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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 of Jasper who also works with the Hot Springs be something you look for as you pick up the the Kennedy assassination with True Tales on Documentary Festival was a major help. book. our opening night extravaganza, City of Hate, Make sure you read her essay. In the Drama In 1988 we showed off a new technology and some really great shorts. category Daniel Laabs not only helped called “virtual reality,” where wearing This year we celebrate Home Movie Day Dallas VideoFest 26 10 11 about our jurors

Carolyn Macartney made her first film with a Double 8mm film at the Chamizal National Memorial and specialized in science fiction camera that she found in her granny’s attic to accompany electronic and horror films of the 1950s along with contextual presentations and music that she was composing. Having a background in fine art and guest appearances by notable actors and directors. Horak began guest experimental filmmaking, Carolyn is motivated by visual language and hosting the weekly regional NPR program On Film (www.ktep.org) in works in hybrids of narrative, experimental, and documentary genres. 2002 and took over for the show’s original host, Cynthia Haines, in the Carolyn’s films have won awards at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Onion City summer of 2005. Film Festival, Houston Worldfest and other Juried screenings and have He is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (www.bfca. enjoyed success in screenings and festivals around the world. She has org), was awarded a fellowship to the 2007 Moving Image Institute in fourteen years of experience as a Director of Photography, having shot Film Criticism and his 2008 reviews of Shine A Light, Hellboy II and Iron four feature length narrative films as well as numerous music videos, Man were nominated for an Entertainment Journalism award by the Los commercials, short films and documentaries. Carolyn’s award-winning Angeles Press Club. In 2008, Horak co-founded and became the Artistic still photography has been published and exhibited in the US and Director of the Plaza Classic Film Festival (www.plazaclassic.org) in Europe. Among other honors, Carolyn has received an award for music El Paso. The Plaza Classic is the world’s largest film festival dedicated composition, a DAAD scholarship to study painting at the Hochscule to the presentation of classic films and is centered around El Paso’s der Künste in Berlin, Germany, and a Kodak Faculty Scholars Award. premier movie palace – the Plaza Theatre. The Festival drew more than Carolyn has lived in five different countries and as many States in 30,000 attendees in its first year, and continues to grow in every way. America. She received her BA in Art from Smith College and her MFA Charles Horak is the father of three budding cinephiles and husband in Filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an of Dr. Ann Branan Horak, professor and director of the Religious Studies Associate Professor in the Division of Film and Media Arts at SMU in Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. Since 1996, Horak and his Dallas, Texas. family have lived in his hometown of El Paso, Texas. He is a registered architect and Owner of a construction and development firm. David Small-Prior to law school, Small enjoyed a successful career as a studio musician and recording artist. After attending the Berklee Documentary Features College of Music in Boston, MA, Small worked with artists such as Ron Simon has been a curator of radio and television at The Paley Herbie Hancock, Melba Moore, Pieces of a Dream, Angela Bofill, Debra Center for Media since the early 1980s. He is also an adjunct associate & Eloise Laws, and many others. David A. Small’s legal career started as professor at Columbia University, New York University, and Hunter an Assistant District Attorney in Dallas, Texas. College, where he teaches courses on the history of media. Simon Afterwards, Small practiced in the areas of insurance defense has written for many publications, including The Encyclopedia For and banking litigation for the firm Chapman & Reese, PC. Never Television and Thinking Outside of The Box. A member of the editorial abandoning the strong interest in music and entertainment, Small board of Television Quarterly, he was recently chair of the George has been practicing entertainment law since 1996. Small currently Foster Peabody Committee, Simon has lectured at museums and represents recording artists, publishers, promoters, actors, production educational institutions throughout the world. facilities and record labels. Ben Levin was born in Joliet, Illinois. After attending the Eastman Charles Horak didn’t sleep much as a child, preferring instead to School of Music in Rochester, New York, he served in the United States watch movies on late night TV. Not much has changed since then, Marine Band in Washington D.C. He then entered Temple University except that he now shares his life-long passion for movies with others to pursue an MFA with an emphasis in documentary production -- the through numerous cinema endeavors. start of a 17-year relationship with that institution --culminating in his In 2002, Horak founded The Film Salon (www.filmsalon.org), a monthly directing the MFA program there for seven years. Beginning in 1987, film series devoted to the screening and discussion of classic and he taught for three years at Emerson College in Boston, before moving important films from the last century. to the University of North Texas in 1990. Levin is a past-president of the In 2003, along with local film historian Jay Duncan, Horak founded University Film and Video Association and has served on the National the IT! Came From the ‘50s Film Festival which ran four wonderful years Film Preservation Board by appointment of the Librarian of Congress Dallas VideoFest 26 12 13 about our jurors

since 1989. Ya’ke Smith Widely regarded as one of this generation’s next film He has been involved in numerous documentary productions as directors to watch, Ya’Ke’s films have received world-wide acclaim, producer, director and/or editor. The work has received many honors screening and winning awards at over 40 film festivals, including including several CINE Golden Eagles, awards from the Broadcast The Cannes International Film Festival and The American Black Education Association, the University Film and Video Association and Film Festival. His films have also been broadcast nationally on HBO, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in addition to screenings Showtime and BET J. He is the recipient of a Director’s Guild of America on public television and in other venues including the London Student Film Award, a regional Student Academy Award and an HBO International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Margaret Short Film Award. Mead Film Festival and two screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Tania Khalaf worked as a producer, editor, and drama teacher before moving to the United States. Khalaf Betsy McLane is the author of the book A NEW HISTORY OF produced and directed several documentary and narrative films, DOCUMENTARY FILM: SECOND EDITION, which recently went sometimes blending these styles together. Her films have screened into a second printing. She is served as the Project Director for The at several venues nationally and internationally and have received American Documentary Showcase, a cooperative project of the Bureau multiple awards. Khalaf is the founder and director of the first Arab Film of Education and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State. For Festival in Texas and is currently a professor at The University of North eight years McLane was the Executive Director the International Texas where she teaches documentary, film production and film theory. Documentary Association. She holds an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Animation Keith Alcorn In 1987 Keith Alcorn co-founded the terribly under Shorts funded and poorly decorated DNA Productions, Inc. For almost 30 Adam Donaghey, founder of micro-budget indie label Zero Trans Fat years Keith has been involved in all facets of animation. In 1997, Alcorn Prods., is an award-winning independent film producer. His work has served as producer/character designer for the 1997 ABC animated been nominated for both the Independent Spirit and Gotham Awards, Christmas special, Santa vs. The Snowman. That same year he served and has been showcased at fests including Sundance, SXSW, Sitges, LA as director/designer for the CBS’s Saturday morning series, The Weird Film Festival, AFI Fest and Thessaloniki; and via distributors including Al Show. In 1999 he produced the Emmy nominated Olive, the Other IFC Films, XLRator Media, Cinetic Media and the Lifetime Movie Reindeer for theFOX network and Matt Groening. Two years later, Keith Network. Adam is a Partner and Vice President of Aviation Cinemas, produced the Oscar nominated animated feature film, Jimmy Neutron: inc., the holding company operating the historic Texas Theatre, an Boy Genius for Paramount and Nickelodeon. Alcorn also served arthouse and national landmark in Dallas, Texas. Financed by Howard as director/co-executive producer on the Nickelodeon series, The Hughes in 1931, the Texas Theatre received national attention after Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, before serving as executive the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged shooter of President John F. producer on Warner Brother’s feature film The Ant Bully. Kennedy. Adam Co-Founded Aviation Cinemas Prods., which recently Alcorn is currently co-creator/executive producer/writer for the announced an option to develop the stage play “Danny Casolaro Died upcoming Nickelodeon series Planet Sheen. Keith Alcorn attended for You” into a feature film that will investigate the unsolved death of the the University of Texas at Arlington majoring in Fine Arts and Film titular writer mere weeks before he was to break a story uncovering Production. He was the recipient of the 2001 Distinguished Alumni high-level corruption within the Reagan/Bush Justice Dept. Adam is Award from UTA. Keith and his family reside in Grapevine, Texas, U.S.A., also Co-Founder of and programmer for the Oak Cliff Film Festival, Earth. which has been covered in various national publications including Texas Monthly and the New York Times. Adam regularly speaks and judges at universities, film festivals and industry related workshops, conferences and competitions and is a freelance film columnist for D Magazine. Adam is a graduate of the University of North Texas with a B.A. in philosophy. Dallas VideoFest 26 14 15 about our jurors

Justin Hall is a freelance animator and motion graphics artist. He’s Monica Panzarino Originally from New York City; currently living worked in games, film, TV and corporate. His credits include: Monsters, and working in Chicago, Illinois. Received a BFA in 2002 from the New Oscar nominated, The Illusionist (2010, Sylvain Chomet), OOglies, and York State College of Ceramics @ Alfred University, and an MFA from Tiny Planets. the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Work in video, sound and performance has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Emily Hubley has been making animated shorts for thirty years. Her Recent venues include the 2011 Chicago Underground Film Festival, first feature, The Toe Tactic had its theatrical premiere at the Museum the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany, video_dumbo of Modern Art in January 2009 and was released on DVD by Kino in Brooklyn, New York, the 7th Busan International Video Festival in International in the Fall. Ms. Hubley created the animated sequences Busan, South Korea, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston, for Hedwig And The Angry Inch. With associate Jeremiah Dickey, Massachusetts, the Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art in she provided inserts for documentaries Blue Vinyl, The Boy In The Nashville, Tennessee, and K Space Contemporary in Bubble, and William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe. Corpus Christi, Texas. This year, Ms Hubley completed a series of animated pieces for Motherhood: Out Loud, a new play which opened at Hartford Stage Bryan Konefsky, his spouse, and their three lovely dogs live in in March. Current projects include animation for a documentary by Albuquerque, New Mexico. There, Bryan teaches film/video courses Vic Campos about the one-man band, Hamell on Trial, and Demetrea through the Media Arts Department at the University of New Mexico. Dewald’s Let The Record Show about arts activism in response to the Bryan is also a board member of Basement Films (a regional media AIDS crisis. cooperative and micro cinema) and the artistic director of Experiments in Cinema film/video festival (www.basementfilms.org). Experimental During his travels, Bryan creates odd, little movies and video Christy LeMaster is the Director of The Nightingale, a rough and ready installations that often incorporate a quirky sense of humor to look at microcinema located in hicago’s Noble Square neighborhood. She has issues such as identity, community and maleness. programmed screenings for Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Film Forum, Konefsky’s work has been screened and exhibited at venues such The Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, The Chicago as Artcite (Windsor, Ontario), Blinding Light Cinema (Vancouver), the Underground Film Festival, Chicago Film Archives, and Intuit Gallery. Long Beach Museum (L.A.), the AFI Film Festival (L.A.), L.A.C.E. (L.A.), She teaches Semiotics and Media Theory at Columbia College Chicago L.A. Freewaves (L.A.), the Dallas Video Festival (Texas), The Ann Arbor in The Interactive Arts and Media Department. She has been a movie Film Festival (Michigan), the Knitting Factory (NYC), the Kitchen (NYC), critic on the NPR Chicago affiliate, WBEZ’s morning show 848 and CINE- The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (NYC), Videoex (Switzerland), The FILE.info. She was a 2011 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow and a Summer Paris Underground Film Festival (France), Il Cinema Ritrovato (Italy), Forum 2012 resident. She is currently working on a microcinema web and the European Media Arts Festival (Germany).. Bryan also seems to directory and distribution system called splitbeam.org spend a fair amount of time at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Experimental Canada… though, no one is really sure why. Dallas VideoFest 26 16 17 texas show jurors

Mark Birnbaum is a veteran producer, director, editor and Caption??? by David Levy cameraman. His documentary, Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril, is “surprisingly inspiring, as it point to the inevitable reinvention of an industry in need of new life,” according to the Dallas Observer. His documentary, The Big Buy, about Tom DeLay’s rise and fall, “presents its evidence clearly and with a welcome sense of humor,” according to a The New York Times critic. Another critic says Birnbaum’s documentary is “more feisty and fun than a drunken barbecue in Beaumont.

