salmon (MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN), is the celebrity owner of an upscale Miami restaurant. In debt to the Yakuza, the Champ 'inspires' his waitstaff (BROKEN LIZARD) with a one-night-only contest: Top selling waiter gets $10,000; lowest selling waiter gets his face punched in by the Champ himself. It's one funny, frantic night as Broken Lizard (SUPER TROOPERS, BEERFEST) does their best Glengarry Glen Ross in 'THE SLAMMIN' SALMON.'
Tags Narrative Feature
9:00 PM
to 10:29 PM
Office Space
79 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Director Mike Judge will present a special screening of the cult phenomenon film on the occasion of its 10Anniversary.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:59 PM
to 1:23 AM
Lesbian Vampire Killers
60 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Not content to bank on the power of a salacious title, director Phil Claydon's LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS packs as much of a punch as the name implies. Matthew Horne and James Corden, the comedy duo behind the award-winning BBC comedy series GAVIN AND STACEY, are two hapless losers whose idyllic country holiday is shattered by the arrival of an army of thirsty lesbian vampires. James Corden owns the film with a non-stop barrage of rapid-fire tom-foolery and Paul McGann (the 'I' of WITHNAIL AND I) chews every inch of scenery as the vicar with a hearse heavy with undead-slaying devices. With heaping helpings of gratuitous skin, violence and onscreen beer consumption, LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS seems tailor made for a witching hour debut at the Alamo Drafthouse.
Tags Narrative Feature
4:30 PM
to 4:37 PM
Alexander Family Farm
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Kim Alexander lives as close to the city as you can get and still be country. The furthest an egg travels from his farm is 30 miles, a distance unheard of in our global food economy. Though a staple in American diets, the origins of our eggs can be a mystery.
Tags Documentary Short
4:30 PM
to 4:36 PM
Casimiro
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Casimiro is the story of an illegal immigrant living in central Texas. As we follow him throughout his daily routine we realize the difficulties, both physical and emotional he is forced to confront. Casimiro begins his day trying to write an encouraging and positive letter to his family back in his homeland. As the day progresses, we can experience that the American dream Casimiro was after has resulted in a much more difficult journey, one which he has to overcome alone. His solitude and inability to adapt to a strange world ultimately create a distance between Casimiro and his family, one that goes beyond the physical boundaries of countries and cultures.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 4:38 PM
Coffee
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About COFFEE is about Sara, a woman whose relationship has fallen apart. She is waking up on this particular morning to a disheveled house, half packed in boxes. Going about her morning in a daze, Sara allows innocuous little things to affect her. When it's time for a sincere reaction to her surroundings, she simply feels numb. Coffee might help.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
Entre Lineas (Between the Lines)
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "Entre Lineas" is a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
Jack & Holly
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Jack and Holly are a young couple who struggle as hard economic times put pressure on their relationship.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 4:42 PM
Love, Sadie
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life through the intimate exchange of handwritten notes.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 6:06 PM
Texas Shorts
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Jack & Holly', directed by Robbie Bourland. A young husband has lost his job and is reluctant to lean on his wife for emotion and finical support.
'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.
'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.
'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.
'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.
'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.
'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.
'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.
'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.
'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.
'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.
'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.
'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.
'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.
'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.
'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
Tags Shorts Program
4:30 PM
to 4:44 PM
Tough Love
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Tough Love' is ostensibly about boxing. Really, though, it's about boys and men looking for love and affection through time-honored rituals. Instead of teaching violence and aggression, the sport shows young men nurturing and tenderness, as each generation passes along its knowledge and appreciation of the sport to the next.
Tags Documentary Short
4:30 PM
to 4:38 PM
Uprush
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On the brink of adulthood, swimming can seem like the most dangerous thing in the world.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 4:35 PM
Ventilo
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A drama about a young woman's journey through a fantasy world of feather fans and beauty. She soon discovers that life is not an open door. There are many ways to fail and only one way through. Acceptance, rejection, fear, and courage all have their place in Ventilo.
