Moviate Underground Film Festival at ARTSFEST May 27Th-29Th, 2016
Welcome to the 18th Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival at ARTSFEST May 27th-29th, 2016
Schedule of Events (All events are free, but we suggest a $3 donation to help the festival.)
The 18th annual Moviate Underground Film Festival at Harrisburg's Artsfest continues in the independent spirit of underground filmmaking with special in-person filmmaker experiences, highlighting great filmmaking from around the world. This year we are excited to project many of the films as super-8 or 16mm film prints. This is our fourth year showing our daytime programming in the wonderful Civic Club building along the Susquehanna River. We continue our tradition of our evening screenings at the great Midtown Cinema on Reily Street.
To kick off the festival Friday night, we welcome filmmakers Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee Huang presenting their film "HOTEL DALLAS" followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. (8:30PM) On Saturday night, we welcome Carter Stevens, cult movie legend, showing a rare restoration of "PUNK ROCK" from 1976, featuring a seedy crime story wrapped around the burgeoning punk scene of Max's Kansas City in the 1970's. Carter will introduce the film and chat about it afterwards. (8PM). Immediately following, is a special sneak preview of a new Criterion Collection 2K Restoration of "FANTASTIC PLANET" which will be released this summer. The advantage here is that you can see it first, and in full 2K resolution at the Midtown Cinema! (10PM) Also on Saturday night, the festival’s annual “Midnight Madness at the Midtown” will feature one of the most terrifying cult horror films "SOCIETY". This film will be a great treat at midnight. These screenings will be at the Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily St.
More highlights on Saturday include a curated animation block: "ANIMATION NUGGETS" at 4pm by local animator Dana Sink, who will present his work as well in the program. Always a blast of fresh air and family friendly!
The Artsfest Film Festival has been able to keep the film screenings free for 18 years with gracious and generous support from: Jump Street, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Midtown Cinema. In addition to these donations, we also fund this festival using donations received from patrons during the festival and festival entry fees.
The festival is completely volunteer operated with a core group of volunteers. Moviate core members include: Tara Chickey, James Hollenbaugh, Josh Drake, Jeremy Moss, Michael Robinson, and Caleb Smith. A huge contribution by Dana Sink, who created the animation bump and artwork for the program/posters/tshirts. Special thanks to all the volunteers who dedicate time and passion to the Moviate Underground Film Festival at Artsfest and to the staff of the Midtown Cinema, Civic Club of Harrisburg, Jump Street, and JBShope Consulting.
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8:30PM "HOTEL DALLAS" In8:30 Person Introduction and Q&A with Directors Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee Huang. 2016, 74 Minutes HOTEL DALLAS, a Romanian-American feature film that combines fiction and documentary, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, as part of the Panorama Dokumente program (February 2016).
In the 80s, in the twilight of communist Romania, "Dallas" is the only American show allowed on TV. It offers a vision of wealth and glamour that captures the imagination of millions. Among them are Ilie and his daughter Livia. He is a small-time criminal and aspiring capitalist; she is in love with the show’s handsome leading man, Patrick Duffy. After communism falls, Ilie builds the Hotel Dallas, a life-size copy of the “Dallas” mansion. Livia immigrates to America, becomes a filmmaker, and directs a movie starring Patrick Duffy, as a soap opera character who dies in Texas and wakes up in Romania, in a hotel that looks just like home. Livia guides her childhood idol on a genre-bending road trip across a Romanian dreamscape—through the failed utopias of communism and capitalism, into a realm of ghosts and lost time. http://www.hoteldallasfilm.com
“Hotel Dallas” by Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee Huang Fri Sat May 28 Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 N Front St
12:00Saturday May 28th, 2016: 12noon El Chivo (2016) by Rod Murphy, 80 minutes 'El Chivo' (the Mountain Goat) is what the indigenous Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's Copper Canyons call Runner Will Harlan ever since he won the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon in 2009, a race made infamous in the bestseller 'Born to Run.' Since Harlan's first visit with theTarahumara, who are reknown for long distance running and their sustainable life-style, he's dramatically changed the way his family lives by moving to an off-the- grid farm in North Carolina, where they grow their food and run a non-profit for the Tarahumara. El Chivo chronicles what motivates Harlan to live life this deliberately by showing the physical and mental demands while also detailing the toll it takes on the family of an altruistic, elite Ultra Marathoner. Showing with: El Jardin by Nicholas Bunch, Arcadia Hartung, 10 minutes On his last day in Mexico, last day on Earth, a cursed man wakes from a nightmare haunted by specters, unable to return home. In a buzzing stupor, a lurching path leads him only back into the crystal prison of his own vi- sions. The air is too crisp, the colors are too bright; the mezcal is too strong as the main character drowns in a paranoid dream world. An homage to Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, El Jardin is a pursuit for reality in an unreal world.