Alec Jhangiani joined the Lone Star Film Society in 2007 as Director of Programming, and is a founding staff member of the Lone Star Film Festival (LSFF) in Sundance Square. He was appointed Director in 2011. In 2008, Alec worked in the Art Department on Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or winning THE TREE OF LIFE. He is a Production Consultant on Malick’s TO THE WONDER, which stars Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck and Javier Bardem. He produced James Johnston’s short film KNIFE, an official selection of the 2012 SXSW film festival, Daniel Tarr’s short SHERMAN AND PACIFICO, featuring the voice of Javier Bardem as Pacifico, and is an Associate Producer on Jesus Beltran’s feature film AMERICANO, developed in part by the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Initiative. Alec’s first film as director, the short EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS, screened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Austin Museum of Art – Jones Center, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Lisa Kaselak is an independent media artist from Austin, Texas. Her work encompasses traditional documentary and narrative filmmaking, new media and digital installation art. Her most recent documentary, Tomlinson Hill, was the recipient of the Silver Heart Award at DIFF and aired nationally on PBS. Lisa worked in the fields of Web IA and Usability for 15 years, served as the first heterosexual Director of Programming for the Austin GLBT Film Festival, worked in feature and commercial film production in camera department roles and is the co- principal of Beak Labs. Lisa received her MFA in film production from the University of Texas in May, 2006. She is an Assistant Professor of film production at Southern Methodist University. Dallas VideoFest 26 18 19 KOVACS award KOVACS award

The first program of the Dallas Video Laugh-In was really the first postmodern the contributions and achievements of Festival in 1987 was Edie Adams presenting TV show, self-referral rearranging TV space, comedic actors and performers. “Of all the the work of Ernie Kovacs. Ernie was the first and creating comic non sequesters. It also work I’ve done, I am perhaps most proud artist to work in the realm of television. He was the first show that gave us catch phrases, of my involvement in the early careers of was not a stand-up comedian or vaudeville including “Sock it to me,” Here come performers like Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin, performer other TV comics of the day, who the judge”, “Look it up in your Funk and Roseanne, Robin Williams, Ellen DeGeneres merely moved their routines to the tube. Wagnalls!”, “Downtown Burbank”, “Easy for and others who have gone on to greater Kovacs comedy came out of the unique you to say,” “You bet your sweet bippy”, and heights. Working with stars is rewarding, but elements of TV using sound, sets, lens, so many more ¬– even more than Saturday helping to create stars is the most fulfilling of and editing to create laughs. TV comedy, Night Live in its heyday. all accomplishments.” especially late night TV comedy owes most Laugh-In reflected the zaniness of it’s Mr. Schlatter is a veteran of over 40 years of its form language and style to Ernie. time but also contributed to it. The show was in network television. He produced the first 5 In many ways Ernie Kovacs is the sprit antiestablishment, but Richard Nixon mad years of the Grammy Awards plus series with of the Dallas VideoFest. From 1997 to 2002 an appearance on it. According to George Cher and Bill Cosby as well as Judy Garland the VideoFest presented the Kovacs Award, Schlatter, “Humphrey later said that not and all the way back to the “Dinah Shore honoring the sprit of innovation looking for doing it may have cost him the election” Chevy Show.” He produced specials starring people who guided us down a different path and “[Nixon] said the rest of his life that george schlatter Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Eddie Murphy, to where we are today. Along the way we appearing on Laugh-In is what got him Elton John, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Liza have honored Joel Hodgson, Terry Gilliam, elected. And I believe that. And I’ve had to Throughout his long and successful career Minnelli, Cher, Michael Jackson, Doris Day, Robert Smigel, Paul Rubins, Mike Judge, live with that.” as a producer, director and writer, George Jonathan Winters, Richard Pryor, Shirley Martin Mull and Icky Twerp from Slam Bang Since Laugh-In, George produced many Schlatter has been responsible for hundreds MacLaine, Bill Cosby, Lucille Ball, Jackie Theater – a very distinguished and diverse TV programs from the Grammy Awards to of hours of television series and specials. Gleason, Diana Ross, Lena Horne, Placido group. the American Comedy Awards, to humor and He changed the face of television when he Domingo, Nat King Cole and scores of others. Each year Edie Adams would come to the the president for the Gerald Ford Museum created and produced such breakthrough His recent credits include The American festival and show rare Kovacs clips and talk (this I have to see) and so much more. In fact series as LAUGH-IN and REAL PEOPLE. Film Institute Life Achievement Award about his work. Edie did a magnificent job George Schlatter is an Executive Producer Over the years, Mr. Schlatter has received Salutes To Dustin Hoffman and Harrison Ford, saving and archiving the videotapes, in some of the program, “Moms Mabley: I Got numerous honors and awards including The 54th and 55th Presidential Inaugural cases literally taking them out of the trash. Something to Tell You”, showing here at the 25 Emmy Award nominations, five Emmys, Opening Ceremonies of George W. Bush, And that is why his comedy is remembered. festival. three Image Awards, Golden Globe Awards, The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Sadly Edie has passed away, but the work Television Critics Awards, the International Inaugural Gala: Finding a Cure and Nancy on Kovcas will live on. Here in Dallas there Radio & Television “Man of the Year” Award, Reagan: A Love Story. He has been working will always be a great appreciation for the Directors Guild Award, Producers Guild on a documentary dealing with Dr. William comedy of Ernie Kovacs. “Man of the Year” Award, as well as many Rader and his successful use of Fetal Stem This year’s Kovacs Award goes the George others. When the Television Academy Cells in treating many debilitating diseases. Schlatter. Mr. Schlatter is mostly known for celebrated its 15th Anniversary, they honored Currently Mr. Schlatter and Whoopi creating the innovative TV show, Rowan him for his outstanding contribution to Goldberg are co-producing a special on and Martin’s Laugh-In (1968-1973). Laugh- television. In 1989, he was awarded a star on the life of Moms Mabley which includes In made the careers of Goldie Hawn, Lily Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame. In 1992 interviews with Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Tomlin, Arte Johnson, Tiny Tim and so many Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra, on behalf of Quincy Jones, Tommy Smothers, Eddie more. It changed the tempo of TV, jokes came the Scott Newman Center, honored him with Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Kathy Griffin and many blistering on top of the one another, and it a tribute dinner for his showmanship and others. He also has produced a “Laugh-In” was a mad pace in a mad era. Unlike much of involvement to so many charitable causes. In reunion show for this year’s PBS pledge drive, TV of the day it had over 200 edits in an hour 1996, the Museum of Television & Radio did a which has been the most successful comedy show. Indeed one of the reasons the tapes special tribute to him for his contributions in special ever for PBS. have survived is they could not recycle the the world of television. He is married to former actress Jolene tapes because it had to many edits (that may In 1987 he created and established the Brand who was a regular on the Ernie Kovacs be legend). AMERICAN COMEDY AWARDS, which Show. They have two daughters. Andrea and aired for 15 straight years as an annual Maria. televised event designed to acknowledge Dallas VideoFest 26 20 21 screenings

True Tales

Opening Night Film: Documentary Feature

The Dallas VideoFest’s opening night TRUE TALES (USA) Director: Katie Dunn features the premiere screening Just two days after Lee Harvey Oswald’s of TRUE TALES, an AMS Pictures assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a little-known Dallas strip club operator named original production, centering on Jack Ruby murders Oswald on live television. Nancy Myers, aka “Tammi True,” with Why did he do it? Despite decades of theories and speculation, the question has a pre-show performance by Ruby never been satisfactorily answered. Until Revue Texas’ Premier Burlesque and now. Shunning the press for nearly 50 years, Tammi True—a top-billed stripper in Jack Variety Show. Tammi True will do Ruby’s Carousel Club—is finally ready to a Q&A after the film. TRUE TALES reveal the answers. AMS Pictures presents TRUE TALES, an original docudrama delves into Myers’ life as a headlining exploring the bizarre world of 1960s Dallas act at Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club in burlesque through the eyes of its preeminent entertainer. Featuring dramatic re-creations the early 1960s. To celebrate, the shot on actual locations, TRUE TALES Video Association of Dallas invites immerses you into the events that led to one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th patrons to come dressed in their Century. Opening Night Oct 9th at Gilley’s D allas, best early 1960s/“Mad Men” attire. doors open at 7 pm. Dallas VideoFest’s opening night documentary feature will screen at the South Side Music Hall Gilley’s Dallas, 1135 S Lamar St, Dallas, TX 75215. Dallas VideoFest 26 22 23 screenings

always for pleasure Anne braden as i am the book of Joe

Experimental Documentary Feature as he battles to escape grinding poverty. Blending vintage science fiction, biblical ADA (Canada) ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE (USA) FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, imagery, and South Texas Americana, THE Director: Lindsay McIntyre Director: Les Blank 9:00 pm, Video C afé BOOK OF JOE is a unique, entertaining, and An observational video portrait of an Inuk elder First a funeral: Allen Toussaint gives the viewer action-packed take on the end of the world. addressing age and the passage of time. a closer look into the spirit of New Orleans. Animation Filmmaker and producer in attendance Experimental Program 4: COSMOGONIC BODIES – From a funeral, to a lesson in eating crayfish, to BELLY (USA) GETTING IN TROUBLE shorts block – Sunday, Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:30 pm, Video C afé a St. Patrick’s Day party, New Orleans starts its Director: Julia Pott Oct. 13, 6:15 pm, Theater 5 preparation for Mardi Gras - when slaves used Oscar is coming of age, against his better Experimental short to gather on Sundays to prepare for the one judgment. In doing so he must experience the Experimental Short AFTER TREATMENT (USA) holiday they could celebrate - this documentary necessary evil of leaving something behind, but BROKEN NEWS (USA) Director: Edith Staubner brings the music, the dance, and the rituals. he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach. Director: Lori Felker Humorously detailed study of a hospital waiting ANIMATION shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, BROKEN NEWS is an intimate attempt at 8:00 pm, Theater 1 room. Repetitive movements, glances, ticks, animation shorts block reporting, mediating and being mediated. The and calls turn into a symphony of the banal and experiment/performance take place with the YA-NE-SEN a Go Go Documentary Short everyday. Camp Stories director having a news desk at the foot of her Experimental Program 5: REWARDS AND LIMITATIONS Turning a Corner BLIGHTED BEAUTY (USA) bed for 2 weeks. She reads headlines all day OF OBSERVATION – Sunday, Oct. 13, Chinese Democracy and the Director: Joe Brown 6:30 pm, Video C afé Last Day on Earth and then delivers the “news” from memory at Belly A short documentary that profiles urban night. Then, she wakes herself up in the middle YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI explorer and photoblogger Naaman Fletcher. of a deep sleep and reports all the newest news Documentary Feature A Song of Tyranny The film showcases the haunting beauty of ALL THE LABOR (USA) Butterflies she can muster (from her dreams). In the next Director: Doug Hawes-Davis A Gameboy urban blight while also explaining the appeal of step, she gathers those newscasts and sends Saturday, Oct. 12, 8:00 pm, Theater 1 Too happy-go-lucky for the earnest fans of roots urban exploration in Birmingham, AL. them to another level of mediation: her graphics STATIC HISTORY shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, department (artist Chris Royalty). Using text music, too plaid and pragmatic for the hippies, 10:15 pm, Theater 5 Documentary Feature too old and hairy for the mainstream, too young from her nighttime headline news, actual news, to be called legends. Sound like friends of ANNE BRADEN: SOUTHERN PATRIOT (USA) stream of consciousness video clips she gathers yours? For nearly two decades, the Gourds have Directors: Anne Lewis & Mimi Pickering BIG TIME variations on all of the above, he helps to create Director: Sonali Gulati been the musical distillation of Austin itself: Hailed by King as “eloquent and prophetic,” the the full, overwhelming image of information Notes from a journal remembering the days A label-defying, unpretentious, gregarious power of life committed to social transformation dissemination. when wishing for a Duran Duran T-shirt and for gang of friends whose primary motive is to by Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering. Experimental Program 6: WHERE IS THE POWER (with that pimple that showed up the first day of class a nod to Terri Thornton) – Sunday, Oct. 13, 1:45 pm, have fun and create great music together. ALL Saturday, Oct 12, 12 pm, Theater 1 Theater 1 to go away. Somanil Gulati takes us back to 80s THE LABOR captures The Gourds’ enduring India with the joys and pain of memory. brotherhood and magnetic musicianship (USA) Experimental Short Anonymity RITUAL shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, 8:00 pm, through candid conversations, raucous Director: Erik Schuessler Theater 5 BUENOS AIRES RECYCLERS (USA) performances, on-tour media interviews and FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, Director: Nikki Schuster 9:00 pm, Video C afé reflections and insight from friends and family. Narrative Short Tango, ear-splitting traffic, and a treasure trove Blazing performances and candid interviews Documentary Short THE BOOK OF JOE (USA) for litter. BUENOS AIRES RECYCLERS portraits convey the life, labor and brotherhood of Director: Mario Pena the cultural, social, and urban fabrics of this the Gourds, an Austin band beloved around AS I AM (USA) Director: Alan Spearman An action/sci-fi short film that pits Joe against city by means of experimental animation. The the world for its genre-jumping music and Death, an Angel, and even Jesus himself in viewer is guided to urban hideouts where little unpretentious vibe. The struggle of a young man in one of the an apocalyptic battle for the future of Earth. creatures dwell. These are digitally composed Friday, Oct. 11, 7:00 pm, Theater 1 poorest neighborhoods and cities in America, Dallas VideoFest 26 24 25 screenings