Tags Narrative Short
7:00 PM
to 8:30 PM
The Promised Land
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The Promised Land is a film that takes you to the heart of Louisiana's musical phenomenon - Swamp Pop. Shot in South-west Louisiana we meet this super group of cult and underground heroes and observe their lives, their music, their culture. Tracing founder member CC Adcock's search through the swamps and flatlands of South Louisiana we are drawn into a world of beauty. This backdrop is the canvas for the introduction of the family they call the Lil' Band O' Gold. Watch as the band and their troupe see if it possible to take this soulful train of culture to the next level. Can the Lil' Band O' Gold overcome natural disasters and personal problems to carry their message beyond just another Saturday night? Or maybe Saturday night is all these virtuosos need to fulfill their desires?
Tags Documentary Feature
9:00 PM
to 10:45 PM
Make-Out with Violence
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "MAKE-OUT with VIOLENCE" tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their posh suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy's mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the zombie Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life. As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:59 PM
to 1:29 AM
The Haunting in Connecticut
33 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Though the film quickly cannonballs into severe supernatural infestations that tear a home asunder, this haunting is a mighty step forward from Amityville. Virginia Madsen (Sideways) stars in the true story of a mother who relocates her family near a rural clinic to treat her ailing teenager, unaware that the house they've purchased is a former mortuary packed with countless tortured souls. In the grandest bygone '70s horror style, a troubled exorcist (Elias Koteas) is called in to assist, but his intervention will inevitably drag out something worse than anyone could expect. This is the feature debut from lauded horror shorts director/producer Cornwell, who dazzled Fantastic Fest audiences in 2005 with "Ward 13" and again in 2006 with "The Ancient Rite of Corey McGillis.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Alexandria
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In the distant future, a bottle is found deep inside the rainforests of Southeast Asia. Its contents unlock the secret of what happened to three men in a bookstore at the end of civilization, and their attempt to live on.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Cochran
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Jim Cochran floats through his days dreaming about being somewhere else and reflecting on his past. He hates his job and despises the delivery truck he must drive. In his free time he finds solace in shooting clay pigeons at the local shooting range. In contrast to his delivery truck his shotgun is his favorite thing in the world and he considers it his 'nightly companion'. He also has a slight love affair with performing magic tricks, and practices them alone in his backyard. Jim's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:15 AM
Countertransference
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "Countertransference" is a comedy which looks at the frustration and discontent that can arise during therapy--especially with an unbalanced therapist at the helm. Carla Carthrop is a shy, socially awkward woman with massive self-esteem issues. She works in an antique store and her professional claim to fame is being selected to manage the basement. The core of the film revolves around Carla's attempt to walk away from her dysfunctional therapist. It's an irreverent, psychologically loaded exploration of the therapeutic process.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:02 AM
Hi Mom
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Hi Mom started out as a vague exploration of the filmmaker's view on her family, friends, and feelings, and ended up becoming a story about her mother. The video was shot on various consumer cameras, and includes stills either shot by the artist or stolen from the internet. She roped her family and friends into cooperating with her shoots without telling them what the final product would be. All camera work, sound, and editing was conducted by the artist. She is unaware of if her Mom has seen the piece.
Tags Documentary Short
11:00 AM
to 11:16 AM
HUG
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Drew is a virtuoso musical talent, with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew is off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:09 AM
Isis Avenue
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Isis Avenue intimately documents a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's excavation of the home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA. Shot in a single-camera verite style, the unobtrusive and unanticipated nature of the film's process casts loss, absence and apathy as characters in the aftermath of an unknown woman's death. The pasts of the professionals who specialize in homicides, suicides, decomposition and hoarding cases are as hauntingly present as that of the departed. In an era of reality subjects, Isis Avenue stands in subtle opposition, in process and form, to the inevitable reality series soon to champion the subject of crime-scene cleanup. The entire filmmaking process was performed in 17 hrs 47 min; a conceptual sliver of time in the white light of Angelino anonymity.
Tags Documentary Short
11:00 AM
to 12:21 PM
Reel Shorts 1
17 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Hug', directed by Khary Jones. Drew is a virtuoso musical talent, with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew is off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.
