SPECEAL REPORT
Director Bryan Boyle
Video 4 minutes 1999
America's Favorite TV News anchors get possessed by the spirit of old time exploitation cinema

THE PRINCES AND THE OYSTER
Director Astrid Riemer
Mixed Media Animation 5 minutes 2000
A prince, a princess, a magical mollusk and the power of true love.

LUCY'S DREAM
Director Relah Eckstein
16mm 12 minutes 30 seconds 1999
Lucy is a cute dog who dreams she's a women, who's in love with her master, who fantasizes she's a drummer in Jimmy angels all girl rock n' Roll Band. Lucy is currently undergoing Therapy.
www.pajamalife.com

RIDDLE OF INNOCENT
Director Suporn Shoosongdej
16mm 14 minutes 14 seconds 1998
An illustration of the banality of life in the 20th century using visual poetry that explores triviality and violence that conceals in our consciousness.

OOPS!!!!!
Director Mark Bellamy
16mm 5minutes 30 seconds 1999
When a women discovers a man attempting to break into her beloved black mini she decides to fight back.

ARTICLE 58
Director Ian Kennedy
16mm 3 minutes 1999
Article 58 explores the theme of victimization through the media. Whether mind control through television and mass media is subliminal or frighteningly obvious, there is no denying it affects us on a daily basis. Inspired by the writings of noted cultural critics Adorno & Horkheimer, leaders of the Frankfurt school.

FIFIN GOODLAND AND THE BAD ASSS GIRLS.
Director Susan Manders
3 Minutes , 2000
An animated short about a over-sexed "want to be baby boomer. FIFI Goodland and her back up singers the Bad Ass Girls who perform in any club that will have them.

DREAM
Director Masayo Nishimura
Digital Animation. 2:30 minutes
A journey into the ideas of a dream.

SWINE
Director Richards Walsh
16mm 18 minutes 1999
No good can come from the black pig mask. When Tahnna finds it in the river, she decides to give it to who ever brings her five pigs by nightfall. Her tribe, the tahbahnni or pig people begin a bloody hunt that takes them out of the forest and into the path of a documentary film crew. Violence ensues. Adventure film and national geographic special, a mix reminiscent of Raquel Welchs unforgettable One Million Years BC. Who will be the mightiest pig in the forest?

5:30 PM

PSYCHO SAMBA
Director Ian Haig
Digital Media Animation 3 minutes 20seconds 1999
It happened when I was halfway through watching the late movie. Magnetic Monster: suddenly a bolt of electricity sprang from the screen and hit me in the head, scorching my forehead with the uncanny resemblance of a burn, which looked like a human eye. I could here buzzing in my ears, normal everyday sounds, appeared distorted and overtly load. Sounds ate away at my brain like some newly formed parasite burning it's way deep into my cranium. I felt good. I felt alive.

POP GUN
Director Scott Pittock
Super 8 2 minutes 45 seconds 1999
The story of two men, one gun and a pack of smokes. A fight for survival is on as one-man chases after another with a gun: ultimately ending in tragedy. The chase takes place in a park, through playgrounds, and then ending by a ravine. Short, sweet and to the point, this story evokes a satirical style and feel of the French New Wave.

THE RITE
Director Jon Young
Hi-8 Video 3 minutes 2000
A satirical exploitive photoplay touching upon the relationships between the film, its makers, and its actors. It confounds this intent using images carrying mass (western) cultural weight. Moralistically it addresses how humans seek to direct others as actors in the "films" they create in their everyday lives and minds. Music by The Scar of Indiana Drum and Machine Corps.

I AM GOING OUT IN THE RAIN
Director Richard Newton
Super 8 3 minutes 39 seconds
"It's raining that's a big deal in LA"

DISPLACED ARTIFACTS OF A CLOCKWORK SELF
Director Kristie Drew
High-8 Video-16mm 16:30 1999
A single female character is fractured, dissected, and examined as several distinct voices, whose unity is only vaguely alluded to. She writes e-mails to herself in the form of second person narrative and poetic prose, drenched in the language of sex and nostalgia. She collects objects and trucks them away in boxes in the corner of her small shop of curiosities, and latter returns to uncover them like an archeologist searching for a lost religion. The collection of things, as well as an equally varied collection of images and sounds, is categorized and fetishized. Personal taxonomies are exposed as arbitrary devices, as the searches for herself in the guise of a lost twin.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Director Anne Paas
16mm 3.5 minutes 1999
Amidst his dilapidated and obsolete carnival surroundings, a dwarf abandons his life at the sideshow to hang himself. Seeking solace, he is instead confronted by specters of exploitation and mockery, in what proves to be his greatest act yet.

ELVIS MEETS THE BEATLES
Director John Michael McCarthy
Video-16mm 30 minutes 2000
Elvis is alive, Paul is Dead, and I ain't feeling so well. August 27, 1965 . An evening shrouded in Mystery until now…Pop culture collides with "Manson Speak" paranoia, LSD-tripping-guru-hairdressers and pill popping icons.

7:00 PM

THE WIDOWER
Director Marcus Rogers
16mm 88 minutes 1999
Milton Smyth is unable to accept the unexpected death of his beloved wife. Although she no longer moves or speaks, Milton still hears her and is determined that they should remain together. Milton knows that his wife's decomposing condition is becoming difficult to conceal and his efforts to keep things quite are not going so well. From the pushy landlord to the prying sister in law, anxiety, guilt and paranoia cause Milton to experience visions. The Widower is a cartoonish, colorful world where the lines between order and chaos dissolve, reality and delusion are one, and love endures beyond the grave.
Featuring a cameo by Jello Biafra as the Devil and music by Coal, Lindsey Davis/The Colorifics, Huevos Rancheros, Neko Case, The Problematic, DOA, The Evaporators, Bughouse 5, Mach 111's, Loud Mouths, The Smugglers, The Atronuts, Sarcastic mannequins and E.L.C and Chris Houston.
www.thewidower.com

Bands that will follow the Thursday film screenings.

9:00 PM

JOB KARMA
Postindustrial band from Wroclaw they used to play only Generators of low and high frequency + video installation's, slides and Animation films of Polish artist Arkadiusz Bagiñski.
www.terra.pl/jobkarma
www.netgate.com.pl/ras/bago

KARPATY MAGICZNE
Ethno-Core from Nowy Sącz.
A mutation of famous ethnic bands. Theatre of Sound ATMAN www.rhplus.ceti.com.pl/pracownia