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with collected trash and typical local products. more importantly, is it necessary to know, that it Experimental Short this image from a 13” papier mache effigy of the The clatter of the limbs of these creatures is ours? The room is scanned through light and CANNOT BE ANYTHING AGAINST Felix The Cat cartoon character spinning on a interacts with the soundscapes of Buenos Aires. sound. These mediums create the barriers of THE WORLD (USA) turntable. Experimental Program 6: WHERE IS THE POWER (with room, just as they dissolve them and we are left Director: Flatform Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS a nod to Terri Thornton) – Sunday, Oct. 13, 1:45 pm, with the room we currently stay in. – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé Theater 1 Sequences of landscapes shot in an area of 60 Experimental Program 3: Time And O ther Dimensions km make up mosaics of places and reference – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé Animation Experimental short axes constantly changing that do not exist in our surroundings. In this video bodies are CHINESE DEMOCRACY AND THE LAST BURROW-CAMS (USA) Documentary Feature Director: Sam Easterson not near or far. They are large or small. The DAY ON EARTH (USA) CAMERA/WOMAN (Morocco) horizons change and no space is independent Director: Federico Solmi Features footage from cameras that have been Director: Karima Zoubir Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth placed inside underground animal habitats. from the viewer. Incorporating only memory, Working as a videographer at weddings in tale begins idyllically in the Garden of Eden Animals showcased include: burrowing owl, the landscape is seen in a variety of speeds Casablanca, Khadija Harrad is part of a new and ends in a bloody takeover of the Times black-footed ferret, porcupine, badger, prairie and movements that apply a bodily logic to the generation of young, divorced Moroccan Square. vole, swift fox, deer mouse, and the black tailed vision. That which flows beyond the walls of women seeking to realize their desires for our horizon together flow on the same plane. ANIMATION shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, 8:00 pm, prairie dog. independence while honoring their families’ Whilst the plans themselves also flow. Horizons Theater 1 Experimental Program 5: REWARDS AND LIMITATIONS wishes. Mother of an 11-year-old son and OF OBSERVATION – Sunday, Oct. 13, 6:30 pm, Video C afé change. Every living being is inside its own primary breadwinner for her parents and bubble which contains everything visible to Experimental Short siblings, she navigates daily between the Animation them and their space maintains the solidity of CIRCLE IN THE SAND (USA) elaborate fantasy world of the parties she their structure. With Cannot be anything against Director: Michael Robinson BUTTERFLIES (Australia) films and the demands from her traditionally Director: Isabel Peppard the wind the view is an individual projection In a broken near future, a band of listless conservative family. Sponsored by Women onto a site, the action is the individual or vagabonds ambles across a war-torn coastal A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to Make Movies. collective use of an environment, and the territory, supervised and sorted by a group make a living. She sells drawings to passersby. Saturday, Oct. 12, 6:15 pm, Theater 1 A businessman recognizes her talents and landscape is a view without action. The sky in of idle soldiers. Rummaging, stuttering, and this video is used as a natural “blue screen” and smashing through the leftovers of Western offers her a paying job. The prospect seems Animation inviting, but the reality threatens to kill her the sequences of each landscape, composed culture, these ragged souls conjure an unstable CAMP STORIES (USA) with a multilayers system, create a place that magic, fueled by their own apathy and the imagination. Director: David B. Levy ANIMATION shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, does not exist in reality. poisonous histories embedded in their 8:00 pm, Theater 1 Sometimes you have to leave home to find Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS unearthed junk. Suspicion, boredom, garbage, – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé where you belong. In CAMP STORIES, a poor and glamour conspire in the languid pageantry Experimental Short city kid volunteers at a summer camp and of ruin. Feel the breeze in your hair, and the discovers a whole new world in this animated Experimental short CAMERA MEMORIA (Germany) world crumbling through your fingers. Director: Franziska Vogel documentary. CAT SCANNED (USA) Experimental Program 4: COSMOGONIC BODIES – ANIMATION shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, Director: Michael Guccione Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:30 pm, Video C afé Do I really exist if no one remembers with me? 8:00 pm, Theater 1 Camera Memoria reflects on the collectivity of Interested in how a TV image is built (scanned memory in context with the cinematic room. lines/alternating fields), the filmmaker slows The Illusion of room and the illusion of cinema. down what takes place in nano-seconds to Our memory room has a screen and we can create a perceivable movie experience. More reflect upon the reality of what we see and recently, he comes across one of the first wonder if the experience is ours or not, and televised images from the 1920s. RCA created Dallas VideoFest 26 26 27 screenings

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Documentary Feature Experimental Short to create new possibilities of what in-game Friday, Oct. 11, 9:30 pm, Theater 2 CITY OF HATE - DALLAS THE COMPLECT VOICE (SUITE FOR BIRDS AND video can be. As players begin to prepare for a Experimental short AND THE ASSASSINATION MAMMALS) (USA) new season, the Dallas VideoFest will entrance DIARY OF PAMPLONA (Argentina) Director: Julie Rooney you with the Mavs spirit by showing some of (USA - Preview ScreenCiintyg) of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination Director: Gonzalo Egurza Director: Quin MatthewsA documentary by Quin Mathews This film seeks the collaborative efforts your favorite Dallas Mavericks videos. A trip to Pamplona in 1973, Behind the lovely Preview Screening at the 2013 Dallas VideoFest Screens with WILT CHAMBERLAIN: BORSCHT CITY OF HATE: DALLAS ANDCheck THE out the trailer: of humans and animals to create musical diaries, lies a story of love and intolerance. ASSASSINATION exploreshttp://www.vimeo.com/qmfilms a politically turbulent/cityofhate performances through a scored musical suite. BELT BELLHOP Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS These videos apply the structure of music to Sunday, Oct. 13, 2 pm, Theater 2 – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé city preparing for a presidential visit, the immense pride many Dallas residents felt to see the functional sounds made by animals from the president in their hometown and the city’s a variety of sources (alive, internet-based, Animation Experimental short damaged reputation that followed the death of taxidermied). Although union is seemingly A DAY FOR CAKE AND ACCIDENTS (USA) DIGBY (USA) President Kennedy. achieved, the tension between the deliberate Directors: Jesse Mott & Steve Reinke Director: Colette Copeland Director in attendance manipulation of the animals, the blurred This film features a cast of animal characters– “Maybe there is a beast or maybe it’s only Sunday, Oct 13, 7:45 pm, Theater 2 distinction between imitation sources, and the each of a different, though often indeterminate, us.” - William Golding, Lord of the Flies. A raft animal’s resistance to the formulation of music species–who struggle with impending ride through murky snake-filled water. An Experimental short emphasizes what separates and relates humans astrological despair and engage in absurdist abandoned tanker filled with blue smoke haze. C.L.U.E. (COLOR LOCATION ULTIMATE to other species. dialogs, confessing various melancholic desires A rope. A ritual. Experimental Program 5: REWARDS AND LIMITATIONS and transgressive secrets in poetic cartoon Experimental Program 1: IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON EXPERIENCE) PART 1 (USA) OF OBSERVATION – Sunday, Oct. 13, – Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:15 pm, Video C afé Directors: A.L. Steiner & Robbinschilds 6:30 pm, Video C afé abjection. This is the third in a series of short collaborative animations. InhabitingCity of Hate: theDallas intersection and the Assassination of human - 2013 Dallas movement VideoFest Preview Screening Documentary Feature andMedia architecture, Contact: Manny AlcalaA.L. –Steiner [email protected] and robbinschilds - c. 214 476 2877 - o. 214 e 744xp 9700er imental program 4 Experimental Program 1: IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON – Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:15 pm, Video C afé DINING WITH THE ENEMY (Norway) (Sonya Robbins and Layla Childs) present COSMOGONIC BODIES a full-spectrum video, set to a score by rock Food is a universal language that brings White Coat Phenomenon Narrative Feature quartet Kinski. Edited in succinct rainbow- Nine Gates people together... But what if the people are hued sections, each sequence features Physical Examination DESTINATION: PLANET NEGRO (USA) sworn enemies? In DINING WITH THE ENEMY Director: Kevin Willmott (from the maker of Ada an experienced war correspondent takes an robbinschilds in monochromastic gear, acting Intrigue and the Ronches CSA confederate states of America) in psychedelic contrast and communion with XXX Community Partner Texas Black Film expert gourmet chef to a conflict-ridden part of their surroundings. The artists traverse through Circle in the Sand Festival the world. Screens with OUR NIXON Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:30 pm, Video C afé desolate desert landscapes, darkened parking In 1939, a group of African American Saturday, Oct. 12, 2:30 pm, Theater 5 lots, and geological formations, responding intellectuals come up with an ingenious and Special Program to the environment through choreographed unlikely response to Jim Crow America—leave Drones in My Backyard duets. In a style that is obsessive, persistent, DALLAS MAVERICKS Directors: Deborah Kaufman & the planet and populate Mars. Using technology Alan Snitow and often humorous, robbinschilds reveal their Since Mark Cuban bought the Dallas Mavericks, created by George Washington Carver, a three- A funny and scary video mash-up about the observations of the human imprint on the world. among many other things, he changed the person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) coming of aerial drones to the United States. Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS look and feel of the experience of going to a lift-off in Earth’s first working spaceship on a One day a drone appears in the filmmakers’ – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé basketball game. A major part of this is what mission that will take them to a world not unlike backyard, hovering over their heads. It’s the is shown on the screen at the games. Going present-day America. Their spacey adventure catalyst for an extended meditation and free beyond the scores, the stats, the ads, into illuminates some hard truths about American association on the presence of drones in war- something that really entertains, and in sense culture and threatens to undermine the timeline making, the role of drones in surveillance, and the creative team at the Mavericks have helped of history along the way. Dallas VideoFest 26 28 29 screenings

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Documentary Short the thrill of flying when you put on goggles to figuring it out shorts block FOREVER IN HIATUS (Australia) see what the drone sees. They follow us... and Director: Andy Nguyen EVERY TUESDAY: A PORTRAIT OF THE NEW Forever in Hiatus we listen to the incessant buzzing of cameras The River A washed up former pop star lives in exile YORKER CARTOONISTS (USA) overhead. rubies pedaling a xich lo (bicycle taxi) aimlessly in Director: Rachel Gordon Loube Irresistible FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, Latent the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, until he meets a 9:00 pm, Video C afé The New Yorker Magazine is famous for its We Real Cool 16-year-old girl who discovers his identity. pithy, witty, and occasionally incomprehensible As I Am Silly Bastard Next to the Bed FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, Experimental Feature single-panel cartoons. The cartoons are well Anonymity 9:00 pm, Video C afé known, but the cartoonists are not. This film (USA) Drones in my Back Yard DUSTY STACKS OF MOM: THE POSTER STORY follows four of them—Sidney Harris, Emily Saturday, Oct. 12, 9:00 pm, Video Café Director: Jodie Mack Experimental Short Live Performance Flake, Drew Dernavich, and Zack Kanin— FORMER MODELS (USA) Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, through their creative process and their weekly Documentary Feature shared lunch. Director: Benjamin Pearson abstract animation, and rock opera, this (USA) FILMAGE: THE STORY OF DESCENDENTS / ALL Tells the tragic story of Milli Vanilli member animated musical documentary examines the Screens with STATIC HISTORY shorts block Directors: Directors Matt Riggle & Saturday, Oct. 12, 10:15 pm, Theater 5 Deedle LaCour Rob Pilatus’ transition from embodied subject rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and into pure image. A public and private history postcard wholesale business; the changing Sponsored by Charlie Uniform Tango Experimental short undo themselves as together they encounter role of physical objects and virtual data in Long before Green Day and Blink 182 inflicted the trials of Labor, Love, Loss and Planned commerce; and the division, or lack thereof, FALLOUT (USA) punk-rock’s puncture wound on the map of Director: Paul Turano Obsolescence. A body desires its other, a between abstract fine art and psychedelic mainstream music, the Descendents were in A futile gesture marking the one-year simulation is transgressed and the ultimate kitsch. Using alternate lyrics as voice-over a garage concocting the perfect mix of pop, anniversary of the collateral calamity at the price is paid - “No-body is above The Law.” narration, this piece adopts the form of a angst, love, and coffee. Rush Line only. DP Justin Fukushima nuclear power facility, surveying a Experimental Program 1: IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON popular rock album reinterpreted as a cine- Wilson in Attendance more invisible tsunami. Scientific predictions – Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:15 pm, Video C afé performance. Screens with HARDCORE EL PICANTE of the residual effects are undercut by the Thursday, Oct. 10, 9 pm, Theater 2 Thursday, Oct. 10, 9:45 pm, Theater 5 cheerfully benign day-glow colors assigned to Narrative Feature the threat. A gradual contamination of the image Documentary Feature FORTY YEARS FROM YESTERDAY (USA) short and increasing waves of fear give way to an Directors: Robert Machoian & EMERGING FILMMAKERS OF NORTH TEXAS FINDING HILLYWOOD (USA) Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck irradiated bloom. Director: Leah Warshawski After an unexpected and tragic event, Bruce (HIGH SCHOOL SHORTS) Experimental Program 1: IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON Set amongst the hills of Rwanda, FINDING The work of the up and comers of the area. – Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:15 pm, Video C afé is forced to face the inevitable questions we HILLYWOOD chronicles one man’s road to Participating high schools include Parish spend our lives avoiding. forgiveness, his effort to heal his country, and Screens with SMALLER THAN THE SKY Episcopal, Hockaday, Richardson, Wylie East, Documentary Feature the realization that we all must one day face Sunday, Oct. 13, 2:00 pm, Video C afé Booker T Washington High School of the FAR FROM VIETNAM (France) our past. A unique and endearing documentary Performing and Visual Arts, Garland, McKinney Director: Chris Marker about the very beginning of Rwanda’s film FREEDOM FIGHTERS (USA) Boyd, TAG, and Berkner. In seven different parts, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, industry and the pioneers who bring local films Director: Jamie Meltzer Saturday, Oct. 12, 1:00 pm, Theater 5. Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy to rural communities. A real life example of the There’s a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, for the North-Vietnamees army during the power of film to heal a man and a nation. started by a group of exonerated men, with Vietnam-war. Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:00 pm, Theater 5 decades in prison served between them. They Pass holders only. call themselves the Freedom Fighters and they Sunday, Oct. 13, 5:00 pm, Theater 2 are looking to free innocent people still behind bars. FREEDOM FIGHTERS is a character-driven Dallas VideoFest 26 30 31 screenings

