OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

Apocalypse is Coming & War Fantasies of Death and Swordplay 7:30 - Apocalypse Cal (15:36) 10:34 - Death & the Iron Maiden (Animated) (5:00) 7:45 - Over The Top (Animated) (5:55) 10:39 - Swordsmen (1:30) 7:51 - Why?! (7:30) 10:42 GO! (The Revamp) (4:07) 7:58 - Odessa (13:40) 8:10 - Dirt (6:39) Post-Apocalyptic Memories 8:16 - The Town Where Nobody Lives (22:00) 10:46 - California Dreamin’ (3:22) 8:39 - The old ones called it CHAOS (16:21) 10:49 - Havva (7:40) 8:56 - Switch Man (Animated) (3:38) 10:57 - Stolen Light (12:34) 9:00 - i’ii (Animated) (9:46) 11:10 - Albert (23:43) 11:33 - Wander (14:45) Dystopian Realities 11:48 - The Ripper (4:46) 9:10 - iNTERFACE (2:28) 11:53 - RADIO (16:04) 9:12 - employee of the day (Animated) (15:00) 12:09 - DAYS END (10:46) 9:27 - FLEXIBILITY (10:00) 12:20 - Willow Creek (3:02) 9:37 - Thinker (8:19) 9:45 - Looking for (Animated) (3:45) ENCORE BLOCK: 40 MIN 9:50 - The Grid (12:47) Did you miss a film? Here is a chance to catch 9:53 - Growing Pains (Animated) (8:17) them! Audience votes on films to play (anything from the schedule except features Off-beat Realities with Humor and special presentations) 10:01 - Papa Leone’s Pizza Show (Animated) (2:13) 10:03 - The Alpacing Dead (8:31) ENDING TIME: 1 AM 10:11 - Somebody to Save (5:01) 10:16 - The Detectives of Noir Town (7:00) THURSDAY 10:23 - Rotten Love (11:11) OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

The Coming Apocalypse Strange Tales 7:30 - BAM (5:06) 10:00 - Night of the Slasher (20:00) 7:35 - Dark Side of the Earth (5:30) (with Intro and q/a) 10:20 - The Stomach (15:00) Horror & Apocalyptic Faery Tales 7:40 - We All Go the Same (3:45) Animated Poetry 7:44 - Dead Hearts (16:41) 10:35 - Atheum’s Way (Animated) (4:24) 8:00 - Dustland (16:38) 10:39 - Little Match Girl (Animated) (9:13) 8:17 - Therion (14:48) 10:48 - Apology to a Television Set (Animated) (1:05) 8:32 - HORIZON (24:00) FEATURE PRESENTATION 9:00 SPECIAL PROGRAM 1: 10:50 - Battledream Chronicle (Animated) (1:48:20) Films of Pascal Chind (1 HR) Pascal Chind Intro 12:40 ENCORE BLOCK: 50 MIN 1. Shortcut (25:00) Did you miss a film? Here is a chance to catch 2. Extreme Pinnochio (30:00) them! Audience votes on films to play Pascal Chind Q & A (anything from the schedule except features and special presentations)

ENDING TIME: 1:30 AM FRIDAY OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

The Apocalypse Will Be Televised 7. BFD music video (2:56) 7:30 - Among the Innocent (6:30) 8. The M Machine - Glow (2:36) 7:36 - The Moon Cried (Animated) (2:24) 9. Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon: THE MOVIE (2:45) 7:39 - Skål (15:00) 9. Creepy Japanese Furby Commercial (0:53) 7:54 - Necrotic (3:53) 10. STREET FIGHTER (SFxTK) Vega VS Jun (1:55) 7:58 - EMPTY (6:16) 11. GRRL SCOUTS (14:56) 8:04 - Avant (13:15) 12. Kill The Noise - Kill the Noise Part 1 (3:40) 8:17 - Apocalypse Rock (24:20) Mike Diva Q & A

