Dallas VideoFest26 Program Guide

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Welcome By Bart Weiss ................................................................. 8

aBout our Jurors ............................................................................10

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Greetings to you all, and thank you for coming to the 26th Dallas VideoFest!

We are really proud and excited to bring you a wide and diverse look at the where we are, where we might be going, and where we have been with moving images that hopefully will move you. This year I had an idea to do a program called state of the art where we show you in Drama, Documentary and Experimental work, what has happened since last I wrote an introduction to the fest. But instead of taking up a precious slot, I decided to do essays, which will be in this book by Bryan Konefsky, Beth Jasper, and Chris Vogar. I hope to update these each year and it will come to be something you look for as you pick up the book. In 1988 we showed off a new technology called “virtual reality,” where wearing

goggles and gloves brought you a new view into your world. Now we bring you a program to find out what these Google glasses are all about and what change they might bring. I am really looking forward to that. This year we seem to have lots of music programing, “This Ain’t No Mouse Music!” is not to be missed, and the others take so many different perspectives at what documenting music can be. We also focus on two major events in the Dallas musical scene–when the Stones and the Sex Pistols came to town. Two very different kinds of shows both

shot with local crews, who will be here. This year we also seem to have more international programs from Israel to Japan, many of these are pieces that nobody else features or even knows about. In the show “Dining with the Enemy” where a top chef is taken to a place where there have been long-term conflicts, killings, and deep-seated hatred. He then prepares a meal to bring people together. This episode takes place in the Middle East. There are so many films that deal with prescient issues of our day, that only we can show you, like Vessel, and Mercy Mercy. And we are happy to partner with IMAP to show An Unreal Dream, and Living condition. We have our own take on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination with True Tales on our opening night extravaganza, City of Hate, and some really great shorts. This year we celebrate Home Movie Day

with you by showing home movies from the Nixon family house in “Our Nixon”. We also have a look back at classic film and television, with showing one of the newly restored Hitchcock silent films, and a newly restored version of Far From Vietnam with the all stars from the French new wave. From TV we have something to tell you about Moms Mabley and “Sheldon Leonard’s Wonderful Life”, and we have the return of the Kovacs Award with George Schlatter the creator of Laugh-In.

And, there’s so much more.I really hope you are moved.

There are so many people that help us and make this festival happen, I hesitate to begin this because I know I will leave out many (just like above, if I did not mention your film, I really do love it there just is not enough room for everything in this essay). So first and foremost, Raquel Chapa who works so hard and makes so many dreams we have happen. It is a really hard and almost an impossible job, yet she does it and does it so well. Hey, anyone who can understand “Bart speak” is pretty special. Our Board of Directors is really special. I have been on many boards, and have been to many board meetings that did not excite me, but our board steps up the plate and makes things happen and really supports us. When we are done with any board meeting, I feel like I have the wind on my back. I thank them, especially our Board Chair, Jeff Leuchel and our super Treasurer, Jim Nugent. This year I worked with other curators to get the program to you, Carolyn Sortor and Mike Morris did such a magnificent job with the video art experimental program, and they both are really amazing. You don’t need to go to New York to see what is happening in video art as we have it here. For the Documentary category, Beth Jasper who also works with the Hot Springs Documentary Festival was a major help. Make sure you read her essay. In the Drama category Daniel Laabs not only helped

program, but also makes our great fest intro. I need to thank our great funders and partners, and the many individuals who help us with donations both cash and in kind.

Thank you, thank you! You make this happen.

Thanks to Mona Karsa for curating Expanded Cinema II and Pat Anderson for working with us to change the lights on the city. Thanks to Bill and James and our new home at the Alamo Draft House, and thanks to Steve Alford, winner of the Obelisk Award for service to nonprofits. Thanks to Kelly Kitchens for redefining PR and supporting us with your smile and laugh. Thanks to D Magazine for calling us the best fest in Dallas! Thanks to Kelly M and the many, many volunteers who make things go so seamlessly. Thanks to the artists who create the work that inspires us.

Thanks to the great Susan for putting up with so much over the year, love you so much.

Thanks to you for coming.

Bart Weiss

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Carolyn Macartney made her first film with a Double 8mm film camera that she found in her granny’s attic to accompany electronic music that she was composing. Having a background in fine art and experimental filmmaking, Carolyn is motivated by visual language and works in hybrids of narrative, experimental, and documentary genres. Carolyn’s films have won awards at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Onion City Film Festival, Houston Worldfest and other Juried screenings and have enjoyed success in screenings and festivals around the world. She has fourteen years of experience as a Director of Photography, having shot four feature length narrative films as well as numerous music videos, commercials, short films and documentaries. Carolyn’s award-winning still photography has been published and exhibited in the US and Europe. Among other honors, Carolyn has received an award for music composition, a DAAD scholarship to study painting at the Hochscule der Künste in Berlin, Germany, and a Kodak Faculty Scholars Award. Carolyn has lived in five different countries and as many States in America. She received her BA in Art from Smith College and her MFA in Filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an Associate Professor in the Division of Film and Media Arts at SMU in Dallas, Texas.

David Small-Prior to law school, Small enjoyed a successful career as a studio musician and recording artist. After attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, Small worked with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Melba Moore, Pieces of a Dream, Angela Bofill, Debra & Eloise Laws, and many others. David A. Small’s legal career started as an Assistant District Attorney in Dallas, Texas. Afterwards, Small practiced in the areas of insurance defense and banking litigation for the firm Chapman & Reese, PC. Never abandoning the strong interest in music and entertainment, Small has been practicing entertainment law since 1996. Small currently represents recording artists, publishers, promoters, actors, production facilities and record labels.

Charles Horak didn’t sleep much as a child, preferring instead to watch movies on late night TV. Not much has changed since then, except that he now shares his life-long passion for movies with others through numerous cinema endeavors.In 2002, Horak founded The Film Salon (www.filmsalon.org), a monthly film series devoted to the screening and discussion of classic and important films from the last century. In 2003, along with local film historian Jay Duncan, Horak founded the IT! Came From the ‘50s Film Festival which ran four wonderful years

at the Chamizal National Memorial and specialized in science fiction and horror films of the 1950s along with contextual presentations and guest appearances by notable actors and directors. Horak began guest hosting the weekly regional NPR program On Film (www.ktep.org) in 2002 and took over for the show’s original host, Cynthia Haines, in the summer of 2005. He is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (www.bfca.org), was awarded a fellowship to the 2007 Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and his 2008 reviews of Shine A Light, Hellboy II and Iron Man were nominated for an Entertainment Journalism award by the Los Angeles Press Club. In 2008, Horak co-founded and became the Artistic Director of the Plaza Classic Film Festival (www.plazaclassic.org) in El Paso. The Plaza Classic is the world’s largest film festival dedicated to the presentation of classic films and is centered around El Paso’s premier movie palace – the Plaza Theatre. The Festival drew more than 30,000 attendees in its first year, and continues to grow in every way. Charles Horak is the father of three budding cinephiles and husband of Dr. Ann Branan Horak, professor and director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. Since 1996, Horak and his family have lived in his hometown of El Paso, Texas. He is a registered architect and Owner of a construction and development firm.

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ron Simon has been a curator of radio and television at The Paley Center for Media since the early 1980s. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, New York University, and Hunter College, where he teaches courses on the history of media. Simon has written for many publications, including The Encyclopedia For Television and Thinking Outside of The Box. A member of the editorial board of Television Quarterly, he was recently chair of the George Foster Peabody Committee, Simon has lectured at museums and educational institutions throughout the world.

Ben Levin was born in Joliet, Illinois. After attending the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, he served in the United States Marine Band in Washington D.C. He then entered Temple University to pursue an MFA with an emphasis in documentary production -- the start of a 17-year relationship with that institution --culminating in his directing the MFA program there for seven years. Beginning in 1987, he taught for three years at Emerson College in Boston, before moving to the University of North Texas in 1990. Levin is a past-president of the University Film and Video Association and has served on the National Film Preservation Board by appointment of the Librarian of Congress

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since 1989. He has been involved in numerous documentary productions as producer, director and/or editor. The work has received many honors including several CINE Golden Eagles, awards from the Broadcast Education Association, the University Film and Video Association and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in addition to screenings on public television and in other venues including the London International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival and two screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Betsy McLane is the author of the book A NEW HISTORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM: SECOND EDITION, which recently went into a second printing. She is served as the Project Director for The American Documentary Showcase, a cooperative project of the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State. For eight years McLane was the Executive Director the International Documentary Association. She holds an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

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adam Donaghey, founder of micro-budget indie label Zero Trans Fat Prods., is an award-winning independent film producer. His work has been nominated for both the Independent Spirit and Gotham Awards, and has been showcased at fests including Sundance, SXSW, Sitges, LA Film Festival, AFI Fest and Thessaloniki; and via distributors including IFC Films, XLRator Media, Cinetic Media and the Lifetime Movie Network. Adam is a Partner and Vice President of Aviation Cinemas, inc., the holding company operating the historic Texas Theatre, an arthouse and national landmark in Dallas, Texas. Financed by Howard Hughes in 1931, the Texas Theatre received national attention after the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged shooter of President John F. Kennedy. Adam Co-Founded Aviation Cinemas Prods., which recently announced an option to develop the stage play “Danny Casolaro Died for You” into a feature film that will investigate the unsolved death of the titular writer mere weeks before he was to break a story uncovering high-level corruption within the Reagan/Bush Justice Dept. Adam is also Co-Founder of and programmer for the Oak Cliff Film Festival, which has been covered in various national publications including Texas Monthly and the New York Times. Adam regularly speaks and judges at universities, film festivals and industry related workshops, conferences and competitions and is a freelance film columnist for D Magazine. Adam is a graduate of the University of North Texas with a B.A. in philosophy.

ya’ke Smith Widely regarded as one of this generation’s next film directors to watch, Ya’Ke’s films have received world-wide acclaim, screening and winning awards at over 40 film festivals, including The Cannes International Film Festival and The American Black Film Festival. His films have also been broadcast nationally on HBO, Showtime and BET J. He is the recipient of a Director’s Guild of America Student Film Award, a regional Student Academy Award and an HBO Short Film Award.

Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Tania Khalaf worked as a producer, editor, and drama teacher before moving to the United States. Khalaf produced and directed several documentary and narrative films, sometimes blending these styles together. Her films have screened at several venues nationally and internationally and have received multiple awards. Khalaf is the founder and director of the first Arab Film Festival in Texas and is currently a professor at The University of North Texas where she teaches documentary, film production and film theory.

