Labor's Troubadour (2005)
Documentary, 37:00
A portrait of the legendary labor folk singer and social historian Joe Glazer--a long-time resident of the Washington DC area who often performed in Takoma Park. The documentary is a celebration of Joe's life and his contribution to the American labor movement.
Director: Hope Moskowitz (Santa Monica CA
Friday, 7:15 pm
Women Behaving...Part 1: Shorts
LadyLike (2006)
Narrative short, 6:00
A devout Muslim and a daring exhibitionist form an uncommon friendship during a chance encounter on the street.
Director: Safiya Songhai (New York NY)
Ladies' Tea (2001)
Animation, 2:30
A comic deconstruction of social space at a lesbian bar in Baltimore.
Director: Paula Durette (Fresno CA)
Kitchen (2005)
35mm narrative short, presented on video, 14:30
The preparation of an evening's dinner becomes chaotic and then violent for a French housewife.
Director: Alice Winocour (France)
In French with English subtitles
Madame Bovary, C'est Moi (2003)
Three mock film trailers, 6:30
What cinematic and social space will permit the articulation of female desire? The artist uses the tragic figure of Madame Bovary to inquire.
Director: Katrina Heiser (Gaithersburg MD and London UK)
Untitled Affair (2005)
Video, 7:00
The artist is witness to an adulterous encounter.
Director: Chi-Jang Yin (Chicago IL)
The Invalids (2005)
16mm experimental film 9:00
A mostly silent film recreating the plight of women consigned to Victorian insane asylums. This short film prompts consideration of the maladies once ascribed to women, such as hysteria, and the belief that too much intellectual or physical stimulation might prove harmful to the fairer sex.
Director: Mary Billyou (New York NY)
Secret: The Josephine Baker FBI Files (2006)
Video, 18:00
Drawn from over a thousand FBI files and archival material, Secret tells the story of entertainer Josephine Baker and two men who pursued her: media personality Walter Winchell and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Mixing old and new sound and images to link the present and past, Secret uncovers Baker's little known identity as a global human rights activist.
Director: Kathy Corley (St. Louis, MO)
Maryland premiere.
Program sponsored by The Big Bad Woof.
(brief intermission)
Friday 8:30 pm
Women Behaving...Part 2: Feature
Enemies of Happiness (2006)
Documentary, 58:00
A portrait of the courageous and controversial Afghan politician Malalai Joya and her 2005 campaign for a parliamentary seat during Afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in 35 years. Winner of a Special Jury Mention at the most recent edition of SILVERDOCS.
Directors: Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem (Denmark)
In Farsi, Arabic and English with English subtitles.
Nina Gilden Seavey, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and Founding Director of SILVERDOCS : AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival will introduce the film and lead a post-screening discussion.
Program sponsored by Sue Scott of Coldwell Banker.
Friday, 10:00 pm
After-party at Glad Rags, 7306 Carroll Avenue
All are welcome!
Saturday, 2:00 pm
Short Shorts (47 min.)
(Including Animations and Youth-Produced Work)
Sports and Diversions (2005-6)
Animation, 4:00
Elegant black and white animations inspired by the music of Erik Satie.
Director: Bum Lee (Pittsburgh PA)
Thunderia (2006)
Animation, 6:00
An intense animated epic of a hero on a journey to battle the God of Thunder and reclaim his lost love.
Director: Lantz Barbour (Silver Spring MD)
Potato Song (2006)
Animation, 3:00
A singing and dancing potato!
Director: Lantz Barbour (Silver Spring MD)
The Jabberwocky (2007)
Animation, 1:30
A student-led claymation piece that gives Lewis Carroll's famous poem a silly twist.
Collaborators: Isaac Axtmann, Aziza Afzal, Julian Boilen, Bazi Johnson, Austin Johnson, Celeste Robinson. Laurie Stepp, Coordinator. (Silver Spring MD)
A Short (2007)
Experimental video, :15
An experimental exploration of pixilation.