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documentary that follows these change-makers Animation about a business trip, a bloodstain and being conduits by which all meaning is drained from as they rebuild their lives and families, learn to A GAMEBOY LIFE (USA) okay. the world. A comedy, but not a pretty one. investigate cases, work to support each other, Director: Jose Cortez Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS Experimental Program 1: IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé and campaign to fix the criminal justice system. A forgotten video game device decides to go – Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:15 pm, Video C afé Ten-minute panel discussion. on an adventure to find the excitement he’s GOOGLE GLASS Documentary Short Subjects in Attendance been missing for many years. with guests Rob Garner, Screens with Something from Nothing ANIMATION shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, Michael Stancil, Cameron Gawley, HARDCORE EL PICANTE (USA) Saturday, Oct. 12, 12:30 pm, Theater 2 8:00 pm, Theater 1 Ryan Plesko & Luke Wallace Director: David Hernandez The Dallas VideoFest has a long tradition of Hardcore El Picante is a doc short about the Experimental feature Special Program showing off new technologies and invoking DIY punk scene hosting shows at the oldest FREE RADICALS: A HISTORY OF GEORGE GIMARC TALKS ABOUT thoughts about how they will affect us. Ever Taqueria in Denton, TX. EXPERIMENTAL FILM (USA) THE SEX PISTOLS AT THE since the first videos of Google Glass were on Director in Attendance Director: Pip Chodorov YouTube they have captured our imaginations. Screens with FILMAGE LONGHORN BALLROOM (USA) Thursday, Oct. 10, 9:00 pm, Theater 2 This feature-length documentary provides a Presenter: George Gimarc Like with all new technologies, the speculations vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal have been extreme. Clearly this technology has A band is sent on a self-destruct mission across introduction to one of the most important, yet touched a nerve. For many of us this is there is Documentary Short the USA and ignites a cultural shift uniting perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: a very high curiosity factor. So to scratch that A HOLY THING (USA) misfits in their wake. avant-garde cinema. itch and ask the questions you want to ask, the Director: The Perennial Plate Saturday, Oct. 12, 8:15 pm, Theater 5 Screens with LIE BACK AND ENJOY IT Dallas VideoFest brings you a panel of people In Gujarat, spending two days with Bhaskar Sunday, Oct. 13, 7:30 pm, Theater 1 who live and walk among us here in the DFW Save–the Gandhi of Indian farming after visiting getting in trouble shorts block area who are using them. They will talk about his family, the viewer sees their way of life Documentary Feature Pearl was Here Your Move their experiences, what they like and don’t like, and cuisine. The filmakers were inspired to FREE THE BUTTERFLY/ Book of Joe and you can ask them the questions. Along the compose a type of visual “poem” out of his non- Towing UWOLNIC MOTYLA (Poland) A Pizza Chegou way we will show a few videos made with and violent philosophy. The Bear Director: Joanna Frydrych about Google Glass. We have come along way RITUAL shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, 8:00 pm, Sunday, Oct. 13, 6:15 pm, Theater 5 Theater 5 Catherine Rosicka-Jaczynska used to have since the days of the virtual reality goggles and gloves. money, beauty, and fame, until she got sick. Experimental Short While ALS kills in average after four years, she Sunday, Oct. 13, 11:15 am, Theater 2 HOME MOVIE DAY GIRLS LOVE HORSES (USA) Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur lives more than a dozen. This disease takes the Director: Jennifer Reeder Experimental Short films and filmmaking held annually at many possibility of any movement, and Catherine is A professional woman, traveling alone, (Canada) local venues worldwide. Home Movie Day exceptionally active. She is not able to speak GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE recalls and reenacts an incident from her Director: Steve Reinke events provide the opportunity for individuals a single word, but wrote a book that became a adolescence after injuring herself off-camera. An individual component of The Tiny and families to see and share their own home This experimental narrative unravels patiently bestseller. Catherine achieves everything she Ventriloquist, this film traces the movement of movies with an audience in their community, and points to melodrama as a potential form wants, except one of the most important things. a voice from being rooted in a particular body and to see their neighbors’ in turn. The great of plot structure. An adult female and the girl Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:00 pm, Theater 1 (the artist’s) to its dispersal through a variety of media archivist and media philosopher Rick ghost from her past emerge and retreat within dummies. Whatever is going on on top, there’s Prellinger talks about how it is important to look real-time exchanges and previously recorded a precise machine at work below, and this at the ephemeral media to really understand a footage. The linearity is disrupted by magical machine is digging little grooves, and these culture. Industrial, educational films, and home b-roll and a constant shift between the actual grooves slowly join together and become the movies tell us so much about who were are and and imagined. This is a fractured little story Dallas VideoFest 26 32 33 screenings

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were, how we treated one another, what we Experimental Short Hepburn and Cary Grant. darkroom developing. valued, and what we, at that moment thought INTRIGUE AND THE RONCHES (USA) FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, Filmmaker in Attendance 9:00 pm, Video C afé was worth preserving. But unlike tattoos that are Director: Kurdwin Ayub FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, images we hope will have lasting value, home “No matter when, no matter where I´ll be, I´m 9:00 pm, Video C afé movies are often discarded, until someone dies looking for a woman that will satisfy me.” A Documentary Feature or we are looking for a reason to embarrass penis performs a cult hit by the Sonics, swings KanZeOn (Japan) Documentary Feature someone. There was a therapist who asked their its “hips” and gathers a group of vaginas around Directors: Neil Cantwell & Tim Grabham LEVIATHAN (France) patients to bring in home moves of them as a it. As groupies do, they are looking to be close A mystical film journey from the timeless to the Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Parave kid to see what their parents were really like. to the lead singer, but things turn out differently. modern looking at the ritual role of sound in A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and Rarely do those images match the memory. Experimental Program 4: COSMOGONIC BODIES – Japanese culture and religion Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:30 pm, Video C afé focused on the commercial fishing industry. So here on home movie day, we celebrate those Sunday, Oct. 13, 12 pm, Theater 5 memories as they were preserved. Bring us Sunday, Oct. 13, 3:15 pm, Theater 2 Experimental Short your past and share it with us. Experimental Short. LIE BACK AND ENJOY IT: A FILM ABOUT Presented by Video association of Dallas and the THE INVISIBLE WORLD (USA) KINEFAKTURA (Poland) Dallas Municipal Archives. Director: Jesse McLean Director: Marcin Gizycki JOANN ELAM (USA) Director: Jessica Bardsley Saturday, Oct. 12, 12:00 pm, Video C afé A deceased hoarder, reconstituted through Three animated variations on Henryk Berlewi’s JoAnn Elam was an experimental filmmaker, technology, recounts a difficult childhood ‘Mechanofaktura. Dynamic Contrasts’ of 1924 postal worker, and social activist. This film Experimental Short as inhabitants of a virtual world struggle to based on some hints given by the artist himself. remixes JoAnn’s footage as a way of introducing reconcile materialistic tendencies. A scientist Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS IN REPS OF LONG-PLAY (USA) viewers to her life and work. Director: Olivia Ciummo leads an effort to understand the passage of – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé time, but the data is unreliable. The question Screens with FREE RADICALS The curtain opens and Greek pillars mark an Sunday, Oct. 13, 7:30 pm, Theater 1 remains, what happens to our things after we Narrative Short entry point to staged happenings. The imagined are gone? In this video, materialism, emotional stage actors command movement as the LA MIRADA PERDIDA (Argentina) Experimental short presence and the adaptive nature of human Director: Damián Dionisio director controls stillness and points out spots beings are broadly considered through the LINE DESCRIBING YOUR MOM (USA) for the viewers to look. Argentina, 1976. Claudio is forced to live with Director: Michael Robinson lens of time. A variety of time-based materials Director in Attendance his family in hiding, due to his political ideals. This is the new choreography of devotion, are collected (including home movies, Experimental Program 5: REWARDS AND LIMITATIONS The house in which they live is discovered by via the vlog of Southern nightmares. This is OF OBSERVATION – Sunday, Oct. 13, internet videos, Sci-fi seventies films, and a the militars. No time to flee, Teresa try to shelter the light that never goes out. This is the LINE 6:30 pm, Video C afé photographed archive of objects) and collaged, his daughter in a fantasy world to avoid the girl DESCRIBING YOUR MOM. revealing the filmmaker’s own hoarding look at the horror they are about to live. experimental program 1 Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS tendencies. How will we relate our materialist STATIC HISTORY shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON tendencies in this new world of immateriality? 10:15 pm, Theater 5 Experimental Program 1: IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON Animated Documentary Short A Day for Cake and Accidents – Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:15 pm, Video C afé Fallout Narrative Short Great Blood Sacrifice LIVING CONDITION - BILL’S STORY LATENT (USA) Directors: Dee Hibbert Jones & Digby Music Video Former Models Director: Nate Kantor Nomi Talisman The Invisible World IRRESISTIBLE (USA) A unique short film that subjects honesty from Screened in partnership with Make Art with Thimblerig Director: George Wada Purpose for MAP 2013 We Regret To Inform You the Biblical ideal that all will be brought to light. Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:15 pm, Video C afé In this music video, singer-songwriter Tommy The story finds its relation through the art of An animated documentary that tells the Homonym strolls through Paris in the 1963 Photography and the chemical process behind stories of four families living with a relative thriller “Charade” pining for both Audrey condemned to execution. Each family bears Dallas VideoFest 26 34 35 screenings FILM DECAYS MEMORY FADES TRUTH lucky IS CORRUPTEDnatan natan

witness to highly politicized events, describing Documentary Feature departure, the Danish family promises to stay GETTING IN TROUBLE shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, 6:15 pm, Theater 5 the impact of capital punishment on whole LUCKY (USA) in Screenworktouch andS pre Stheent a adoptionfilm by DaviD c airnagencyS & paul agreesDuane to communities, a perspective that is rarely, Director: Laura Checkoway broker the relationship. What seems like the if ever, heard. LIVING CONDITION brings Spanning five years on the streets of NYC, this best decision for the children becomes a series Documentary Feature up discussions surrounding Death penalty intimate documentary follows Lucky Torres, a of tragic and painful events for all, unveiling MOMS MABLEY: I GOT SOMETHIN’ TO TELL and offers new perspectives on crime and young mother and homeless lesbian masked in that the wellbeing of children is not always YOU (USA) NATAN“An extraordinary, largely forgotten story... a superb documentary. ★★★★” Irish Times justice, human rights, costs to society, as well tattoos who longs to rise from a life of darkness. A Reel Art filmthe funded by the Artsmain Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíonpriority | Executive Producer Craig McCall in | Music bythe Seti the First adoption process. Director: Whoopi Goldberg Sound Mix Leon O’Neill | Effects & Graphics Enda O’Connor | Online Editor/Colourist Ian de Brí | Director of Photography Scott Ward Voiceover Artist Gavin Mitchell | Featuring Niall Greig Fulton as The False Natan | Editor Eoin McDonagh | Script by David Cairns as questions of racial equality and access Sunday, Oct. 13, 12 pm, Video C afe Produced by PaulGreed, Duane | Directed by David Cairns selfishness, & Paul Duane © Screenworks Ltd 2013 unrealistic expectations and Comedy pioneer Moms Mabley, often referred to opportunities. As each story unfolds, the natan_A2_poster_ART.indd 1 skewed cultural perspectives idealizing one17/06/2013 16:50 to as “the funniest woman in the world,” comes audience learns more about each case and Narrative Short way of life over another collide in this powerful to life again, complete with rolling laughter and the ways characters struggle to cope, living MARTINDALE (USA) story. measured eloquence, in Whoopi Goldberg’s in proximity to capital punishment. The Director: Bug Davidson Saturday, Oct. 12, 4:15 pm, Theater 1 directorial debut. This astute first documentary viewer moves from the most personal family A collaborative work from Bug Davidson and feature showcases Mabley’s talent and pays experiences, to learn about the systems that Two Left Feet dance company. The filmmakers Documentary Feature homage to a woman whose relevance still surround us - social, economic, moral, political sought lost memories, history, and a trace of MIRACLE BODY EPISODE 1: resonates today. and judicial. At the Dallas Videofest, the artists domesticity in the rural southwest. Once a “USAIN BOLT, SECRET OF CIVILIZATION’S Friday Oct. 11, 9:45 pm, Theater 7 will be screening the story of Bill. thriving agricultural community, the city of FASTEST” (Japan) Screens with AN UNREAL DREAM Martindale, Texas now awaits a purpose. Its Director: Yoriko Koizumi Documentary Feature Saturday, Oct. 12, 3 pm, Theater 3 structures are in a state of instability as a new A look at the body of Usain Bolt. Bolt is the NATAN (Ireland) era makes its mark on the town. This work Director: Paul Duane Compilation Jamaican sprinter who is widely regarded as questions the possibility of marginalized LONDON INTERNATION the fastest person ever. He is the first man to How did the man, who—more than any other— identities to make a historical impact on these hold both the 100 meters and 200 meters world paved the way for French national cinema ADVERTIZING AWARDS territories as apparitions. records. This Japanese Tv series seeks to show become completely forgotten, especially so in LIAA was the first comprehensive award of RITUAL shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, 8:00 pm, the science behind why special people can be, France? Why was Bernard Natan’s name erased Theater 5 its kind, established in London 28 years ago, well special. They take great pains to be able from the history of cinema, despite the fact to accept all media and executions from all to show how his body moves, and at time it is so that he dominated the French film industry for Documentary Feature over the world to be judged by a truly diverse beautiful you forget about the science. most of the 1920s and ‘30s? David Cairns and international jury, comprised of the most MERCY MERCY: A PORTRAIT OF A TRUE Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:45 pm, Theater 2 Paul Duane have excavated an extraordinary talented, recognized and awarded individuals. ADOPTION (DENMARK) tale that aims to rewrite the history of European Each year, it is the commitment to the integrity Director: Katrine Riis Kjaer Narrative Short cinema. of the judging process and the contributions of Easily one of the most important documentaries MR. BEAR (Spain) Thursday, Oct. 10, 9:15 pm, Theater 1 the Jury Presidents that bolster and uphold LIA’s on intercountry adoption, MERCY MERCY offers Director: Andrés Rosende tradition of awarding only the most inspirational a rare look at all participants in the adoption It’s Christmas again—family, presents, parties... vExperimental Short ideas. process, including the parents who give their the worst time of the year for Steve. Driving NINE GATES (USA) Sunday, Oct. 13, 12:45 pm, Theater 2 children up. Two loving Ethiopians parents, through New York City for Christmas Eve Director: Pawel Wojtasik Sinkenesh and Hussen, just diagnosed with dinner, his car breaks down and he accidentally This film explores the possibility of HIV are told they have only a year to live. They stumbles upon a crime scene. Mistaken for the transcendence through sexual passion: make the painful decision to give their two notorious cleaner, Mr. Bear, Steve has to face averting the gaze from the objectification of youngest children up for adoption, handing a difficult choice—dismember and get rid of the other, the female body or the obscure them over to a Danish family. In an emotional some bodies or become a corpse himself. enemy, to the vast and microscopic details of Dallas VideoFest 26 36 37 screenings