Saturday 2PM NARRATIVE DETOURS scamps & GOONS by Giancarlo Diaz, 20 minutes This live action, black and white short film is about a group of 3rd Graders who attempt to rally other lower grade students2:00 to take back their schoolyard from the grasp of a Bully and his 6th Grade classmates by challenging them to an epic dodgeball match. http://scampsandgoons.com
Aster and Sidney by Sean Temple, 20 minutes. After the collapse of society, a secret threatens to destroy two women's relationship. http://www.seanrtemple.com/#!aster-and-sidney/ot0dw
Imaginary Fiend by Diana Galimzyanova, 10 minutes. Everything goes wrong when an agoraphobic misanthropist orders himself an imaginary enemy. This short film is an allegory for life with Aspergers hence the lack of body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, eye contacts etc. in the film. http://imaginaryfiendfilm.tumblr.com/ Sat Civic Club Sat May 28
Saturday 3PM INWARD/OUTWARD pm To Summon and Chase Away by Madsen Mianx,3:00 11 min. Amid a ceaseless, still winter, coldness engulfs. Frolicking through a snowy rural expanse and a legacy of post-industrial decay, a young boy encounters his own death and bears witness to his past, present and future in this experimental short. www.madsenminaxc.om
From One’s Silence to Other’s by Panu Johansson, Annika Rapo, 9 min. A fragmented collage reassembles a life lost. A radiant yet fractured narrative replete with lacunae found in history and time, refracted through the half-light of memory and film. The piece combines different kinds of materials in a collage- like way: it consists of short fragments, which all document certain places, objects or events. All these are tied around one deceased person and his life-story. www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en/art/16725
Ghost Ship by Peter Buntaine, 5 min. In the tedium, so desolately green, of the glasshouse of sorrow, the flowers entwine my heart with their evil stems. Ah! When will the dear hands return about my head, so tenderly disentwining?' -Claude Debussy, Proses Lyriques peterbuntaine.com/shorts
Clandestine by Atoosa Pour Hosseini, 15 minutes Clandestine Layers both space and time, superimposing imagery and creating entrancing patterns of repetition and startling interruption. Voyaging from one land to another, from found footage to mysteriously evocative scenes shot by the artist to the pure abstraction of hand-scratched film, it traces a haunting inner logic of memory and discovery. www.atoosapourhosseini.com/
River by Stephanie Maxwell, 10 minutes River presents a unique perspective on the exquisite beauty that is present in infinite abundance when one focuses attention on the intimate motions of river water and its animated reflections and refractions of sunlight and sky. Image sequences of the river and the interplay of river motion and the changing pat- terns of light on the water are merged into a playful choreography with the music score. What culminates is to marvel at the natural splendor of distinctively subtle but profound impressions of a river. River was filmed on the Chetco River and Moolack Creek in Oregon, and the Smith River in Northern California. The work was shot digitally using a Canon Mark III 5D camera and an iPhone 4s. vimeo.com/user8014452
Sat Cont. Sat May 28 Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 n. Front St. Cont.