Case Studies in Weird FEATURE PRESENTATION 8:42 - Double-Blind No.1 (1:40) 10:00 - E.N.D. the movie (1:21:19) 8:44 - Double-Blind Case Study (3:20) 8:47 - Red Point (Animated) (4:43) The Final Post Apocalypse Splurge 8:52 - Tibetan Night Terrors - To Be Trusted (3:25) 11:21 - XXX (5:25) 11:26 - AFYA - Away From You All (12:00) 9:00 SPECIAL PROGRAM 2: 11:38 - Fallen Angel (Animated) (3:30) Films of Mike Diva (1 HR) 11:41 - Land of None (11:58) Mike Diva Intro 11:53 - The Edge (16:34) 1. roadkill bbq (4:10) 12:09 - Echoes (3:20) 2. Watch Dogs - Cyborg Beatdown (2:07) 12:13 - Point Zero (17:55) 3. THRESHER (7:42) 12:31 - The Lotus Gun (25:00) 4. Scorpion VS Noob Saibot (1:56) 5. “Queens & Kings” Shopping Kart Stunt Race (4:01) 12:56 ENCORE BLOCK: 34 MIN 6. Savant- Kali 47 (2:59) ENDING TIME: 1:30 AM SATURDAY OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

FEATURES SPECIAL PROGRAM 1 (qualify for limited edition Wasteland Film Festival Bottlecap, 25 handed out at end) Battledream Chronicle (1:48:20, Sci-Fi, Animated): In 2100, the empire of Mortemonde colonized almost all the nations of Shortcut: This dark comedy, set in a retro-futurist, dieselpunk the Earth and reduced their populations to slavery. Every slave is forced world, tells the story of Tom, a midget in love with Francoise, a tall, to collect 1000 XP every month in Battledream, a video game where they beautiful girl with auburn hair. When Françoise humiliates Tom at the can die for real. Only those who succeed are granted the right to live until village fair, she finds herself in a sticky situation. the following month. Syanna, a young martinican slave, refuses to keep living in this condition and decides to fight for her freedom... Extreme Pinnochio: A dwarf junkie dresses up as Pinocchio to steal money from a schizophrenic psychopath who thinks he’s Geppetto. E.N.D. the movie (1:21:19, Post-Apoc): Follows the rise and progress of a zombie epidemic over several years. With a couple SPECIAL PROGRAM 2 (qualify for limited edition interesting twists and turns, prepare for the End! Wasteland Film Festival Bottlecap, 25 handed out at end)

Films of Mike Diva: A mix of high octane action with cult 80s sensibilities, steampunk, horror, and everything in between, Mike continually exhibits a strong, colorful visual style throughout with an eclectic mix of video game inspired fan made films to full on, uniquely crafted music videos. film desc. film OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

ANIMATED FILMS Growing Pains (8:17, Dystopian): An Orwellian nightmare told from the perspective of its most worthless citizen. Set in a time lapsed dystopia littered in endless towerblocks , one of which Apology to a Television Set (1:05): This collaborative is where our insignificant protagonist resides. Her bizarre, prompted project utilizes three art forms—fine art, animation and poetry, for the existence sees her forced into the role of motherhood, imprisoned and purposes of investigating and applying a new technique in 3D software, unable to escape. resulting in a non-traditional 3D animated style. The project features myself as animator and director; MSU student artist Ria Martinez; and world-renowned poet Frank Messina. i’ii (9:46, Post Apoc): World War 3 devastates the planet. The conflict must come to an end. Europe comes up with a weapon capable of Atheum’s Way (4:24, Post Apoc): A father must confront blocking the chemical reaction necessary for fire to ignite. The “i” bomb. an eternal storm to reunite with his daughter and learn that man must The war would be over, but humanity would be saved on one condition: tame his past before he tames his future. preserving a flame by any possible means.

