Bearded Child Film Festival
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Myles Reif Performing Arts Center
Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Screening Schedule
Friday and Saturday, August 18 and 19, 2004
Schedule of Events:
- 7:30pm - International Short Films, vol.1
- 9:00pm - International Short Films, vol. 2
- 10:30pm - Local Music- "Obstacle Corpse"
- 6:00pm - Feature Film- "Starting Tomorrow"
- 7:30pm - Minnesota-made short films
- 9:00pm - International Short Films, vol.3
- 10:30pm - Local Music- "Oedipus Effect"
Friday, Aug. 18 
7:30pm:
1.
Found
(10 minutes)
Experimental by Sherri Larson, Lawrenceville, GA
- Viewing anonymous home movies causes the filmmaker to wonder about the connotation of these orphaned documents, while conjuring memories of her childhood self on the other side of the lens.
Contact: 
, www.found-film.com
2.
Fountain of Youth
(13 minutes)
Experimental Documentary by John Cannizzaro III
- The last home movie. Shot on now discontinued Kodachrome 40 super 8 film stock, a cine-poem to time, childhood and the color of memory.
Contact: 
3.
Ikuma Siku
(7 minutes)
Animation by Glenn Gear, Montreal, CANADA
- An experimental animation exploring the growing friendship between an Inuk and an English immigrant set in and around the rugged coastline of northern Labrador in 1849.
Contact: 
, www.volatileworks.org
4.
Life and Times of Robert F. Kennedy Staring Gary Cooper
(8 minutes)
Experimental by Aaron Valdez, Iowa City, IA
- Overlayed newsreel footage of Robert Kennedy and images from the classic Hollywood western High Noon blur the line between truth and fiction.
Contact: 
, www.aaronvaldez.com
5.
invisibilities
(11 minutes)
Experimental Documentary by Jennifer Proctor, Iowa City, IA
- A portrait of Ava Su Ganwei, a Chinese-American artist with invisible disabilities and conspicuous gifts.
Contact: 
, www.jenniferproctor.com
6.
Cellumania
(6.5 minutes)
Experimental/Public Service by Lucinda Luvaas, Hemet, CA
- A zany spoof on the obliviousness of cell phone users.
Contact: 
, www.lucindaluvaas.com
7.
Andy the Giraffe Calls Technical Support
(6.5 minutes)
Animation by Ned Hylton, Collingswood, NJ
- Andy has a problem with his computer. The first in a series about Andy the Giraffe.
Contact: 
, http://nedhylton.blogspot.com
8.
Land Without Continuity
(6.5 minutes)
Experimental/Mockumentary by J. Gluckstern, Boulder, CO
- Explores the aesthetic/conceptual abyss between: early Bunuel and late capitalism; modernism and postmodernism; kitschy LiveType titles and personal expression.
Contact: 
9.
What I saw on October 32, 1988
(8 minutes)
Experimental Documentary by Neil Ira Needleman, Katonah, NY
- What a glorious day! The sunlight was intense, the depth of focus was amazing, the colors were vibrant, and the shadows were rich. Do you remember where you where on October 32, 1988?
-Contact: 
10.
Transaension
(6.5 minutes)
Experimental by Dan Baker, Boulder, CO
- Explorations in exploration.
Contact: 
Friday, Aug. 18
9pm:
11.
Bump Past Cut Up Through Windows (Nasturtium)
(4.5 minutes)
Experimental by Paul Clipson, San Francisco, CA
- An improvised collage exploring notions of size, space and prospective within nature's vast architecture.
Contact: 
12.
rock/hard place
(6 minutes)
Experimental Documentary by Roger Beebe, Gainesville, FL
- Morro Bay, CA is a little coastal town known mostly for Morro Rock, a volcanic plug that sits at the mouth of the Bay. In all the postcards of Morro Bay, the image is framed so that you can't tell that just beyond the edge of the postcard is a gargantuan power plant with three towering smoke stacks. This film tries to restore the power plant to the frame, so that we can start thinking about what the juxtaposition of these two massive objects might really mean.
Contact: 
13.
Marco Polo
(6 minutes)
Experimental/Home Video by Jonathan Rattner, Iowa City, IA
- A reaction to recently discovered home videos.
