FFF 2012 Program.Qxp
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Opening Events! • Tuesday, March 6th Wednesday Morning • March 7th 12:00 p.m. Opening Press Conference at the Fargo Theatre 9:00 a.m. Registration / Box Office Opens Best in Show Announcements 10:00 a.m. My Hometown • Animation (7 min) Directed by Jerry Levitan and Terry Tompkins, PRE-PARTY • 5:00 - 7:45 p.m. Toronto, ON, Canada – In 2009, Yoko Ono wrote a 220 Broadway • Downtown Fargo timeless message of home, hope, faith and love. Weaving a storyline that encompasses children and places from all over the world, this animation plays out 8:00 p.m. LIVE! AND IN PERSON – Jay and Silent Bob Get Old My Hometown Yoko’s instructional positivism, using a backdrop of her voice, recorded especially for this film. By way of a New Jersey Quick Stop, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes 10:10 a.m. Falling • Experimental (7 min) Directed by Karim Azimi, Aradbil, Iran have become bona fide pop culture icons. Their on-screen alter egos Jay and A human being is exiled to roam and endure loneliness. Silent Bob are far more than small-town, small-time pot dealers. Armed with Smith’s trademark 10:20 a.m. Serial Killer • Student Film (3 min) Directed by Adam Jacobs, Brooklyn Park, MN dialogue (peppered with carnal references, cultural observations, and pop-culture diatribes) they Two chaps have an argument about the mysterious man skipping towards them. Falling are pranksters, lovers, action heroes and prophets. 10:25 a.m. Heliotropes • Animation (4 min) Directed by Michael Langan – The parallel goals of man and nature are explored through the most primitive “One speaks... at great lengths... and sophisticated means – to simply stay in the light. whether you want him to or not. The other one...well...he’s the WINNER 10:30 a.m. The Power of Two quiet type.” Documentary Feature – METATRON, DOGMA Honorable Mention Heliotropes (94 min) Directed by Marc Smolowitz, San Francisco, CA Writer/Director/Producer/Actor Kevin Smith first Twin sisters Anabel Stenzel and Isabel Stenzel Byrnes came to fame in 1994 with the international have have battled with the fatal genetic disease cystic success of his low budget indie comedy Clerks. fibrosis (CF) and are miraculous survivors of double lung The film introduced Smith’s New Jersey “View transplants. Defying all odds, Ana and Isa have emerged Askew” universe, the characters of Jay and Silent as authors, athletes and global advocates for organ Bob, and struck a chord with a generation. donation, and their connection to the CF and transplant communities provides rare insight into the struggles – Jay and Silent Bob appeared in many of Smith’s and overlooked joys – of chronic illness. following films, including Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. The duo has The Power of Two also been featured in a cartoon series and are 12:00 p.m. Luncheon and Panel Discussion hitting the circuit to bring their own interactive “The Gift of Life” podcast to local audiences. MODERATOR: Kevin Wallevand FILMS IN THE FARGO FILM FESTIVAL HAVE NOT BEEN Juano’s • 402 N. Broadway • Fargo RATED FOR ADULT CONTENT AND MAY INCLUDE: The Fargo Film Festival is thrilled to welcome A discussion about organ donation, organ transplant recipients VIOLENCE, NUDITY, LANGUAGE AND ADULT our opening night guests of honor Kevin and and the ongoing challenge of raising awareness. Panel SITUATIONS. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. Jason as they appear live on stage! members include local doctors and the cast and crew of The Power of Two. 3 4 Wednesday Morning • OFF BROADWAY 1:55 p.m. Nature’s Child • Student Film (3 min) Directed by Brooklyn Isham, St. Paul, MN 10:00 a.m. Birdboy • Animation This short film captures a young girl’s appreciation for the (12 min) Directed by Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vazquez, natural elements that surround her. Birdboy Corona, Spain – A terrible industrial accident changes little Dinki’s life forever. Now her fate must rest on the wings of her 2:00 p.m. Clear Blue • Narrative Short eccentric friend Birdboy, a misfit who hides in the Dead Forest, (21 min) Directed by Lindsay MacKay, Los Angeles, CA lost in his fantasies. Simon, a young lifeguard, is working his first few days at a community pool. The mundane quickly becomes mysterious Clear Blue 10:15 a.m. GOD! • Invited Film when Simon follows Flova, an older woman, into the pool (15 min) Directed by Bryan Liedman, Portland, Oregon and he makes a startling discovery. Documentation of one man’s quest to photograph a physical manifestation of (G)god. 2:20 p.m. cat’s cradle • Invited Film God! (4 min) Directed by Raymond Rea, Moorhead, MN 10:30 a.m. Mommy’s Boy • Narrative Short This experimental animation is a collaboration between (15 min) Directed by Hans Montelius, Stockholm, Sweden filmmaker Raymond Rea of Density Over Duration and In this Oedipal psychological comedy, a psychologist tries to sound artist Helena Thompson of Purest Spiritual Pigs. heal the relationship between a mother and a son with some Combining analog 16mm Xerox animation and traditional very unconventional methods. rotoscope with digital visual effects, this raw film/video plots the beauty of a failed attempt. 