Death & the Iron Maiden (5:00): Death visits a small Little Match Girl (9:13): A child struggles to survive in the medieval town to abduct and murder a young Maiden. However once concrete jungle, facing hunger and cold every day of her life. She finds Death arrives at the castle where the Maiden resides, he discovers that the solace wherever she can, in the games at the local arcade, or any access Maiden is so much more than Death imagined. to fire.

employee of the day (15:00, Dystopian): In a world Looking for (3:45): A satire about a puppet chasing its life goal, of mass consumption, overstimulation and performance pressure but who is not driven by personal will. Instead, a mystery force guides three people follow their day by day routine. Two of them work on an the puppet, a representation of social norms. Is there any way to break assembly line. Two of them share a secret. Two of them are part of the through this world where everything, image and morality, is black or show. Only one can become EMPLOYEE OF THE DAY. white?

Fallen Angel (3:30, Post Apoc): A young woman Moon Cried, The (2:24, Apoc): Tragic events retold in the style of a Disney cartoon circa the 1930’s, featuring a special guest- film desc. film searches for her family in the ruins of America, following the outbreak of a Third World War. appearance by Elvis. OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

Over The Top (5:55, War): An elderly man recounts his GO! (The Revamp) (4:07, Post Apoc): Love is hard to experiences while serving in the Canadian Army in France during World find in Post-Apocalyptia, and when one has it, they will fight to the death War 1. to insure it stays with them.

Papa Leone’s Pizza Show (2:13): A thugged-out chicken Ripper, The (4:46): Song taken from the 2nd album “The Sum and his gang fight against the suburbanization of their beloved inner-city Of My Parts”. The Ripper (gimme back my love) is a dark song about hellhole. schizophrenia, unrequited love, and murder.

Somebody to Save (5:01): Set in a post-World War III Red Point (4:43): A strange, surreal steampunk like reality with a bunker, Chicago industrial band Short to Ground’s “Somebody to Save” paper cut out style. highlights the struggles facing survivors needing rescue in a dangerous, chaotic world. Switch Man (3:38): K-City is under attack by the evil Dr. Mantis! As everyone around are losing their heads, one young man stands Tibetan Night Terrors - To Be Trusted (3:25): To find up to fight. This is his story. someone to love who makes one not want to live in a world of only one.

We All Go the Same (3:45, Darl Faery Tale): In the timeless world of fairy tales, villains and victims are visited by a MUSIC VIDEOS vengeful fairy who offers to shift the balance of power.

California Dreamin’ (3:22): Official video for award XXX (5:25, Post Apoc): Humans struggle to survive in a winning music producer Robot Koch and singer/songwriter Delhia de dystopian future in this science fiction music video. France’s (The Pentatones) cover of the cult song California Dreaming’ by the Mamas And The Papas. film desc. film Echoes (3:20, Post Apoc): A man searches for lost video records among post apocalyptic ruins. OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

THE SHORTS Apocalypse Rock (24:20, Post Apoc): Tom Harper is the last man alive. Surviving alone in an emergency broadcast radio AFYA - Away From You All (12:00, Post Apoc): station, he broadcasts a rock and roll fueled radio show each and every Eenola is born in the wreckage of the Enola Gay, in the city once called day in hopes that someone out there might hear him. Washington D.C. (the Air andSpace museum has been turned into a village after a nuclear war destroyed the old city). She lost her mother Avant (13:15, Post Apoc): In a world turned to ashes by war during her childhood and left a burning village. After growing up between human and machines, a boy is left to wander for shelter and mimicking a wolf, she became the iconic neo-prehistoric huntress. She’s food. Most importantly, he must stay hidden, lest he suffer the same fate now walking through the northern hemisphere, seeking a mysterious as the rest of humanity. goal. BAM (5:06, Apoc, Comedy): A lonely lady resigned to her Albert (23:43, Post Apoc): A man working in a factory supermarket job with no friends discovers a new lease on life in the last wasteland, with his only friend being a pet mouse he keeps in a tin can. minutes of a sane world. The only way out of the desolate factory district is through or over massive walls. Will he find a means of escape or will his existence only Dark Side of the Earth (5:30, Apoc): A runaway ever be good enough for such a place? scientist leaks a video confession of a secret and shocking discovery regarding our Solar System. Alpacing Dead, The (8:31, Apoc, Comedy): A New Breed Of Zombie Has Emerged. Fast. Fierce. Out For Blood. The DAYS END (10:46, Apoc): A disillusioned young man’s Alpacalypse is upon us self-loathing is interrupted by a cataclysmic event with life altering consequences. Among the Innocent (6:30, Apoc): A little girl is confronted with total annihilation by a world beyond her understanding. Dead Hearts (16:41, Dark Faery Tale): A young mortician will give his heart away to find true love. A whimsical, gothic Apocalypse Cal (15:36, Apoc, Comedy): A bedtime story filled with love, loss, taxidermy, Kung fu, and biker

