1997 Workshops & Programs
1997 Winners
Crew Pictures
1997 Program:
Adulation and Idolatry
- Number One Local
(documentary, 7 min 50 sec, Bianca Bob, dir.)
For Harry Nugent it isn't enough to take people around town - he wants to take them to a better place.
- Badass Supermama
(personal documentary,16 min 4 sec, Etang Inyang, dir.)
Race, gender, sexuality, representation, beauty: these
multi-layered issues are intimately examined through
blaxploitation goddess Pam Grier.
- Home
(experimental, 13 min, Hana Iverson, dir.)
Language and exile have a bond in Jewish tradition.
"Home" is a reclaiming of the land that represents
the arrival at the spiritual home.
- A Fading Flower
(experimental documentary, 18 min, NG Kwok-Leung, REX, dir.)
A visual gift to a glorious diva of the Cantonese opera.
- Anna in the Sky
(narrative, 10 min, Mark Edgington, dir.)
Justin turns to the black arts to win back the fickle Anna.
- Breadman
docudrama, 11 min 40 sec, Josef Hamersky, dir.)
He delivers bread, charms film crews, and ends his day
when most of us are just getting started.
- Rarefraction
(experimental, 9 min 30 sec, Dave Ryan, dir.)
Here (Pennsylvania) and there (Tokyo) and the rarefied air in between.
- Clockmaster
(documentary, 5 min 20 sec, David Ford, dir.)
A study of a man who has found his place in restoration.
- Graffiti Verite'
(documentary, 45 min, Bob Bryan, dir.)
This documentary explores the personal and insightful
views of 24 practicing artists whose tool of choice is the spraycan.
Terpsichorean Moments
- Queer, Dyke, Fruit
(musical, 8 min 30 sec, Michael Weir, dir.)
Glenda the Good Witch has opened a Queer Cafe in Halifax.
She's still proving there's no place like home and we
can all fly over the rainbow.
- Take a Minute
(music video, 4 min, Bobby White, dir.)
A music video
featuring Tanglefoot, xerography, and a hole punch.
- Anything Boys Can Do
(documentary, 71 min, Ethan Minsker, dir.)
Women of the underground music scene, located
primarily on the lower east side of NYC,
discuss music, sexism, and more.
Vicissitude
- Walk This Way
(personal documentary, 12 min, Chris Sheridan, dir.)
Chris' personal documentary about how he uses humor to heal
his life after breaking his back in a plane crash.
- Girl
(narrative, 15 min 55 sec, Christa Collins, dir.)
This narrative short addresses the concerns of an African
American woman and her future with African American men.
- Williams Syndrome; the Musical 58min
(documentary. 58 min, Wendy Wilmowski, dir.)
An investigation into the profound language
and musical abilities of Williams' people,
showing that while their minds are broken,
their powers of artistic achievement are whole
- So Long, Goodbye
(narrative, 28 min, Thea Hardigg, dir.)
No matter how far they go, the two men are haunted by their pasts.
The more they travel, the stronger the need for resolution.
Necrophagous
- Alive in Colma
(documentary, 3 min 55 sec, Nan Bress, dir.)
"The cemetery capital of the world." Find out what it's
like to live in a town where the dead outnumber the living by 1000 to 1.
- Clinic E
(comedy, 27 min, George Grubb/Mark Ward, dirs.)
One man1s first journey in taking the HIV test gives a darkly comic
look at the power of denial.
- Business Class
(comedy, 5 min 30 sec, Bo Webb, dir.)
A car wreck brings a man to a shared sexual purgatory. On a bus.
Sort of.
- Greys
(animation, 4 min 30 sec, Evan Carroll, dir.)
If you've ever been abducted by aliens, it'll seem very familiar.
If you haven't, you1re just repressing the truth.
- Deciding Who Dies
(documentary, 56 min, Sandra Dickson, dir.)
An examination of the arbitrary nature of the death penalty through
three cases in the death-belt of Southern states.
- Untitled
(experimental, 4 min 33 sec, Keir Serrie, dir.)
We don't always see the same colors this is a look at the other side.
Irrational Delusions and Excessive Imbibing
- Human Bean
(comedy, 7 min, Kay Scheltema, dir.)
His is a familiar story, the abuser and his substance, locked in a
struggle with only one real happy ending.
- Witch City
(documentary, 57 min, Joe Cultrera, dir.)
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller built their works partially
on the idea of Salem, MA as a symbol for intolerance. This film
adds greed to the city's symbolic legacy.
- Jacob
(narrative, 25 min, Timothy Oberlander, dir.)
Herein lies the pain of addiction, the ritual of the high, and the
need for more.
- Hammered
(narrative, 11 min, Bo Webb, dir.)
A true story.
- Paranoia
(experimental documentary, 23 min, Robert Edwards, dir.)
Further proof that Steven Segal is behind everything, this
film has flow charts, airplanes, and more grassy knolls than Wuthering
Heights.
Redeploy your Schemata
- Genre
(animation, 5 min, Dan Hertzfeldt, dir.)
This film stars a winsome bunny who is reluctant ( at first)
to follow the conventions of his creator1s hands.
- I Dreamed and Bluebird
(experimental animation, 7 min 10 sec, Norwood Cheek, dir.)
Four dreams with a recurring Bluebird are described through words and
imagery.
- Wind/Water/Wings
(experimental, 21 min 25 sec, Barbara Klutinis, dir.)
Abstract color, sound, and texture savor natural images in conflict.
- The World's Smallest Fair
(experimental animation, 5 min, Helen Hill, dir.)
1000 art school students, one mile of cotton candy, a unicorn,
an evil plot, an mythical proportions -- it wouldn1t be FAIR to give away
the ending.
- Letters From Home
(experimental, 15 min, Mike Hoolboom, dir.)
This series of mini-portraits enjoins a chorus of speakers
to sound off on AIDS, love, and death.
- A Judge Judges Mushrooms
(documentary, 25 min, Ken Rosenberg, dir.)
He's an 86 year old judge in Brown County. His hobbies include law,
politics, war, France, card games, and mushrooms.
- Untitled
(animation, 3 min, Keith McCulloch, dir.)
There's nothing wrong.
- Pure
(narrative, 7 min, Paul Harrill, dir.)
A silent study of imperitives.
- TV Light
(experimental, 59 sec, Bob Kaputof, dir.)
It's about the light that comes from your TV.
- Seven Virtues
(experimental/narrative, 9 min 58 sec, Myke Zykoff, dir.)
A short film consisting of seven segments interpreting the key human
virtues.
- Him!
(comedy, 15 min, Andrew Montlack, dir.)
A dingy one-room apartment; a frustrated young writer;
a tone deaf musician; collaboration or carnage?
- Letterbox
(animation, 4 min 45 sec, Rob Furr, dir.)
NEXT!
- po
(narrative, 14 min 3 sec, Hugo N. Santander, dir.)
po lives his life through dreams and thoughts he cannot control.
- Wig Rodeo
(experimental/narrative, 20 min, Marcel De Jure, dir.)
A dying woman struggles to survive in a prima-industrial, oligarical
society of self-sabotage.
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