Cont. Sat Old Growth by Ryan Marino, 9 min. 3:00Amid the arboreal giants and temperate organisms of a primeval rain forest lurks an elusive luminous force. www.ryanmarino.com
From One’s Silence to Other’s by Panu Johansson
Clandestine by Atoosa Pour Hosseini 3:00 Sat Sat May 28 pm Saturday4:00 4PM ANIMATION NUGGETS! Curated by animator Dana Sink (in-person!) Cont. Totem by Caleb Wood, 2 min. A celebration of anima. vimeo.com/calebwood Sat L’ Oeil du Cyclone by Masanobu Hiraoki, 5 min. Matching scenes with music, the forms of humans and shapes change. This expresses the wandering heart. vimeo.com/user6065152
Afternoon Class by Seoro Oh , 4 min. The drowsiness flocking towards me during the afternoon lessons, the head gets heavier and I try to stay alert. oseoro.tumblr.com/
Inaudible by Gints Zilbalodis, 8 min. A musician becomes deaf and struggles to adapt to a new life. gzilbalodis.tumblr.com/
London by Peter Millard, 2 min. I live in London. The capital city of England. One of the busiest cities in the world. I grew up in Great Malvern. Animation commissioned by Winsor and Newton to promote their new range of Pigment Markers. www.hellopetermillard.com
Bicycle by Dana Sink, 2 min. I want to ride my bike. www.danasink.com
The Poem by Chen Xi & An Xu, 7 min. An ancient was looking for the plum blossom in the snow storm during the trip.
Cupids Serenade by Jeca Martinez, 4 min. What happens when a carefree young god of romance meets his first love?A musical fiasco, that's for sure! jecamartinez.com/
Love Ball Trilogy by Dana Sink, 8 min. The Love Ball Trilogy is a series of animations that explore the different stages in life through a complex maze that a ball travels through. This will be a world premier for Love Ball: part 2 vimeo.com/user13860696/
Snowfall by Conner Wheelan, 5 min. An anxious young man has a moving experience at a friend’s house party. www.conorwhelandesign.com
Perfect Houseguest by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, 2 min. A house is visited by a clean, organized and well-mannered guest. www.tinyinventions.com
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Episode 4) by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling, 5 min. If only there was some way to learn everything about the world. beckyandjoes.com/ Sat Sat May 28 pm
8:00Saturday 8PM PUNK ROCK Cont. Location: Midtown Cinema - 250 Reily St, Harrisburg,Sat PA 17102 (1977) In Person IntroductionPUNK and Q&A with ROCK Director Carter Stevens Classic Sexploitation Director Carter Stevens delivers a dose of sex, drugs and Punk Rock in this Authentic Grindhouse Cult Feature Film from the heyday of the NYC Punk movement - 1977!
On the track of a teenage runaway, a trail of murder, sex, and drugs leads private eye Jimmy (Wade Nichols) into the decadent New York City night world: from massage parlors to penthouses and after-hours nightclubs; from sex slavers and pimps to the dangerous members of a killer rock'n'roll band!
Featuring live performances at legendary New York City Punk Club - Max's Kansas City - by Elda and The Stillettos (which originally featured Chris Stein & Debbie Harry from BLONDIE) plus rare performances by The Fast, The Squirrels, and Spicy Bits!
See classic golden age adult film stars in one of their non-adult film roles! Featur- ing NYC performers Wade Nichols (disco star Dennis Parker) & Robert Kerman (Debbie Does Dallas, Cannibal Holocaust). This crazy caper must be seen to be believed! (77 Minutes, 1977) www.imdb.com/title/tt0124083/
PUNK ROCK by Carter Stevens Sat May 28
10:00 Cont. Saturday 10PM Midtown Cinema - 250 Reily St, Harrisburg, PA 17102
FANTASTIC PLANET, by René Laloux Sat Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since in- fancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence. JANUS/CRITERION 2K Restoration, shown in 2K! (1973, 72 min.) www.criterion.com/films/28636-fantastic-planet
Showing with: REGAL by Karissa Hahn, 3 min. from: film (theater) to > youtube (home) > to film (theater) // torrented/pirated (digital) images as found footage // printed from a household printer onto 16mm clear film // // Such as the loading dial, REGAL aims to circulate and find its way back to the screen. Take this proxy and see that the ghost has become tangible. www.karissahahn.com/regal