'Hi Mom', Amylee Belotti . An embellished look into the artist's view of her family and friends.
'Cochran', directed by James P. Gannon. Jim's Cochran's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking alone in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
'Alexandria', directed by Eric Elofson. Three men are trapped in a bookstore at the end of the world, and they must decide who or what can be saved before a massive flood drowns them all.
'Isis Avenue', directed by Paul Marchand. An intimate short film documenting a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's early morning excavation of a home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA.
'Winter Lilacs', directed by Stephen Gurewitz. Chet Harvey tries to get a date to impress his aging mother Bernadette.
'That's My Majesty', directed by Emily Carmichael. Princess Moon has arrived in NYC on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is busy architect. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
'Sunday Mornings', directed by Jannicke Laker. A story about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town.
'Countertransference', directed by Madeleine Olnek. An awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy.
'Hi Mom', Amylee Belotti . An embellished look into the artist's view of her family and friends.
'Cochran', directed by James P. Gannon. Jim's Cochran's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking alone in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
'Alexandria', directed by Eric Elofson. Three men are trapped in a bookstore at the end of the world, and they must decide who or what can be saved before a massive flood drowns them all.
'Isis Avenue', directed by Paul Marchand. An intimate short film documenting a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's early morning excavation of a home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA.
'Winter Lilacs', directed by Stephen Gurewitz. Chet Harvey tries to get a date to impress his aging mother Bernadette.
'That's My Majesty', directed by Emily Carmichael. Princess Moon has arrived in NYC on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is busy architect. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
'Sunday Mornings', directed by Jannicke Laker. A story about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town.
'Countertransference', directed by Madeleine Olnek. An awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy.
Tags Shorts Program
11:00 AM
to 11:09 AM
Sunday Mornings
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About SUNDAY MORNINGS is a video about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town. The scene depicts the woman's slow progress from the front door to the bedroom. The video is about an independent person finding herself in a comical, yet simultaneously humiliating situation.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:04 AM
That's My Majesty
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Princess Moon has arrived in New York City on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is a busy architect with little interest in governing a magical realm. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:06 AM
Winter Lilacs
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Chet Harvey lives with his aging mother Bernadette. When faced with moving her to an assisted living home, Chet attempts to make his Ma' proud by getting a date with "a beautiful girl.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 3:10 PM
Animated Shorts
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Milbe '(Mite), directed by Karl Tebbe. A short animation about a grandmother, Oma Grete, and gigantic house dust mites that threaten to destroy the world. 6:00
'Birth', directed by Signe Baumane. A young woman is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
'Rosa Rosa', directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrire. While war is thundering at the gates of the city, Rosa and her lover live serenely together, trying to preserve a fragile normality.
'Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes', directed by Simon Hawkins. What may possibly have happened to Luca Brasi after he was assassinated. 3:00
'Sweet Dreams', directed by Kirsten Lepore. A stalwart cupcake escapes from his native land to discover what lies beyond the sugar skyscrapers and candy-condos. His violent shipwreck on a foreign shore forces him to adapt to a new lifestyle. 10:00
'Photograph of Jesus', directed by Laurie Hill. Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. 4:00
'Solitude Past', directed by My Sandstrom, Ingrid is the loneliest woman in the world. She feels sorry for herself and begrudges others their happiness. When she gets close to another person she can no longer deal with her emotions and is swallowed up by her longing.
'Haunted House', SXSWClick Winner
'Tourist', directed by Matthew K. A tourist fights the crowds as he attempts to snap the perfect picture of New York. In a city full of landmarks, there will always be someone to ruin your shot. 4:00
'Here's the Stapler if You Need It', directed by Lance Myers. It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his manager has given him one very important directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back. 2:00
'Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood', directed by Lara Gallagher. The quiet anxieties of wood. 5:00
'You're Outa Here', directed by George Griffin. A feisty descendant of Betty Boop has finally had enough: she kicks out her clueless boyfriend while delivering a taunting, full-throated indictment, based on the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. 5:00
'Trepan Hole', directed by Andy Cahill. A dance between figures, clay, thought and sexuality.