Collaborators: Isaac Axtmann, Aziza Afzal, Julian Boilen, Bazi Johnson, Austin Johnson, Celeste Robinson. Laurie Stepp, Coordinator. (Silver Spring MD)
The Runaway Carriage (2007)
Animation, 2:07
A youth-produced stop-motion animation.
Directors: Sofia Zocca & Ariela Sirota (Takoma Park MD)
World premiere.
When We Leave (2007)
Narrative short video, 6:00
Luke sits down to watch tv and ends up in a parallel universe. He seems to be the same but things are different...
Directors: Julian Boilen and Ezra Wexler (Silver Spring MD)
World premiere.
The Lone Trombonist (2007)
Narrative short video, 4:00
Desmond is an assassin on a mission. He encounters a young trombone player with something to hide. A whirlwind chase results.
Jonah Novek (Silver Spring MD)
World premiere.
Overcoming Doom 3 (2006)
Narrative short video, 4:00
A boy tries to overcome his fears of the horror video game Doom 3.
Director: Casey Drogin (Silver Spring MD)
A Day in the Life of Casey Drogin (2006)
Narrative short video, 4:30
A mock self-portrait.
Director: Casey Drogin (Silver Spring MD)
Teen Jobs (2007)
Narrative short video, 3:00
Teen Jobs makes the case that jobs are the antidote to gangs and drugs.
Directors: Silver Spring Youth Collaborative
Silver Spring Town (2007)
Documentary short, 6:00
An advocacy documentary that makes the case that Silver Spring needs a local, teen-run skate park.
Directors: Silver Spring Youth Collaborative
Youth Reception, Azalea Room
Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm
Open to all youth artists, their families, and fans.
Saturday 3:30 pm
Around the World (73 min.)
Mexico Painting (2007)
Experimental video, 3:00
Using his video camera as a brush, the director creates an abstract painting.
Director: Vin Grabill (Ellicott City, MD)
Director in person.
The Expeditionists: La Ciudad Dorada (2007)
16mm film transferred to digital video, 14:00
A chronicle of The Expeditionists' live use of Advanced Recording Technology to record a sonic map of the Columbian heartland en route to La Ciudad Dorada. The footage survives as testimony to the impractical capabilities of their electronic gadget equipped with twelve light sensors that triggered erratic sound responses to the diverse topography they wandered through.
Director: Sabine Gruffat (Madison WI)
Good Faith Effort (2006)
Documentary, 12:00
Good Faith Effort asks young Poles in Warsaw to remember the pivotal moment of the first free post-WWII elections in 1989. Fragments of public space in Warsaw offer reflective moments between the personal stories, forming a complex portrait of change and transition.
Director: Joanna Raczynska (Baltimore MD)
In Polish with English subtitles
Maryland premiere.
Director in person.
ISAHN (2004)
Experimental video, 14.30
ISAHN tells stories of displacement--it's about places one cannot go back to anymore. Inspired by the story of an elderly man who killed himself after failing to get into a reunion lottery for North Korean exiles, the video features testimony from other North Koreans exiled to Burma and Thailand. The split screen depicts images from the stereoscopes in Imjingak in South Korea. Tourists and displaced North Koreans can view state-sanctioned photographs of North Korea for by dropping a few coins into the stereoscopes. For those who are not allowed to go back home, the sights of exile are just ersatz landscapes.
Director: Soon Mi Yoo (Syracuse NY)
The Beautiful (2006)
Video, 3:00
Inspired by the poem by Michelle Tea, the short video tells the story of one young woman's disillusionment with her family and her country.
Director: Peter Pizzi (East Boston MA)
Maryland premiere.
El Canto de Grillo/The Song of the Grasshopper (2006)
Narrative short, 17:00
Joseba Perurena wants to a new life together with his girlfriend. However, cutting ties with the past is never an easy thing to do especially when the consequences have not been fully considered.
