This program highlights work that explores the limits of traditional aesthetics and the narrative structures of filmmaking.
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Tim Rutili; Writer: Tim Rutili; Stars: Angela Bettis, Jim Becker, Emily Candini, Reid Coker, Kevin Ford, Karol Kent, Ben Massarella, George McAuliffe, Michael McGinley, Sierra Magdalena Mitchell, Taylor Patterson, Roseann Rutili, Tim Rutili, Alan Scalpone, Suzanne Sole)
A fortune teller lives and works in and old house crowded with ghosts. When a mysterious light appears in the woods, the ghosts realise they are trapped and begin to rebel.
Double Take
(Country: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands; Year: 2009; Director: Johan Grimonprez; Stars: Ron Burrage, Mark Perry),
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As Cold War tensions rise and the world teeters on the brink of destruction, Alfred Hitchcock meets his double.
Memories Of Overdevelopment (Memorias del desarrollo)
(Country: Cuba, US; Year: 2010; Director: Miguel Coyula; Writer: Miguel Coyula, based on the novel by Edmundo Desnoes; Stars: Fidel Castro, Eileen Alana, Miguel Coyula, Trent Harris, David W. Leitner, Milan Coyula, Jeff Pucillo, Jorge Molina, Paul De Sousa, Nana Masuda, Susana Pérez, Marta Reiman, Claudia Barrientos, Mariko Minegishi, Adam Plotch)
Live action mixes with animation and newsreel footage of historical events to form a collage that emulates the way personal memory works for a misanthropic Cuban intellectual.
ODDSAC
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Danny Perez)
An earthy, psychedelic experimental narrative infused with the band, Animal Collective’s aural and musical sensibilities.
Pepperminta
(Country: Switzerland, Austria; Year: 2009; Director: Pipilotti Rist; Writer: Chris Niemeyer, Pipilotti Rist; Stars: Ewelina Guzik, Sven Pippig, Sabine Timoteo, Elisabeth Orth, Oliver Akwe, Hanspeter Bader, Blondy, Pola Claricini, Silvia Fenz, Silke Geertz, Marisa Growaldt, Gebrüder Hnelozub, Marianne Iseli, Hubert Kuempfel, Noemi Leonhardt)
A magical and visually stunning contemporary fantasy about a young woman with an anarchist imagination. Together with Pepperminta’s best friends, colors and strawberries, she sets out to fight for a more humane world.
Utopia In Four Movements
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Sam Green)
In this “live documentary” Sam Green’s live narration blends with Dave Cerf’s soundtrack to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the 21st century.
