Co-curated with local filmmaker Alison Crouse
Saturday November 14, 7pm
Woman in a Bathtub (David Miranda Hardy and Katya Gorker, US 2008. 16mm, b&w) A reflection on the nature of work in a post-apocalyptic world. This visually rich short was shot by Temple University MFA students in a local Fishtown loft apartment.
Insomnia (Vladimir Leschiov, Latvia 2004. animation) She comes at night quiet as a cat to take his sleep away until he feeds her. All she needs is milk brought by him from somewhere between sleep and reality. Her name is Insomnia.
Odilon Redon (Guy Maddin, Canada 1995. b&w) An adaptation of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe by acclaimed experimental filmmaker, a “super 8 cranking modern-day Eisenstein, filming plots that would make John Waters blush.”
Hydro-Lévesque (Matthew Rankin, Canada 2008. 16mm and Super 8, b&w and color, French & English) November 1976. As Quebec strides boldly toward independence, a supernatural vision of tragedy inspires a deaf-mute Quebecoise Catholic nun to save the city of Winnepeg from committing mass suicide. This film was created by manipulating film emulsion with bleach, spray paint, a hole puncher, burning cigarettes and human urine. Yep.
Wor (David Armstrong, Canada 2008. animation) Classic design imagery and the grotesquery of sideshow horrors become the main attractions of this eloquent tale from animator David Armstrong. In the troubled time of another land, can “Wor” be averted?
Fishes Never Sleep(Gaëlle Denis, UK 2006. animation) Insomniac Naoko, who works at a sushi bar, contemplates the question: do fishes ever sleep?
M-Craft Dragonfly (Simon Burrill, UK 2006) After falling into a deep sleep, our hero is ’stolen’ and whisked through a magical night-time countryside on the back of a truck. Set to M.Craft’s “Dragonfly.”
Lost in Snow (Vladimir Leschiov, Latvia 2007. animation) In winter some people go ice fishing. Excitement intensified by freezing temperatures and strong drinks lead to unpredictable consequences.
Mosaic (Ian Markiewicz, US 2008. HD) As a reclusive aging artist confronts the limitations of a waning life, the tenuous line between the perception of loss and the loss of perception obscures his effort to revive past connections. .\