Contact: 
14.
Disconnected
(4 minutes)
Video Art by Karl Lind, Portland, OR
- A woman sits waiting by the phone while a million tiny hearts break and a lonely song tries to play itself over and over. Somehow, everything is much more one-sided than we would like it to be.
Contact: 
, www.inthecanllc.com
15.
My Little Pickle Love Song
(3 minutes)
Animation/Wacky/Music Video by Skizz Cyzyk, Baltimore, MD
- Hand-drawn animation from the late 1980s.
Contact: www.skizz.net
16.
Volatile Works Does Coney Island
(11 minutes)
Found Footage/Experimental by Volatile Works, Montreal, CANADA
- Six samplings and remixes of archival footage from the heyday of Coney Island.
Contact: www.volatileworks.org
17.
Eaten
(6 minutes)
Experimental/Nostalgia by Anne Haydock, Iowa City, IA
- A game of dress-up: windows and wallpaper, hawks and moths, olive loaf and margarined toast.
Contact: 
18.
Nothing's Wrong
(2 minutes)
Experimental by Charlotte Taylor, Iowa City, IA
- Found footage images of a girl eating, hand-processed 16mm images of magazine cut-outs, and blueberry muffins. Based on a true story.
Contact: 
19.
Kuleshov's Paradox
(10 minutes)
Experimental by Allan Brown, Montreal, CANADA
- A woman under hypnosis visualizes an abstracted world of fear and eroding freedoms then awakens to an underwater world far from chaos above. This film focuses on the automobile as an instrument of death and oppression inspired by the ghost of Lev Kuleshov.
Contact: 
, www.volatileworks.org
20.
Dubus
(4 minutes)
Experimental/Music Video by AV, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
- A slow dance of the classical cinema to the music of Zelany Rashoho.
Contact: 
21.
Mother of God
(5 minutes)
Experimental by Jim Magrini, Le Grange Park, IL
- A secular meditation on 'melancholia,' the pain that accompanies the separation of mother and child. The film uses montage and split-screen images to reexamine the mytho-religious aspects of the Mary and Jesus story, which may well be interpreted as a supreme "Freudian" instance of the 'loss of an object of desire.'
Contact: 
22.
Uncanny
(15 minutes)
Horror/Narrative by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Montreal, CANADA
- A young girl reads a horror comic about a businessman who abducts itinerant women with uncanny results. Shot in Super-8, the films pays tribute to 1950s horror comics and B-movies with an eye to the tradition of voyeurism in horror cinema.
Contact: 
23.
I'm In the Mood
(5 minutes)
Experimental By Bryan Konefsky, Albuquerque, NM
- Ann Arbor street musician Shakey Jake, and a dancing wind-inflated object. Shot with a Fischer-Price PXL-2000.
Contact: 
, www.hi-beam.net/mkr/bk/
Friday, Aug. 18
10:30pm
Obstacle Corpse
(With experimental films by Jason Wade and others.)
End of tonight program.
Saturday, Aug. 19
6pm
24.Starting Tomorrow
(69 minutes)
Narrative by Drew Graham, Bemidji, MN
- A realistic look at college life. The story focuses on Mike Lee, who is fed up with his place in the world. With help of his best friend Gabe, Mike sets out to change his life, but as Mike soon finds out, changing your life is no simple task.
Contact: 
, www.doubledeucepictures.com
Saturday, Aug. 19
7:30pm
25.
A Touch of Vitality
(6 minutes)
Flash Animation by Alex Moore, Grand Rapids, MN
- Dinosaurs amaze us once again!
Contact: www.geocities.com/velvet_filter
26.
Cui bono? WTC
(11 minutes)
Experimental Documentary by San Olson and Ryan Rapsys, Duluth, MN
- A documentary reexamining the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11/2001.
Contact: 
, www.erratikproductions.com
27.
Life in Mono
(7 minutes)
Experimental Narrative by Jaclyn Evert, Vadnais Heights, MN
- A film based around the horrors of heroin addiction.
Contact: 
28.
Compound Movement
(3 minutes)
Experimental Music Video by Jake Hanson, Anoka, MN
- The sights and sounds of my summer experience in New Mexico.
