Friday March 30, Sunday April 1
Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi
Program
#1 | Friday, March 30 3:30 PM | Running Time: 83 minutes
Location
for all Screenings: the Recital Hall at the Bologna
Performing Arts Center, Delta State University, Cleveland
Mississippi
Startle
Pattern
Eric Patrick
12:47; 2006; USA
Startle Pattern is a farewell card to the film medium. In this
late age of emulsion, this essay is a call of the cinematic
gaze to a state of crisis. The film functions as a deconstruction
of spectatorship and authorship in the moving image… a
puppet’s form tattered and decayed, hinting at the Protagonist's
delicate relationship with reality, voyeurism, the director
and the apparatus. *Best Animation
The
Reel President
Morgan Schwartz and Amy Sharp
13:42; 2006; USA
The Reel President illustrates the power of cinema and examines
the tools used to create a presidential image. The White House
has appropriated the notion of the "President" from
Hollywood and employed Hollywood tactics to sell America a constructed
image. We use Hollywood films, televised debates and press coverage,
to investigate the political climate and the role of still and
moving images in the portrayal of the Presidency. The Reel President
explores the relationship between acting presidential and being
presidential. *Work by guest juror
Imago
Minou Norouzi
7:50; 2006; The United Kingdom
Conceived as a hypothesis that ones favorite line from a movie
contains within it the essence of a person’s ideal, a
passion, conviction or sense of self, Imago maps a series of
frozen moments in the Los Angeles acting community. Each actor
is seen in their day job delivering their favorite line from
a movie, mapping the day to day architectural space where desire
is incubated.
Through
These Trackless Waters
Elizabeth Henry
12:30; 2007; USA
The ecology of the planet connects with the ecology of our minds.
In the waking dream, all is juxtaposed and, as Kuleshov discovered,
all is related. *Best Experimental
Invisible
City
Jack Cronin
11:00; 2006; USA
Invisible City was filmed in Detroit over the course of three
years. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Le città invisibili,
in which the Italian author suggests that what constitutes a
city is not so much its physical structure but the impression
it makes upon its visitors. The film is loosely organized into
four segments representing spring, summer, fall, and winter. *Best Cinematography
Bad
Dreams
Fansu Njie
24:30; 2006; Sweden
Theo has had nightmares all his life. When a hospital tries
out a new drug that’s supposed to help people with nightmares,
he signs up not knowing that it will turn out to be a nightmare
worse than his own. Constantly waking up but never awake, Theo
finds it hard to differentiate the reality from his dreams.
