SHORT DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM
SUN 10/5 // Doors Open 1:30pm // Program Starts @ 2:00pm
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 91min
(Tickets give you free access to opening night party @ Lot45 sponsored by Hotel BPM *** MUST RSVP)
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Welcome Home, Fayetteville Observer // Amanda Berg // USA // RT 13min
Welcome Home, Fayetteville Observer is an experiment in observation. It is a document of a place. It's the diary of a confused photojournalist.
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The Green Serpent // Benny Jaberg // Russia // RT 20min
The Green Serpent takes us to a journey into the depths of intoxication: drinking vodka as a transcendental experience. Bitten by the green snake, people enter into a twilight zone where the beauty of life becomes indistinguishable from a dark, devastating void and inspiration and destruction can equally form. During this cinematic anti-postcard trip through the Russian winterland we meet the actor Aleksandr Bashirov, the poet Mstislav Biserov and physicist Nikolai Budnev who speak about their relationship and experience with vodka; the inner struggles and liberations it might awake. This brusque Cinepoem explores the potential of vodka to extend the world beyond religion and materialism. The Green Serpent is an artistic meditation about drinking, an ode to passion not only for inebriated barflies, but for everyone driven by a sense of wonder and a desire for ecstasy in life.
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A Life with Asperger's // Jaime Ekkens // USA // RT 4min
A Life with Asperger’s is an animated documentary that explores the challenges of growing up and living with Asperger’s Syndrome. It is a voice over narrative that demonstrates that Asperger’s is not simply “being a little awkward”, rather it is about adapting to one’s limitations in the face of anxiety and isolation. The technique is a collage of photography, rotoscope, animated characters and live action footage.
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Graceland // Christian Hödl // Germany // RT 11min
In her small flat in Munich, Angelica lives an Elvis Presley-centered life, far away from the world which she perceives as loud and bad sometimes. She spends from 600 to 700 Euros a month for Elvis fan stuff, but she only needs 20 Euros a week for food. Angelica lives in a very special way and at the same time she is very self-reflected. The film is the portrait of a middle-aged woman, who wants to live as she wants to: with Elvis Presley.
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Rainy Season // Joan Widdifield // USA // RT 21min
An intimate story about a family's unexpected change of fate, set in the larger context of post-war Vietnam. A rubber tree farming family comes to grips with their changed lives after their youngest son finds a leftover American mortar. With unprecedented access in rural Vietnam -- shot over five years under the radar of the Vietnamese government -- RAINY SEASON captures the land's sumptuous beauty and reveals the sorrows that it harbors.
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OPEN CITY MIXTAPE presents Indigo's Smile and Trey Interlude // A.V. Rockwell // USA // RT 5min
Curated in the form of a mixtape, Open City is a collection of short films about New York's inner city. Written, filmed, and directed by A.V. Rockwell, this ode to the cultural capital touches on a few of the eight million stories that give it life. http://opencitymixtape.com/
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Toñita's // Beyza Boyacioglu & Sebastian Diaz // USA// RT 21min
Taking place in Williamsburg Brooklyn, the famed hipster mecca of the world, Toñita's tells the story of the other side of the coin. The short documentary dives into the microcosm of the last Puerto Rican social club in the neighborhood, which keeps a dissolving urban culture that once coined the term 'Nuyorican'. Devoted to sustain the club "until she falls", the owner and the community matriarch Maria Toñita resists to be devoured by the 'growth machine'.