FRIDAY JUNE 18th - Local Shorts Showcase
Doors open 7:30PM - Films 8:30PM
FREE ADMISSION
elfmädchen Dir. Mirka Morales 16 min
www.elfmadchen.com
Vimeo 1 minute excerpt
An abstract portrait poem painting of a narcoleptic girl. It's an urban decay fairy tale with no prince charming set in the big bad city of Soma, San Francisco. Dreams become weirder, lucid, flowing in and out of reality. Each dream study has its own feel, from tropical to absurd, to ominous and back to childlike. Featuring music by Bruce Haack, Tipsy, and Ian Pooley.
PAISLEY'S TALE Dir. Harmony Nichol 9 min
A young woman unknowingly drinks a glass of LSD laced water and soon discovers herself in a psychedelic fairy tale. In an attempt to find her cheating boyfriend, she goes on an adventure and meets many colorful characters whom all help her realize the bigger picture in her life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645827/
DOWN ON THE FARM Dir. Alfonso Alvarez (6 min)
A gorgeous hand-processed film shot at the Film Farm, outside Toronto, Canada. Using the home
brew, hand-processed method, and stellar optical printing, the texture and imagery of the hay harvest is inspiring for DIY filmmaking.
POPP Dir. Imelda Picherit 2 min
Poppies in blooming twilight with music by Sidney Bechet
LAUNDRY Dir. Danielle Katvan 4 min
In an eccentric, old-school laundromat, a young man is lulled into a daydream while waiting for his wash cycle to finish. 'Laundry' is a quirky and colorful film that juxtaposes the mundane with the magical.
OSA: OAKLAND'S GEM Dir./Prod. Jenny Chu 15 min
A glimpse into the Oakland School for the Arts, an academically successful inner city charter school thriving in a place with a reputation for crime and poverty. Despite Oakland's problems, beautiful things happen here. This is the story about the power of art as inspiration in the lives of the next generation.
ROUGH DEMO Dir. Donte Harrison AKA Dr. Cyclops (4 min)
Oakland born and raised filmmaker and musician Donte Harrison AKA Dr.Cyclops serves up a DIY classic with ROUGH DEMO.
INHUMAN EATING MACHINE Dir. D. Silva (9 min)
INHUMAN EATING MACHINE tells the story of Oakland's own Andrew Levy.
Join Andrew as he takes you on a food journey to some of the East
Bay's least discussed culinary institutions.
http://inhumaneatingmachine.blogspot.com/
WASTELAND Dir. Kathleen Quillian (3 min)
Through stop-motion animation, “Wasteland” follows the path of the industrial food system from field to table and back and shows how the industry operates at the expense of the health of the society it was designed to nourish.
TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS VALUES Dir. Ruth Villasenor
(8 min)
TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS VALUES, an Indigenous Woman's perspective of the confrontational Yes on 8 rallies in the Bay Area, after marrying her same sex partner in 2008. Historical photos of Native American acceptance of gay people before colonization, along with with interviews of Indigenous same sex couples married during this time compares Proposition 8 to the impact of colonization.
GOLLY THE RAINMAKER Dir. Yoram Savion (6 min)
Yoram Savion, Kash Gaines, Ben Tarquin, and Javier Ochoa of YAK FILMS combine their skills to bring forth a finely crafted cinematic description of a future environmental nightmare to come in 2087. In GOLLY THE RAINMAKER, compelling characters vie for power, while others struggle for survival and search for the truth. GOLLY THE RAINMAKER is a rich fabric of sights and sounds full of mythic elements. Music by Beeezwax. Winner of the East Bay Express 24 Hour Digital Film Festival 2010.