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Keith alcorn In 1987 Keith Alcorn co-founded the terribly under funded and poorly decorated DNA Productions, Inc. For almost 30 years Keith has been involved in all facets of animation. In 1997, Alcorn served as producer/character designer for the 1997 ABC animated Christmas special, Santa vs. The Snowman. That same year he served as director/designer for the CBS’s Saturday morning series, The Weird Al Show. In 1999 he produced the Emmy nominated Olive, the Other Reindeer for theFOX network and Matt Groening. Two years later, Keith produced the Oscar nominated animated feature film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius for Paramount and Nickelodeon. Alcorn also served as director/co-executive producer on the Nickelodeon series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, before serving as executive producer on Warner Brother’s feature film The Ant Bully. Alcorn is currently co-creator/executive producer/writer for the upcoming Nickelodeon series Planet Sheen. Keith Alcorn attended the University of Texas at Arlington majoring in Fine Arts and Film Production. He was the recipient of the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award from UTA. Keith and his family reside in Grapevine, Texas, U.S.A., Earth.

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Justin Hall is a freelance animator and motion graphics artist. He’s worked in games, film, TV and corporate. His credits include: Monsters, Oscar nominated, The Illusionist (2010, Sylvain Chomet), OOglies, and Tiny Planets.

emily Hubley has been making animated shorts for thirty years. Her first feature, The Toe Tactic had its theatrical premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in January 2009 and was released on DVD by Kino International in the Fall. Ms. Hubley created the animated sequences for HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. With associate Jeremiah Dickey, she provided inserts for documentaries BLUE VINYL, THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE, and WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE. This year, Ms Hubley completed a series of animated pieces for Motherhood: Out Loud, a new play which opened at Hartford Stage in March. Current projects include animation for a documentary by Vic Campos about the one-man band, Hamell on Trial, and Demetrea Dewald’s Let The Record Show about arts activism in response to the AIDS crisis.

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Christy LeMaster is the Director of The Nightingale, a rough and ready microcinema located in hicago’s Noble Square neighborhood. She has programmed screenings for Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Film Forum, The Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, The Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago Film Archives, and Intuit Gallery. She teaches Semiotics and Media Theory at Columbia College Chicago in The Interactive Arts and Media Department. She has been a movie critic on the NPR Chicago affiliate, WBEZ’s morning show 848 and CINE-FILE.info. She was a 2011 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow and a Summer Forum 2012 resident. She is currently working on a microcinema web directory and distribution system called splitbeam.orgExperimental

Monica panzarino Originally from New York City; currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Received a BFA in 2002 from the New York State College of Ceramics @ Alfred University, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Work in video, sound and performance has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Recent venues include the 2011 Chicago Underground Film Festival, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany, video_dumbo in Brooklyn, New York, the 7th Busan International Video Festival in Busan, South Korea, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, the Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee, and K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Bryan Konefsky, his spouse, and their three lovely dogs live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There, Bryan teaches film/video courses through the Media Arts Department at the University of New Mexico. Bryan is also a board member of Basement Films (a regional media cooperative and micro cinema) and the artistic director of Experiments in Cinema film/video festival (www.basementfilms.org). During his travels, Bryan creates odd, little movies and video installations that often incorporate a quirky sense of humor to look at issues such as identity, community and maleness. Konefsky’s work has been screened and exhibited at venues such as Artcite (Windsor, Ontario), Blinding Light Cinema (Vancouver), the Long Beach Museum (L.A.), the AFI Film Festival (L.A.), L.A.C.E. (L.A.), L.A. Freewaves (L.A.), the Dallas Video Festival (Texas), The Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan), the Knitting Factory (NYC), the Kitchen (NYC), The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (NYC), Videoex (Switzerland), The Paris Underground Film Festival (France), Il Cinema Ritrovato (Italy), and the European Media Arts Festival (Germany).. Bryan also seems to spend a fair amount of time at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada… though, no one is really sure why.

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Mark Birnbaum is a veteran producer, director, editor and cameraman. His documentary, Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril, is “surprisingly inspiring, as it point to the inevitable reinvention of an industry in need of new life,” according to the Dallas Observer. His documentary, The Big Buy, about Tom DeLay’s rise and fall, “presents its evidence clearly and with a welcome sense of humor,” according to a The New York Times critic. Another critic says Birnbaum’s documentary is “more feisty and fun than a drunken barbecue in Beaumont.

alec Jhangiani joined the Lone Star Film Society in 2007 as Director of Programming, and is a founding staff member of the Lone Star Film Festival (LSFF) in Sundance Square. He was appointed Director in 2011. In 2008, Alec worked in the Art Department on Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or winning THE TREE OF LIFE. He is a Production Consultant on Malick’s TO THE WONDER, which stars Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck and Javier Bardem. He produced James Johnston’s short film KNIFE, an official selection of the 2012 SXSW film festival, Daniel Tarr’s short SHERMAN AND PACIFICO, featuring the voice of Javier Bardem as Pacifico, and is an Associate Producer on Jesus Beltran’s feature film AMERICANO, developed in part by the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Initiative. Alec’s first film as director, the short EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS, screened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Austin Museum of Art – Jones Center, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Lisa Kaselak is an independent media artist from Austin, Texas. Her work encompasses traditional documentary and narrative filmmaking, new media and digital installation art. Her most recent documentary, Tomlinson Hill, was the recipient of the Silver Heart Award at DIFF and aired nationally on PBS. Lisa worked in the fields of Web IA and Usability for 15 years, served as the first heterosexual Director of Programming for the Austin GLBT Film Festival, worked in feature and commercial film production in camera department roles and is the co-principal of Beak Labs. Lisa received her MFA in film production from the University of Texas in May, 2006. She is an Assistant Professor of film production at Southern Methodist University.

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Throughout his long and successful career as a producer, director and writer, George Schlatter has been responsible for hundreds of hours of television series and specials. He changed the face of television when he created and produced such breakthrough series as LAUGH-IN and REAL PEOPLE. Over the years, Mr. Schlatter has received numerous honors and awards including 25 Emmy Award nominations, five Emmys, three Image Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Television Critics Awards, the International Radio & Television “Man of the Year” Award, Directors Guild Award, Producers Guild “Man of the Year” Award, as well as many others. When the Television Academy celebrated its 15th Anniversary, they honored him for his outstanding contribution to television. In 1989, he was awarded a star on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame. In 1992 Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra, on behalf of the Scott Newman Center, honored him with a tribute dinner for his showmanship and involvement to so many charitable causes. In 1996, the Museum of Television & Radio did a special tribute to him for his contributions in the world of television. In 1987 he created and established the AMERICAN COMEDY AWARDS, which aired for 15 straight years as an annual televised event designed to acknowledge

the contributions and achievements of comedic actors and performers. “Of all the work I’ve done, I am perhaps most proud of my involvement in the early careers of performers like Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin, Roseanne, Robin Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and others who have gone on to greater heights. Working with stars is rewarding, but helping to create stars is the most fulfilling of all accomplishments.” Mr. Schlatter is a veteran of over 40 years in network television. He produced the first 5 years of the Grammy Awards plus series with Cher and Bill Cosby as well as Judy Garland and all the way back to the “Dinah Shore Chevy Show.” He produced specials starring Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Eddie Murphy, Elton John, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Liza Minnelli, Cher, Michael Jackson, Doris Day, Jonathan Winters, Richard Pryor, Shirley MacLaine, Bill Cosby, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Diana Ross, Lena Horne, Placido Domingo, Nat King Cole and scores of others. His recent credits include The American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Salutes To Dustin Hoffman and Harrison Ford, The 54th and 55th Presidential Inaugural Opening Ceremonies of George W. Bush, The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Inaugural Gala: Finding a Cure and Nancy Reagan: A Love Story. He has been working on a documentary dealing with Dr. William Rader and his successful use of Fetal Stem Cells in treating many debilitating diseases. Currently Mr. Schlatter and Whoopi Goldberg are co-producing a special on the life of Moms Mabley which includes interviews with Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones, Tommy Smothers, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Kathy Griffin and many others. He also has produced a “Laugh-In” reunion show for this year’s PBS pledge drive, which has been the most successful comedy special ever for PBS. He is married to former actress Jolene Brand who was a regular on the Ernie Kovacs Show. They have two daughters. Andrea and Maria.

The first program of the Dallas Video Festival in 1987 was Edie Adams presenting the work of Ernie Kovacs. Ernie was the first artist to work in the realm of television. He was not a stand-up comedian or vaudeville performer other TV comics of the day, who merely moved their routines to the tube. Kovacs comedy came out of the unique elements of TV using sound, sets, lens, and editing to create laughs. TV comedy, especially late night TV comedy owes most of its form language and style to Ernie. In many ways Ernie Kovacs is the sprit of the Dallas VideoFest. From 1997 to 2002 the VideoFest presented the Kovacs Award, honoring the sprit of innovation looking for people who guided us down a different path to where we are today. Along the way we have honored Joel Hodgson, Terry Gilliam, Robert Smigel, Paul Rubins, Mike Judge, Martin Mull and Icky Twerp from Slam Bang Theater – a very distinguished and diverse group. Each year Edie Adams would come to the festival and show rare Kovacs clips and talk about his work. Edie did a magnificent job saving and archiving the videotapes, in some cases literally taking them out of the trash. And that is why his comedy is remembered. Sadly Edie has passed away, but the work on Kovcas will live on. Here in Dallas there will always be a great appreciation for the comedy of Ernie Kovacs. This year’s Kovacs Award goes the George Schlatter. Mr. Schlatter is mostly known for creating the innovative TV show, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (1968-1973). Laugh-In made the careers of Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin, Arte Johnson, Tiny Tim and so many more. It changed the tempo of TV, jokes came blistering on top of the one another, and it was a mad pace in a mad era. Unlike much of TV of the day it had over 200 edits in an hour show. Indeed one of the reasons the tapes have survived is they could not recycle the tapes because it had to many edits (that may be legend).

Laugh-In was really the first postmodern TV show, self-referral rearranging TV space, and creating comic non sequesters. It also was the first show that gave us catch phrases, including “Sock it to me,” Here come the judge”, “Look it up in your Funk and Wagnalls!”, “Downtown Burbank”, “Easy for you to say,” “You bet your sweet bippy”, and so many more ¬– even more than Saturday Night Live in its heyday. Laugh-In reflected the zaniness of it’s time but also contributed to it. The show was antiestablishment, but Richard Nixon mad an appearance on it. According to George Schlatter, “Humphrey later said that not doing it may have cost him the election” and “[Nixon] said the rest of his life that appearing on Laugh-In is what got him elected. And I believe that. And I’ve had to live with that.” Since Laugh-In, George produced many TV programs from the Grammy Awards to the American Comedy Awards, to humor and the president for the Gerald Ford Museum (this I have to see) and so much more. In fact George Schlatter is an Executive Producer of the program, “Moms Mabley: I Got Something to Tell You”, showing here at the festival.

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screenings

o p e n i n G n i G H t F i L M :

The Dallas VideoFest’s opening night

features the premiere screening

of TRUE TALES, an AMS Pictures

original production, centering on

Nancy Myers, aka “Tammi True,” with

a pre-show performance by Ruby

Revue Texas’ Premier Burlesque and

Variety Show. Tammi True will do

a Q&A after the film. TRUE TALES

delves into Myers’ life as a headlining

act at Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club in

the early 1960s. To celebrate, the

Video Association of Dallas invites

patrons to come dressed in their

best early 1960s/“Mad Men” attire.