film desc. film mockumentary about a right-wing doomsday prepper named Cal, who werewolves. becomes convinced that the world will end the day after filming begins. OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

Detectives of Noir Town, The (7:00): In a town where Edge, The (16:34, Post Apoc): A future time, where people and puppets walk the streets, a puppet detective is on the case of people live off in the forests, some as refugees, others as pillagers and his missing uncle, though he has competition from every man, woman and destroyers. Anarchy reigns. A young girl, Hawa, and her father live a dummy wanting to be named Noir Town’s top detective. humble life until things suddenly change during a normal, everyday food pillage, causing her to lose what she holds most dear to her and forcing Dirt (6:39): A man wakes up in the desert, unaware of how he got her on a journey to the edge of the forest to confront the thieves and there with only a ticking bomb to keep him company. bring back what rightfully belongs to her.

Double-Blind No.1 (1:40): Five VFX artists set out to test the EMPTY (6:16, Post Apoc): All children are now born without theory that a fine-art technique relying on chance could be applied to a souls, and humanity can’t survive. motion piece. FLEXIBILITY (10:00, Dystopian): Europe, near future. Double-Blind Case Study (3:20): Behind the scenes of The workers of a stickpin factory gather urgently to avoid the impending Double Blind in a fun and humorous way. plant closing. The differences between the workers and the top management are not the expected ones. Dustland (16:38, Dark Faery Tale): When a monstrous dust storm engulfs the land, an itinerant circus is stranded in the ceaseless Grid, The (12:47): Shot documentary-style, The Grid plots the howling winds. “Dustland” centers around a high wire walker who, rise and fall of fear-based game show where contestants enter a virtual grounded by the wind and unable to perform, is lured by a haunting tune reality world populated by their deepest, darkest fears. towards a mysterious fiddler waiting at the crossroads. The stranger presents her with an hourglass that can stop the wind, but only until the Havva (7:40, Post Apoc): In a world where women can no sand runs out. longer bear daughters, a father and his child living secluded away from the chaos and the overwhelming threat humanity now poses, gets a strange visitor on horse. Will he bring destruction to their peaceful lives? Or is he merely a peaceful passerby? film desc. film OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