FANTASTIC PLANET, by René Laloux
10:00 pm Sat May 28
12 Midnight SOCIETYmidnight & Midnight Short Films! Midtown Cinema - 250 Reily St SOCIETY by Brian Yuzna "IT IS A MATTER OF GOOD BREEDING. REALLY." -After producing Stuart Gordon’s hit Re-Animator, Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator, Re- turn of the Living Dead III) turned his hand to directing with 1989’s Society, and gave birth to one of the ickiest, most original body horror shockers of all time. Teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) has always felt like the odd one out in his wealthy, upper-class Beverly Hills family. For some reason, he just doesn’t seem to fit in. But his sense of alienation takes a sinister turn when he hears an audio recording of his sister’s coming-out party, which seems to implicate his family and others in a bizarre, ritualistic orgy. And then there are the strange things he’s been seeing – glimpses of people with their bodies contorted impossibly out of shape… Is Bill going mad or is there something seriously amiss in his neighborhood? Packing stomach-churning gore and thought-provoking social commentary in equal mea- sure, Society is a biting horror satire which culminates in one of the most gag-inducing “climaxes”’ in all of horror history. (99 minutes, 1989) www.arrowfilms.co.uk/society/
SOCIETY by Brian Yuzna 12:00 Sat May 28
Showing with: midnight La Colombiana by Ibai Vigil–Escalera, 4 minutes. A naive girl finds herself trap in a male bathhouse, where a dark secret is hidden. vimeo.com/ibaivigil
Slow Creep by Jim Hickcox, 12 min. Fifteen-year-old Otter is excited that she's finally found the horror film she's been seeking for weeks. She brings it home to watch with her brother and his friend, not realizing that she's doomed them to an encounter with the Slow Creep. www.foulsanctum.com
Gwilliam by Brian Lonano, 6 min. A recently released criminal is looking for a good time. He can forget his sins but he can never forget...Gwilliam. vimeo.com/brianlonano
La Colombiana by Ibai Vigil–Escalera 12:00 midnight Sun May 29 Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 n. Front St. Harrisburg. Sunday 12PM OFFBEAT/UNIQUE 12:00pm Monster Movie by Neil Ira Needleman, 22 min. A lovingly assembled mash-up salute to low-budget monster and science fiction movies of the 1950s. As a kid, I feasted my eyes on a steady stream of these flicks, relishing the site of every alien monster, radiation-instigated mutation, and giant creature I could find on my old black-and-white TV. My constant childhood diet of these movies goes a long way to explaining why I've become the demented fool I am today. Nyah-ha-ha. www.NeedlemanArt.com stray gods by Sara Santos, 8 min. A film about ruin, disobedience and shadows. cargocollective.com/saramorgadosantos/deuses-vadios-stray-gods
A Noodle in the Rain by Minki Hong, 8 min. In a rainy day, I just want something warm or hot. So I boil the water to eat a Korean instant ramen.
The Nude by Brian Zahm, 10 min. A satirical look at a male nude model with a God complex who poses for a group of painters and ponders his relation to art, artists and the known universe. bzahm.com
A B C A M by Richard Martin, 8 min. A B C A M (or A & B Cam) presents a scene from a TV movie where the angles have been superimposed to explore cinematic conventions. It reveals the narrative, angles as well as the adjustments in performance to observe the process in its rawness and mesmerizing predictability. www.richardmartinfilm.com/
Privy by David Finkelstein, 20 min. A young woman is forced to live with an unsympathetic stepmother, and spends much of her time in an outhouse, escaping into books and her own vivid fantasy life. “Privy” uses oblique, poetic language, fanciful images and musical interludes to depict her daydreams and her evolving plans for escape. Based on an improvisation by actors David Finkelstein and Ian W. Hill. www.lakeivan.org
12:00 Sun Sun May 29 Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 n. front st. Sunday 1:30PM DIARY & OBSERVATIONAL Monument by Marcin Gizycki, 3 min. 1:30 A secret life of monumental sculptures from The Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland.
