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Thursday 15th of October, 1998 Shorts from the Underground FLYING WITH THE ANGELS 1997. 35mm, black & white. Director Nancy Ferguson & Richard Newton.Los Angeles. 17:00 The diary of a woman's subconscious as she takes the spiritual journey from her relationship with a man to her relationship with herself. To be shown on 35mm. PEEP 1996. Super 8, B/W. Director Lea Reek. Brooklyn. 3:20. The film explores the intersection of fashion and fetish. This document was filmed in Australia in 1996. Some of the participants are peep show workers, all are fetishists. THE COCK FIGHT 1998. Video. Director Lisa DiLello. New York. 3:15. Cock Fight is a hypnotic orgy of violence, color, and speed so as to call into question the seductive powers of spectacles that glorify excessive displays of masculinity and bravado, over-emphasize the importance of victors and victory and disregard the consequences of its violent constructs. FREEDY AND VICTOR- BLIND DATE 1997. Super 8 and video. Director Carola Spadoni. Italy. 30:00. Set in Rome, It portrays the first meeting between a father and daughter. Frederica the tomboy daughter and Victor the father have never seen each other. She experiments with film and hangs out in squats in London and Rome and the father is a poet. Total opposites and the only thing they have in common is the loyalty to the same soccer team.   The Films of Martha Colburn CHOLESTEROL 1996. 16mm. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 1:11 Music by The Dramatics A regurgitation of fatty foods. A fad dieters dream.The film is set to the equally regurgitated tunes of The Dramatics, Martha Colburn and Jason Willet. EVIL OF DRACULA 1997. Super 8, animation and hand colored with FANG TASTIC color.. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 1:11. Music by Jad Fair and Jason Willett. A hypo-psycho-vampiratic spazam of bloodsucking advertisements with spiraling consumerism attraction special effects. HEY TIGER 1996. Super 8. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 2:36. Music by The Dramatics In classic Black and White set tot a strip spazz number by the dramatics with a stylaphone solo that would snuff out a fire. WHAT'S ON 1997. Super 8. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 1:45. Spoken word by 99 Hooker. A hyper-fire telespazzumentery rendered in orgiastic corrupt collage animation, media mush, and hand colored film. Snot , Boobs, brats and more mutate and spew to the demented punk rock poverty of 99 hooker......Blasting you into HELL-A-VISION! ASTHMA 1995. 16mm. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 2:23. Music by The Jauntics. A Pro smoking film made for non smokers from old anti smoking films. Set to the trash pop of the Jauntics. I CAN'T KEEP UP 1997. Super 8. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 3:26. Spoken Word by 99 Hooker. Keep The Lid On the Turpentine, your cat in doors,and your daughters in chains for this flight or stumble into the all to familiar problem of trying to keep up. PERSECUTION IN PARADISE 1997. Super 8, animation. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 6:17 Music by Jad Fair and Jason Wilson. A grotesque and celebratory flat puppet animation escapade. featuring crazed crabs, female wrestling and snake pits are but a few obstacles faced by two wacky musicians. ZIG ZAG 16mm. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 2:29 Music by the Jauntics A smash-em' up ballroom dance of spiraling colored dots and inappropriate interruptions. MY SECRET SHAME Super 8. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 2:31. Spoken word by 99 Hooker Dedicated to all those who live "ENHANCED LIVES". Coffee urine sniffers, elbow lickers, and chalk chewers will find comfort in this film and all others may just chuckle or feel petrified. Artist note" After recently viewing Ernie Kovaks I now see why someone was inspired to call me the Ernie Kovacs of the nineties". -Martha Colburn. I'M GONNA 16mm. Director Martha Colburn. Baltimore, MD. 2:02. Spoken word by 99 Hooker A barrage of stunt men explode to a long list of man's ambitions. There’s A Pervert in Our Pool 1998. Director Martha Colburn. An off the deep end collage and painted animation. 2:44. Poetry by Fred Collins. You better check to make sure the under water cops are near by before jumping into this pool. There’s A Pervert In Our Pool is flooded with notorious pervs throughout history, gyrating and splashing with giraffes in bondage, penguins with breast implants and dildo fetching dogs. A Toetally Solefull Feeture Pedsintation. 1998. Director Martha Colburn. Collage and puppet Animation. 6:46. You better put your best foot forward when viewing this kick-in film exploration into feet. Hoof-jobs, lawn mower accidents, farmers with ped-pecking chickens and a wide variety of de-toeification are among some of the antics. Guest star appearances by the Clinton, Napoleon and a number of porn stars and animals that wish to remain anonymous. Lift Off 1998. Director Martha Colburn. 3:08 An original double projection of animation and army surplus space footage. Uberfall:Pee Poo and Flies 1998. Director Martha Colburn. A physychodelic fly-hopping-pill-popping trip. Faces fuse with the remains of graphically mutilated flies. 1st . film in X-tto 1998. Director Martha Colburn 5:00. Ode to a Bus Driver 1998. Director Martha Colburn. Collage and puppet animation, found footage and other strangeness.. 5:32 A trashy terrifying tumble into society’s frustration…or those who can’t help but get on the wrong bus! Who Know/ Film 1998. Director Martha Colburn. 2:27. Feature Presentation 1998. Director Martha Colburn.. 