Contact: 
29.Breakfast Time
(7.5 minutes)
Action by Ryan Foss and Bill Nagel
- Throughout history, time travelers have repaired the past by fixing the most mundane of circumstances. This is one of those circumstances.
Contact: 
, www.quantumpetshop.com
30.
The Legend of Santa Susanna
(38 minutes)
Experimental Narrative by JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees, Minneapolis, MN
- The patron saint of sunburns and bartenders rumbles into a sleepy village to whip up miracles and mischief for a love-starved Sunday School teacher and a pair of illegal aliens in this sharp and sunny comedy.
Contact: 
, www.candyeyefactory.com
Saturday, Aug. 19
9pm
31.
Uso Justo
(22 minutes)
Found Footage Narrative by Scott Coleman Miller, Minneapolis, MN
- When an experimental filmmaker sort of shows up in the semi-fictional town of Uso Justo, things get strange.
Contact: 
32.
Manager's Corner
(3 minutes)
Animation by Skizz Cyzyk, Baltimore, MD
- Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver colorfully answers questions from baseball fans.
Contact: www.skizz.net
33.
Cats, Cats, Cats
(2 minutes)
Educational by Jaclyn A. Silvestri
- Learn all about the world of cats!
Contact: 
34.
Run, Pigeon. Pigeon, Run.
(2 minutes)
Animation by Jason Lockyer, Los Angeles, CA
- A film about respect.
Contact: 
, www.benderfilms.com
35.
Breaking Point Break
(3 minutes)
Found footage/Experimental by Mike Stoltz, Gainesville, FL
- Another look at Point Break, staring Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey.
Contact: 
36.
Doll-Like
(3 minutes)
Experimental/Art Film by Alexis Baran, Vancouver, CANADA
- A darkly stylized critique on body image and individuality.
Contact: 
, www.alexisbaran.com
37.
Mico
(10 minutes)
Experimental by Adam Trowbridge, Chattanooga, TN
- Mico is a pulsating dance machine, a double agent of love and destruction. Public domain footage quivers as a temporal continuity breaks down.
Contact: 
, www.atrowbri.com
38.
Disappear
(5 minutes)
Surrealist Narrative by Stacy Peterson, Evanston, IL
- What a weird dream!?
Contact: 
39.
In the Nick
(4 minutes)
Music Video by Jason Middleton, Durham, NC
- Instructional film for math rock.
Contact: 
40.Happy Day
(2 minutes)
Experimental/Animation/Comedy by Jason Lockyer, Los Angles, CA
- A film about realizing that all those motivational posters that you have read might just be wrong. It is about the revelation that maybe you aren't all that special after all.
Contact: , www.benderfilms.com
41.Dollar Disobedience
(2 minutes)
Experimental Documentary by Bill VanDall, Iowa City, IA
- Civil Disobedience, one dollar at a time.
Contact: 
, www.myspace.com/dollardisobedience
42.
Updebum
(3 minutes)
Experimental Documentary by Jim Minton, Dallas, TX
- Things lost and then recovered in the emergency room.
Contact: 
, www.mintondesign.com
43.
The Jackelbot
(3 minutes)
Animation by Rachel Wolther, Evanston, IL
- Kooky adventures of a the Jackelbot robot.
Contact: 
, www.therobothouse.org
44.
Ultimate Dino Remix 2005
(10 minutes)
Narrative by Jackie Doherty, Evanston, IL
- A teen lesbian love story where rock music also happens to have saved the dinosaurs from extinction.
Contact: 
45.
Coprolopolis
(3 minutes)
Animation/Revolting Comedy by Rob Smith, Pearland, TX
- Jimmy gets magically flushed down the toilet to Coprolopolis, the City of Poo! Can his new friends help him get back home?
Contact: 
, myspace.com/robsmith
46.
Bad Aliens From Another Planet
(8 minutes)
Sci-Fi by Karen Coker and Skizz Cyzyk, Baltimore, MD
- Campy sci-fi flick made in 1988!
Contact: www.skizz.net
Saturday, Aug. 19
10:30pm
47.
Oedipus Effect
(With experimental films by Mike Stoltz and others.)
End of tonight's program.
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