'Paradoxes and Oxymorons', directed by Kate Raney. An animated version of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." Narrated by DJ Spooky.
'Shaman', directed by Luc Perez. Waiting for the bus on a rainy day in Copenhagen, the old shaman Utaaq sees a rare bird from his past. This makes him reminisce his youth, and a beautiful tale about the forces of nature begins.
'Birth', directed by Signe Baumane. A young woman is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
'Rosa Rosa', directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrire. While war is thundering at the gates of the city, Rosa and her lover live serenely together, trying to preserve a fragile normality.
'Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes', directed by Simon Hawkins. What may possibly have happened to Luca Brasi after he was assassinated. 3:00
'Sweet Dreams', directed by Kirsten Lepore. A stalwart cupcake escapes from his native land to discover what lies beyond the sugar skyscrapers and candy-condos. His violent shipwreck on a foreign shore forces him to adapt to a new lifestyle. 10:00
'Photograph of Jesus', directed by Laurie Hill. Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. 4:00
'Solitude Past', directed by My Sandstrom, Ingrid is the loneliest woman in the world. She feels sorry for herself and begrudges others their happiness. When she gets close to another person she can no longer deal with her emotions and is swallowed up by her longing.
'Haunted House', SXSWClick Winner
'Tourist', directed by Matthew K. A tourist fights the crowds as he attempts to snap the perfect picture of New York. In a city full of landmarks, there will always be someone to ruin your shot. 4:00
'Here's the Stapler if You Need It', directed by Lance Myers. It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his manager has given him one very important directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back. 2:00
'Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood', directed by Lara Gallagher. The quiet anxieties of wood. 5:00
'You're Outa Here', directed by George Griffin. A feisty descendant of Betty Boop has finally had enough: she kicks out her clueless boyfriend while delivering a taunting, full-throated indictment, based on the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. 5:00
'Trepan Hole', directed by Andy Cahill. A dance between figures, clay, thought and sexuality.
'Paradoxes and Oxymorons', directed by Kate Raney. An animated version of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." Narrated by DJ Spooky.
'Shaman', directed by Luc Perez. Waiting for the bus on a rainy day in Copenhagen, the old shaman Utaaq sees a rare bird from his past. This makes him reminisce his youth, and a beautiful tale about the forces of nature begins.
Tags Shorts Program
1:30 PM
to 1:41 PM
Birth
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Amina, a young woman (17) is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advise she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
Haunted House
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The Haunted House is a bastardization of the classic comedy story, told from the perspective of scum-bag puppets and their terrible deaths.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:34 PM
Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Detailed, handcrafted dioramas set the stage for the quiet anxieties and revelations of three faceless wooden characters. Still photographs, slight animation, and an empathetic narrator cast emotions on an otherwise motionless world of meals spent alone, over-priced kitchen gadgets, and insincere apologies.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:36 PM
Milbe
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About MILBE (MITE) is a short animation film about my grandmother, Oma Grete, and gigantic house dust mites that threaten to destroy the world.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:31 PM
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An animated interpretation of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." A meditation on shapes, lines and language.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:36 PM
Photograph Of Jesus
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:38 PM
Rosa Rosa
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite lineups, traffic jams and shortages they manage to live a peaceful life with their little girl. Rosa Rosa is the interweaving of individual and collective fates via a love story told by the couple themselves. It consists partly of reworked photos, the images superimposed on each other to create a stylized realism in which public and private spaces overlap. With its evocative soundtrack and plain, simple narration, this film by director Félix Dufour-Laperrire offers a touching look at happiness in hard times.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
Shaman
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Utaaq, an old Inuit, is at a bus stop in Copenhagen when he spots a bird from his native Greenland above his head Ð a rare visitor to these climes. It reminds him of his youth: As a young hunter, Utaaq discovered that a qivitoq was using a tupilak to kill local hunters. Tupilaks are magical creatures that obey their masters. Utaaq went off into the mountains where he became a shaman, and on his return, he used his powers to destroy the qivitoq. Back to Utaaq at the bus stop, we see a weary old man nostalgically watching the bird É
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
Skip and Lester: Here's the Stapler if You Need It
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his boss has given him only one directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:33 PM
Snake
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Deceptively playful, Snake is a film about stubbornness in the face of change. The film chronicles a failure to deal with time (and teeth) passing while using appealing characters and sounds to glorify the obdurate attempt to replace what is lost.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
1:30 PM
to 1:39 PM
Sweet Dreams
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About This stop-motion animation, made almost entirely with real food, tells the tale of a stalwart cupcake yearning to find something beyond his world of sugar cube skyscrapers and frosting-covered friends. When his makeshift boat crashes on foreign shores, he makes a shocking discovery that changes him forever.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:34 PM
The Godfather Musical: Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "The Godfather Musical Part III: Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes" is the third and final installment of a Godfather-inspired musical. Part III imagines what happened to Luca Brasi after his assassination.