Director: Danny Campos (Madrid, Spain)
In Spanish with English subtitles
Hiyab/Hijab (2005)
35mm narrative short (presented on video), 8:00
Fatima, a Muslim girl who persists in wearing a head scarf, is confronted by her high school teacher.
Director: Xavi Sala (Madrid, Spain)
In Spanish with English subtitles
Saturday 5:00 pm
Moving Through Time and Space (77 min.)
L'Arrivée (1997/98)
16mm experimental film, 2:00
A tribute to one of the Lumière brothers' best-known actualities.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky (Austria)
Da Capo (2000)
16mm experimental film, 9:00
Variations on a train with Anna.
Director: Guy Sherwin (London UK)
Londres - London (2006)
Narrative short film transferred to digital video, 11:00
A woman travels between Gare du Nord in Paris and Waterloo Station in London to meet and then part from her lover.
Director: Eva Tang (Singapore)
Seven + or - Two (2004)
Experimental video, 6:00
Constantly in motion between DC and Baltimore, the artist feels disconnected from both cities.
Director: Justin Plakas (Wilmington NC)
Director in person.
LineAge (2005)
Dance video, 7:00
LineAge contrasts the lines of our bodies with the lines in the landscape--imprints of time in nature and human natures from tabula rasa to wrinkles.
Director: Jody Oberfelder (New York, NY)
Maryland premiere.
Count Backwards from Five (2007)
Experimental video, 8:00
The video combines new and old footage to tell the story of the director's brother, a man struggling with the fine line between life and death.
Director: Tony Gault (Denver CO)
Maryland premiere.
Self-Made Maps (2006)
Experimental video, 9:00
A short that follows the fragmentary recollections of four acquaintances, their meetings, and eventual departures.
Director: Nathan Duncan (Baltimore MD)
Director in person.
A Year (2006)
Experimental video, 25:00
A tattered diary film. Middle age concerns swirl around the artist in Brooklyn and follow to North Carolina and New Orleans and back home again.
Director: Mark Street (Brooklyn NY)
Saturday 6:30 pm
L'enfer, c'est les autres /Hell is Other People (100 min.)
VIEWER DISCRETION?adult content.
Antes y después de besar a María/Before and After Kissing Maria (2007)
Narrative short, 8:00
A young boy experiences his first crush--on his cousin Maria. He vows to kiss her before the end of the summer, and he will, but under unexpected circumstances.
Director: Ramón Alós (Madrid, Spain)
In Spanish with English subtitles
The Gym (2006)
Narrative short, 5:00
Alex, a fitness obsessed teenager, finds himself trapped in a circle of self improvement to prove himself to his fellow classmate.
Director: David Jaffe (Chevy Chase MD)
Weekends in Brooklyn (2007)
Narrative short, 21:00
Weekends in Brooklyn tells the story of a British black man and woman finding love when they meet one evening in Brooklyn--a love that gets put to the test when they find out she?s pregnant.
Director: David Canady (Washington DC)
Director in person.
Cleave (2001)
16mm narrative short, 14:00
An autopsy of a recently-deceased marriage that reveals the simultaneous urge to both cling to and sever the relationship.
Director: Hollie Lavenstein (Auburn, Alabama)
Scratch's Cabbage (2001)
Animation, 5:00
A business transaction with the devil goes awry.
Director: Lantz Barbour (Silver Spring MD)
La Parabólica/The Parabolic Dish (2006)
Animation, 5:00
In anticipation of a papal visit, Vincente makes a homemade satellite dish to improve his television reception.
Director: Xavi Sala (Madrid, Spain)
F (2006)
Narrative Short, 33:00
A 1940s film noir dark comedy about a decent man's indecent desire.
Director: Perry Sachs (Los Angeles CA)
My First Film Noir (2004)
Experimental video, 9:00
Mayhem. violence, and dames. The essence of noir--stripped down to words and music.
