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#2 | Friday, March 30 7:30 PM |Running Time: 70 minutes
Location
for all Screenings: the Recital Hall at the Bologna
Performing Arts Center, Delta State University, Cleveland
Mississippi |
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Bodies
and Souls
Christie Herring
16:26; 2005; USA
Bodies and Souls illumines the quiet efforts of Sister Manette,
a white Catholic nun running the only health clinic in rural
Jonestown, Mississippi. Through intimate observational scenes
of her with her patients, the film profiles Sister Manette’s
humble labors “to help save bodies, so that the souls
can come alive.”
*Best Documentary |
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The
Meatrix
Diane Hatz, Sustainable Table, and Free Range Studios
2:30; 2005; USA
Want to free your dinner plate? |
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Eaten
Anne Haydock
6:19; 2006; USA
A game of dress-up: windows and wallpaper, hawks and moths,
olive loaf and tinfoil. The sounds and gestures of the everyday
gather to become the pre-articulated vocabulary of desire, anxiety,
and basic human needs.
*Best Student |
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The
Art of Effort
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
3:00; 2005; USA
The Art of Effort is a portrait of art and music therapy for
Arab-Israeli children with disabilities. Though these children
are surrounded by cultural an political differences, their education
and treatment is possible due to fledging cooperative efforts
between Bedouin and Jewish communities in the Negev. |
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Rain
Rebecca Ruige Xu
3:34; 2006; USA
Inspired by Chinese watercolors, computer programming (C + OpenGL)
generated animation is used to interpret the motion of falling
rain. Raindrops are reduced to simple geometric forms, in the
hope of forcing the viewers to pay attention to the building
up and releasing of the immense tension within the raining process. |
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Your
Finest Hour
Michael Heroux
5:36; 2005; USA
Your Finest Hour examines the morality and purpose of war video
games. War does not seem like something you should sit around
your living room and joke with your buddies about. Within the
context of current American political and military actions,
this piece confronts the insincerity and blatant propaganda
created by the world’s largest entertainment industry.
As a grandson of a World War II veteran and the son of a Vietnam
veteran I have always been made aware that war is not a game. |
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Iceland
Fabienne Gautier
4:15; 2006; France
Iceland's landscape seemed to reflect a particular
internalization of feeling. The piece was shot
in B&W super 8 while driving across Iceland in 2004. This
work speaks to this internal mind. |
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The
Chipmunks
Robert Lendrum
5:40; 2006; Canada
The Chipmunks is an experimental performance-video dealing with
identity, deception and authorship in self-portraiture. Dutch
actress Jacqueline van de Geer improvises the role of myself
and tells a story from my childhood while guiding viewers through
my family's barn in Fallbrook, Ontario. The difference in age,
gender, nationality and language between Jacqueline and myself
makes her performance an inevitable failure, yet what emerges
from this process is a critical reflection on identity enactment
and the self-portrait. Van de Geer's unscripted performance
constantly points back to itself, playing on the line between
sincerity and total absurdity. |
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Aurora
and the Sea
Charlotte Taylor
1:04; 2006; USA
A girl and her journey to the sea. Stop motion animation, paper
mache, photoshop backgrounds, and 3-D rain.
*Student entrant |
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brother/sister
April Grayson
4:00; 2007; USA
The lines between a brother and sister blur, raising questions
about how similar and how different we are.
*Mississippi filmmaker |
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Pilot/Gamer
Gerald Habarth
12:14; 2006; USA
Pilot/Gamer is an animation made from a series of charcoal drawings
and collaged paintings. It is a loose knit narrative that follows
the birth of a two dimensional man who emerges from a painting
on the wall. We witness his dream of fear, identity and death,
and then his vain attempt to escape. Throughout, pathetic and
sometime poignant images of warfare, video games, and industry
are woven onto the fabric of the story. |
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Pledge
Ann Steuernagel
6:00; 2006; USA
Pledge is a found footage piece created from a collection of
obscure, Vietnam war era documentaries. The material is, sadly,
timeless and provides one with an abstract medium to ruminate
about war and, hopefully, peace. |
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