Animation by Richard Ramazinski
Animation by Richard Ramazinski
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:34 PM
Tourist
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A tourist braves the busy city streets as he tries to snap the perfect photo of New York, only to find that the Big Apple seems to be a bit camera shy. In a city full of landmarks, there is always someone there to ruin his shot. Action! Intrigue! Sightseeing! Animated on location in New York City.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:36 PM
Trepan Hole
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Andy Cahill abstractively drew the lines well on surrealistic discourse about a fission and unification, so this animation could be fully said to be 'synthetic'. Stripes wrap not only his clays, but also my whole impression, and the hole remains as a sort of obsession in the brain.
- Shon Kim, Film Programmer
- Shon Kim, Film Programmer
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
You're Outa here
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A feisty descendant of Betty Boop tells her no-good boyfriend to hit the road, her litany of complaints set to the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. "You're Outa Here" starts with stride-master Dick Hyman playing the high-voltage intro to "The Minor Drag." Our animated leading lady strides forth to make her case for the immediate ejection of her boyfriend from their apartment. Her cat clock, dog and pet piranha also demand his exit. She attempts to oust him from his Barcalounger, badgers him to start packing, and recounts his various shortcomings. He's lazy, he sleeps around, he called her doorman "Pancho" and her Uncle Bob "a queer." The film includes two rotoscope dance sequences. This Neo-Soundie was sung by Lorraine Feather, who also wrote the lyrics, and animated by George Griffin.
Tags Animated Short
7:15 PM
to 8:27 PM
The Eyes of Me
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An extraordinary look at 4 blind teens. The parallel stories of 2 freshmen and 2 seniors unfold over the course of one dynamic year at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin. EYES offers a fresh perspective on growing up and fitting in.
Distilled from over 250 hours of footage, this experiential doc captures a textured portrait of its characters. Director Keith Maitland worked closely with the film's subjects to produce sequences of stylized rotoscopic animation to complement the film's observational aesthetic.
Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their thoughts, their perceptions, their inner-visions of the outer world. You cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.
How do you see yourself when you can't see at all?
Distilled from over 250 hours of footage, this experiential doc captures a textured portrait of its characters. Director Keith Maitland worked closely with the film's subjects to produce sequences of stylized rotoscopic animation to complement the film's observational aesthetic.
Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their thoughts, their perceptions, their inner-visions of the outer world. You cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.
How do you see yourself when you can't see at all?
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 11:00 PM
The Slammin' Salmon
25 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Former heavyweight boxing champ, Cleon Salmon (MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN), is the celebrity owner of an upscale Miami restaurant. In debt to the Yakuza, the Champ 'inspires' his waitstaff (BROKEN LIZARD) with a one-night-only contest: Top selling waiter gets $10,000; lowest selling waiter gets his face punched in by the Champ himself. It's one funny, frantic night as Broken Lizard (SUPER TROOPERS, BEERFEST) does their best Glengarry Glen Ross in 'THE SLAMMIN' SALMON.'