OUR NIXON ON THE SPOT ownerbuilt PETITE HISTOIRE DES PLATEAUX ABANDONNéS

the body unknown to the viewer, becoming a Short Screens with DINING WITH THE ENEMY Experimental short Saturday, Oct. 12, 2:30 pm, Theater 5 meditation on love beyond definition. Exposing Bu Sahilde (On the Coast) (Turkey) PHYSICAL EXAMINATION (USA) close-up images of all openings of the female Directors: Merve Kayan & Zeynep Dadak Director: Mauri Lehtonen Animation body, Wojtasik’s camera, while moving slowly, Bu Sahilde (On the Coast) is a short essay film Abandoned movie sets are scattered around searches and probes the orifices described on the ephemeral feeling of summer, observed OWNERBUILT (USA) South Moroccan deserts. In this work they Director: Lawrence Andrews by Apollinaire, enhanced by size and visual in Erikli, a small coastal town on the Aegean are used again but the actors are two local clarity, thus enabling a stunningly direct and Sea in Turkey. The film reflects on the nature of Hurricane Katrina destroyed Noel’s home and kids, born not far from the film studios near visceral intimate gaze onto and into these vacation, as it is a transformed version of reality, as he rebuilds, he evokes the past, but his Ouarzazate. The two kids re-enact a few lines zones of the body. Deliberately interlocking the fantastical counterpart to winter. memories are complicated by the tragic events from movies that have been shot there, an anatomy and pornography, Wojtasik reflects TRAVELIN’ shorts block – Thursday, Oct. 10, of Danziger Bridge. American horror movie, Lawrence of Arabia... through sensuous camera work and careful 8:00 pm, Theater 7 Saturday, Oct. 12, 4 pm, Video C afe and all around natural and the uncontaminated editing the question of beauty within the landscapes of the Draa Valley stand outside of context of the human condition, by examining ON THE SPOT (israel) Narrative Short time. the operations of desire in the act of looking. Directors: Eszter Cseke & PEARL WAS HERE (USA) RITUAL shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, 8:00 pm, NINE GATES boldly addresses the nature of Andras S. Takacs Director: Kate Marks Theater 5 love and visuality by using the body as a portal, ON THE SPOT is a Hungarian TV series where A little brat finds solace in a sea of stuffed overcoming the raw reality of the visible and reporter / journalists /filmmakers Andras S. animals. Narrative Short directing the viewer toward the implications of Takacs travel world looking for a different GETTING IN TROUBLE shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, A PIZZA CHEGOU (Brazil) perception superseding actuality by entering take on the news of the day Gaza, 2012. A 6:15 pm, Theater 5 Director: Joe Tripician the realm of fantasy and ultimately reinstating a Qassam-fighter is collecting the remaining A young Brazilian girl has been evicted from universal polymorphous state of bliss. parts of Ahmed Jabari’s body from his wreck documentary Short a local slum along with her entire family. She Experimental Program 4: COSMOGONIC BODIES – after an Israeli airstrike that killed the head of PETITE HISTOIRE DES delivers pizzas by motorbike to support them. Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:30 pm, Video C afé al-Qassam Brigade. A Palestinian journalist who PLATEAUX ABANDONNÉS (Italy) By chance she encounters the man who evicted doesn’t believe in violence, is getting a phone Director: Rä di Martino them and faces a choice between forgiveness Experimental Short call, his 8-year-old daughter was hit. A shiver and revenge. Abandoned movie sets are scattered around NOT TORN (ASUNDER FROM cut three of her fingers off. Parallel stories of the GETTING IN TROUBLE shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, South Moroccan deserts. In this work they THE VERY START) (Canada/USA) Qassam-fighter whose dream is to blow himself 6:15 pm, Theater 5 Director: Steve Reinke up to take revenge and the journalist who is are used again but the actors are two local The archive is not a repository of cultural willing to do anything to get her daughter into kids, born not far from the film studios near short memory, but of dreams, a bank of dream an Israeli hospital - the only place where she Ouarzazate. The two kids re-enact a few lines PRAXIX material. Both memory and archive embrace can be saved. The birth of hatred and hope - the from movies that have been shot there, an Director: Bruno Moraes Cabral death, but from contrary positions. The archive chronicles of the latest conflict in Gaza. American horror movie, Lawrence of Arabia... Year after year, students from across the country is a mausoleum that pretends to be a vast Saturday, Oct 12, 11:30 am, Theater 2 and all around natural and the uncontaminated subject themselves to initiation rites when garden. Memory is an irradiated zoo in which landscapes of the Draa Valley stand outside of they start college. Hazings, organized by older the various animals are mutating extravagantly OUR NIXON (USA) students, take place throughout the whole Director: Penny Lane time. and dying slowly. An individual component RITUAL shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, 8:00 pm, first year. Based upon ancient traditions and An all-archival documentary presenting those from The Tiny Ventriloquist. Theater 5 following a rigid hierarchy, hazings have thrived Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS home movies for the first time, along with other once again in the last decade. They gather more – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé rare footage, creating an intimate and complex and more supporters, thrilled with its explicit portrait of the Nixon presidency as never seen sexual language, power games and different before. Dallas VideoFest 26 38 39 screenings

the realist girls love horses still sheldon leonard’s wonderful life

levels of humiliation. Experimental Program 2: GLOSSOLALIA – Saturday, Documentary Feature Narrative Short Oct. 12, 7:00 pm, Video C afé RITUAL shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, 8:00 pm, ROBERT WILLIAMS MR BITCHIN’ (USA) RUBIES (USA) Theater 5 Directors: Mary C Reese & Director: Lizette Barrera experimental program 5 Nancye Ferguson A single mother throws a birthday party for Documentary Feature This film delivers insight into multiple REWARDS AND LIMITATIONS OF OBSERVATION the manipulative father of her child in order to American countercultures by following the PUNK JEWS (USA) rekindle their relationship. Directors: Jesse Zook Mann & Burrow-Cams great American artist and underground legend Evan Kleinman (Producer) The Complect Voice Filmmaker in Attendance (Suite for Birds and Mammals) Robert Williams. From Hot Rods to Punk and Co-Producer: Saul Sudin FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, In Reps of Long Play Metal, from LSD to the top of the art world, the Co-presented by 3 Stars Cinema Trespass 9:00 pm, Video C afé After Treatment influential paintings of Robert Williams defied Profiling Hassidic punk rockers, Yiddish street Their Houses categorization until they became their own art Sunday, Oct. 13, 6:30 pm, Video C afé Narrative Short performers, African-American Jewish activists movement. and more, PUNK JEWS explores an emerging SCIENCE GIRL TV SHOW (NEW ZEALAND/USA) ritual shorts block Saturday, Oct. 12, 10:30 pm, Theater 1 Director: Kaleta Doolin (Exectutive movement of provocateurs and committed Jews Producer) and Andrew Dean (Director) who are asking, each in his or her own way, what Petite Histoire des Plateaux Abandonnés Praxix Documentary Feature At a high school in New Zealand, girls in the it means to be Jewish in the 21st century. Jewish Martindale The Rolling Stones: band “Science Girl” are assigned to write a artists, activists and musicians from diverse a Holy Thing Big Time song about water purity. Their quest to create backgrounds and communities are defying Some Girls tour 1978, texas (USA) Sunday, Oct. 13, 8:00 pm, Theater 5 Director: Lynn Lenau the perfect song takes a twist when the school’s norms and expressing their Jewish identities in water turns murky, and a sleuthing adventure unconventional ways. In the process, they are The Rolling Stones 1978 tour of the USA in Narrative Short commences involving helicopters, laboratories, challenging stereotypes and breaking down support of that year’s Some Girls album is THE RIVER (USA) cows, and creepy janitors. barriers. Meet Yishai, lead singer of Moshiach considered by fans to be one of their very best. Director: Sam Handel Producer in Attendance Oi; Radical performance group, the Sukkos The tour followed immediately on the release On a sweltering hot day, a very pregnant Saturday, Oct 12, 11:45 am, Theater 5 Mob; the renegade Orthodox participants of of the Some Girls album and by the time the grocery store clerk (Lauren Ambrose) yearns Cholent; the Amazing Amy Yoga Yenta; Kal band arrived in Texas in mid-July the album for the relief of a dip in the local river, but finds Documentary Feature Holczler, founder of Voices of Dignity; and had hit the #1 spot on the US charts. The tour the trip rife with complications. African American Jewish hip hop sensation took a back to basics approach, with the band SHELDON LEONARD’S FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, and their music very much at the forefront and (USA) Y-Love. 9:00 pm, Video C afé WONDERFUL LIFE Director and Producer in attendance little or no elaborate staging. Filmed at the Director: Allan Holzman Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:30 pm, Theater 5 Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Hollywood producer Sheldon Leonard looks Experimental Texas, on July 18th, 1978, this concert is typical back on his legacy, creating some of the most THE ROAD LED HERE (USA) Experimental Short of the tour with the Rolling Stones delivering a influential sitcoms on television, with some Director: Jennifer Hardacker raw, energetic performance in front of a crowd of the biggest television stars of all time. The THE REALIST (USA) The story of a discontented voyager who finally who are clearly loving the show. Originally roster of shows Leonard produced and/or Director: Scott Stark finds a place to end her journey, but what is it shot on 16mm film, the footage has been directed include “The Andy Griffith Show,” An experimental and highly abstracted about this place? carefully restored and the sound remixed and “The Danny Thomas Show,” “The Dick Van melodrama, a “doomed love story” Experimental Program 2: GLOSSOLALIA – Saturday, remastered by Bob Clearmountain from the Dyke Show,” “I Spy,” “Gomer Pyle, USMC,” and Oct. 12, 7:00 pm, Video C afé storyboarded with flickering still photographs, original multitrack tapes. This is undeniably the “My Favorite Martian,” most of which still air in peopled with department store mannequins, Rolling Stones at the peak of their form. Rush syndication decades after their initial run. Rush and located in the visually heightened universe line only. Crew in Attendance Line only. Filmmaker in Attendance of clothing displays, fashion islands and Saturday, Oct. 12, 9:45 pm, Theater 2 storefront windows. Thursday, Oct. 10, 7:15 pm, Theater 5 Dallas VideoFest 26 40 41 screenings

Shored up smaller than sky siggraph

Documentary Feature million times. rewards of allowing yourself to experience Thursday, Oct. 10, 7:00 pm, Theater 1 SHORED UP (USA) FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, relationships, redemption, our search for family, Director: Bill Kalina 9:00 pm, Video C afé community and home and the beauty and truth Static history shorts block A documentary that asks tough questions about that is often found in seemingly unlikely places. Experimental Blighted Beauty our coastal communities and our relationship Screens with Freedom Fighters Skinningrove to the land. What will a rising sea do to our SKINNINGROVE (USA) Saturday, Oct 12, 12:30 pm, Theater 2 Words Alone Saturday, Oct. 12, 10:15 pm, Theater 5 homes, our businesses, and the survival of our Director: Michael Almereyda communities? Can we afford to pile enough A photographer shares unpublished images Animation chronicling time spent among the “fiercely (USA) STUBBORN PRACTICE (USA) sand on our shores to keep the ocean at bay? In A SONG OF TRYANNY Director: Gregory Ruppe Long Beach Island, New Jersey, and the Outer independent” residents of a remote English Director: Federico Solmi For his TCU MFA thesis in 2012, Gregory Ruppe Banks of North Carolina, surfers, politicians, fishing village. The prelude of the trilogy, this film introduces made a film called Stubborn Practice in which scientists, and residents are racing to answer STATIC HISTORY shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, the Chinese ruler/tyrant hell-bent on the 10:15 pm, Theater 5 he ghost crashes his Minarelli motorcycle into a these questions. Our development of the invasion of America getting interviewed by cinder-block wall in the desert of Texas. coastlines place us in a tough predicament and American journalists. Documentary Short Experimental Program 6: WHERE IS THE POWER (with it’s time to start looking for solutions. ANIMATION shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, a nod to Terri Thornton) – Sunday, Oct. 13, 1:45 pm, Friday, Oct. 11, 7 pm, Video C afé SMALLER THAN THE SKY (UAE) 8:00 pm, Theater 1 Theater 1 Director: Rebekah Louisa Smith

