Archives > 2006 > Shorts
- Neo Noir in Color
- Shop Locally
- Endangered Species
- The Familial Line
- Jackson Pollack Was an Alcoholic (But He's Alright By Me)
- Shorts International
- Two Ends of a Continuum
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Saturday 9:00 pm - Peninsula Lifestyle Magazine Pope Marine Theatre
The somber American films of the 1940s and 1950s that the French later
called film noir were born out of cinema's original black and white
images. The dark shadows, blinding whites bracketing and infinite
shades of gray were created by the silver nitrate processing chemical.
The resulting brooding light was the perfect setting for the cynical
and pessimistic stories of the post-war period. Though long past its
heyday, film noir has never entirely disappeared as a movie genre. Here
are five new film noir shorts, but these are in color.
1. Murder at Chat Noir
The goal of the
private detective is to find the truth, but sometimes the truth hurts.
When the tables are turned in a classic film noir setting, will Private
Eye Lola Bumgard be foiled by the ominous homme fatale? USA, 2005, 13 min.
Director: Melody Rock; Producer: Melody Rock; Screenwriter: Melody Rock; Cinematographer: Sean Stiegemeier; Cast: Chantal Hediger, Daniel Lennox, Douglas Howington, Meredith Thomas, Michael DeVorzon, Nicole Barre; Print Source: Rolling Eyes Productions, melowyelow21@hotmail.com
Rosko's world has become a disjointed collection of random moments. He finds himself snapping in and out of consciousness at the wheel of his courier van, but even his dreams repeat scenes of his ordinary life. Australia, 2004, 11 min.
Director: Andrew Milner; Producer: Liz Fay; Screenwriter: Phil Jeng Kane; Cinematographer: Peter Finkle; Cast: Kim Lane, Renee McIntosh, Simon Scott; Print Source: Spitfire Films, liz23@wasp.net.au
3. Darkroom
Alice has settled for teaching since she couldn't make a living as a freelance photographer. The mysterious murder of her niece exposes that Alice is not really living life to the fullest. Nick helps Alice reclaim her passion for life until a dangerous clue to her niece's murder comes to light. A bittersweet journey about love, loss, and how to live in the moment. Canada, 2005, 16 min.
Director: Stacy Fish; Producers: Rajvinder Uppal, Stacy Fish, Tracy Long; Screenwriter: Stacy Fish; Cinematographer: Sean Rooney; Cast: Charisse Baker, Chelah Horsdal, Melanie Papalia, Shawn Bachynski, Woody Jeffreys; Print Source: sfish@shaw.ca
4. John Doe and the Anti
A theory about
predestination and a knack for finding trouble lead to a missing pinky,
a bloody nose and a dead body. So it's either chance or fate when John
Doe and his pal Anti end up in the middle of Nowhere, Arizona—twice. USA, 2005, 19 min.
Director: Jeremy Rush; Producer: Jeremy Rush; Screenwriter: Jeremy Rush; Cinematographer: Arunmani Palani; Cast: Einat Tubi, Hector Bustamante, Seth Ayott, Silverio Avellino, Steve Howard; Print Source: jrushbear@aol.com
5. Across the Hall
A quiet night takes a dangerous turn when Julian receives a frantic
phone call from his best friend, Terry, who claims to have followed his
unfaithful fiancée to a seedy hotel. To make matters worse, Terry has
staked out her room across the hall with gun in hand. Julian pleads
with Terry to stay put while he rushes to avert disaster. But is Terry
truly as desperate as he seems? USA, 2005, 25 min.
Director: Alex Merkin; Producers: Evan Ferrante, Gary Gimelfarb, John Kilik, Mike Wiese; Screenwriter: Jesse Mittelstadt; Cinematographer: Andrew Carranza; Cast: Adrian Grenier, James Oliver, Jamie Benge, Natalie Smyuka; Print Source: Fivelion Productions, ggimel@aol.com
SPONSORS: Hollys Fine Flowers, Maestrale and Bread & Roses
- Sunday 9:30 am - Peninsula Lifestyle Magazine Pope Marine Park Building
Several filmmakers will be in attendance.
Films are made in every corner of the world; no more so than on the
Olympic Peninsula. We offer here six works by local filmmakers and/or
about local residents. Some are works in progress; others are completed
films.
1. My Goats Like to Travel PT's
Nathaniel Woodbury's animated view of the politics of oil. 17 min.
2. Star Wars: Revenge of the Bulletin
Members of Mark Welch's video class at PTHS confront the Jedi. Directed by Theo Prins and Cameron Spray. 7 min.
3. Show and Tell
Former PT resident Ben Jaynes takes a personal look at the daily lives
of a commercial painter, a truck driver, and a commercial fisherman. 18 min.