Tags Narrative Feature
11:59 PM
to 1:54 AM
Black
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About When his Parisian armored car holdup goes horribly awry, our protagonist 'Black' needs to go on the lam. News from his cousin in Senegal about a stash of uncut diamonds in a poorly guarded bank in Dakar hatches the plan to go on a 'working vacation' that involves a little sightseeing and a lot of mayhem. Genre fans know underground French MC Jean Gab'1 as a villain in District B-13, but with BLACK, he take center stage and delivers a nouveau-blacksploitation adventure awash in, black magic, African mysticism, mutant arms dealers, gargantuan machete-wielding mercenary armies and a truckload of knuckle-sandwiches.
Tags Narrative Feature
12:00 PM
to 1:33 PM
Splinterheads
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About For Justin Frost, a typical day is rolling out of bed at one, practicing improvised karate, and mowing grass for his best friend's landscaping business. But when a traveling carnival lands in his small town, Justin falls for a sexy con-artist and wakes up to the life he has yet to begin living
Tags Narrative Feature
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
a'mare
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About ANDREA and FELICE are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water. Will their friendship survive the turbulent events that follow?
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:43 PM
Autopilot
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A bicycle propels forward with no rider and adolescent boys make internet videos. At home Mark's family drifts in isolation, escaping the lazy afternoon, when reality circles back.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:38 PM
Before the Sea
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
Tags Documentary Short
2:30 PM
to 2:35 PM
Happy 95 Birthday Grandpa
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Illumination comes to a young boy at his grandfather's 95th birthday.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Ida y Vuelta (Round Trip)
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:40 PM
John Wayne Hated Horses
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On a hot summer day, a father and his young son struggle with their differing ideas about masculinity, boredom, and the proper way to play with army toys.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:37 PM
Little Pumpkin
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In the midst of his parents' divorce, a 5 year-old boy seeks out friendship with a gift his father left behind for him. The fact that the new found friend is a large pumpkin seems harmless at first, but Stephanie finds herself facing her own emotions, as her son grows more and more attached to the pumpkin in the absence of his father.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:40 PM
Peter and Ben
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About As a young man, Peter visited the rolling lush green hills of a remote and hidden valley in Wales and chose to stay there permanently. Self-sufficient and alone, Peter was content. Then he met Ben. Peter found Ben, an orphaned newborn lamb, abandoned in a ditch. Now Ben has matured into a full-grown wooly sheep with ambitions to move into Peter's house with him. Peter, however, has other ideas. Peter and Ben is a touching and quirky story of how two "black-sheep" form an unusual and enduring bond.
Tags Documentary Short
2:30 PM
to 4:17 PM
Reel Shorts 2
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'John Wayne Hated Horses', directed by Andrew Betzer. A father and his young son share a house, a yard, and very different ideas about masculinity and appropriate uses of army toys.
'Autopilot', directed by J.B. Herndon. Adolescent boys ghostride bicycles. Inertia pulls a father and son toward an eerie kinship. And time is a circle.
'Before the Sea', directed by Charlene Music. A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
'A'Mare', directed by Martina Amati. Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.
'Peter and Ben', directed by Pinny Grylls. A man moves away from civilization and strikes up a relationship with the sheep.
'Tess and Nana', directed by M. Stewart Thorndike. Thirteen-year-old Tess wants to get out of sick grandmother's dark house.
'Round Trip', directed by David Martin-Porras. The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
'Sister Wife', directed by Jill Orschel. In a time when the practices of Mormon fundamentalism offer sensational fodder for the evening news, but little honesty, Sister Wife offers a rare and unflinching glimpse into a cloistered lifestyle.
'Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa', directed by Gary Huggins. A fleeting memory in five minutes.
VisitDirector: Gray MillerNYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
'Autopilot', directed by J.B. Herndon. Adolescent boys ghostride bicycles. Inertia pulls a father and son toward an eerie kinship. And time is a circle.
'Before the Sea', directed by Charlene Music. A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
'A'Mare', directed by Martina Amati. Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.
'Peter and Ben', directed by Pinny Grylls. A man moves away from civilization and strikes up a relationship with the sheep.
'Tess and Nana', directed by M. Stewart Thorndike. Thirteen-year-old Tess wants to get out of sick grandmother's dark house.