Compilation of Computer Animation What happens when everything that you took Narrative Feature Experimental for granted was lost in an instant? What would SIGGRAPH (USA) SPRING EDDY (USA) SUITE ANCIENNE (USA) Directors: Faythe Levine & Sam Macon you do, when you can’t do anything? This film is Director: George Anson Director: Roger Deutsch set entirely within a crashed car and takes the The world’s premier conference on computer This modern madcap involves bungled hold- SUITE ANCIENNE takes the viewers via auto, audience.... graphics and interactive techniques, welcomed ups, a car chase starring a horse, teepee motels, boat, and plane to an unexpected destination. Screens with FORTY YEARS FROM YESTERDAY Sunday, and at its heart, a love story. Eddy, a small-time 22,549 artists, research scientists, gaming Oct. 13, 2:00 pm, Video C afé World premiere with filmmaker in attendance. experts and developers, filmmakers, students, bad guy with terrible instincts, ends up in a TRAVELIN’ shorts block – Thursday, Oct. 10, Texas jail—and that’s just the beginning of and academics from 79 countries around the Narrative Feature 8:00 pm, Theater 7 globe. his trouble. His fiancée Jeannie heads there SOFT IN THE HEAD (USA) Saturday, Oct. 12, 2:00 pm, Theater 1 to spring him, and Sydney, a Chicago gun for Experimental Short Director: Nathan Silver hire, is on his way too—with other intentions. Kicked out of her apartment, Natalia wanders When Jeannie crashes her car into local guy Sunday School with Documentary Short Franz Hinkelammert THE SILLY BASTARD New York City, crashing a family’s holiday HR’s truck, the dominos of chance tumble. meal, staying at a men’s shelter, and dragging This screwball crime comedy fuses the best Director: Jim Finn NEXT TO THE BED (USA) everyone down with her. An ode to anxiety and A film about liberation theologian and Director: Scott Calonico traditions of Western films and the modern New York. chaos of the Coen Brothers. And much like economist Franz Hinkelammert. “Finn’s witness One of the most popular US Presidential phone Sunday, Oct. 13, 5:15 pm, Theater 1 Raising Arizona, the desperation fueling these eye travels to the origin of a theory that stands call recordings celebrates its 50th birthday on characters is real and humane. These four souls on the “theology of liberation” in order to July 25, 2013. In the phone call, recorded on July Documentary Short start out in a caper and end up in a romance, reinterpret the last years of universal history 25, 1963, President John Kennedy berates an much to their happy surprise. It goes to show of political and social-economical iniquity, Air Force general in the Pentagon for wasteful SOMETHING FROM NOTHING (USA) Director: Hal Samples that in this life, sometimes it’s more dangerous focusing on Allende’s Chile, Reagan, the expenditures, using some rather salty language. SOMETHING FROM NOTHING is a film about to give up than to keep going, even when you’ve connection between the US and Latin America, In various outlets on the web, such as YouTube, thepower of serving others, the risk and already gone too far. Crew in attendance. false utopias, and several other ideological the recording has been heard close to half a Dallas VideoFest 26 42 43 screenings

pearl was here united in anger: a history to act up towing turning a corner

wanderings of contemporary culture. the corporate “mouse music” dominating pop C.L.U.E. Experimental short What Once Was Experimental Program 6: WHERE IS THE POWER (with culture. Since 1960, he has been the guiding TRESPASS (Austria) a nod to Terri Thornton) – Sunday, Oct. 13, 1:45 pm, Cat Scanned Directed by Paul Wenninger in collaboration force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé Theater 1 with Nik Hummer bringing Cajun music out of Louisiana, Tex-Mex The camera, in a single continuous shot, moves out of Texas, blues out of the country – and into TIME EXPOSURE (USA) TAMI TEXAS HITS Director: Alfred Guzzetti through a great variety of landscapes and The Texas Archive of the Moving Image the living rooms of Middle America. American interiors, while remaining the steady observer A meditation on a photograph of a South presents home movies of Texas including music has never been the same. Born a German and companion of the male character whose Philadelphia street taken by the filmmaker’s footage of Six Flags in 1971, a magic show by count, Strachwitz fled his homeland after body is the film’s one constant feature and a father in 1938 - its origins, its consequences, the Dallas’ Mark Wilson, a special appearance WWII at 16. Here, he discovered, and shared, a monad of sorts. The man, though he moves place it portrays. by David Bowie, and more. Plus, get a sneak musical landscape that most Americans missed. outside these ever-changing, unstable spaces preview of home movies from their newest He takes us on a hip-shaking stomp from Texas and their axes of time, is at the same time inside Experimental Short curated collection (launching in November) to New Orleans, Cajun country to Appalachia, and yet somehow separated or liberated from focused on Texas’ response to the Kennedy TIME PRESENT (USA) them. The only recurring location is a room, as he continues his passionate quest for the Director: Alfred Guzzetti assassination. which in the beginning had grown out of a musical soul of America. Saturday, Oct. 12, 1 pm, Video C afé A wordless meditation on the present moment white wall, in which the man, naked at first, is Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling’s spirited by a composer and a filmmaker. gradually clothed and given an environment. tour through the Deep South (visiting Ry TRAVELIN’ shorts block – Thursday, Oct. 10, Experimental short Isolated by virtue of being out of time, he goes Cooder, Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Michael 8:00 pm, Theater 7 THEIR HOUSES (USA) about his daily routine, taking no notice of his Director: Cam Archer Doucet, the Pine Leaf Boys, and more) traces surroundings. This has the effect of inverting Narrative Short Filmmaker Cam Archer examines and explores one man’s obsession, and the fortuitous family his body’s relation to time and space, as we his ordinary, suburban neighborhood in that it has created. TOWING see time and space are now following his search of hidden truths, new narratives and a Directors and Subject in attendance Director: Wenhwa Ts’ao movements, instead of the movements being better understanding of his fading, creative Saturday, Oct. 12, 7:00 pm, Theater 2 A film about a female veteran’s struggle to constrained by them, as is usually the case. The self. Combing heavily degraded video with make the adjustment to civilian life, one fateful reinterpretation of this relation is reinforced personal photographs and real life neighbors, THIMBLERIG (USA) night her experiences in the war come back to when the man sees his own corpse and the sight Archer re-imagines the concept of “home Director: Jesse Malmed challenge her as she’s yet again forced to face distances him even further from the logic of the video” In an attempt to distance himself from Body swaps, time manifest and made literal, meaningless death. TOWING explores themes space-time continuum. his subjects, actress Jena Malone narrates the multiverse tears, two minds to a body, dream of gender, race and class with a feminine Experimental Program 5: REWARDS AND LIMITATIONS OF OBSERVATION – Sunday, Oct. 13, piece as Archer in the first person. babies, singtalk, represented realities perspective on the emotional effects of war. 6:30 pm, Video C afé Experimental Program 5: REWARDS AND LIMITATIONS Experimental Program 1: IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON GETTING IN TROUBLE shorts block – Sunday, OF OBSERVATION – Sunday, Oct. 13, – Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:15 pm, Video C afé Oct. 13, 6:15 pm, Theater 5 Animation 6:30 pm, Video C afé experimental program 3 travelin’ shorts block TURNING A CORNER (USA) Documentary Feature Director: David B. Levy TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS Venice: Under Water (USA) Time Present A chance encounter leads a poor kid from THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC! Kinefaktura Directors: Chris Simon & Suite Ancienne Brooklyn with college dreams to fight the fates Camera Memoria Bu Sahilde (On the Coast) Maureen Gosling Cannot Be Anything Against the Wind for a chance to change his life. Thursday, Oct. 10, 8:00 pm, Theater 7 Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep Not Torn (Asunder from the Very Start) ANIMATION shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, Diary of Pamplona 8:00 pm, Theater 1 American music, music that’s the antithesis of Line Describing Your Mom Girls Love Horses

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Bill Allison Mark Landrum Maggie Olson Caitlin Baker Steve Martin John Raley Jesse Baker Lisa Masters Conn Barry Scheck Phillip Baker Nina Morrison Gary Stinnett Dallas VideoFest 26 Lou Bryan 44 Michael Morton Richard Vieira 45 Richard King screeningsEric Olson

the unreal dream: the michael morton story vessel

Documentary Feature Both Texas And Texans Words Alone Narrative Short UNITED IN ANGER: There is no longer any doubt about the strength Above all, words alone are not enough. The WE REAL COOL (USA) A HISTORY OF ACT UP (USA) and skill of American science, American United States is a peaceful nation. And where Director: Alex Ruiqing Ma Director: Jim Hubbard industry, American education, and the our strength and determination are clear, our A newly adopted teenage girl of minority The film explores how the diverse members of American free enterprise system. In short, our words need merely to convey conviction, not ethnicity hangs out late at night with her ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) national space effort represents a great gain in, belligerence. If we are strong, our strength will old friends on her birthday, only to find her came together to save their own lives and to and a great resource of, our national strength speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of Caucasian guardian waiting for her worriedly change the world. — and both Texas and Texans are contributing no help. when she tries to sneak back home, then Friday, Oct. 11, 9:45 pm, Theater 5 greatly to this strength. STATIC HISTORY shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, realizes what home really means to her. 10:15 pm, Theater 5 FIGURING IT OUT shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, Dissidant Voices 9:00 pm, Video C afé Documentary Feature AN UNREAL DREAM: DISSIDANT VOICES: 50 patrons from a local Experimental short Dallas coffee shop looking through an art book VENICE: UNDER WATER (USA) Experimental short THE MICHAEL MORTON STORY (USA) created from the speech edited together to Director: Chip Lord WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU (USA) Director: Al Reinert make a stop-motion animated film. Screened in partnership with Make Art with VENICE: UNDER WATER is a meditation on the Director: Wago Kreider Purpose for MAP 2013. water level rising in Venice and how it is being The Church of Contemporary Art provides Only An America In 1986, Michael Morton’s wife, Christine, is over-flooded with tourists. Directed by Chip secular fellowship to cultural workers Only an America which practices what it brutally murdered in front of their only child, Lord, an original member of Ant Farm. World throughout the world, and offers a creative preaches about equal rights and social justice and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked Premiere. response to the excesses of the art market will be respected by those whose choice affects away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, he TRAVELIN’ shorts block – Thursday, Oct. 10, and dwindling arts funding. Addressing the our future. Only an America which has fully 8:00 pm, Theater 7 is forgotten by all but his parents and a small inequities that today’s artists face, CoCA creates educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling team of dedicated attorneys. In this “unreal and supports collaborative projects which the complex problems and perceiving the Documentary Feature dream,” the price of a wrongful conviction goes provide synergistic alternatives to the current hidden dangers of the world in which we live.” well beyond one man’s loss of freedom. VESSEL (USA - Preview Screening) model of the individual, branded artist. Director Screens with LIVING CONDITION - BILL’S STORY Director: Diana Whitten in Attendance Saturday, Oct. 12, 3:00 pm, Theater 3 Our Adversaries Captain Rebecca Gomperts and her Experimental Program 1: IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON Our adversaries have not abandoned their organization, Women on Waves, work with a – Saturday, Oct. 12, 5:15 pm, Video C afé ambitions, our dangers have not diminished, Static History shorts block global network of locally-based organizations our vigilance cannot be relaxed. But now to transport women 12 miles offshore, just WHAT IS CINEMA (Preview Screening) UNSPOKEN SPEECH (USA) we have the military, the scientific, and the Director: Chuck Workman outside of domestic jurisdiction, where doctors Creative Directors: Peter Wood & economic strength to do whatever must be Meta Media Award Winner Cliff Simms provide safe, legal medical abortions at sea. done for the preservation and promotion of Cinema, or motion picture, is the art of moving The Unspoken Speech Project is a community- Their actions shock the church, infuriate the freedom.” images; a visual medium that tells stories and driven initiative that allows the citizens of government, exhilarate the media, and provoke “That strength will never be used in pursuit of exposes reality. Dallas to honor the memory of President John mass debate among the voting population, but aggressive ambitions — it will always be used Created in the dusk of the 19th century, cinema F. Kennedy and to commemorate the 50th year break no laws. They hope, instead, to save lives. in pursuit of peace. It will never be used to is the world’s most recent art form. It is also, by since his assassination in their own way by Director in Attendance promote provocations — it will always be used far, the world’s most complex, collaborative, and delivering the JFK Unspoken Speech–one word Thursday, Oct. 10, 6:45pm, Theater 2 to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes. costly artistic expression. at a time, one Dallas citizen at a time. At their inception, the first two versions of the film camera (the kinetograph and its European counterpart, the cinematograph) were used to Dallas VideoFest 26 46 47 screenings