Dallas VideoFest’s opening night

documentary feature will screen at

the South Side Music Hall Gilley’s

Dallas, 1135 S Lamar St, Dallas, TX

75215.

D o C u M e n t a r y F e a t u r e

TRUE TALES (USA)Director: Katie Dunn

Just two days after Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a little-known Dallas strip club operator named Jack Ruby murders Oswald on live television. Why did he do it? Despite decades of theories and speculation, the question has never been satisfactorily answered. Until now. Shunning the press for nearly 50 years, Tammi True—a top-billed stripper in Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club—is finally ready to reveal the answers. AMS Pictures presents TRUE TALES, an original docudrama exploring the bizarre world of 1960s Dallas burlesque through the eyes of its preeminent entertainer. Featuring dramatic re-creations shot on actual locations, TRUE TALES immerses you into the events that led to one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th Century.oPenIng nIgHt oct 9tH at gIlley’s dallas, doors oPen at 7 Pm.

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ADA (CAnADA)Director: Lindsay McintyreAn observational video portrait of an Inuk elder addressing age and the passage of time.eXPerImental Program 4: cosmogonIc BodIes – sunday, oct. 13, 4:30 Pm, vIdeo café

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AFTER TREATMEnT (USA)Director: edith Staubner

Humorously detailed study of a hospital waiting room. Repetitive movements, glances, ticks, and calls turn into a symphony of the banal and everyday. eXPerImental Program 5: rewards and lImItatIons of oBservatIon – sunday, oct. 13, 6:30 Pm, vIdeo café


ALL THE LABOR (USA)Director: Doug Hawes-Davis

Too happy-go-lucky for the earnest fans of roots music, too plaid and pragmatic for the hippies, too old and hairy for the mainstream, too young to be called legends. Sound like friends of yours? For nearly two decades, the Gourds have been the musical distillation of Austin itself: A label-defying, unpretentious, gregarious gang of friends whose primary motive is to have fun and create great music together. ALL THE LABOR captures The Gourds’ enduring brotherhood and magnetic musicianship through candid conversations, raucous performances, on-tour media interviews and reflections and insight from friends and family. Blazing performances and candid interviews convey the life, labor and brotherhood of the Gourds, an Austin band beloved around the world for its genre-jumping music and unpretentious vibe.frIday, oct. 11, 7:00 Pm, tHeater 1


ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE (USA)Director: Les Blank

First a funeral: Allen Toussaint gives the viewer a closer look into the spirit of New Orleans. From a funeral, to a lesson in eating crayfish, to a St. Patrick’s Day party, New Orleans starts its preparation for Mardi Gras - when slaves used to gather on Sundays to prepare for the one holiday they could celebrate - this documentary brings the music, the dance, and the rituals.

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AnnE BRADEn: SOUTHERn PATRIOT (USA)Directors: anne Lewis & Mimi pickering

Hailed by King as “eloquent and prophetic,” the power of life committed to social transformation by Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering.saturday, oct 12, 12 Pm, tHeater 1

AnOnYMITY(USA)Director: erik SchuesslerfIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café

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AS I AM (USA)Director: alan Spearman

The struggle of a young man in one of the poorest neighborhoods and cities in America,

as he battles to escape grinding poverty.fIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café

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BELLY (USA)Director: Julia pott

Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgment. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.anImatIon sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 1


BLIGHTED BEAUTY (USA)Director: Joe Brown

A short documentary that profiles urban explorer and photoblogger Naaman Fletcher. The film showcases the haunting beauty of urban blight while also explaining the appeal of urban exploration in Birmingham, AL. statIc HIstory sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 10:15 Pm, tHeater 5

BIG TIMEDirector: Sonali Gulati

Notes from a journal remembering the days when wishing for a Duran Duran T-shirt and for that pimple that showed up the first day of class to go away. Somanil Gulati takes us back to 80s India with the joys and pain of memory.rItual sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 5

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THE BOOK OF JOE (USA)Director: Mario pena

An action/sci-fi short film that pits Joe against Death, an Angel, and even Jesus himself in an apocalyptic battle for the future of Earth.

Blending vintage science fiction, biblical imagery, and South Texas Americana, THE BOOK OF JOE is a unique, entertaining, and action-packed take on the end of the world.Filmmaker and producer in attendancegettIng In trouBle sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 6:15 Pm, tHeater 5


BROKEn nEWS (USA)Director: Lori Felker

BROKEN NEWS is an intimate attempt at reporting, mediating and being mediated. The experiment/performance take place with the director having a news desk at the foot of her bed for 2 weeks. She reads headlines all day and then delivers the “news” from memory at night. Then, she wakes herself up in the middle of a deep sleep and reports all the newest news she can muster (from her dreams). In the next step, she gathers those newscasts and sends them to another level of mediation: her graphics department (artist Chris Royalty). Using text from her nighttime headline news, actual news, stream of consciousness video clips she gathers variations on all of the above, he helps to create the full, overwhelming image of information dissemination.eXPerImental Program 6: wHere Is tHe Power (wItH a nod to terrI tHornton) – sunday, oct. 13, 1:45 Pm, tHeater 1


BUEnOS AIRES RECYCLERS (USA)Director: nikki Schuster

Tango, ear-splitting traffic, and a treasure trove for litter. BUENOS AIRES RECYCLERS portraits the cultural, social, and urban fabrics of this city by means of experimental animation. The viewer is guided to urban hideouts where little creatures dwell. These are digitally composed

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CAMP STORIES CHInESE DEMOCRACY AnD THE LAST DAY On EARTHBUTTERFLIES CAT SCAnnED

with collected trash and typical local products. The clatter of the limbs of these creatures interacts with the soundscapes of Buenos Aires.eXPerImental Program 6: wHere Is tHe Power (wItH a nod to terrI tHornton) – sunday, oct. 13, 1:45 Pm, tHeater 1


BURROW-CAMS (USA)Director: Sam easterson

Features footage from cameras that have been placed inside underground animal habitats. Animals showcased include: burrowing owl, black-footed ferret, porcupine, badger, prairie vole, swift fox, deer mouse, and the black tailed prairie dog.eXPerImental Program 5: rewards and lImItatIons of oBservatIon – sunday, oct. 13, 6:30 Pm, vIdeo café

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BUTTERFLIES (AUSTRALIA)Director: isabel peppard

A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She sells drawings to passersby. A businessman recognizes her talents and offers her a paying job. The prospect seems inviting, but the reality threatens to kill her imagination.anImatIon sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 1


CAMERA MEMORIA (GERMAnY)Director: Franziska Vogel

Do I really exist if no one remembers with me? Camera Memoria reflects on the collectivity of memory in context with the cinematic room. The Illusion of room and the illusion of cinema. Our memory room has a screen and we can reflect upon the reality of what we see and wonder if the experience is ours or not, and

more importantly, is it necessary to know, that it is ours? The room is scanned through light and sound. These mediums create the barriers of room, just as they dissolve them and we are left with the room we currently stay in.eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons – saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café


CAMERA/WOMAn (MOROCCO) Director: Karima Zoubir

Working as a videographer at weddings in Casablanca, Khadija Harrad is part of a new generation of young, divorced Moroccan women seeking to realize their desires for independence while honoring their families’ wishes. Mother of an 11-year-old son and primary breadwinner for her parents and siblings, she navigates daily between the elaborate fantasy world of the parties she films and the demands from her traditionally conservative family. Sponsored by Women Make Movies.saturday, oct. 12, 6:15 Pm, tHeater 1

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CAMP STORIES (USA)Director: David B. Levy

Sometimes you have to leave home to find where you belong. In CAMP STORIES, a poor city kid volunteers at a summer camp and discovers a whole new world in this animated documentary.anImatIon sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 1


CAnnOT BE AnYTHInG AGAInST THE WORLD (USA)Director: Flatform

Sequences of landscapes shot in an area of 60 km make up mosaics of places and reference axes constantly changing that do not exist in our surroundings. In this video bodies are not near or far. They are large or small. The horizons change and no space is independent from the viewer. Incorporating only memory, the landscape is seen in a variety of speeds and movements that apply a bodily logic to the vision. That which flows beyond the walls of our horizon together flow on the same plane. Whilst the plans themselves also flow. Horizons change. Every living being is inside its own bubble which contains everything visible to them and their space maintains the solidity of their structure. With Cannot be anything against the wind the view is an individual projection onto a site, the action is the individual or collective use of an environment, and the landscape is a view without action. The sky in this video is used as a natural “blue screen” and the sequences of each landscape, composed with a multilayers system, create a place that does not exist in reality.eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons – saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café


CAT SCAnnED (USA)Director: Michael Guccione

Interested in how a TV image is built (scanned lines/alternating fields), the filmmaker slows down what takes place in nano-seconds to create a perceivable movie experience. More recently, he comes across one of the first televised images from the 1920s. RCA created

this image from a 13” papier mache effigy of the Felix The Cat cartoon character spinning on a turntable. eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons – saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café

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CHInESE DEMOCRACY AnD THE LAST DAY On EARTH (USA)Director: Federico Solmi

Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth tale begins idyllically in the Garden of Eden and ends in a bloody takeover of the Times Square.anImatIon sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 1


CIRCLE In THE SAnD (USA)Director: Michael robinson

In a broken near future, a band of listless vagabonds ambles across a war-torn coastal territory, supervised and sorted by a group of idle soldiers. Rummaging, stuttering, and smashing through the leftovers of Western culture, these ragged souls conjure an unstable magic, fueled by their own apathy and the poisonous histories embedded in their unearthed junk. Suspicion, boredom, garbage, and glamour conspire in the languid pageantry of ruin. Feel the breeze in your hair, and the world crumbling through your fingers.eXPerImental Program 4: cosmogonIc BodIes – sunday, oct. 13, 4:30 Pm, vIdeo café


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City of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination - 2013 Dallas VideoFest Preview Screening Media Contact: Manny Alcala – [email protected] - c. 214 476 2877 - o. 214 744 9700

City of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination

A documentary by Quin Mathews Preview Screening at the 2013 Dallas VideoFest

Check out the trailer: http://www.vimeo.com/qmfilms/cityofhate

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CITY OF HATE - DALLAS AnD THE ASSASSInATIOn (USA - PREvIEW SCREEnInG)Director: Quin Matthews

CITY OF HATE: DALLAS AND THE ASSASSINATION explores a politically turbulent city preparing for a presidential visit, the immense pride many Dallas residents felt to see the president in their hometown and the city’s damaged reputation that followed the death of President Kennedy.Director in attendancesunday, oct 13, 7:45 Pm, tHeater 2


C.L.U.E. (COLOR LOCATIOn ULTIMATE EXPERIEnCE) PART 1 (USA)Directors: a.L. Steiner & robbinschilds

Inhabiting the intersection of human movement and architecture, A.L. Steiner and robbinschilds (Sonya Robbins and Layla Childs) present a full-spectrum video, set to a score by rock quartet Kinski. Edited in succinct rainbow-hued sections, each sequence features robbinschilds in monochromastic gear, acting in psychedelic contrast and communion with their surroundings. The artists traverse through desolate desert landscapes, darkened parking lots, and geological formations, responding to the environment through choreographed duets. In a style that is obsessive, persistent, and often humorous, robbinschilds reveal their observations of the human imprint on the world.eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons

– saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café


THE COMPLECT vOICE (SUITE FOR BIRDS AnD MAMMALS) (USA)Director: Julie rooney

This film seeks the collaborative efforts of humans and animals to create musical performances through a scored musical suite. These videos apply the structure of music to the functional sounds made by animals from a variety of sources (alive, internet-based, taxidermied). Although union is seemingly achieved, the tension between the deliberate manipulation of the animals, the blurred distinction between imitation sources, and the animal’s resistance to the formulation of music emphasizes what separates and relates humans to other species.eXPerImental Program 5: rewards and lImItatIons of oBservatIon – sunday, oct. 13, 6:30 Pm, vIdeo café

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DALLAS MAvERICKS Since Mark Cuban bought the Dallas Mavericks, among many other things, he changed the look and feel of the experience of going to a basketball game. A major part of this is what is shown on the screen at the games. Going beyond the scores, the stats, the ads, into something that really entertains, and in sense the creative team at the Mavericks have helped

to create new possibilities of what in-game video can be. As players begin to prepare for a new season, the Dallas VideoFest will entrance you with the Mavs spirit by showing some of your favorite Dallas Mavericks videos.Screens with WILT CHAMBERLAIN: BORSCHT BELT BELLHOPsunday, oct. 13, 2 Pm, tHeater 2

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A DAY FOR CAKE AnD ACCIDEnTS (USA)Directors: Jesse Mott & Steve reinke

This film features a cast of animal characters–each of a different, though often indeterminate, species–who struggle with impending astrological despair and engage in absurdist dialogs, confessing various melancholic desires and transgressive secrets in poetic cartoon abjection. This is the third in a series of short collaborative animations.eXPerImental Program 1: ImmanentIZe tHe escHaton – saturday, oct. 12, 5:15 Pm, vIdeo café

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DESTInATIOn: PLAnET nEGRO (USA)Director: Kevin Willmott (from the maker of CSa confederate states of america)Community partner texas Black Film Festival

In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America—leave the planet and populate Mars. Using technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth’s first working spaceship on a mission that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America. Their spacey adventure illuminates some hard truths about American culture and threatens to undermine the timeline of history along the way.

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DIARY OF PAMPLOnA (ARGEnTInA)Director: Gonzalo egurza

A trip to Pamplona in 1973, Behind the lovely diaries, lies a story of love and intolerance.eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons

– saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café


DIGBY (USA)Director: Colette Copeland

“Maybe there is a beast or maybe it’s only us.” - William Golding, Lord of the Flies. A raft ride through murky snake-filled water. An abandoned tanker filled with blue smoke haze. A rope. A ritual.eXPerImental Program 1: ImmanentIZe tHe escHaton – saturday, oct. 12, 5:15 Pm, vIdeo café


DInInG WITH THE EnEMY (nORWAY)

Food is a universal language that brings people together... But what if the people are sworn enemies? In DINING WITH THE ENEMY an experienced war correspondent takes an expert gourmet chef to a conflict-ridden part of the world. Screens with OUR NIXONsaturday, oct. 12, 2:30 Pm, tHeater 5

DROnES In MY BACKYARDDirectors: Deborah Kaufman & alan Snitow

A funny and scary video mash-up about the coming of aerial drones to the United States. One day a drone appears in the filmmakers’ backyard, hovering over their heads. It’s the catalyst for an extended meditation and free association on the presence of drones in war-making, the role of drones in surveillance, and


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the thrill of flying when you put on goggles to see what the drone sees. They follow us... and we listen to the incessant buzzing of cameras overhead.fIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café

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DUSTY STACKS OF MOM: THE POSTER STORY (USA)Director: Jodie Mack Live performance

Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business; the changing role of physical objects and virtual data in commerce; and the division, or lack thereof, between abstract fine art and psychedelic kitsch. Using alternate lyrics as voice-over narration, this piece adopts the form of a popular rock album reinterpreted as a cine-performance.tHursday, oct. 10, 9:45 Pm, tHeater 5

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EMERGInG FILMMAKERS OF nORTH TEXAS (HIGH SCHOOL SHORTS)

The work of the up and comers of the area. Participating high schools include Parish Episcopal, Hockaday, Richardson, Wylie East, Booker T Washington High School of the Performing and Visual Arts, Garland, McKinney Boyd, TAG, and Berkner. saturday, oct. 12, 1:00 Pm, tHeater 5.


EvERY TUESDAY: A PORTRAIT OF THE nEW YORKER CARTOOnISTS (USA)Director: rachel Gordon Loube

The New Yorker Magazine is famous for its pithy, witty, and occasionally incomprehensible single-panel cartoons. The cartoons are well known, but the cartoonists are not. This film follows four of them—Sidney Harris, Emily Flake, Drew Dernavich, and Zack Kanin—through their creative process and their weekly shared lunch.screens wItH statIc HIstory sHorts BlocKsaturday, oct. 12, 10:15 Pm, tHeater 5


FALLOUT (USA)Director: paul turano

A futile gesture marking the one-year anniversary of the collateral calamity at the Fukushima nuclear power facility, surveying a more invisible tsunami. Scientific predictions of the residual effects are undercut by the cheerfully benign day-glow colors assigned to the threat. A gradual contamination of the image and increasing waves of fear give way to an irradiated bloom.eXPerImental Program 1: ImmanentIZe tHe escHaton – saturday, oct. 12, 5:15 Pm, vIdeo café


FAR FROM vIETnAM (FRAnCE)Director: Chris Marker

In seven different parts, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamees army during the Vietnam-war. Pass holders only.sunday, oct. 13, 5:00 Pm, tHeater 2

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FILMAGE: THE STORY OF DESCEnDEnTS / ALL (USA)Directors: Directors Matt riggle & Deedle LaCour

Sponsored by Charlie uniform tango

Long before Green Day and Blink 182 inflicted punk-rock’s puncture wound on the map of mainstream music, the Descendents were in a garage concocting the perfect mix of pop, angst, love, and coffee. Rush Line only. DP Justin Wilson in Attendance screens wItH Hardcore el PIcantetHursday, oct. 10, 9 Pm, tHeater 2


FInDInG HILLYWOOD (USA)Director: Leah Warshawski

Set amongst the hills of Rwanda, FINDING HILLYWOOD chronicles one man’s road to forgiveness, his effort to heal his country, and the realization that we all must one day face our past. A unique and endearing documentary about the very beginning of Rwanda’s film industry and the pioneers who bring local films to rural communities. A real life example of the power of film to heal a man and a nation.saturday, oct. 12, 5:00 Pm, tHeater 5

FOREvER In HIATUS (AUSTRALIA)Director: andy nguyen

A washed up former pop star lives in exile pedaling a xich lo (bicycle taxi) aimlessly in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, until he meets a 16-year-old girl who discovers his identity.fIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café


FORMER MODELS (USA)Director: Benjamin pearson

Tells the tragic story of Milli Vanilli member Rob Pilatus’ transition from embodied subject into pure image. A public and private history undo themselves as together they encounter the trials of Labor, Love, Loss and Planned Obsolescence. A body desires its other, a simulation is transgressed and the ultimate price is paid - “No-body is above The Law.”eXPerImental Program 1: ImmanentIZe tHe escHaton – saturday, oct. 12, 5:15 Pm, vIdeo café


FORTY YEARS FROM YESTERDAY (USA) Directors: robert Machoian & rodrigo ojeda-Beck

After an unexpected and tragic event, Bruce is forced to face the inevitable questions we spend our lives avoiding.screens wItH smaller tHan tHe sKysunday, oct. 13, 2:00 Pm, vIdeo café

FREEDOM FIGHTERS (USA)Director: Jamie Meltzer

There’s a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by a group of exonerated men, with decades in prison served between them. They call themselves the Freedom Fighters and they are looking to free innocent people still behind bars. FREEDOM FIGHTERS is a character-driven


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documentary that follows these change-makers as they rebuild their lives and families, learn to investigate cases, work to support each other, and campaign to fix the criminal justice system.Ten-minute panel discussion.Subjects in Attendance screens wItH sometHIng from notHIng saturday, oct. 12, 12:30 Pm, tHeater 2

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FREE RADICALS: A HISTORY OF EXPERIMEnTAL FILM (USA)Director: pip Chodorov

This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema.screens wItH lIe BacK and enjoy Itsunday, oct. 13, 7:30 Pm, tHeater 1


FREE THE BUTTERFLY/ UWOLnIC MOTYLA (POLAnD)Director: Joanna Frydrych

Catherine Rosicka-Jaczynska used to have money, beauty, and fame, until she got sick. While ALS kills in average after four years, she lives more than a dozen. This disease takes the possibility of any movement, and Catherine is exceptionally active. She is not able to speak a single word, but wrote a book that became a bestseller. Catherine achieves everything she wants, except one of the most important things.sunday, oct. 13, 4:00 Pm, tHeater 1

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A GAMEBOY LIFE (USA)Director: Jose Cortez

A forgotten video game device decides to go on an adventure to find the excitement he’s been missing for many years.anImatIon sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12,

8:00 Pm, tHeater 1

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GEORGE GIMARC TALKS ABOUT THE SEX PISTOLS AT THE LOnGHORn BALLROOM (USA)presenter: George Gimarc

A band is sent on a self-destruct mission across the USA and ignites a cultural shift uniting misfits in their wake.saturday, oct. 12, 8:15 Pm, tHeater 5

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GIRLS LOvE HORSES (USA)Director: Jennifer reeder

A professional woman, traveling alone, recalls and reenacts an incident from her adolescence after injuring herself off-camera. This experimental narrative unravels patiently and points to melodrama as a potential form of plot structure. An adult female and the girl ghost from her past emerge and retreat within real-time exchanges and previously recorded footage. The linearity is disrupted by magical b-roll and a constant shift between the actual and imagined. This is a fractured little story

about a business trip, a bloodstain and being okay.eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons – saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café

GOOGLE GLASSwith guests rob Garner, Michael Stancil, Cameron Gawley, ryan plesko & Luke Wallace

The Dallas VideoFest has a long tradition of showing off new technologies and invoking thoughts about how they will affect us. Ever since the first videos of Google Glass were on YouTube they have captured our imaginations. Like with all new technologies, the speculations have been extreme. Clearly this technology has touched a nerve. For many of us this is there is a very high curiosity factor. So to scratch that itch and ask the questions you want to ask, the Dallas VideoFest brings you a panel of people who live and walk among us here in the DFW area who are using them. They will talk about their experiences, what they like and don’t like, and you can ask them the questions. Along the way we will show a few videos made with and about Google Glass. We have come along way since the days of the virtual reality goggles and gloves.sunday, oct. 13, 11:15 am, tHeater 2


GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE (CAnADA)Director: Steve reinke