Red, Blue and Purple by Janek Ambros, 4 min. A man's mind jumps back and forth between collectivism and objectivism. www.assemblylineentertainment.com
My Phenix City Story by Neil Ira Needleman, 4 min. Some thoughts about the changing nature and depiction of violence in a world in which terrorism and bloodshed are becoming part of the daily routine. www.NeedlemanArt.com
Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six by Josh Weissbach, 11 min. Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six displays the physical changes of the maker’s heart since being born with the congenital disorder, Transposition of the Great Vessels. This chronicle showcases a movement from human to cyborg that connects personal vulnerability to 1980s science fiction. www.fandor.com/filmmakers/director-josh-weissbach
The Bags, Probably 1971 by Yates, 6 min. A southern family of four is reincarnated during this hand-processed assemblage of their previously unearthed audio/visual keepsakes. thisisyates.com
Idyll by Mary Billyou, 6 min. Fewer families were born, lived, and died in the same place. People, especially young ones, were ready for a new life, as far removed from the old one as pos- sible. Living space was much smaller and there were few, if any, servants. Many wives were working outside the home and leisure was not to be spent doing housework, but in being out of doors as much as possible. Emphasis was on informal living and informal entertaining. marybillyou.com
Abandoned Generations by Linda Fenstermaker, 10 min. A portrait of farmland in the Pacific Northwest, "Abandoned Generations" ex- plores relationships with land and time in different generations. Told through the perspective of a female farmer in the 1940s, the film questions the distance that modern society has from the earth and how that relationship informs daily life. cargocollective.com/lindafenstermaker
Two Aries by Josh Weissbach, 4 min. Two Aries that are simultaneously the same and different. www.fandor.com/filmmakers/director-josh-weissbach 1:30 PM Sun Sun May 29 PM Sunday 2:45PM EXPERIMENTAL MEDLEY2:45 Location: The Civic Club of Harrisburg - 612 N Front St, Harrisburg, PA 17101
SPIDER, spinner of worlds by Melissa Myser, 8 min. They say Spider was living in a village by the ocean. She had moved East, in her old age to a place many older animals lived. But Spider had never lived anywhere other than the western desert. In her days here, she spun webs from her memories of home. She looked up at the sky and remembered how night came in the desert. Suddenly, and in purple.melissamyser.com
Men at Work by Panu Johansson, 6 min. Cinema has always had a special interest in factory workers. In fact the first Lumière brothers film "Workers Leaving the Factory" from 1895 has often been credited as the first motion picture ever made. In the 20th century also many experimental filmmakers depicted the rat race of modern life in their own way. "Men at Work" depicts one average workday in the factory environment. The repetitive and dull nature of industrial work is underlined by speeding up the time code of the original material and by looping the material back and forth every now and then. When all natural movement is destroyed, the machines and the people working with them blend together and eventually become one. www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en/art/16726
DRONE by Steven Lapcevic, 5 min. An infinite routine. www.stevenlapcevic.com
The first ant to come out by Stefano Schirru, 4 min. You take three matchboxes, put 1,000 black ants in the first, 10,000 in the second and 50 in the third, together with one red ant in each, shut the boxes, and bore a hole in each of them, small enough to allow only one ant to crawl through at a time. What will come out first? A free adaptation of C. G. Jung's Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle.
Street Twenty-Seven Number Ten Sixteen by Josh Weissbach, 3 min. In Street Twenty-Seven Number Ten Sixteen there is the memory of a bedroom in an apartment on the third floor of a building. There is a reverie of a melancholic love song playing on an airplane, flying towards an island, straddling an ocean and a sea. There is the soft haze of an embargo slowly lifting into the celestial blue. www.fandor.com/filmmakers/director-josh-weissbach
Annie by Haleema Gondal, 3 min. Hollow and lost in her voice, a life formed by voicemails. www.youtube.com/user/Treebulbbook
Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 n. front st. SUN Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 n. Front St. Harrisburg. Sun May 29
2:45 Cont. Invocation of Uzi by Ross Meckfessel, 5 min. Ostensibly an abstracted portrait of actress Jojo Hill as she portrays five different characters in this behind-the-scenes documentary of Uzi’s Party: an experimental pagan teen drama by Lyra Hill. However, the film is also a ritual in and of itself; it captures the energies within the pagan temple used as a filming location, while visu- ally portraying the disintegration of identity that occurs throughout the narrative of Uzi's Party. www.rossmeckfessel.com