Director: Neil Ira Needleman (Katona NY)
Saturday 8:30 pm
Displeasure (75 min.)
VIEWER DISCRETION--adult content.
Shaved (At a Loss) (1998)
Video, 5:30
"A compelling and challenging work utilizing prop, costume, and action to challenge ideas of beauty and stereotypes of Western women and Asian girls" - Annie Buckley
Director: Patty Chang (New York NY)
Concrete (2007)
16mm experimental film, 8:00
The past and present, the sacred and erotic, and the real and imagined collide as a woman reworks narrative fragments into a final simplified conclusion.
Director: Rebecca Reynolds (Baltimore MD)
Director in person.
Passage a l'acte (1993)
16mm experimental film, 12:00
The message which lies deep under the surface of the family idyll, suppressed or lost, is exposed - that message is war.
Director: Martin Arnold (Vienna Austria)
Sixties Teen Dance Party (2006)
16mm experimental film (shown on video), 16:00
The simple, systematic distortion of an anonymous three-minute-long piece of 16mm film "becomes by turns sexy, comic, foreboding and borderline demonic." - Bill O'Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper
Director: Gordon Nelson (Pittsburgh PA)
A Film About Violence (2006)
Performance/experimental video, 1:00
A provocative query about violence, media and reality.
Director: Ethan Knecht (New York NY)
Maryland premiere.
Director in person.
The Blood of the Earthworm (2006)
16mm experimental film, 32:00
An anti-climactic barrage of original footage and found extractions from horror, science fiction, and educational films, all of which feature the contemporary maladies of civilization: ecological devastation, bio-terrorism, consumerism, and government conspiracy.
Director: Brittany Gravely (Jamaica Plain MA)
Maryland Premiere.
Screening sponsored by Colorlab.
Sunday: All Activism, All the Time
Sunday 1:00 pm
The Easter Bunny Eggsposed (2007)
Mock newscast video, 3:00
An exposé on the confinement of egg-laying hens in wire battery cages.
Director: Erica Meier (Takoma Park MD)
Festival premiere.
Director in person.
Special sneak preview of local in-progress documentary on activism
Documentary, 59.30
A portrait of four different activists, their motivations, their differences, and their hidden commonalities.
Director in person.
Post-screening discussion on production, fundraising, & post-production.
VIEWER DISCRETION--graphic imagery.
Sunday 2:30 pm
The Children Left Behind (1995)
Documentary, 27:00
The Children Left Behind tells the story of mothers from El Salvador who left their children behind in the midst of civil war to find work in the U.S.
Director: Leon Seltzer (Takoma Park MD)
In Spanish and English with English subtitles
Director in person.
Propaganda (2007)
Director: Lisa Jaeggi (Silver Spring MD)
Documentary, 23:00
In the summer of 2007, seven teens, a recent college graduate, and an old guy set out to see if they could change public opinion through a propaganda poster campaign on the topic of immigration.
Participants in person.
Sunday 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Panel Discussion: Community-building, Activism, and Media
Partipants:
Moderator: Steve Mencher
Sunday 5:00 pm
Race to Execution (2006)
Documentary, 53:30
Race to Execution is a provocative and haunting portrait of two death row inmates: Robert Tarver of Russell County, Alabama and Madison Hobley of Chicago, Illinois, exposing how race infects America's death penalty system.
Director: Rachel Lyon (Boston MA)
Writer Chris Intagliata of Takoma Park in person
Sunday 6:30
Standing Silent Nation (2006)
Documentary, 52:30
In 2000, Oglala Lakota Alex White Plume and his family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation. When federal agents raided their fields, the White Plume family was swept into a struggle for their nation's sovereignty.
Directors: Suree Towfighnia and Courtney Hermann (Chicago IL & Portland OR)
Screening sponsored by Robbi Kimball of Long and Foster. |