'Round Trip', directed by David Martin-Porras. The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
'Sister Wife', directed by Jill Orschel. In a time when the practices of Mormon fundamentalism offer sensational fodder for the evening news, but little honesty, Sister Wife offers a rare and unflinching glimpse into a cloistered lifestyle.
'Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa', directed by Gary Huggins. A fleeting memory in five minutes.
VisitDirector: Gray MillerNYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
Tags Shorts Program
2:30 PM
to 2:40 PM
Sister Wife
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About DoriAnn is a Mormon Fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger biological sister. During a private bathing ritual, DoriAnn explores the surprisingly universal challenges of her marriage and reveals an unexpected explanation for why she chooses polygamy.
Tags Documentary Short
2:30 PM
to 2:40 PM
Tess and Nana
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Tess gets out of her grandmother's house for the day.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:37 PM
Visit
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About NYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
Tags Narrative Short
5:00 PM
to 5:03 PM
100 mg
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Peeking with a passive curiosity that lingers a little too long. Then we go in and things begin to change.
Tags Experimental Short
5:00 PM
to 5:22 PM
BigBand
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About BigBand is a journey into contemporary urban world that happens among situations that are theoretically distant in time and space but come together with radical turns of the narrative. In this way a zapping effect that transports the audience from one place to the next and challenges them to create the relationship between the scenes is created, forcing a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes, like the transformation of our environment, the passage of time and urban chaos.
Tags Experimental Short
5:00 PM
to 6:30 PM
Cattle Call
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have created images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. This hallucinogenic study of what Werner Herzog has termed 'the poetry of capitalism,' will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.
Tags Documentary Short
5:00 PM
to 5:24 PM
Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About World Premiere! Sarah Jane Lapp's semi-fictional, hand-drawn animation, scored by Mark Dresser and made possible by interviews with eulogists galore, follows a eulogist-in-training and his encounter with the interstitial spaces our communal memories create between mortality and immortality. A decade in the making, a portion of this film exhibited internationally, won a Black Maria Jurors' Choice Award, and, yes, screened both with SXSW 2006 and on SXSWPresents/PBS.
Tags Animated Short
5:00 PM
to 5:11 PM
Dear Texas Highways
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Dear Texas Highways is a cinematic sequence of still photographs that illustrate a darkling letter written to Texas Highways magazine.
The narrated letter is a fractured rumination of a disintegrating consciousness.
The photographic images are an interpretation of the visual climate thatthe narrator navigates over the arc of a single day on the road.
Dear Texas Highways is at once an absurdly cryptic suicide note and an appeal for redemption and mercy.
The narrated letter is a fractured rumination of a disintegrating consciousness.
The photographic images are an interpretation of the visual climate thatthe narrator navigates over the arc of a single day on the road.
Dear Texas Highways is at once an absurdly cryptic suicide note and an appeal for redemption and mercy.
Tags Experimental Short
5:00 PM
to 6:14 PM
Experimental Shorts
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'The Idiot Stinks', directed by Helder Sun. Animation, Angst, Media, Martians and Miscommunication.
'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H. Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.
'Dear Texas Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy ending.
'100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first couple weeks of starting antidepressants.
'Bigband', directed Daniel Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes.
'The Nature Between Us', directed by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style.
'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H. Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.
'Dear Texas Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy ending.
'100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first couple weeks of starting antidepressants.
'Bigband', directed Daniel Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes.
'The Nature Between Us', directed by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style.
'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
Tags Shorts Program
5:00 PM
to 5:01 PM
The Idiot Stinks
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Animation Angst. Media, Martians and Miscommunication.
35 mm scratch on film lasting 1 minutes and 45 seconds, directed by Helder K. Sun with sound by Shinro Ohtake / EYE.
35 mm scratch on film lasting 1 minutes and 45 seconds, directed by Helder K. Sun with sound by Shinro Ohtake / EYE.
Tags Animated Short
5:00 PM
to 5:04 PM
The Nature Between Us
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An old VHS camera reveals a bonkers back-alley gang, struggling for a sense of identity. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, they stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style. As the two worlds collide, the characters discover The Nature Between Us.
