Film information

Alice Underwater
Kate Balsley, Brown Deer, WI
2:00 - 16mm
Alice, underwater.

America is Fucked (Graphically at Least)
Jess Gibson, Portland, OR
3:12 - MiniDV
It's all Blippo Bold from here on out. One guy is aiming to change that.

Aviarium
Arne Muench, Cologne, Germany
3:52 - Animation/After Effects
A surreal, dreamlike journey through apocalyptical landscapes - breathtaking.

Ben Pickle
Nic Beery, Carrboro, NC
12:35 - HD
Ben lives more inside his brain than outside in the real world.

Blackbirds, Bottle Caps, and Broken Records
Margaret Morales, Durham, NC
15:39 - MiniDV
The U.S. produces nearly five pounds of trash per person, per day. Here's how one woman's going to deal with it.

Bloodsucker
Meghan O'Hara, San Francisco, CA
4:00 - 16mm
West Nile Virus meets the real estate bubble.

La Boya
Mariano Salvador, Spain
12:00 - DVCPRO-HD
Life is out there, just past the next buoy.

Brother Micah
Kevin Wells, Durham, NC
5:54 - MiniDV
A man with a mission--coming soon to a college campus near you.

CAT
Jaime Heinrich, Reno, AV
6:48 - RED
Dude, where's my emerald-seeking stuffed kitty?

Charades
Ann Steuernagel, Cambridge, MA
7:00 - MiniDV
A feeling of being separated from the lower world.

Chocolate Bunny
Lernert Engelberts & Sander Plug, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2:37 HD
"I can't define strange beauty, but I know it when I see it."

Chorus & Verse
Anne Arrington, Charlottesville, VA
5:00 - MiniDV
A road trip told in layers.

COPS
Brad Boll, Chapel Hill, NC
1:00 - 16mm
Don't taze me, bro.

DeVon Smith: Robot Man
David Craig. Portland, OR
9:06 - Hi8
Not even Disney had a family of robots.

eaten
Anne Haydock. Durham, NC
6:24 - Super 8, 16mm, MiniDV
A game of dress-up captured for posterity.

Ecological Apple
Andreas Soderberg. Stockholm, Sweden
1:00 - DVCPRO-HD time lapse and After Effects
It lives, it breathes. It's an apple.

The Empress
Lyle Pisio, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
8:25 - JPEG Sequence
Loneliness, desire, love, hesitation, miscommunication, fear and loss with a touch of alcoholism for comic relief.

Fair Trade
Leslie Supnet, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
4:31 - Video/Adobe After Effects
Trauma, purging, healing, transformation, animation.

Fledgling
Elizabeth Henry & Tony Gault, Glenwood Springs, CO
7:00 - 16mm
Man raises crow--"I feel I have definitely screwed with the natural order of things."

Ghost Conversations
Jeremy Bessoff, Chicago, IL
8:27 - MiniDV
Giant marionettes and a dream of a flying ace.

Goat
Jennie Thwing, Glassboro, NJ
12:00 - MiniDV
A lamb learns which animals to trust in this fairtytale more Grimm than Goose.

How to Summon Nackycole
Brad Boll. Chapel Hill, NC
2:18 - MiniDV
Chances are, you don't want to try this at home.

I Love(Hate) You: Gloria
Kate Raney, Chicago, IL
6:10 - MiniDV
Love is a kick in the head. Over and over and over.

Ichthyopolis
Andre Silva, Wilmington, NC
9:22 - DVCPRO-HD
The Fish Wrangler and the Fish Queen must deal with a powerful disturbance.

Insurgency of Ambition
Anya Belkina, Boston, MA
7:58 - Digital animation with tactile textures
Success ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's actually big, scary, and black and white.

Jornada del Muerto
Neal Hutcheson, Raleigh, NC
10:00 - Super 8
Gliding across the Nevada desert on a peoplemover, in search of water. Las Vegas was not built by cowboys.

Letting Go
Naomi Schegloff, Brooklyn, NY
2:30 - MiniDV
A woman takes things seriously.

A Moment
Bob Hurst, Lawrence, KS
4:00 - Mini DV
A study of psychic readings and domestic spaces.

More Control
Steve Daniels, Colombia, SC
5:25 - Super 8
Cinema is an evil force. Its point is to exert control over people and events.

Notes on a Fair
John Scott & Karen Rodriguez, Ithaca, NY
6:00 - 16mm
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares, in Skowhegan County.

Notes on Liberty
John Scott, Ithaca, NY
8:00 - 16mm
Even a five year old knows what the Statue of Liberty is about, right?

O Quam Tristis
Maite Abella, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
8:48 - Super 8
Love me, love me, say that you love me.

On the Killing Floor
Savannah Scarborough, Carrboro, NC
14:28 - MiniDV
Meat is murder. But is it art? Artist/activist Sue Coe braves a slaughterhouse to show us the real guts of global capitalism.

Page 1 of 1
Russ Roe, Wilmington, NC
2:30 - MiniDV
Skateboarding is not a crime.

Pollenating
David Montgomery, Fernandina Beach, FL
3:33 - MiniDV
Flowers. Imperfect--and sexy.

Remember Me
Monique Velasquez, Durham, NC
5:43 - DVCAM
I'm gonna wash that girl right out of my head.

Scene 32
Shambhavi Kaul, Durham, NC
DVCPRO-HD - 5:00
A map of the indistinct terrain that lies between a beloved place and the objects that represent it.

Spaceman
Nicole Triche, Durham, NC
3:24 - HDV, super 8, found footage
Space Monkeys: gone but not forgotten. We thank them for their service.

Spitty
Phoebe Brush, Durham, NC
13:52 - Mini DV
Woody Guthrie, we got fooled. That's why dad wrote a song about it.

Star, Dust
Karen Hanson, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1:46 - MiniDV
Is that a galaxy in your head, or are you just glad to see me?

Stone Moss
Leighton Pierce, Iowa City, IA
10:05 - DVCPRO-HD
A cascade of images and roiling sound suggest that the camera is not an eye, it's a consciousness.

Suite of Summer Evenings
Robert Harris, Lexington, MA
22:00 - U-Matic
Carnival nights and coughing cars. A dirt track symphony.

Surface Kinetic
David Ellsworth, St. Mary's City, MD
13:45 - Super 8 & 16mm
Two buildings, one weird relationship.

Sylvia & George
Cara Clark, Greensboro, NC
5:56 - DVCPRO-HD
George Scheer's grandma left him a store where nothing's for sale. His reimagining of it becomes a work of art.

Tools of the Trade
Katherine Perry, Columbia, SC
1:00 - Super 8
Perfect.

Yard Work is Hard Work
Jodie Mack, Chicago, IL
28:45 - 16mm
Girl Meets Boy, they get stuff. Consumerist culture, home ownership, and the American dream--The Musical!