HORIZON (24:00, Post Apoc): The world as we know Night of the Slasher (11:16, Comedy-Horror): ended; only its ashes are left. In a desperate attempt to bring the family A ‘shot-in-one-take’ slasher film about a teenage girl who must commit together, Ana and her mother begin a dangerous journey where they’ll horror movie sins by drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and having sex in face the monsters that now rule the Earth and an even more dangerous order to lure a masked killer and defeat him. one: the one we all carry inside... Odessa (13:40, Post Apoc): In the wake of a global iNTERFACE (2:28): Digital media is like a transparent thin layer economic collapse and social chaos, Texas secedes from the United of skin; it shields our notion of self, and also the ability to transform States and a stark new border dynamic is born. Now, a desperate mother and change. “iNTERFACE” is an experimental film about a self-portrait is forced to brave hostile territory to save her child’s life. made of assemblages and investigates co-existing multiple digital identities. “The best interface is no interface.” old ones called it CHAOS, The (16:21, Apoc): People don’t go out at night, anymore. Not without facing the Land of None (11:58, Post Apoc): Lil, a young woman unimaginable abyss. At least, that is what people are told. One night, living alone in the desolate wasteland, one day encounters a stranger Pierra, against the wishes of his family. dares to venture into the night in need. She decides to trust him and take care of him, but when the and all that brings. stranger’s pursuer turns up she is forced to choose between her own safety or that of the stranger she has learned to trust. Point Zero (17:55, Post Apoc): In a wasted future, the world has fallen into chaos after an epidemic of unprecedented scale, Lotus Gun, The (25:00, Post Apoc): The year is 2077, where the rare human survivors have regressed to a quasi-primitive level. in a post-civilization world, where there are no laws or weapons, Nora One man must venture into hostile territory to provide for his beloved. and her best friend and lover, Daph, live an idyllic life in a rugged Will he return at all? Can he survive the monster that creeps into himself landscape. When a stranger arrives and Daph disappears, Nora has to go when he faces what has become of the rest of humanity? to extreme measures to get back what is her’s. RADIO (16:04, Post Apoc): After World War III, a soldier Necrotic (3:53, Post Apoc): A woman bitten by a zombie finds himself alone, surviving in a barren city with his Radio.

film desc. film descends into madness, as the transformation overtakes her body and mind. OFFICIAL PROGRAM FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR: Jon Mercurio Knight (aka The Merc or Mercurio the Wasteland Messenger) SPONSORED BY: Wasteland Weekend SPECIAL THANKS TO: Karol Bartoszynski & Jared Butler, whose boundless support has allowed me to put this program together each year.

Rotten Love (11:11, Post Apoc): In this campy zombie Thinker (8:19): In a world where it’s discovered that if you think musical, one hopeless romantic is forced to learn if love really is worth about someone, they can’t die, “Thinkers” are bred to take on this task. dying for. Only the rich can afford such a thing. With this new knowledge what lengths will the poor go to, in order to keep their loved ones alive? Skål (15:00, Post Apoc): And if tomorrow...in one night... all the planet’s water disappeared? Would you share your water reserves? Town Where Nobody Lives, The (22:00): Richard and But...with whom? And why? A range of choices that a young YouTube Elizabeth are a married couple on a road trip who find themselves lost in celebrity will have to suddenly and brutally confront. a mysterious ghost town.

Stolen Light (12:34): A young couple struggle with the loss Wander (14:45, Post Apoc): In a dystopian landscape a of their baby daughter. As Rose sinks further into depression, Jonas tries lone man, grown into the desolate environment around him, lives out desperately to revive their relationship so they can start again. But as his simple daily existence, until one day there is sight of survivors. Rose moves towards her own inevitable conclusion and Jonas battles Wander is a love story with twists and subtle turns throughout, ‘an utterly with his own pain, will his efforts to remind her of what they once had be evocative thrilling short’ narrative which follows Noah and his complex enough…? relationship to the world around him with those that he has lost.

Stomach, The (15:00): Frank’s had enough. A spirit medium Why?! (7:30, War): An allegory in favor of peace and whose unique and grotesque method of channeling the dead is putting his nonviolence, a critique of the violation of human rights on behalf of any own life at risk, he wants out. But others, in this world and the next, have flag and a tribute to the innocent victims of terror. plans of their own. Part body-horror, part ghost-story, The Stomach is a unique tale of Supernatural Noir. Willow Creek (3:02): “Dreesbach produced a very moving piece of cinema that has an erie but mystical vibe to it - thanks in part Swordsmen (1:30): Two swordsmen must battle. to the Ry X track Shortline accompanying the film.” - Aaron Brown (Fstoppers.com) Therion (14:48, Horror): In a post-war spain, a cursed boy is film desc. film feared by all those who know him. His family is trying to find a solution for what to do with him, Will the curse win out or will the family save their child from eternal damnation?