Tags Narrative Short
5:00 PM
to 5:06 PM
Turning Trick
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In a scene from Truffaut«s Les Mistons from 1957, fiveboys chase each other, then stop abruptly and pretend toshoot at one another. One by one, they fall to the ground. InTurning Trick, we see five girls in a park. At first it looks likethey are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops intosomething quite different.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:45 PM
A. Effect
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Two actors struggle to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese. A. Effect is loosely scripted and highly improvised as the actors adlibbed the majority of their dialogue and contributed ideas to their characters throughout the process of production. The characters were based on who the actors were in real life so they were essentially playing themselves and adding to the realism to blur the lines of narrative filmmaking.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM
Non-Love-Song
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 8:53 PM
Reel Shorts 3
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Thompson', directed by Jason Tippet. Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things that go fast. But as their last days of high school speed by, the two friends find that their go-carts, dirt bikes, and RC cars can't outrun adulthood.
'The Better Half', directed by Rebecca Rodriguez. A disconnected man keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his room in NYC. Encounters with three women gradually reveal the origin and importance of the legs and ultimately raise the question, can you ever get all of someone?
'Unlimited', directed by Andrew Luis. A travelogue that follows Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, as he cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
'Thick as Thieves', directed by Chris Demarais. When a successful businessman encounters an eccentric mugger in an alley, he decides that maybe banking isn't really his forte.
'Non-Love Song', directed by Erik Gernand. On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
'Wing It', directed by Julio Quintana. When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
'The Golden Pose', directed by Lance Alton Troxel. A street performer grapples with artistic perfection...and mimes.
'A. Effect' directed by Mike Ott. Two aspiring actors do their best to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese.
'The Better Half', directed by Rebecca Rodriguez. A disconnected man keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his room in NYC. Encounters with three women gradually reveal the origin and importance of the legs and ultimately raise the question, can you ever get all of someone?
'Unlimited', directed by Andrew Luis. A travelogue that follows Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, as he cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
'Thick as Thieves', directed by Chris Demarais. When a successful businessman encounters an eccentric mugger in an alley, he decides that maybe banking isn't really his forte.
'Non-Love Song', directed by Erik Gernand. On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
'Wing It', directed by Julio Quintana. When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
'The Golden Pose', directed by Lance Alton Troxel. A street performer grapples with artistic perfection...and mimes.
'A. Effect' directed by Mike Ott. Two aspiring actors do their best to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese.
Tags Shorts Program
7:30 PM
to 7:45 PM
The Better Half
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Gordon keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his bedroom. Encounters with three women gradually reveal his fixation and ultimately ask the question: Can you ever have all of someone?
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM
The Golden Pose
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A street performer grapples with artistic perfection ... and mimes.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM
Thick as Thieves
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About While walking through an alley on his way home from his job as a bank teller, Marshall Jones is jumped by Emmanuel, a scraggly yet intimidating hoodlum. However, once Emmanuel notices an odd commonality, the two become unexpected partners in crime. Sort of.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:40 PM
Thompson
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things that go fast. But as their last days of high school speed by, the two friends find that their go-carts, dirt bikes, and RC cars can't outrun adulthood.
The story follows two best friends through a rough patch in their relationship. Matt is working hard to become a professional fisherman and finish his senior year of high school. Ryan was recently expelled from Hart High for calling in a bomb threat. As the year winds down, Ryan is running out of options while his best friend Matt is moving on in a different direction.
The story follows two best friends through a rough patch in their relationship. Matt is working hard to become a professional fisherman and finish his senior year of high school. Ryan was recently expelled from Hart High for calling in a bomb threat. As the year winds down, Ryan is running out of options while his best friend Matt is moving on in a different direction.
Tags Documentary Short
7:30 PM
to 7:40 PM
Unlimited
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An impressionistic evocation of nighttime New York, Unlimited explores the hidden backrooms and marginal neighborhoods of the city as Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:37 PM
Wing It
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
Tags Narrative Short
10:00 PM
to 11:31 PM
ExTerminators
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
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