The Last Place I Saw It by Zach Reese, Dustin Stuppy, 9 min. A meditation on loss and our attachment to the material world. www.vimeo.com/zachreese
theoria by Josh Weissbach, 6 min. A Greek man, once a guide on the island of Delos, started discussing what the word theory meant. Our ensuing conversation was the initial inspiration for this film, entitled theoria [theh-oh-ree-ah]. www.fandor.com/filmmakers/director-josh-weissbach
The Last Place I Saw It by Zach Reese, Dustin Stuppy Sun Sun May 29 PM Sunday 4PM HOW THE SKY WILL MELT4:00 Location: The Civic Club of Harrisburg - 612 N Front St, Harrisburg, PA 17101
How the Sky Will Melt by Matthew Wade, 89 min, 2015. Gwen, a musician with a growing paranoia disorder, returns to her hometown after a traumatic event. Diverting their emotional issues with a strange and unholy discovery, she and her friends begin to deteriorate the fabric of the universe. howtheskywillmelt.com
Showing with: Shadowbox by Ryder Thomas White, 13 min. A man, lost in the disjunction between a joke and its punchline, tries to escape the physical void space in which he becomes trapped. ryderthomaswhite.com/#shadowbox
Delusions of Grandeur by Patrick Loy, 6 min. The story of a man's subconscious coming alive and threatens to take over his body. vimeo.com/dreamelusive
How the Sky Will Melt by Matthew Wade
Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 n. front st. SUN Sun May 29 PM
8:00FRACTION INFRACTION (Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily St.) FRACTION INFRACTION: A Contemporary Short Film Program Curated by James Hollenbaugh
David Fair Is The King by Skizz Cyzyk, 7 min. A visit with David Fair, retired bookmobile librarian and underground music legend (co-found- er of the hugely influential art punk band Half Japanese), as he shows off collections of thrift store paintings, Mr. Peanuts, his Nancy tattoo, and his sunny outlook on life and art. www.skizz.net/
Nuthouse Drawings by James Hollenbaugh, 6 min. Susan Lowe is most well known as an actress in the early movies of filmmaker John aters.W This short portrait film focuses on Susan's life as an artist and in particular her works known as 'Nuthouse Drawings'. Sometimes thought of as painting friends, Susan started creating these works while staying at a psychiatric hospital. Serving as a way to battle her depression, fear, and loneliness, the 'Nuthouse Drawings' are a one of a kind look into the mind of one of Baltimore's most imaginative artists. vimeo.com/hollenbaugh
Trial Run by Lawrence Klein, 26 min. Following a humiliating job search, Gabe looks set for success after answering an online recruitment ad. He soon finds himself on a bizarre cross-country odyssey filled with strange signs and symbols, seedy hotel rooms, dead prostitutes, and possibly extraterrestrial gar- bage men. Can Gabe put the pieces together and maintain his composure, or will he stay a victim of his own neuroses? And just who are Gabe’s seemingly otherworldly employers, and how much of his own mysterious past will affect his future? Starring Bryan Lewis Saunders and Jasmin St. Claire trialrunfilm.com/
Grey Water / Black Water by Josh Drake, 4min. A short portrait of a father’s anxiety told through an in-camera Super 8 double-exposure. vimeo.com/whipplewash
Pickle by Amy Nicholson, 15 min. Pickle is an ode to man’s capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence until their occasionally sudden and unfortunate demise. vimeo.com/amybnicholson
Take What You Can Carry by Matthew Porterfield, 30 min. A character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space, TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY is a picture of a young woman seen through the interiors she occupies and the company she keeps. A North American living abroad, Lilly aspires to shape an intimate and private place of her own while connecting to the world around her. When she receives a letter from home, it provides the conduit she needs to fuse her transient self with the person she's always known herself to be. Starring Hannah Gross (I Used To Be Darker, Valedictorian) hamiltonfilmgroup.org/
8:00 PM Sun Sun May 29 PM AT ONE FELL SWOOP Location: Midtown Cinema -10:00 250 Reily St, Harrisburg, PA 17102
At One Fell Swoop by Michael Higgins, 75 min. 2015 At One Fell Swoop deals with a stone carver and his metamorphic wander through rural Ireland. In passing he slips through the film’s frames into a re-imagining of his surroundings in which he finds himself trapped on an intense cataclastic path towards a dead end. Pho- tographed on expired 16mm black and white film and entirely hand-processed, At One Fell Swoop resembles a phantom-like film lodged amid multiple stratums of time and space. atonefellswoopfilm.com/
Showing with: XO by Brian Ratigan, 4 min. Fearing her own memories, a girl begins the cerebral journey of longing for escape before completely fading away. non-films.com
At One Fell Swoop by Michael Higgins
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