5:32 Killer Tunes 1998. Director Martha Colburn. Alcohol 1998. Director Martha Colburn   _____ CLOVEN HOOFED 1997. 16mm. Director Dietmar Post. New York. 12:00. Ray sits in a cold room, sharpening his knife. His mounting rage at his woman's betrayal impels him to an act of violence. The opposition of love and need is only a semantic distinction. CLOVEN HOOFED explores this by juxtaposing contextually sexual obsession and drug withdrawal. The character of the film is literally being swallowed by his obsession.   _____ MAN FROM NOWHERE / CZLOWIEK ZNIKAD 1981 Rez./Dir. Jozef Klyk. Poland color 16mm. 90 min First part of the Kielbasa Western trilogy, Lawless Trail, shot in Silesia. A simple Siesian blacksmith kills a Prussian soldier and flees to Panna Maria, Texas where he learns how to handle a six gun.   London Underground Presented in association with The Halloween Society, London The Box Directors Jes Benstock and Luk Losey. Video. 4:30.1994. A stylized surreal journey through London at a fast-paced exposure. An outsider alienated and invisible wanders through the modern landscape. Smart Alek Director Andrew Kotting. 16 mm/Super 8. 18:00. 1993. A family goes on vacation and runs into a terrible situation. A band of murderous outlaws stop to assist when they have car trouble. Based on a true story: All characters bare resemblance to those both living and dead. A Smashing Night Out Director Mathew Glamorre. Video. 9:00.1994. Explore the fantastic club life in London. Meet all the fabulous people on a SMASHING NIGHT OUT! Cameo by the late great performance club persona Leigh Bower. 15th February Director Tim Webb. 16 mm. 6:30.1995. A lover expresses the heartbreak the day after Valentines Day. Heatwave Director Kathy Stevens.16 mm. 15:00. 1994. An isolated teen on a hot summer day finally finds something to cool off her desires. The Sound of Music Director Phil Mulloy. Animation. 11:00. 1994. A dark animation about the horrors of life and the struggles of Wolf, a saxophone player. Oh Julie Director France Lea. Puppet Animation. 8:00. 1994. Julie comes home drunk with a man ( also a puppet ) and has puppet sex. Snuff Directors: David Blackburn and Alison Thompson. 11:00.   Digital and Animated work from England, Bulgaria and The US LIZARD WOMPER 1996. 35 mm Animation. Director Tennesse Reid Norton.Portland. 2:15. No matter how big the Lizard Womper, I think he finally met his match. DEAR MUMMY AND DADDY 1997. Video Animation. Director Radostina Neykova. Bulgaria. 4:00. A girl at summer camp writes a letter explaining what her summer camp is like, but what she writes does not reflect the reality. Music by Prodigy. OUT OF THIS WORLD 1996. 16mm, Animation. Director Holly du Rivage. Los Angeles. 5:00. An animated travel adventure exploring earthly and celestial landscapes. 4 FILMS IN 5 MINUTES...A TRILOGY 1995. Animation. Director Skizz Cyzzk. Baltimore. 6:30. Hilarious short animation. Cheese Tweezers, Schrakticlat, and My Little Pickle Song. Music by Blister Circus Freak. THE MORPHOLOGY OF DESIRE 1998. 3/4 Video. Director Bob Arnold. Pompano Beach, FL. 5:45. An experimental exploration of the comodified representation of gender and desire in popular culture and the relationship between the still and moving image, using digital morphing techniques to animate the repetition/difference of romance novel cover. CUP-O-ABOMINATIONS 1997. 35mm, Animation. Directo Ben Hillman. New York. 4:38. When was the last time you sat down and had a pleasant quaff with the Whore of Babylon? Sit back, lick your lips and swallow this. IF I HAD A HAMMER 1996.35mm Animation. Director. Tennesse Reid Norton. 3:00. The misadventures of Spittle and Fudd, a series of side-splitting, stop-motion animation. LILY AND JIM 1997. 16mm, animation. Director Don Hertzfeldt. Goleta, Ca. 13:00 An achingly pathetic blind date between two hopelessly naive, neurotic romantics goes from very bad to much worse. ALL OR NOTHING 1997. Digital animation. Director Tim Clague. England. 10:00. Video collage exploring the awakening of an old man’s long forgotten hope and his relationship with a young girl. DAREDEVIL 1997. BETAS SP. Director Anthony Fung. Los Angeles. 38:00. It is ninety-five years in the future and a crime lord has taken control of a spacecity.   VIDEO COCKTAIL PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH KICK THE MACHINE ROMEO & JULIET Russia 1997 video 4 min Dir. Ilya Ovid'ko (St. Petersburg) A sexual harassment story. History o seksualnym nagabywaniu. FOR THE LOST LEGEND Japan 1997 animation 9 min.Dir. Naoyuki Tsuji Karuma travels to the dark zone where he meets many creatures and works to gain a higher energy. LAW OF A DREAM Japan 1997 animation 6 min. Dir. Naoyuki Tsuji A man was killed in his bed. Then he travels to the after death world. ROCKET CIRCUS Japan 1997 animation 9 min. Director. Hideto Nakata THE WEB USA 1997 19 min.Dir. Allison Hunter (New York) The web is an examination of sexist ideology, permeating western culture from the ancient Greek culture to contemporary web culture on the internet. EXOTIC 101 USA 1997  video 19 min. Rez/Dir. Micheal Showanasai (Chicago) A performance exploring the idea of being exotic. IRON PUSSY USA /Thailand 1997 video 5 min. Director. Michael Showanasai The story begins at noon. Iron Pussy's mission is to protect go-go dancing boys at Patpong, a sexual area in Bangkok. EASTERN  WIND USA 1996 video Director. Michael Showanasai VISIT WITH MAX Canada 1998 color Video 15 minutes. Director Bart Simpson. Canada. Flying Saucers, Men in Black, The Old Testament. Many do not see a connection but Max does.Visit with Max is a portrait of a composer , senior citizen and a former UFO investigator, whose views challenge the traditional views of the Church.