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OCTOBER 9-13, 2013 ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE DFW VIDEOFEST.ORG 1 CONTENTS Brought to you By ............................................................................ 2 2013 Board of directors ............................................................... 3 contriButors & sponsors .......................................................... 4 Welcome By Bart Weiss ................................................................. 8 aBout our Jurors ............................................................................10 HBO® Proudly Salutes the texas shoW Jurors .........................................................................16 Kovacs aWard .....................................................................................18 screenings ...........................................................................................20 TH 26 ANNUAL schedule ................................................................................................53 Ben Britt/Kaleta doolin art ..................................................60 DALLAS VIDEOFEST aWard shoW tWeets By Jennifer reeder ......................64 essays .......................................................................................................66 ©2013 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO® and related channels and service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. 406145_VideoFest_AD.indd 1 8/26/13 4:33 PM Dallas VideoFest 26 2 VIDEO ASSOCIATION OF DaLLAS 2013 3 BROUGHT TO YOU BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Barton Weiss Kelly McNichol Interns vIdeo assocIatIon of d allas Artistic Director volunteer coorDinAtor Amanda Hayes Jeffrey A. Leuschel - Chair Caitlin Riggs Raquel Chapa Kelly Allen, Jim Nugent - Treasurer Chris Reagan MAnAging Director SullivanPerkins Kelly McNichol - Secretary grAphic Design Angela Alston Programmers Joe Ramirez Tim Capper FestivAl coorDinAtor Rachelle Alford, Misti Espinoza Beth Jasper Alicia Chang David Granberry ADDitionAl grAphic help Daniel Laabs Darren Dittrich FestivAl AssistAnt Mike Morris Mary Katherine McElroy Sondra Golzad Carolyn Sortor Cameron Nelson eMerging FilMMAkers Mona Kasra progrAMMer technicAl supervisor ProgrammIng assIstance David Leeson Leslie Oschmann Suza Kanon Brenda Time Video Data Bank outreAch DevelopMent AnD Women Make Movies Phil Pan outreAch Reid Robinson Chris Vognar Mark Perkins Kelly J Kitchens lounge Director Andy Streitfeld KovaKs’ award commIttee Director oF press & Mark Ridlen publicity Ed Bark advIsory Board DJ Deluxe Felipa Villegas, Michael Cain Steve Alford Scott Sura Laura Gold Ron Simon Mark Birnbaum technicAl support pr AssistAnts Bart Weiss Marilyn Clark Sangmin Lee Mike and Stacy Archip Sylvia Komatsu trAnsportAtion grAphic intern Charles Dee Mitchell Mona Kasra Roderick Cordova, Carolyn Sortor oMni event coorDinA tor Selig Film News photogrAphy Dana Turner progrAM eDitor Selig Polyscope Company Christian Vasquez viDeogrAphy MeDiA Director Trophies Andrew Nelson reDMAn i AM sociAl MeDiA Director Daniel Laabs Joe Fay buMper newsletter eDitor Selig Polyscope Paraná Sharma, Company, Marlena Villers Sell.com FestivAl geniuses website Carolyn McCartney bArt weiss portrAit Dallas VideoFest 26 4 5 CONTRIBUTORS & SPONSORS major sPonsors medIa sPonsor Industry sPonsors donor BrIdge memBership assocIATE Producer- $125 Matthews Southwest Art&Seek Dallas Film Commission contrIButors vIsIonary $1000 Spencer Michlin Texas Commission AMS Pictures Office of Cultural Affairs Deedie Rose Alan Govenar and Kaleta on the Arts Roderick Cordova City of Dallas Charles Dee Mitchell medIa Carolyn Sortor Doolin: Art Happens HBO Photography Texas Film Commission KERA’s Art & Seek Katherine Owens Deedie Rose Selig Polyscope Selig Film Rachelle Alfred Company Sell.com HosPItalIty Robert Price Jungle Software Rob and Laurie Tranchin KERA Haystack Burgers & PromotIon and PuBlIc eXecutIve Producer $500 CharlieUniformTango sPonsors Barley Judith Samson relatIons AMS Pictures Samson’s Gourmet Jim Nugent Charles “Dee” Mitchell Kelly J Kitchens Hotel sPonsor Alamo Drafthouse DFW Hot Dogs LLC. Peggy Fussell Media Relations/ DoubleTree by Hilton Dallas Convention & Jersey Mikes on Linda Patston Producer $250 Entertainment Dallas - Richardson Visitors Bureau Greenville Fred Curchack Kay and Elliot Cattarulla Publicity Dallas Producers Paul and Tracy Alicia Chang Association Wehrmann Sondra and Ali Golzad HosPItalIty Angela Alston DocArts Carolyn Sortor Reid Robinson F R E E M A N Audio Shelly Seymour Patricia Lodwick Visual Solutions Alicia Chang Norry Nivens entertaInment Jungle Software Timothy Capper Kathy McDaniel and Mark Ridlen KD College Darren Dittrich Kevin Flynn Content Support la Madeleine Alice Baltierra Sylvia Komatsu