An individual component of The Tiny Ventriloquist, this film traces the movement of a voice from being rooted in a particular body (the artist’s) to its dispersal through a variety of dummies. Whatever is going on on top, there’s a precise machine at work below, and this machine is digging little grooves, and these grooves slowly join together and become the

conduits by which all meaning is drained from the world. A comedy, but not a pretty one.eXPerImental Program 1: ImmanentIZe tHe escHaton – saturday, oct. 12, 5:15 Pm, vIdeo café


HARDCORE EL PICAnTE (USA)Director: David Hernandez

Hardcore El Picante is a doc short about the DIY punk scene hosting shows at the oldest Taqueria in Denton, TX. Director in Attendance screens wItH fIlmagetHursday, oct. 10, 9:00 Pm, tHeater 2


A HOLY THInG (USA)Director: the perennial plate

In Gujarat, spending two days with Bhaskar Save–the Gandhi of Indian farming after visiting his family, the viewer sees their way of life and cuisine. The filmakers were inspired to compose a type of visual “poem” out of his non-violent philosophy. rItual sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 5

HOME MOvIE DAY Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at many local venues worldwide. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience in their community, and to see their neighbors’ in turn. The great media archivist and media philosopher Rick Prellinger talks about how it is important to look at the ephemeral media to really understand a culture. Industrial, educational films, and home movies tell us so much about who were are and


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were, how we treated one another, what we valued, and what we, at that moment thought was worth preserving. But unlike tattoos that are images we hope will have lasting value, home movies are often discarded, until someone dies or we are looking for a reason to embarrass someone. There was a therapist who asked their patients to bring in home moves of them as a kid to see what their parents were really like. Rarely do those images match the memory.So here on home movie day, we celebrate those memories as they were preserved. Bring us your past and share it with us.Presented by Video association of Dallas and the Dallas Municipal Archives.saturday, oct. 12, 12:00 Pm, vIdeo café


In REPS OF LOnG-PLAY (USA)Director: olivia Ciummo

The curtain opens and Greek pillars mark an entry point to staged happenings. The imagined stage actors command movement as the director controls stillness and points out spots for the viewers to look.Director in AttendanceeXPerImental Program 5: rewards and lImItatIons of oBservatIon – sunday, oct. 13, 6:30 Pm, vIdeo café


IMMAnEnTIZE THE ESCHATOna Day For CaKe anD aCCiDentSFaLLoutGreat BLooD SaCriFiCeDiGByForMer MoDeLStHe inViSiBLe WorLDtHiMBLeriGWe reGret to inForM you

saturday, oct. 12, 5:15 Pm, vIdeo café


InTRIGUE AnD THE ROnCHES (USA)Director: Kurdwin ayub

“No matter when, no matter where I´ll be, I´m looking for a woman that will satisfy me.” A penis performs a cult hit by the Sonics, swings its “hips” and gathers a group of vaginas around it. As groupies do, they are looking to be close to the lead singer, but things turn out differently.eXPerImental Program 4: cosmogonIc BodIes – sunday, oct. 13, 4:30 Pm, vIdeo café


THE InvISIBLE WORLD (USA)Director: Jesse McLean

A deceased hoarder, reconstituted through technology, recounts a difficult childhood as inhabitants of a virtual world struggle to reconcile materialistic tendencies. A scientist leads an effort to understand the passage of time, but the data is unreliable. The question remains, what happens to our things after we are gone? In this video, materialism, emotional presence and the adaptive nature of human beings are broadly considered through the lens of time. A variety of time-based materials are collected (including home movies, internet videos, Sci-fi seventies films, and a photographed archive of objects) and collaged, revealing the filmmaker’s own hoarding tendencies. How will we relate our materialist tendencies in this new world of immateriality? eXPerImental Program 1: ImmanentIZe tHe escHaton – saturday, oct. 12, 5:15 Pm, vIdeo café

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IRRESISTIBLE (USA)Director: George Wada

In this music video, singer-songwriter Tommy Homonym strolls through Paris in the 1963 thriller “Charade” pining for both Audrey

Hepburn and Cary Grant.fIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café


KAnZEOn (JAPAn)Directors: neil Cantwell & tim Grabham

A mystical film journey from the timeless to the modern looking at the ritual role of sound in Japanese culture and religionsunday, oct. 13, 12 Pm, tHeater 5

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KInEFAKTURA (POLAnD)Director: Marcin Gizycki

Three animated variations on Henryk Berlewi’s ‘Mechanofaktura. Dynamic Contrasts’ of 1924 based on some hints given by the artist himself.eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons – saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café


LA MIRADA PERDIDA (ARGEnTInA)Director: Damián Dionisio

Argentina, 1976. Claudio is forced to live with his family in hiding, due to his political ideals. The house in which they live is discovered by the militars. No time to flee, Teresa try to shelter his daughter in a fantasy world to avoid the girl look at the horror they are about to live.statIc HIstory sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 10:15 Pm, tHeater 5


LATEnT (USA)Director: nate Kantor

A unique short film that subjects honesty from the Biblical ideal that all will be brought to light. The story finds its relation through the art of Photography and the chemical process behind

darkroom developing. Filmmaker in Attendance fIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café


LEvIATHAn (FRAnCE)Directors: Lucien Castaing-taylor & Verena parave

A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.sunday, oct. 13, 3:15 Pm, tHeater 2

LIE BACK AnD EnJOY IT: A FILM ABOUT JOAnn ELAM (USA)Director: Jessica Bardsley

JoAnn Elam was an experimental filmmaker, postal worker, and social activist. This film remixes JoAnn’s footage as a way of introducing viewers to her life and work.screens wItH free radIcalssunday, oct. 13, 7:30 Pm, tHeater 1


LInE DESCRIBInG YOUR MOM (USA)Director: Michael robinson

This is the new choreography of devotion, via the vlog of Southern nightmares. This is the light that never goes out. This is the LINE DESCRIBING YOUR MOM.eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons – saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café

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LIvInG COnDITIOn - BILL’S STORY Directors: Dee Hibbert Jones & nomi talismanScreened in partnership with Make art with purpose for Map 2013

An animated documentary that tells the stories of four families living with a relative condemned to execution. Each family bears


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“An extraordinary, largely forgotten story... a superb documentary. ★★★★” Irish Times

A Reel Art film funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon | Executive Producer Craig McCall | Music by Seti the First Sound Mix Leon O’Neill | Effects & Graphics Enda O’Connor | Online Editor/Colourist Ian de Brí | Director of Photography Scott Ward Voiceover Artist Gavin Mitchell | Featuring Niall Greig Fulton as The False Natan | Editor Eoin McDonagh | Script by David Cairns Produced by Paul Duane | Directed by David Cairns & Paul Duane © Screenworks Ltd 2013

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witness to highly politicized events, describing the impact of capital punishment on whole communities, a perspective that is rarely, if ever, heard. LIVING CONDITION brings up discussions surrounding Death penalty and offers new perspectives on crime and justice, human rights, costs to society, as well as questions of racial equality and access to opportunities. As each story unfolds, the audience learns more about each case and the ways characters struggle to cope, living in proximity to capital punishment. The viewer moves from the most personal family experiences, to learn about the systems that surround us - social, economic, moral, political and judicial. At the Dallas Videofest, the artists will be screening the story of Bill.screens wItH an unreal dreamsaturday, oct. 12, 3 Pm, tHeater 3

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LOnDOn InTERnATIOn ADvERTIZInG AWARDS LIAA was the first comprehensive award of its kind, established in London 28 years ago, to accept all media and executions from all over the world to be judged by a truly diverse international jury, comprised of the most talented, recognized and awarded individuals. Each year, it is the commitment to the integrity of the judging process and the contributions of the Jury Presidents that bolster and uphold LIA’s tradition of awarding only the most inspirational ideas.sunday, oct. 13, 12:45 Pm, tHeater 2


LUCKY (USA)Director: Laura Checkoway

Spanning five years on the streets of NYC, this intimate documentary follows Lucky Torres, a young mother and homeless lesbian masked in tattoos who longs to rise from a life of darkness. sunday, oct. 13, 12 Pm, vIdeo cafe


MARTInDALE (USA)Director: Bug Davidson

A collaborative work from Bug Davidson and Two Left Feet dance company. The filmmakers sought lost memories, history, and a trace of domesticity in the rural southwest. Once a thriving agricultural community, the city of Martindale, Texas now awaits a purpose. Its structures are in a state of instability as a new era makes its mark on the town. This work questions the possibility of marginalized identities to make a historical impact on these territories as apparitions.rItual sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 5


MERCY MERCY: A PORTRAIT OF A TRUE ADOPTIOn (DEnMARK)Director: Katrine riis Kjaer

Easily one of the most important documentaries on intercountry adoption, MERCY MERCY offers a rare look at all participants in the adoption process, including the parents who give their children up. Two loving Ethiopians parents, Sinkenesh and Hussen, just diagnosed with HIV are told they have only a year to live. They make the painful decision to give their two youngest children up for adoption, handing them over to a Danish family. In an emotional

departure, the Danish family promises to stay in touch and the adoption agency agrees to broker the relationship. What seems like the best decision for the children becomes a series of tragic and painful events for all, unveiling that the wellbeing of children is not always the main priority in the adoption process. Greed, selfishness, unrealistic expectations and skewed cultural perspectives idealizing one way of life over another collide in this powerful story.saturday, oct. 12, 4:15 Pm, tHeater 1


MIRACLE BODY EPISODE 1: “USAIn BOLT, SECRET OF CIvILIZATIOn’S FASTEST” (JAPAn)Director: yoriko Koizumi

A look at the body of Usain Bolt. Bolt is the Jamaican sprinter who is widely regarded as the fastest person ever. He is the first man to hold both the 100 meters and 200 meters world records. This Japanese Tv series seeks to show the science behind why special people can be, well special. They take great pains to be able to show how his body moves, and at time it is so beautiful you forget about the science. saturday, oct. 12, 5:45 Pm, tHeater 2


MR. BEAR (SPAIn)Director: andrés rosende

It’s Christmas again—family, presents, parties... the worst time of the year for Steve. Driving through New York City for Christmas Eve dinner, his car breaks down and he accidentally stumbles upon a crime scene. Mistaken for the notorious cleaner, Mr. Bear, Steve has to face a difficult choice—dismember and get rid of some bodies or become a corpse himself.

gettIng In trouBle sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 6:15 Pm, tHeater 5


MOMS MABLEY: I GOT SOMETHIn’ TO TELL YOU (USA)Director: Whoopi Goldberg

Comedy pioneer Moms Mabley, often referred to as “the funniest woman in the world,” comes to life again, complete with rolling laughter and measured eloquence, in Whoopi Goldberg’s directorial debut. This astute first documentary feature showcases Mabley’s talent and pays homage to a woman whose relevance still resonates today. frIday oct. 11, 9:45 Pm, tHeater 7


nATAn (IRELAnD)Director: paul Duane

How did the man, who—more than any other—paved the way for French national cinema become completely forgotten, especially so in France? Why was Bernard Natan’s name erased from the history of cinema, despite the fact that he dominated the French film industry for most of the 1920s and ‘30s? David Cairns and Paul Duane have excavated an extraordinary tale that aims to rewrite the history of European cinema. tHursday, oct. 10, 9:15 Pm, tHeater 1