4. Eulogy
PT-based Canadian filmmaker, Denise Kenney, helms a poetic and surreal
story of a boy's downfall into manhood. Photography by Ian Hinkle. 13 min.
5. **Film removed by request**
14 min.
6. The Boondoggle Event
To celebrate his wife Willene's birthday before his death of Lou
Gehrig's disease, PT sculptor Russell Jaqua assembled iron-forging
friends from all over the US to forge and construct a large sculpture
that he designed as his legacy to her. Director Jane Champion. A work
in progress. 16 min.
SPONSORS: Henery's Hardware and Apple Computer
Total running time: 85 min.
- Saturday 9:30 am - Peninsula Lifestyle Magazine Pope Marine Theatre
Not only plants and animals face extinction in our ever-changing world. So too do certain human endeavors. Before scoffing at the three shorts presented here, remember the horse and buggy, the typewriter, the steam locomotive.
An unflinching, thought provoking documentary that profiles, explores, and reveals the lives of real buckaroos, this film questions whether traditional cowboy life can survive in the 21st century. From their home on the range, cowboys speak for themselves and reveal their love of the land, disdain for rules, and their surprising and sometimes contradictory views on society. USA, 2005, 50 min.
Director: Kendall Nelson; Producers: Kendall Nelson, Curt Nelson, John Plummer; Cinematographer: John Plummer; Print Source: Cinema-Story Entertainment, knelson@cowboybook.com
Just off Lummi Island near Bellingham, there exists a dwindling group of commercial fishermen that honors traditional fishing methods and respect for the environment. They are reefnet fisherman and this is their story. USA, 2004, 12 min.
Director: Sketch Pasinski; Producer: Sketch Pasinski; Cinematographer: Sketch Pasinski; Print Source: sketchp@hotmail.com
Exploring the strength and courage of Inupiat people struggling to preserve their subsistence whaling culture in the Arctic region of Alaska, this film shows how they are challenged by hostile weather, intricate international politics, the potential opening of ANWR, and aggressive off-shore oil exploration. The Inupiat whalers remain as resolute as their icebound ocean. USA, 2005, 56 min.
Director: Jenn Hofman; Producer: Jenn Hofman; Screenwriter: Maria Williams; Cinematographer: John Chester; Print Source: Nomad Films, nomadfilms@excite.com
Total running time: 118 min.
SPONSORS: Phoenix Rising, Sport Townsend and PT Sails THE FAMILIAL LINE
Every family develops a rhythm, a line that is alternately taut and slack, melodious and cacophonic, easy and difficult— rhythms by which we measure ourselves and others.
- Saturday 12 Noon - Peninsula Lifestyle Magazine Pope Marine Theatre
A basic act of nurturing is depicted in this film of mothers and children developing their own rhythms and styles of communication. USA, 2006, 10 min. Director: Kris Williams
2. Give Me Ducky
Competition and possessiveness emerge quickly between siblings in this brief sequence between a brother and sister. USA, 2006, 2 min. Director: Hans Stiritz
3. Ice Cream
A 6-year-old girl who always obeys her austere mother can't resist something that could get her into a lot of trouble. USA, 2006, 6 min. Director: Alexandra Fisher
4. Catnap
A Super 8 meditation on where do cats go when they dream? Catnap shows the secret world of feline fantasy. Canada/ USA, 2004, 2 min. Director: Doris Bartha
5. En Nu Ik (My Turn)
In this award winning Netherlands documentary, a younger brother settles the score with his domineering elder brother who knows how to do everything better even when it comes to making films. Netherlands, 2005, 30 min. Director: Wout Conijn
6. Tears In The Rain
After a pair of conjoined twins are separated, one recovers while the other remains in a coma. Closer than any two people could ever be, they have never looked at one another in the eyes. This film is about being alone for the first time. USA, 2005, 17 min. Director: David Estrada
7. Marriage and Beyond
One couple's struggle to determine whether or not to stay together. Their deeply connected relationship stirs all the emotions with a simple look or comment. USA, 2006, 11 min. Director: Scott Cervine
8. Stars
A young woman descends into illness and, ultimately, death as her perceptions shift away from her relationship with her supportive but helpless husband. Animated. Ireland, 2005, 11 min. Director: Eoghan Kidney
9. War Hero
When a Vietnam War veteran asks his estranged son to paint his portrait, it becomes clear how much the war has impacted his life and family. Australia, 2006, 13 min. Director: Alison Heather
10. Going Home
Three stuffed animals take a momentous journey to the mother.USA, 2006, 4 min. Director: Diana Rumjahn
SPONSORS: BaDd Habit, Mimi's Sun Spa and the Lovely Jessica Pavish and Dashing James Arrabito
Total Running Time: 106 min.