10:45 a.m. The Beast Pageant • Experimental cat’s cradle (74 min) Directed by Albert Birney and John Moses, 2:30 p.m. Faster! • Student Film Chadds Ford, PA – Abraham lives deep in the heart of an (12 min) Directed by Marie Ullrich, Chicago, IL Mommy’s Boy industrial wasteland. His only companion is a giant machine. Jasper is a female Chicago bike messenger in a race Inside the machine are man and a woman who take care not only against the clock, but in battle with the hostile of Abraham’s every need. Abraham drifts through daily life city, its raging drivers, its surly security guards, and her until a tiny singing cowboy bursts from his stomach and tough dispatcher. leads him into the wild. 2:45 p.m. The Gloaming • Animation (14 min) Directed by NoBrain, Paris, France A character creates a world that is beyond his control. Faster! The Beast Pageant 3:00 p.m. Bertie Crisp • Animation (8 min) Directed by Francesca Adams, London, UK Wednesday Afternoon • March 7th Bertie is a put-upon half bear, half panda living in a trailer park with his sociopathic rabbit wife Grace, who is determined to have a baby... immediately. 1:30 p.m. Heart • Invited Film (8 min) Directed by Erick Oh, Los Angeles, CA An exploration of transcendence, Heart presents questions through abstract metaphors and symbols illustrated by the human heart. Heart The Gloaming 1:40 p.m. Along the Road • Narrative Short Fargo Theatre OFF BROADWAY (12 min) Directed by Gabrielle Nadeau, Pinendre, QC, Canada In a rural town, two eight-year-old girls come together to construct a tragic accident in order to regain a Films marked in this manner are being shown in the Fargo Theatre Off Broadway Auditorium. mother’s attention. All other films will be screened in the Fargo Theatre On Broadway Auditorium. Along the Road 5 6 3:10 p.m. Vicenta • Animation (23 min) Directed by Sam, Spain 3:25 p.m. Maska • Invited Film Alfredo is a greedy miser who hides his lottery winnings (23 min) Directed by Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, from his obedient wife Vicenta. After a seductive neighbor Poland – Based on a story by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris), the changes their lives forever, Vicenta goes to great lengths to Brothers Quay return with another beautiful and beautifully uncover the fortune’s hiding place. creepy animation. 3:35 p.m. A Windigo Tale Narrative Feature 4:00 p.m. Fast Talk • Documentary Feature Vicenta Maska (92 min) Directed by Arman Garnet Ruffo, Ottawa, (56 min) Directed by Debra Tolchinsky, Evanston, IL ON, Canada – A Native grandfather desperate to save College debaters now speak at unintelligible speeds. Some his troubled grandson shares the dark secrets of their claim the benefits are clear: more arguments per minute that family and community. In an isolated village, an estranged an opposing team needs to rebut. But is there a dark side to mother and her daughter must reunite to exorcise the fast talk? To answer this question, filmmaker Debra Tolchinsky voracious Windigo spirit tied to a painful past. The film is spent a year following the Northwestern University debate inspired by Ojibway spirituality and based on the history team as the students try to fast talk their way to another of the residential school system, where generations of championship. The result? A documentary that will make you Native children were forcibly removed from their families question the speed of your own life and keep you talking. and aggressively assimilated into Euro-Canadian society. A Windigo Tale Fast Talk Wednesday Afternoon • OFF BROADWAY Wednesday Evening • March 7th 1:30 p.m. Blazing the Trail: PRE-PARTY • 5:00 - 6:45 p.m. The O’Kalems in Ireland Mezzaluna • 309 Roberts Street North Documentary Feature (86 min) Directed by Peter Flynn, Boston, MA 6:40 p.m. At the console of the In the early 1910s, the New York-based Kalem Film Mighty WurlitZer – Lance Johnson Blazing the Trail: The O’Kalems in Ireland Company made history by sending its leading filmmakers, writers and actors to County Kerry, Ireland. These were the Evening Host: Matt Olien, Festival Co-Chair and first fiction films to be made in Ireland and among the first Documentary Feature Chair American films to be shot overseas. This is the story of cinema’s earliest mavericks, of the people and culture they Reel Life: Focus on immortalized on film – and of the Hollywood system that ultimately eclipsed them.