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record daily events such as a train arriving at where life’s disappointments begin to add up Documentary short Documentary Feature a station and an elephant being electrocuted. consider other options when a chance meeting WILT CHAMBERLAIN: YOU DON’T NEED FEET TO DANCE (USA) Documentary filmmaking was then born and leads to a possible romance in this drama. BORSCHT BELT BELLHOP (USA) Director: Alan Govenar tremendously explored. Average men were Filmmaker in Attendance Directors: Caroline Laskow & An intimate documentary about a man who Ian Rosenberg instructed on how to use the recently-created Sunday, Oct. 13, 11:45 am, Theater 1 overcomes his disability one day at a time. Alan An unexplored chapter in the life of Wilt camera and hired to undertake journeys around Govenar’s new film reveals the extraordinary Chamberlain with a glimpse into the time the globe and capture exotic images like the Experimental Short life of African immigrant Sidiki Conde, who when a very different era of basketball met the pyramids in Egypt and the waterfalls in Niagara. WHITE ASH (USA) balances his career as a performing artist with Borscht Belt. Thursday, Oct. 10, 7:15 pm, Theater 7 Director: Leighton Pierce the almost insurmountable obstacles of life in Screens with DALLAS MAVERICKS WHITE ASH is an inexorable dive into edges of Sunday, Oct. 13, 2:00 pm, Theater 2 New York City. Director in Attendance Experimental short consciousness. While grounded in recognizable Friday, Oct. 11, 7:15 pm, Theater 5 (Argentina) WHAT ONCE WAS images and sounds captured from reality, Experimental Short Director: Julieta Averbuj WHITE ASH is designed to scrape through Narrative Short What once lay behind the images. XXX (USA) the patina of normal perception, leading to an Director: Julie Orser YOUR MOVE (USA) Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Video C afé embodied associational state—something “to This film appropriates pornographic magazines Director: Nick Gibbons the side” of narratives and perceptions. into an animated video to take an abstract The story of two men enjoying a simple game Experimental Program 2: GLOSSOLALIA – Saturday, Documentary Feature of chess that quickly spirals down a dark Oct. 12, 7:00 pm, Video C afé and satirical look at the porn industry of the WHEN I WALK (USA) late 1970s and early 1980s when the use of Hitchcockian well of intrigue. Director: Jason DaSilva videotape gained popularity. GETTING IN TROUBLE shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, Whispering Confession 6:15 pm, Theater 5 This film chronicles one man’s inspiring journey Experimental Program 4: COSMOGONIC BODIES – Director: Barbara Rosenthal Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:30 pm, Video C afé following his multiple sclerosis diagnosis. For Possibly the most technological of her generally Jason DaSilva, life’s most challenging and joyous lowtech videos, Whispering Confession Animation moments are yet to come. portrays Rosenthal’s mouth whispering words Sunday, Oct. 13, 2:15 pm, Theater 5 YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI (Japan) about “things the mind makes the body do,” Director: Shishi Yamazaki while onscreen text drops letter-by-letter experimental program 6 Shishi Yamazaki dancing through Yanaka, Nezu, a more specific confession about an extra- and Sendagi area in Taito-Ku, (with a nod to Terri Thornton) curricular student-faculty relationship. WHERE IS THE POWER ANIMATION shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, Broken News: Disaster Experimental Program 2: GLOSSOLALIA – Saturday, 8:00 pm, Theater 1 Sunday School with Franz Hinkelammert Oct. 12, 7:00 pm, Video C afé Buenos Aires Recyclers Broken News: Conspiracy Animation Stubborn Practice Experimental Short YA-NE-SEN A GO GO (JAPAN) Sunday, Oct. 13, 1:45 pm, Theater 1 WHITE COAT PHENOMENON (USA) Director: Kristen Reeves When you’re insanely happy, you’re so happy to Narrative Feature. Finding sex in an unexpected location requires be happy, that you forget what made you happy. ANIMATION shorts block – Saturday, Oct. 12, WHERE WE STARTED some examination. 8:00 pm, Theater 1 Director: Chris Hanson Filmmaker in attendance When there’s a line you know you shouldn’t Experimental Program 4: COSMOGONIC BODIES – Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:30 pm, Video C afé cross, what makes you cross it anyway? Two married strangers who have reached the age Dallas VideoFest 26 48 49 screenings

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Texas. Since 2009 they have produced over 30 Photos in the Wind, A Joplin film theaters to planetariums, and botanic short documentary films following the work gardens with Trio Kaze (an avantgarde music TEXAS SHOW Tornado Story (Denton) Sunday, Oct. 13, 9:00 pm, Theater 3 of artists and non-profit arts organizations in Director: Abbey Hoekzema ensemble) from Germany. Texas. Their films have been featured online A church music director works with the help of NoiseFold and Trio KAZE performance Friday, Narrative Short at Roger Ebert’s Journal, NPR Picture Show, October 11, 2013 at 10:00 pm at the MAC his small town in Carthage, Missouri to rescue, 31210 McKinney ave Echoes (Houston) The Atlantic, and Vimeo Staff Picks. Mark and preserve and return lost photographs after the Director: Van Blumreich Angela have also received film grants from deadly May 22, 2011 EF5 tornado that struck Documentary Feature David and Jonie’s son, Micah, has disappeared Southwest Alternate Media Project, The Idea Joplin, a neighboring city. Fund, and San Antonio Artist Foundation to SIGN PAINTERS into the woods. When he comes home, all is not by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon. what it seems in this haunting short film. continue their collaborative work. Motor West (Dallas) There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, Director: Ren Rowland when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, Narrative Short Narrative Short Motor West is an animated short of a post- billboards, and even street signs were all Little Lions (Austin) Cielo Lindo (Arlington) apocalyptic future, where a father and son get hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like Director: Iris Lopez Director: Tony Costello hip to a road trip. many skilled trades, the sign industry has At the point of starvation, a homeless young girl Cosmo spends his days roughhousing with his ______been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of copes with hunger and her harsh reality with little brother and sister, and the games don’t Special Thanks to the Texas Show Jury; The Texas quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation her imagination. stop when he discovers an injured bird in their show jury was Mark Birnbaum , Alec Jhangiani of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and Lisa Kaselik and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping backyard. LITTLE LIONS is the story of Cosmo, a Narrative Short sameness into our landscape. Fortunately, there boy who’s just starting to figure it out. Black Metal (Austin) is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign Director: Kat Candler painters and a renaissance in the trade. Narrative Short Satellite Programs When a teen murders his math teacher in the In 2010 Directors Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, Cork’s Cattlebarron (Dallas) name of a black metal band, the lead singer noisefold and trio kaze performance with Cinematographer Travis Auclair, began Director: Eric Steel documenting these dedicated practitioners, will have to re-evaluate the two things he loves NoiseFold is a live cinema and electronic A young protege and his boss sit down for a their time-honored methods, and their most, his music and his family. Black Metal, a music ensemble founded by artist-performers, life-changing steak dinner in Omaha, Nebraska. appreciation for quality and craftsmanship. Sign dark drama, follows Ian, a husband, father and David Stout and Cory Metcalf. Originally from Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, musician struggling with the guilt and blame of New Mexico, NoiseFold presented their world Narrative Short features the stories of more than two dozen sign a tragic and senseless murder. premiere at the Festival Internationale d’Art painters working in cities throughout the United Vincent Valdez: Video in Casablanca, Morocco in spring 2006. States. The documentary and book profiles sign Excerpts for John (San Antonio) Narrative Short The group uses sensor-activated computer Directors: Mark and Angela Walley painters young and old, from the new vanguard Stryngs (Dallas) systems and complex audio-visual feedback Two years in the making, this short working solo to collaborative shops such as San Director: Derek Presley circuitry to synthesize a mesmerizing array of documentary film captures the creative process Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs and New York’s Ambrosio the Great is near death. His beautiful bio-mimetic visual forms that generate sound. of artist Vincent Valdez. Filmmakers Mark and Colossal Media’s Sky High Murals puppet show is ignored by the village children Critics described the result as “a powerful Angela Walley followed Valdez as he created a Friday, Oct. 11, 7:00 pm at Texas Theatre, and his body aches more and more each day. In synaesthetic experience where noise, music 231 W Jefferson Blvd, D allas series of works dedicated to his childhood best his fading moments on Earth, he tries to gather and image interact on a symphonic scale.” friend John Holt Jr., an Army combat medic who enough strength to create one last show that no NoiseFold performs in wildly different contexts died in 2009 after serving in Iraq. one will ever forget. from concert halls, art museums and art-house Mark and Angela Walley are a husband and wife filmmaking duo based in San Antonio, Dallas VideoFest 26 50 51 screenings

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the late owner’s son offers Will a chance to Little Lions in Texas. Their films have been featured online HOUSTON FILM COMMISSION’S reflect on his past, and to determine what to by Tony Costello at Roger Ebert’s Journal, NPR Picture Show, TEXAS FILMMAKERS make of himself in the uncertain future that Cosmo spends his days roughhousing with this The Atlantic, and Vimeo Staff Picks. Mark and awaits his family. Craig Whitney premiered his little brother and sister, and the games don’t Angela have also received film grants from SHOWCASE 2013: first film, the Jewish-themed drama Harvest stop when he discovers an injured bird in their Southwest Alternate Media Project, The Idea Friday, October 11 at 9:30pm Texas Theatre in Dallas, Texas Home, in 2009. In addition to continuing his own backyard. LITTLE LIONS is the story of Cosmo, a Fund, and San Antonio Artist Foundation to film work, Whitney served in the production boy who’s just starting to figure it out. continue their collaborative work. department of writer/director Terrence Tony Costello is confident that time is the Cork’s Cattlebarron Malick’s Oscar-nominated feature, The Tree by Eric Steele storyteller’s greatest tool and he is interested Vultures of Tibet of Life. In 2010, he directed and produced a by Russell Oliver Bush Eric Steele most recently produced the feature in telling stories about characters as they exist concert video featuring Miranda Cosgrove of In rapidly developing Western China, Sky film Pit Stop by Yen Tan, which premiered at in the moment. His work glimpses the sublime Nickelodeon’s iCarly, and has also shot video Burial–a sacred ritual where the bodies of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, in addition to within human relationships through intimate for Natalie Maines’ first solo single Without Tibetan dead are fed to wild griffon vultures– Wuss (2011) by Clay Liford, and The Verdigris: portraitures of forgiveness between flawed You and The X Factor semi-finalists Emblem3. becomes a popular tourist attraction. In Search of Will Rogers (2013) by Beau characters. Tony has most recently worked as Whitney premiered his most recent film, The Russell O. Bush is a rural Alaskan turned Jennings. Steele has written and directed two the Research Coordinator for Terrence Malick’s Garden and the Wilderness, at the 2011 Rome filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. He works feature films, Uncertain, TX (2011) and Bob forthcoming IMAX nature documentary, International Film Festival. Whitney is currently in narrative fiction, documentary, and wildlife Birdnow’s Remarkable Tale of Human Survival Voyage of Time. After earning undergraduate at work on his debut feature film, a family drama filmmaking and has screened his work at SXSW, and the Transcendence of Self (2013) and is degrees in Philosophy and Political Science, about violence along the US-Mexico border The Palm Springs Intl. Short Film Festival, AFI currently attached to Direct/Produce Casolaro, Costello attended the School of the Art Institute entitled Una Vela en el Entierro (A Candle in the DOCS, and the Edinburgh International Film a feature film based on the true unsolved story of Chicago for a Postbacc program in Film, Funeral), which begins filming in west Texas in Festival. Russell is also a cinematographer of journalist Danny Casolaro who was found Video, & New Media, and then moved to Austin 2014. who’s worked in the comfort of the studio to dead in a hotel room in 1991 after investigating to pursue his MFA in Film Production at the waist deep snow in the Alaska Mountain Range a government conspiracy. Caliber Media and University of Texas. Little Lions is his directorial Hellion with National Geographic Television’s Untamed Aviation Cinemas are also attached to produce debut. by Kat Candler America series. For Russell, Vultures of Tibet the project. Steele, based in Dallas, TX, is a All hell breaks loose when Petey is left with his has drawn him in as a storyteller in its universal founding partner of the Historic Texas Theatre Vincent Valdez: hell raising brothers. But things go from bad to scope. Fascinated by myth, superstition, and in Oak Cliff, Texas and a Co-Founder of the Oak Excerpts for John really, really bad when dad comes home. by Angela and Mark Walley obscurity as a place of discovery, Russell Cliff Film Festival. Kat Candler’s award winning films have Two years in the making, this short uses cinema as a tool to catalyze new screened at the Sundance Film Festival, documentary film captures the creative process understandings. The Garden and the Wilderness Los Angeles Film Festival, San Francisco by Craig Whitney of artist Vincent Valdez. Filmmakers Mark and International Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, A poetic re-imagining of the Western genre, Angela Walley followed Valdez as he created a SXSW, Slamdance, Florida Film Festival, The Garden and the Wilderness examines the series of works dedicated to his childhood best Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Chicago dramatic themes of life on the frontier, refracted friend John Holt Jr., an Army combat medic who International Children’s Film Festival, The through the lens of 21st century realities. died in 2009 after serving in Iraq. National Institutes of Health, and on PBS. After 30 years spent caring for a Texas hunting Mark and Angela Walley are a husband and She’s currently in development on the feature estate, ranch hand Will James must confront wife filmmaking duo based in San Antonio, film Hellion, which was a Sundance Creative the prospect of moving on from his life’s work Texas. Since 2009 they have produced over Producing Lab participant. Candler is also film when he learns that the property will be sold thirty short documentary films following the Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. following the owner’s death. A final visit from work of artists and non-profit arts organizations 53 schedule Wednesday, Oct 9th | GILLEY’S DALLAS Thursday, Oct 10th | ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE Friday, Oct 11th | ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE Saturday, Oct 12th | ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE Sunday, Oct 13th | ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AND SATELLITE LOCATIONS AND SATELLITE LOCATIONS AND SATELLITE LOCATIONS

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12 am 12 am 12 am 12 am 12 am 12 am 12 am 12 am 12 am 12 am Dallas VideoFest 26 58 Ben Britt photographs exotically dressed and body-painted models and burlesque Hanky-Panky performers and then digitally inserts them 2009ben - present britt into thematically-appropriate, sometimes spectacular backgrounds to create bizarre slide show of manipula ted digital images. yet eerily convincing fantasy scenarios. Ben Britt bought his first Macintosh computer in 1984 and has been on the forefront of technology since. He is a professional photographer, videographer and interactive multi-media developer with clients ranging from corporate to advertising including Hewlet- Packard, Siemens, Budweiser, Texas Instruments, IBM, W Magazine, D Magazine and Coca-Cola. He is the co-owner and director for bbGun Interactive.