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nInE GATES (USA)Director: pawel Wojtasik

This film explores the possibility of transcendence through sexual passion: averting the gaze from the objectification of the other, the female body or the obscure enemy, to the vast and microscopic details of


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the body unknown to the viewer, becoming a meditation on love beyond definition. Exposing close-up images of all openings of the female body, Wojtasik’s camera, while moving slowly, searches and probes the orifices described by Apollinaire, enhanced by size and visual clarity, thus enabling a stunningly direct and visceral intimate gaze onto and into these zones of the body. Deliberately interlocking anatomy and pornography, Wojtasik reflects through sensuous camera work and careful editing the question of beauty within the context of the human condition, by examining the operations of desire in the act of looking. NINE GATES boldly addresses the nature of love and visuality by using the body as a portal, overcoming the raw reality of the visible and directing the viewer toward the implications of perception superseding actuality by entering the realm of fantasy and ultimately reinstating a universal polymorphous state of bliss.eXPerImental Program 4: cosmogonIc BodIes – sunday, oct. 13, 4:30 Pm, vIdeo café


nOT TORn (ASUnDER FROM THE vERY START) (CAnADA/USA)Director: Steve reinke

The archive is not a repository of cultural memory, but of dreams, a bank of dream material. Both memory and archive embrace death, but from contrary positions. The archive is a mausoleum that pretends to be a vast garden. Memory is an irradiated zoo in which the various animals are mutating extravagantly and dying slowly. An individual component from The Tiny Ventriloquist.eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons – saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café

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BU SAHILDE (On THE COAST) (TURKEY)Directors: Merve Kayan & Zeynep Dadak

BU SAHILDE (On the Coast) is a short essay film on the ephemeral feeling of summer, observed in Erikli, a small coastal town on the Aegean Sea in Turkey. The film reflects on the nature of vacation, as it is a transformed version of reality, the fantastical counterpart to winter.travelIn’ sHorts BlocK – tHursday, oct. 10, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 7

On THE SPOT (ISRAEL)Directors: eszter Cseke & andras S. takacs

ON THE SPOT is a Hungarian TV series where reporter / journalists /filmmakers Andras S. Takacs travel world looking for a different take on the news of the day Gaza, 2012. A Qassam-fighter is collecting the remaining parts of Ahmed Jabari’s body from his wreck after an Israeli airstrike that killed the head of al-Qassam Brigade. A Palestinian journalist who doesn’t believe in violence, is getting a phone call, his 8-year-old daughter was hit. A shiver cut three of her fingers off. Parallel stories of the Qassam-fighter whose dream is to blow himself up to take revenge and the journalist who is willing to do anything to get her daughter into an Israeli hospital - the only place where she can be saved. The birth of hatred and hope - the chronicles of the latest conflict in Gaza.saturday, oct 12, 11:30 am, tHeater 2

OUR nIXOn (USA)Director: penny Lane

An all-archival documentary presenting those home movies for the first time, along with other rare footage, creating an intimate and complex portrait of the Nixon presidency as never seen before.

screens wItH dInIng wItH tHe enemysaturday, oct. 12, 2:30 Pm, tHeater 5

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OWnERBUILT (USA)Director: Lawrence andrews

Hurricane Katrina destroyed Noel’s home and as he rebuilds, he evokes the past, but his memories are complicated by the tragic events of Danziger Bridge. saturday, oct. 12, 4 Pm, vIdeo cafe


PEARL WAS HERE (USA)Director: Kate Marks

A little brat finds solace in a sea of stuffed animals.gettIng In trouBle sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 6:15 Pm, tHeater 5


PETITE HISTOIRE DES PLATEAUX ABAnDOnnéS (ITALY)Director: rä di Martino

Abandoned movie sets are scattered around South Moroccan deserts. In this work they are used again but the actors are two local kids, born not far from the film studios near Ouarzazate. The two kids re-enact a few lines from movies that have been shot there, an American horror movie, Lawrence of Arabia... and all around natural and the uncontaminated landscapes of the Draa Valley stand outside of time.rItual sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 5


PHYSICAL EXAMInATIOn (USA)Director: Mauri Lehtonen

Abandoned movie sets are scattered around South Moroccan deserts. In this work they are used again but the actors are two local kids, born not far from the film studios near Ouarzazate. The two kids re-enact a few lines from movies that have been shot there, an American horror movie, Lawrence of Arabia... and all around natural and the uncontaminated landscapes of the Draa Valley stand outside of time.rItual sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 5


A PIZZA CHEGOU (BRAZIL)Director: Joe tripician

A young Brazilian girl has been evicted from a local slum along with her entire family. She delivers pizzas by motorbike to support them. By chance she encounters the man who evicted them and faces a choice between forgiveness and revenge.gettIng In trouBle sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13,

6:15 Pm, tHeater 5

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PRAXIXDirector: Bruno Moraes Cabral

Year after year, students from across the country subject themselves to initiation rites when they start college. Hazings, organized by older students, take place throughout the whole first year. Based upon ancient traditions and following a rigid hierarchy, hazings have thrived once again in the last decade. They gather more and more supporters, thrilled with its explicit sexual language, power games and different


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levels of humiliation.rItual sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 5


PUnK JEWS (USA)Directors: Jesse Zook Mann & evan Kleinman (producer)Co-producer: Saul SudinCo-presented by 3 Stars Cinema

Profiling Hassidic punk rockers, Yiddish street performers, African-American Jewish activists and more, PUNK JEWS explores an emerging movement of provocateurs and committed Jews who are asking, each in his or her own way, what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century. Jewish artists, activists and musicians from diverse backgrounds and communities are defying norms and expressing their Jewish identities in unconventional ways. In the process, they are challenging stereotypes and breaking down barriers. Meet Yishai, lead singer of Moshiach Oi; Radical performance group, the Sukkos Mob; the renegade Orthodox participants of Cholent; the Amazing Amy Yoga Yenta; Kal Holczler, founder of Voices of Dignity; and African American Jewish hip hop sensation Y-Love.Director and Producer in attendancesunday, oct. 13, 4:30 Pm, tHeater 5


THE REALIST (USA)Director: Scott Stark

An experimental and highly abstracted melodrama, a “doomed love story” storyboarded with flickering still photographs, peopled with department store mannequins, and located in the visually heightened universe of clothing displays, fashion islands and storefront windows.

eXPerImental Program 2: glossolalIa – saturday, oct. 12, 7:00 Pm, vIdeo café


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THE RIvER (USA)Director: Sam Handel

On a sweltering hot day, a very pregnant grocery store clerk (Lauren Ambrose) yearns for the relief of a dip in the local river, but finds the trip rife with complications.fIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café


THE ROAD LED HERE (USA)Director: Jennifer Hardacker

The story of a discontented voyager who finally finds a place to end her journey, but what is it about this place?eXPerImental Program 2: glossolalIa – saturday, oct. 12, 7:00 Pm, vIdeo café


ROBERT WILLIAMS MR BITCHIn’ (USA)Directors: Mary C reese & nancye Ferguson

This film delivers insight into multiple American countercultures by following the great American artist and underground legend Robert Williams. From Hot Rods to Punk and Metal, from LSD to the top of the art world, the influential paintings of Robert Williams defied categorization until they became their own art movement.saturday, oct. 12, 10:30 Pm, tHeater 1


THE ROLLInG STOnES: SOME GIRLS TOUR 1978, TEXAS (USA) Director: Lynn Lenau

The Rolling Stones 1978 tour of the USA in support of that year’s Some Girls album is considered by fans to be one of their very best. The tour followed immediately on the release of the Some Girls album and by the time the band arrived in Texas in mid-July the album had hit the #1 spot on the US charts. The tour took a back to basics approach, with the band and their music very much at the forefront and little or no elaborate staging. Filmed at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 18th, 1978, this concert is typical of the tour with the Rolling Stones delivering a raw, energetic performance in front of a crowd who are clearly loving the show. Originally shot on 16mm film, the footage has been carefully restored and the sound remixed and remastered by Bob Clearmountain from the original multitrack tapes. This is undeniably the Rolling Stones at the peak of their form. Rush line only. Crew in Attendance

saturday, oct. 12, 9:45 Pm, tHeater 2


RUBIES (USA)Director: Lizette Barrera

A single mother throws a birthday party for the manipulative father of her child in order to rekindle their relationship.Filmmaker in Attendance fIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café


SCIEnCE GIRL Tv SHOW (nEW ZEALAnD/USA)Director: Kaleta Doolin (exectutive producer) and andrew Dean (Director)

At a high school in New Zealand, girls in the band “Science Girl” are assigned to write a song about water purity. Their quest to create the perfect song takes a twist when the school’s water turns murky, and a sleuthing adventure commences involving helicopters, laboratories, cows, and creepy janitors.Producer in Attendancesaturday, oct 12, 11:45 am, tHeater 5


SHELDOn LEOnARD’S WOnDERFUL LIFE (USA)Director: allan Holzman

Hollywood producer Sheldon Leonard looks back on his legacy, creating some of the most influential sitcoms on television, with some of the biggest television stars of all time. The roster of shows Leonard produced and/or directed include “The Andy Griffith Show,” “The Danny Thomas Show,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “I Spy,” “Gomer Pyle, USMC,” and “My Favorite Martian,” most of which still air in syndication decades after their initial run. Rush Line only. Filmmaker in Attendance

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SHORED UP (USA)Director: Bill Kalina

A documentary that asks tough questions about our coastal communities and our relationship to the land. What will a rising sea do to our homes, our businesses, and the survival of our communities? Can we afford to pile enough sand on our shores to keep the ocean at bay? In Long Beach Island, New Jersey, and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, surfers, politicians, scientists, and residents are racing to answer these questions. Our development of the coastlines place us in a tough predicament and it’s time to start looking for solutions.frIday, oct. 11, 7 Pm, vIdeo café

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SIGGRAPH (USA)Directors: Faythe Levine & Sam Macon

The world’s premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, welcomed 22,549 artists, research scientists, gaming experts and developers, filmmakers, students, and academics from 79 countries around the globe.saturday, oct. 12, 2:00 Pm, tHeater 1


THE SILLY BASTARD nEXT TO THE BED (USA)Director: Scott Calonico

One of the most popular US Presidential phone call recordings celebrates its 50th birthday on July 25, 2013. In the phone call, recorded on July 25, 1963, President John Kennedy berates an Air Force general in the Pentagon for wasteful expenditures, using some rather salty language. In various outlets on the web, such as YouTube, the recording has been heard close to half a

million times.fIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café


SKInnInGROvE (USA)Director: Michael almereyda

A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the “fiercely independent” residents of a remote English fishing village.statIc HIstory sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 10:15 Pm, tHeater 5


SMALLER THAn THE SKY (UAE)Director: rebekah Louisa Smith

What happens when everything that you took for granted was lost in an instant? What would you do, when you can’t do anything? This film is set entirely within a crashed car and takes the audience....screens wItH forty years from yesterday sunday, oct. 13, 2:00 Pm, vIdeo café