and HBO Moonlady Mona Kasra George Stone Experiments in Cinema Patricia Lodewick Six Pack Films Cinedigm. Video Data Bank Women Make Movies addItIonal servIce and suPPort Freeman The MAC SixPixels Speakeasy Dallas VideoFest 26 6 7 CONTRIBUTORS & SPONSORS Dallas VideoFest 26 8 9 WELCOME BY BART WEISS goggles and gloves with you by showing home movies from the program, but also makes our great fest intro. brought you a new Nixon family house in “Our Nixon”. I need to thank our great funders and view into your world. We also have a look back at classic film partners, and the many individuals who help Now we bring you a and television, with showing one of the newly us with donations both cash and in kind. program to find out restored Hitchcock silent films, and a newly Thank you, thank you! what these Google restored version of Far From Vietnam with the You make this happen. glasses are all about all stars from the French new wave. From TV and what change they we have something to tell you about Moms Thanks to Mona Karsa for curating might bring. I am Mabley and “Sheldon Leonard’s Wonderful Expanded Cinema II and Pat Anderson for really looking forward Life”, and we have the return of the Kovacs working with us to change the lights on to that. Award with George Schlatter the creator of the city. This year we Laugh-In. Thanks to Bill and James and our new seem to have lots of home at the Alamo Draft House, and thanks to And, there’s so much more. music programing, Steve Alford, winner of the Obelisk Award for I really hope you are moved. “This Ain’t No Mouse service to nonprofits. Music!” is not to be There are so many people that help us and Thanks to Kelly Kitchens for redefining PR missed, and the others make this festival happen, I hesitate to begin and supporting us with your smile and laugh. take so many different this because I know I will leave out many Thanks to D Magazine for calling us the perspectives at what (just like above, if I did not mention your film, best fest in Dallas! documenting music I really do love it there just is not enough Thanks to Kelly M and the many, can be. We also focus room for everything in this essay). many volunteers who make things go so on two major events So first and foremost, Raquel Chapa who seamlessly. in the Dallas musical works so hard and makes so many dreams Thanks to the artists who create the work scene–when the we have happen. It is a really hard and almost that inspires us. an impossible job, yet she does it and does Stones and the Sex Thanks to the great Susan for putting up it so well. Hey, anyone who can understand Pistols came to town. with so much over the year, love you so much. credit: carolyn mccartney Two very different “Bart speak” is pretty special. Thanks to you for coming. kinds of shows both Our Board of Directors is really special. I Greetings to you all, and thank you for shot with local crews, who will be here. have been on many boards, and have been coming to the 26th Dallas VideoFest! This year we also seem to have more to many board meetings that did not excite Bart Weiss international programs from Israel to Japan, me, but our board steps up the plate and We are really proud and excited to bring many of these are pieces that nobody else makes things happen and really supports us. you a wide and diverse look at the where we features or even knows about. In the show When we are done with any board meeting, I are, where we might be going, and where we “Dining with the Enemy” where a top chef feel like I have the wind on my back. I thank have been with moving images that hopefully is taken to a place where there have been them, especially our Board Chair, Jeff Leuchel will move you. long-term conflicts, killings, and deep-seated and our super Treasurer, Jim Nugent. This year I had an idea to do a program hatred. He then prepares a meal to bring This year I worked with other curators to called state of the art where we show you people together. This episode takes place in get the program to you, Carolyn Sortor and in Drama, Documentary and Experimental the Middle East. Mike Morris did such a magnificent job with work, what has happened since last I wrote There are so many films that deal with the video art experimental program, and an introduction to the fest. But instead of prescient issues of our day, that only we can they both are really amazing. You don’t need taking up a precious slot, I decided to do show you, like Vessel, and Mercy Mercy. And to go to New York to see what is happening in essays, which will be in this book by Bryan we are happy to partner with IMAP to show video art as we have it here. Konefsky, Beth Jasper, and Chris Vogar. I hope An Unreal Dream, and Living condition. We For the Documentary category, Beth to update these each year and it will come to have our own take on the 50th anniversary