JACKSON POLLOCK WAS AN ALCOHOLIC
(But He's Alright By Me)*
Six shorts using unusual approaches to film to tell their stories.
- Saturday 3:00 pm - Peninsula Lifestyle Magazine Pope Marine Theatre
1. Four Minutes
Four separate pieces, each dealing with a different level of fantasy
that involve a corn crib, a newly hatched cicada, a hatch to another
world, and two dancers who course through a world of light and shadow. USA, 2006, 4 min. Director: Seth Camillo
2. Bump Tick Scratch
Introduce razor blades and scissors to old vinyl records and you get Bump Tick Scratch. USA, 2005, 2 min. Directors: Micah Perta, Rob Grobengieser
Isabella Rossellini celebrates the centenary of her father, Italian film director Roberto Rossellini's birth with this eccentric fantasy in which she plays every character including David O. Selznick, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, and her actress mother, Ingrid Bergman. Her father, however, is represented by a giant belly which she loved to hug as a child. Canada, 2005, 16 min. Director: Guy Madden (Rossellini's husband)
4. Lei Lui (She He)
Two dreams, his and hers, each person chasing love in their own way and imagining it as they wish. Italy, 2005, 9 min. Director: Massimo Amici
A poem, a dance, a speeding motorcycle compose this cinematic haiku in three movements that tells a simple love story. USA, 2005, 12 min. Director: Noel Paul
As presented in this delightful film, attention deficit disorder (ADD) is not so much a disability as it is an evolutionary trade-off that encourages creative, rule-breaking thought necessary for human progress. Using his own life in self-deprecating, humorous examples, the director forms a stream of consciousness and multi-layered narrative that emulates the day-to-day ADD experience. USA, 2005, 28 min. Director: Scott Ligon
Total Running Time: 71 min.
SPONSORS: The Buzz, Skookum, The Clothes Horse and Wildernest
* Title of the closing song in Escape Velocity, by Scott Ligon.
SHORTS INTERNATIONAL
- Sunday 12:05 pm - Alpha Cine Forde Rosebud Cinema
Based in London, SHORTS INTERNATIONAL is the world's leading short
film brand with a catalogue of over 3,000 titles. It is the largest
distributor of the highest quality titles to leading broadcasters
including HBO, Canal+ and Sundance and has focused in recent years on
fast-changing technologies and their impact on the delivery of short
form content. The model that the SHORTS INTERNATIONAL team has created
has revived the life of many short films and forwarded the careers of
countless emerging artists.
Most recently, SHORTS INTERNATIONAL has teamed up with iTunes® Music Store (www.itunes.com),
as the unique vendor of independent short films. They provide new films
for sale and download each month to consumers of short films.
With a focus on fast-changing technologies
and their impact on the delivery of short films, SHORTS INTERNATIONAL
has also created new and exciting outlets specifically for short films,
including SHORTSTV™, a short film channel currently available across 3G
mobile phone networks, SHORTSTV CORTO™, a specifically programmed
Spanish language version of the channel.
Carter Pilcher, CEO of Shorts
International, will present a program of shorts that typify the type of
films being made for digital online presentation.
Total running time: 90 min.
SPONSOR: MarinerBank
These two films cover the troubled life of a 14-year-old and the creative pursuits of six women in their 80s and 90s.
- Saturday 6:05 pm - Alpha Cine Forde Rosebud Cinema
1. Emma
with Director Valerie Krex
A coming of age portrait that follows 14-yearold Emma Carney through
her turbulent first year of high school in Missoula, Montana. Largely
shot in the first person, Emma
begins to document her experiences following her release from an
adolescent mental health unit. Struggling to stay afloat in the public
school system, Emma candidly details the obstacles surrounding her adolescence as well as her methods of escape. USA, 2005, 60 min.
Director: Valerie Krex; Producer: Valerie Krex; Cinematographers: Emma Carney, Valerie Krex; Print Source: CanalHouse Poductions, Valerie@kres.com
with Director Greg Young
Two Bay Area women travel throughout the region in search of female role models— very old women, still active artists, living with zest. Whatever their degree of talent, each embraces a daily routine in which her special art form is an essential part. Each is spirited and resilient—interpreting for herself a life worth living to the end. Still Kicking honors the gift of age and poignantly illustrates that growing old can be a time of creative expression and satisfaction. USA, 2006, 31 min.
Director: Greg Young; Producer: Greg Young; Cinematographer: Greg Young; Print Source: Golden Bear Casting, greg_young@mac.com
Total running time: 91 min.
SPONSORS: Hanazono Asian Noodle, The Perfect Season and the Imprint Bookstore