The Animal in Me:
Films Featuring Characters from the Rest of the Animal Kingdom
(67 minutes)
Saturday May 2nd, 7pm
Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave
(accessible by public transit–R8 and #23 bus)
$5
Here You are When You Were (Jesse Moore) Unique combination of original ambient music and hand painted film frames rendering a dream like experience.
Five County Fair (David Ellsworth) Super 8 impressions of residents who travel to the town of Farmville, VA to attend a county fair.
God’s Critters (Bruce James) Dogs howl, cats meow and Pastor Maggie Ainslie advises at Atonement Lutheran Church in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia.
by any other name (Rini Yun Keagy) Through found footage re-enacting Spanish colonialism and with imagery of sloths held captive in a zoo, by any other name quietly interrogates the historical trajectory of the act of naming and meaning. Indigenous to South America but named by western imperialism, sloth the animal is subtly compared to the native peoples of the same continent. Would these slow-moving, peaceful herbivores and subjugated peoples everywhere throughout time, by any other name, be anything other than animal or human?
Six and a Half (Lily Amirpour) A little girl comes face to face with power and weakness when she tries to catch a frog in a pond.
Eaten (Anne Haydock) A game of dress-up: windows and wallpaper, hawks and moths, olive loaf and tinfoil.
Wittle Bitty (Louis Waters) Desire, cleanliness and cats. A young, domestic man’s growing obsession with the ever elusive domestic cat.
Wustenspringmaus (Jim Finn) The little known history of our dear friend, the gerbil.
God of Tears (Max Margulies and Naoko Masuda) Blue Boy, a 200 year old child-god has a problem: he has no friends.