SOFT In THE HEAD (USA)Director: nathan Silver

Kicked out of her apartment, Natalia wanders New York City, crashing a family’s holiday meal, staying at a men’s shelter, and dragging everyone down with her. An ode to anxiety and New York.sunday, oct. 13, 5:15 Pm, tHeater 1


SOMETHInG FROM nOTHInG (USA)Director: Hal Samples

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING is a film about thepower of serving others, the risk and

rewards of allowing yourself to experience relationships, redemption, our search for family, community and home and the beauty and truth that is often found in seemingly unlikely places.screens wItH freedom fIgHters saturday, oct 12, 12:30 Pm, tHeater 2

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A SOnG OF TRYAnnY (USA)Director: Federico Solmi

The prelude of the trilogy, this film introduces the Chinese ruler/tyrant hell-bent on the invasion of America getting interviewed by American journalists.anImatIon sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 1


SPRInG EDDY (USA)Director: George anson

This modern madcap involves bungled hold-ups, a car chase starring a horse, teepee motels, and at its heart, a love story. Eddy, a small-time bad guy with terrible instincts, ends up in a Texas jail—and that’s just the beginning of his trouble. His fiancée Jeannie heads there to spring him, and Sydney, a Chicago gun for hire, is on his way too—with other intentions. When Jeannie crashes her car into local guy HR’s truck, the dominos of chance tumble. This screwball crime comedy fuses the best traditions of Western films and the modern chaos of the Coen Brothers. And much like Raising Arizona, the desperation fueling these characters is real and humane. These four souls start out in a caper and end up in a romance, much to their happy surprise. It goes to show that in this life, sometimes it’s more dangerous to give up than to keep going, even when you’ve already gone too far. Crew in attendance.


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STUBBORn PRACTICE (USA)Director: Gregory ruppe

For his TCU MFA thesis in 2012, Gregory Ruppe made a film called Stubborn Practice in which he ghost crashes his Minarelli motorcycle into a cinder-block wall in the desert of Texas.eXPerImental Program 6: wHere Is tHe Power (wItH a nod to terrI tHornton) – sunday, oct. 13, 1:45 Pm, tHeater 1


SUITE AnCIEnnE (USA)Director: roger Deutsch

SUITE ANCIENNE takes the viewers via auto, boat, and plane to an unexpected destination. World premiere with filmmaker in attendance. travelIn’ sHorts BlocK – tHursday, oct. 10,

8:00 Pm, tHeater 7


SUnDAY SCHOOL WITH FRAnZ HInKELAMMERTDirector: Jim Finn

A film about liberation theologian and economist Franz Hinkelammert. “Finn’s witness eye travels to the origin of a theory that stands on the “theology of liberation” in order to reinterpret the last years of universal history of political and social-economical iniquity, focusing on Allende’s Chile, Reagan, the connection between the US and Latin America, false utopias, and several other ideological


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UnITED In AnGER: A HISTORY TO ACT UPPEARL WAS HERE TOWInG TURnInG A CORnER

wanderings of contemporary culture.eXPerImental Program 6: wHere Is tHe Power (wItH a nod to terrI tHornton) – sunday, oct. 13, 1:45 Pm, tHeater 1

TAMI TEXAS HITSThe Texas Archive of the Moving Image presents home movies of Texas including footage of Six Flags in 1971, a magic show by Dallas’ Mark Wilson, a special appearance by David Bowie, and more. Plus, get a sneak preview of home movies from their newest curated collection (launching in November) focused on Texas’ response to the Kennedy assassination.saturday, oct. 12, 1 Pm, vIdeo café


THEIR HOUSES (USA)Director: Cam archer

Filmmaker Cam Archer examines and explores his ordinary, suburban neighborhood in search of hidden truths, new narratives and a better understanding of his fading, creative self. Combing heavily degraded video with personal photographs and real life neighbors, Archer re-imagines the concept of “home video” In an attempt to distance himself from his subjects, actress Jena Malone narrates the piece as Archer in the first person.eXPerImental Program 5: rewards and lImItatIons of oBservatIon – sunday, oct. 13, 6:30 Pm, vIdeo café


THIS AIn’T nO MOUSE MUSIC! (USA)Directors: Chris Simon & Maureen Gosling

Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep American music, music that’s the antithesis of

the corporate “mouse music” dominating pop culture. Since 1960, he has been the guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, bringing Cajun music out of Louisiana, Tex-Mex out of Texas, blues out of the country – and into the living rooms of Middle America. American music has never been the same. Born a German count, Strachwitz fled his homeland after WWII at 16. Here, he discovered, and shared, a musical landscape that most Americans missed. He takes us on a hip-shaking stomp from Texas to New Orleans, Cajun country to Appalachia, as he continues his passionate quest for the musical soul of America.Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling’s spirited tour through the Deep South (visiting Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Doucet, the Pine Leaf Boys, and more) traces one man’s obsession, and the fortuitous family that it has created.Directors and Subject in attendance saturday, oct. 12, 7:00 Pm, tHeater 2

THIMBLERIG (USA)Director: Jesse Malmed

Body swaps, time manifest and made literal, multiverse tears, two minds to a body, dream babies, singtalk, represented realitieseXPerImental Program 1: ImmanentIZe tHe escHaton – saturday, oct. 12, 5:15 Pm, vIdeo café


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TIME EXPOSURE (USA)Director: alfred Guzzetti

A meditation on a photograph of a South Philadelphia street taken by the filmmaker’s father in 1938 - its origins, its consequences, the place it portrays.


TIME PRESEnT (USA)Director: alfred Guzzetti

A wordless meditation on the present moment by a composer and a filmmaker.travelIn’ sHorts BlocK – tHursday, oct. 10,

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TOWInGDirector: Wenhwa ts’ao

A film about a female veteran’s struggle to make the adjustment to civilian life, one fateful night her experiences in the war come back to challenge her as she’s yet again forced to face meaningless death. TOWING explores themes of gender, race and class with a feminine perspective on the emotional effects of war.gettIng In trouBle sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 6:15 Pm, tHeater 5

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TRESPASS (AUSTRIA)Directed by paul Wenninger in collaboration with nik Hummer

The camera, in a single continuous shot, moves through a great variety of landscapes and interiors, while remaining the steady observer and companion of the male character whose body is the film’s one constant feature and a monad of sorts. The man, though he moves outside these ever-changing, unstable spaces and their axes of time, is at the same time inside and yet somehow separated or liberated from them. The only recurring location is a room, which in the beginning had grown out of a white wall, in which the man, naked at first, is gradually clothed and given an environment. Isolated by virtue of being out of time, he goes about his daily routine, taking no notice of his surroundings. This has the effect of inverting his body’s relation to time and space, as we see time and space are now following his movements, instead of the movements being constrained by them, as is usually the case. The reinterpretation of this relation is reinforced when the man sees his own corpse and the sight distances him even further from the logic of the space-time continuum. eXPerImental Program 5: rewards and lImItatIons of oBservatIon – sunday, oct. 13, 6:30 Pm, vIdeo café

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TURnInG A CORnER (USA)Director: David B. Levy

A chance encounter leads a poor kid from Brooklyn with college dreams to fight the fates for a chance to change his life.anImatIon sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 1


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UnITED In AnGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP (USA)Director: Jim Hubbard

The film explores how the diverse members of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) came together to save their own lives and to change the world.frIday, oct. 11, 9:45 Pm, tHeater 5


An UnREAL DREAM: THE MICHAEL MORTOn STORY (USA)Director: al reinert Screened in partnership with Make art with purpose for Map 2013.

In 1986, Michael Morton’s wife, Christine, is brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, he is forgotten by all but his parents and a small team of dedicated attorneys. In this “unreal dream,” the price of a wrongful conviction goes well beyond one man’s loss of freedom.screens wItH lIvIng condItIon - BIll’s story saturday, oct. 12, 3:00 Pm, tHeater 3

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UnSPOKEn SPEECH (USA)Creative Directors: peter Wood & Cliff Simms

The Unspoken Speech Project is a community-driven initiative that allows the citizens of Dallas to honor the memory of President John F. Kennedy and to commemorate the 50th year since his assassination in their own way by delivering the JFK Unspoken Speech–one word at a time, one Dallas citizen at a time.

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There is no longer any doubt about the strength and skill of American science, American industry, American education, and the American free enterprise system. In short, our national space effort represents a great gain in, and a great resource of, our national strength — and both Texas and Texans are contributing greatly to this strength.

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DISSIDANT VOICES: 50 patrons from a local Dallas coffee shop looking through an art book created from the speech edited together to make a stop-motion animated film.

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Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live.”

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Our adversaries have not abandoned their ambitions, our dangers have not diminished, our vigilance cannot be relaxed. But now we have the military, the scientific, and the economic strength to do whatever must be done for the preservation and promotion of freedom.”“That strength will never be used in pursuit of aggressive ambitions — it will always be used in pursuit of peace. It will never be used to promote provocations — it will always be used to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes.

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Above all, words alone are not enough. The United States is a peaceful nation. And where our strength and determination are clear, our words need merely to convey conviction, not belligerence. If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.statIc HIstory sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 10:15 Pm, tHeater 5


vEnICE: UnDER WATER (USA)Director: Chip Lord

VENICE: UNDER WATER is a meditation on the water level rising in Venice and how it is being over-flooded with tourists. Directed by Chip Lord, an original member of Ant Farm. World Premiere.travelIn’ sHorts BlocK – tHursday, oct. 10, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 7


vESSEL (USA - PREvIEW SCREEnInG)Director: Diana Whitten

Captain Rebecca Gomperts and her organization, Women on Waves, work with a global network of locally-based organizations to transport women 12 miles offshore, just outside of domestic jurisdiction, where doctors provide safe, legal medical abortions at sea. Their actions shock the church, infuriate the government, exhilarate the media, and provoke mass debate among the voting population, but break no laws. They hope, instead, to save lives. Director in AttendancetHursday, oct. 10, 6:45Pm, tHeater 2


WE REAL COOL (USA)Director: alex ruiqing Ma

A newly adopted teenage girl of minority ethnicity hangs out late at night with her old friends on her birthday, only to find her Caucasian guardian waiting for her worriedly when she tries to sneak back home, then realizes what home really means to her. fIgurIng It out sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 9:00 Pm, vIdeo café


WE REGRET TO InFORM YOU (USA)Director: Wago Kreider

The Church of Contemporary Art provides secular fellowship to cultural workers throughout the world, and offers a creative response to the excesses of the art market and dwindling arts funding. Addressing the inequities that today’s artists face, CoCA creates and supports collaborative projects which provide synergistic alternatives to the current model of the individual, branded artist. Director in Attendance eXPerImental Program 1: ImmanentIZe tHe escHaton – saturday, oct. 12, 5:15 Pm, vIdeo café