My installation is based on an ancient entertainment offered by observing the funny animal instincts of goats: climbing, challenging others to try to pass, butting, sniffing, rubbing, leading, following, nursing, and doing zany antics. The video invokes in the viewer a kind of recognition of the accumulated knowledge that he or she has about goats — from National Geographic magazines to PBS, Discovery channel, Marty Stouffer’s “Wild America”, animal programs on The Wonderful World of Disney and even to the folk children’s game, “King of the Mountain,” which involves children acting like goats. It is ironic that the oldest form of entertainment and one of the newest are brought together in this piece. kaleta doolin King of the Mountain

Dallas VideoFest 26 62 Jennifer Reeder tweets tweets about the oscars

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Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder Love J. Lawrence...but, please people...prepare something to say!!! Be fucking prepared to win and be articulate and thorough.

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder Zellweger seems wasted.

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder That girl from the vampire movies is always so mad...like her mom called her out of her room for dinner. Booooooored and Boooooring.

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder Also...why can’t anyone pronounce the name of that thing right...#lesMis

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder This guy who is the baby on that shitty show is making me nuts as host.

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder Could lick Ed Norton’s brain.

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder OUT. The game has changed. (about Jodie Foster)

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder Chastains speech was great....still her dress/hair was barfy. I could date Daniel day Lewis.

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder Also, I could lick Christian Bale...I know, I know, he’s a douche...but so pretty...

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder Hathaway should have written a speech. Zzzzzzzzzz

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder Dallas VideoFest 26 64 the temperature of 2013 television ESSAY By Ron Simon

For several years many commentators So television isn’t quite dead, but keeps have proclaimed the impending demise of evolving as the medium has when faced television. Social media and gaming have with previous challenges. In fact, it seems been anointed the new conquerors of leisure that every 10 years or so there is a major time. But TV has stood tall against the latest upheaval in defining what television means digital challengers, revitalizing its role as a to most viewers: from live programming out serial storyteller. Although its audiences are of New York City in the ’50s to Hollywood breakfast. dinner. diminishing, television is offering characters entertainment and variety shows in the ’60s as deep and three-dimensional as any to socially conscious programs reflecting and everything contemporary art form. modern life in the ’70s to a magazine, niche Television fictional storylines have model of cable in the ’80s and ’90s to the become as messy and problematic as wave of reality television that has overtaken in between. real life. Many series, including Mad Men every network since 2000. But most people and Breaking Bad tackle mature themes, never speak of television in the abstract; presenting a world in flux where things they have always been more interested in will probably go very badly. The era of its programming, their individual shows. TV as the comforting storyteller has long And the best of this so-called content is since passed; complicated characters face now being produced at a very high level, authentic, freshly prepared even more complicated situations. Don reflecting the anxieties of the industry and Draper and his establishment are now contemporary life. country french cuisine. soupes, salades, coping with the contradictions of the sixties Television and film too are confronted where societal freedom helped to usher in by an uncertain digital future. But both quiche and spectacular french specialties. personal chaos. Few series have probed the media, rooted in 20th century practices, darkness within as has Breaking Bad with seem to be flourishing amid unprecedented things don’t get much better than lunch its lead character Walter White confronting technological upheaval and fragmentation of the evil of his soul as he loses everything he audiences. Maybe this technological unease at la Madeleine––unless, of course, has valued. Such portrayals elicit so many seems to be fostering a radical creativity, contradictory emotions in today’s audience; however unsettling. it’s breakfast or dinner. in fact, watching TV 2013 style can be a very demanding and draining experience. Over the past few years two new sensibilities emerged to revolutionize the entire TV gestalt. Louis C.K. and Lena Addison Dunham have used digital technology to 5290 Belt Line Road, Suite 112 transform the traditional television-by- committee into very personal statements, Addison, Texas 75240 where an individual controls almost all aspects of production. Both have also experimented with subject matter, creating raw, unsettling emotions in portraying their to view our menu or fi nd other locations, alter egos’ desperate search for professional visit lamadeleine.com and sexual identity. There are no easy laughs in their respective series Louie and Girls. facebook.com/lamadeleinecafe @lamadeleine

© 2012 La Madeleine de Corps, Inc. Dallas VideoFest 26 66 Omni Essay – The monumental aesthetics ESSAY of low-resolution By ??? ?????????

The LED surface of the OMNI hotel has call a few of the pieces visually decadent, an effective resolution of 147x20, and in the either. age of 4K projection, this is below miniscule. In this second decade of the 21st century, And the 147 effective horizontal “pixels” what is the state of the monumental gesture? represents the whole building, so if only one If this next 100 year period ends up reading side of the building is being considered, like a novel, the first large scale acts of the one image has half that resolution. Not even previous decade might read like a horrible Sadie Benning’s Pixelvision videos were this epigraph: the destruction of the towers visually constrained. in Manhattan and the “Shock and Awe” Despite this limitation, the opportunity campaign that marked the beginning of the for creating meaning by working on such undeclared Long War. While it’s problematic a conspicuous building is nearly limitless. to narrativize history this way, these two The challenge is finding a balance of images events have left such deep scars on most that will translate well (no small task), to not Americans’ perception of subsequent events lean on accompanying audio too heavily that to mention them has become a banality. to determine the piece’s meaning, and It follows that these events will have had a to be distinct from the abstractions and noticeable, if not directly legible, effect on advertisements that normally cover the the art being created in their wake. building’s surface. In the first year, most I suppose what I’m getting at is that these artists (including myself) tended toward spectacular events and the events that simple images and sounds. My video was unfolded from them (many of which continue composed of shifting monochromatic images to unfold) undoubtedly have affected artists of a dancer I had rotoscoped, with a digitally and audiences in regard to spectacles. modified jazz composition to accompany Combine this with the dramatic shift in how her. Other works were even simpler, such art and media are received: the spatially as Jenny Vogel’s lovely Save Our Souls, and temporally common experience of which was visually restricted to alternating movies evolved to the spatially separate patterns of white and black that suggested but temporally common experience of Morse code. Many pieces attempted to television (the E Unibus Pluram of David consider Dallas’ inconsistent relationship Foster Wallace), which has now arrived at with architecture. Certainly, Dallas is a city a situation of double separation through that does not shy away from the spectacular, web based media. To borrow the term from and many of the works took this into cultural studies, we’ve moved to a situation account. But Vogel’s piece was a standout of E Pluribus Plures, or many out of many. for me in that it so dexterously analyzed the Yes, yes. These things have been explained dissolving boundary between private and to us many times. But consider this context in public spaces, real and virtual, and was so relation to artists who work with durational incredibly economical in its meditation on media like film and video. 21st century loneliness. This year, artists seem to be taking a different approach. Rather than visual and conceptual economy, many of the participating makers have thus far tested works that are exponentially more complicated. In many works, including my own, sound will be a more important factor than it has been. It wouldn’t be a stretch to Dallas VideoFest 26 68 State of the documentary ESSAY By Beth Jasper

I just watched over 200 documentary films A young man in Rwanda, armed with back to back, and I am deeply moved by the limited training and equipment, embraced filmmakers who got their hands dirty enough, technology and movies themselves to lift many literally, to bring the stories they the spirits of his fellow citizens after mass wanted to tell to fruition. It is exciting times in genocide in the country. This is a film about the documentary arena with record numbers giving people the opportunity to deal with of festival entries, an increase in exceptional past tragedies and move beyond it into new films and more filmmakers willing to take a lives. It is a film filled with hope, a film about chance on telling an unpopular story. the depth of the human spirit. One exciting trend this year is the As further proof of that spirit, a young emergence of music documentaries that man in 1960 travels small town America by do more than provide linear histories of car for 40 years with only a recorder and bands and musicians. These films allow us to microphone, chronicling the legacy of real observe, for example, a group of musicians American roots music. That takes persistence determined to make dangerous political and passion and spirit. statements with risk of prison time in their These films and others bring to the country, or one man helping to break down forefront important stories that illustrate the cultural and religious barriers and defy fear commonality of man. This is documentary using dance lessons and music in some of filmmaking at its finest - sharing stories the most dangerous parts of the world. Music of triumph that demonstrate one person docs this year also bring to the forefront can make a difference. At the end of the those behind the lens who spent lifetimes day, documentaries this year are just as in anonymity, documenting musicians and passionate as the filmmakers themselves. music and stories that are an important part And that’s quite a story. of the world’s rich musical history. These films spotlight the powerful role Beth Jasper is a filmmaker and film festival music continues to play in the lives of programmer in Austin whose most recent everyday people. documentary, The Devil’s Box, the story of Technology in film excites me this year. Texas-style fiddling, is set to air on PBS in As it quickly becomes more advanced, it early 2014. propels many individuals into filmmaking who otherwise wouldn’t have the chance to tell smaller stories through documentaries. This doc season, a son picked up a video camera and for several years, with complete participation of friends and family, recorded his mother’s life with Alzheimer’s. And a successful filmmaker, with the help of his family, pointed the camera at himself as he dealt with life after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. These stories are important as they put focus on the challenges chronic disease bring to everyday life of those afflicted and their families and friends. Dallas VideoFest 26 70 Fracking (with) Post modernism or there’s a lil’ The Dallas Film Commission ... ESSAY dr frankenstein in all of us. By Bryan Konefsky We’re here to help!

Since the dawn of (wo)mankind humans There is magic in this (sometimes have had the keen, pro-cinematic ability to strained) dialogue not unlike the illusionist assess our surroundings in ways not unlike who, before our very eyes, dramatically saws the quick, rack focus of a movie camera. That his assistant in half and then, in the blink is, we move instantly from close examination of an eye, returns the two halves to their (a form of deconstruction) to an anamorphic original human form (a single narrative is view of the world (contextualizing the collaged together from a sequential group of minutiae of our dailiness within deep individual parts). One might go so far as to philosophical inquiries about the nature of identify a valuable lesson within this failure: existence). That is, a failure in the dissection and a Think, for example, of the many failure in the deconstruction. In other words, (disembodied) hands drawn on the take heart in knowing that the whole always prehistoric walls in Werner Herzog’s emerges triumphant through the narrative documentary film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams. arc of this particular illusion. Also keep in mind that the specificity of Consequently, one might infer that the true this “I was here” gesture was paired with meaning of cinema is only revealed other carved images suggesting the grand when “it” is put back together. However, narratives of history (this is WHY I was here). the putting back together only happens Although visionary film artist Stan because of the all-important “taking apart.” Brakhage insisted that the true nature of To this end the un-dependents - “the walla cinema exists in the gutter-space between group” - must be vigilant and prepared. We the frames (or perhaps, according to the must be ready (at a moments notice) to go ancient inhabitants of Herzog’s movie, the proudly and defiantly into the world with fists true nature of being might lurk in the dark, raised high and our experimental torches, undulating shadows of a cavern), it seems saws, editing tools and pitchforks ready that the “pulling apart” and “putting back for engagement as we chant “watermelon- together” cannot be separated. There is no watermelon-watermelon.” isolated and autonymous moment of “in-betweeness,” as we begin to understand the physics of co-existence and the elasticity of time. Let’s not forget the tenents of Gestalt psychology in terms of the holistic functioning of the human brain. We take things apart because it is in our nature to put Victory Plaza Photo Credit: Jeremy Woodhouse Jeremy Credit: Plaza Photo Victory them back together again. We simply cannot help ourselves. The careful, studied and deep examination of the human condition that is a fundamental DALLAS. TAKE TWO. tenent of un-dependent cinema must therefore always be in conversation with Welcome to Dallas. As you can see, it’s changing a lot. You can more popular (and often uncomfortably saccharine sweet) re-constructions of see it in our neighborhoods, our downtown and our 13 unique experience that we have come to know as entertainment districts. We are spending $12 billion revitalizing our “going to the movies.” city and creating as many great places to shoot as there are fun things to do.

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