WHAT IS CInEMA (PREvIEW SCREEnInG)Director: Chuck WorkmanMeta Media award Winner

Cinema, or motion picture, is the art of moving images; a visual medium that tells stories and exposes reality.Created in the dusk of the 19th century, cinema is the world’s most recent art form. It is also, by far, the world’s most complex, collaborative, and costly artistic expression.At their inception, the first two versions of the film camera (the kinetograph and its European counterpart, the cinematograph) were used to


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record daily events such as a train arriving at a station and an elephant being electrocuted. Documentary filmmaking was then born and tremendously explored. Average men were instructed on how to use the recently-created camera and hired to undertake journeys around the globe and capture exotic images like the pyramids in Egypt and the waterfalls in Niagara.tHursday, oct. 10, 7:15 Pm, tHeater 7


WHAT OnCE WAS (ARGEnTInA)Director: Julieta averbuj

What once lay behind the images. eXPerImental Program 3: tIme and otHer dImensIons – saturday, oct 12, 2:15 Pm, vIdeo café


WHEn I WALK (USA)Director: Jason DaSilva

This film chronicles one man’s inspiring journey following his multiple sclerosis diagnosis. For Jason DaSilva, life’s most challenging and joyous moments are yet to come.sunday, oct. 13, 2:15 Pm, tHeater 5


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WHERE WE STARTEDDirector: Chris Hanson

When there’s a line you know you shouldn’t cross, what makes you cross it anyway? Two married strangers who have reached the age

where life’s disappointments begin to add up consider other options when a chance meeting leads to a possible romance in this drama. Filmmaker in Attendance sunday, oct. 13, 11:45 am, tHeater 1


WHITE ASH (USA)Director: Leighton pierce

WHITE ASH is an inexorable dive into edges of consciousness. While grounded in recognizable images and sounds captured from reality, WHITE ASH is designed to scrape through the patina of normal perception, leading to an embodied associational state—something “to the side” of narratives and perceptions.eXPerImental Program 2: glossolalIa – saturday, oct. 12, 7:00 Pm, vIdeo café

WHISPERInG COnFESSIOn Director: Barbara rosenthal

Possibly the most technological of her generally lowtech videos, Whispering Confession portrays Rosenthal’s mouth whispering words about “things the mind makes the body do,” while onscreen text drops letter-by-letter a more specific confession about an extra-curricular student-faculty relationship. eXPerImental Program 2: glossolalIa – saturday, oct. 12, 7:00 Pm, vIdeo café


WHITE COAT PHEnOMEnOn (USA)Director: Kristen reeves

Finding sex in an unexpected location requires some examination. Filmmaker in attendance eXPerImental Program 4: cosmogonIc BodIes – sunday, oct. 13, 4:30 Pm, vIdeo café


WILT CHAMBERLAIn: BORSCHT BELT BELLHOP (USA)Directors: Caroline Laskow & ian rosenberg

An unexplored chapter in the life of Wilt Chamberlain with a glimpse into the time when a very different era of basketball met the Borscht Belt.screens wItH dallas maverIcKssunday, oct. 13, 2:00 Pm, tHeater 2


XXX (USA)Director: Julie orser

This film appropriates pornographic magazines into an animated video to take an abstract and satirical look at the porn industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s when the use of videotape gained popularity.eXPerImental Program 4: cosmogonIc BodIes – sunday, oct. 13, 4:30 Pm, vIdeo café

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YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI (JAPAn)Director: Shishi yamazaki

Shishi Yamazaki dancing through Yanaka, Nezu, and Sendagi area in Taito-Ku, anImatIon sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 1

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YA-nE-SEn A GO GO (JAPAn)When you’re insanely happy, you’re so happy to be happy, that you forget what made you happy.anImatIon sHorts BlocK – saturday, oct. 12, 8:00 Pm, tHeater 1


YOU DOn’T nEED FEET TO DAnCE (USA)Director: alan Govenar

An intimate documentary about a man who overcomes his disability one day at a time. Alan Govenar’s new film reveals the extraordinary life of African immigrant Sidiki Conde, who balances his career as a performing artist with the almost insurmountable obstacles of life in New York City. Director in AttendancefrIday, oct. 11, 7:15 Pm, tHeater 5


YOUR MOvE (USA)Director: nick Gibbons

The story of two men enjoying a simple game of chess that quickly spirals down a dark Hitchcockian well of intrigue.gettIng In trouBle sHorts BlocK – sunday, oct. 13, 6:15 Pm, tHeater 5


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ECHOES (HOUSTOn)Director: Van Blumreich

David and Jonie’s son, Micah, has disappeared into the woods. When he comes home, all is not what it seems in this haunting short film.


LITTLE LIOnS (AUSTIn)Director: tony Costello

Cosmo spends his days roughhousing with his little brother and sister, and the games don’t stop when he discovers an injured bird in their backyard. LITTLE LIONS is the story of Cosmo, a boy who’s just starting to figure it out.


CORK’S CATTLEBARROn (DALLAS)Director: eric Steel

A young protege and his boss sit down for a life-changing steak dinner in Omaha, Nebraska.


vInCEnT vALDEZ: EXCERPTS FOR JOHn (SAn AnTOnIO)Directors: Mark and angela Walley

Two years in the making, this short documentary film captures the creative process of artist Vincent Valdez. Filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley followed Valdez as he created a series of works dedicated to his childhood best friend John Holt Jr., an Army combat medic who died in 2009 after serving in Iraq.Mark and Angela Walley are a husband and wife filmmaking duo based in San Antonio,

Texas. Since 2009 they have produced over 30 short documentary films following the work of artists and non-profit arts organizations in Texas. Their films have been featured online at Roger Ebert’s Journal, NPR Picture Show, The Atlantic, and Vimeo Staff Picks. Mark and Angela have also received film grants from Southwest Alternate Media Project, The Idea Fund, and San Antonio Artist Foundation to continue their collaborative work.


CIELO LInDO (ARLInGTOn)Director: iris Lopez

At the point of starvation, a homeless young girl copes with hunger and her harsh reality with her imagination.


BLACK METAL (AUSTIn)Director: Kat Candler

When a teen murders his math teacher in the name of a black metal band, the lead singer will have to re-evaluate the two things he loves most, his music and his family. Black Metal, a dark drama, follows Ian, a husband, father and musician struggling with the guilt and blame of a tragic and senseless murder.


STRYnGS (DALLAS)Director: Derek presley

Ambrosio the Great is near death. His beautiful puppet show is ignored by the village children and his body aches more and more each day. In his fading moments on Earth, he tries to gather enough strength to create one last show that no one will ever forget.

PHOTOS In THE WInD, A JOPLIn TORnADO STORY (DEnTOn)Director: abbey Hoekzema

A church music director works with the help of his small town in Carthage, Missouri to rescue, preserve and return lost photographs after the deadly May 22, 2011 EF5 tornado that struck Joplin, a neighboring city.

MOTOR WEST (DALLAS)Director: ren rowland

Motor West is an animated short of a post-apocalyptic future, where a father and son get hip to a road trip._________________________________________Special Thanks to the Texas Show Jury; The Texas show jury was Mark Birnbaum , Alec Jhangiani and Lisa Kaselik

SATELLITE PROGRAMSnOISEFOLD AnD TRIO KAZE PERFORMAnCE NoiseFold is a live cinema and electronic music ensemble founded by artist-performers, David Stout and Cory Metcalf. Originally from New Mexico, NoiseFold presented their world premiere at the Festival Internationale d’Art Video in Casablanca, Morocco in spring 2006. The group uses sensor-activated computer systems and complex audio-visual feedback circuitry to synthesize a mesmerizing array of bio-mimetic visual forms that generate sound. Critics described the result as “a powerful synaesthetic experience where noise, music and image interact on a symphonic scale.” NoiseFold performs in wildly different contexts from concert halls, art museums and art-house

film theaters to planetariums, and botanic gardens with Trio Kaze (an avantgarde music ensemble) from Germany.noIsefold and trIo KaZe Performance frIday, octoBer 11, 2013 at 10:00 Pm at tHe mac 31210 mcKInney ave


SIGn PAInTERS by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon.

There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our landscape. Fortunately, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade.In 2010 Directors Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, with Cinematographer Travis Auclair, began documenting these dedicated practitioners, their time-honored methods, and their appreciation for quality and craftsmanship. Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States. The documentary and book profiles sign painters young and old, from the new vanguard working solo to collaborative shops such as San Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs and New York’s Colossal Media’s Sky High MuralsfrIday, oct. 11, 7:00 Pm at teXas tHeatre, 231 w jefferson Blvd, dallas


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HOUSTOn FILM COMMISSIOn’S TEXAS FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE 2013:frIday, octoBer 11 at 9:30Pm teXas tHeatre In dallas, teXas

CORK’S CATTLEBARROn by eric Steele

Eric Steele most recently produced the feature film Pit Stop by Yen Tan, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, in addition to Wuss (2011) by Clay Liford, and The Verdigris: In Search of Will Rogers (2013) by Beau Jennings. Steele has written and directed two feature films, Uncertain, TX (2011) and Bob Birdnow’s Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self (2013) and is currently attached to Direct/Produce Casolaro, a feature film based on the true unsolved story of journalist Danny Casolaro who was found dead in a hotel room in 1991 after investigating a government conspiracy. Caliber Media and Aviation Cinemas are also attached to produce the project. Steele, based in Dallas, TX, is a founding partner of the Historic Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Texas and a Co-Founder of the Oak Cliff Film Festival.

THE GARDEn AnD THE WILDERnESS by Craig Whitney

A poetic re-imagining of the Western genre, The Garden and the Wilderness examines the dramatic themes of life on the frontier, refracted through the lens of 21st century realities. After 30 years spent caring for a Texas hunting estate, ranch hand Will James must confront the prospect of moving on from his life’s work when he learns that the property will be sold following the owner’s death. A final visit from

the late owner’s son offers Will a chance to reflect on his past, and to determine what to make of himself in the uncertain future that awaits his family. Craig Whitney premiered his first film, the Jewish-themed drama Harvest Home, in 2009. In addition to continuing his own film work, Whitney served in the production department of writer/director Terrence Malick’s Oscar-nominated feature, The Tree of Life. In 2010, he directed and produced a concert video featuring Miranda Cosgrove of Nickelodeon’s iCarly, and has also shot video for Natalie Maines’ first solo single Without You and The X Factor semi-finalists Emblem3. Whitney premiered his most recent film, The Garden and the Wilderness, at the 2011 Rome International Film Festival. Whitney is currently at work on his debut feature film, a family drama about violence along the US-Mexico border entitled Una Vela en el Entierro (A Candle in the Funeral), which begins filming in west Texas in 2014. HELLIOn by Kat Candler

All hell breaks loose when Petey is left with his hell raising brothers. But things go from bad to really, really bad when dad comes home.Kat Candler’s award winning films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, SXSW, Slamdance, Florida Film Festival, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, The National Institutes of Health, and on PBS. She’s currently in development on the feature film Hellion, which was a Sundance Creative Producing Lab participant. Candler is also film Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.

LITTLE LIOnS by tony Costello

Cosmo spends his days roughhousing with this little brother and sister, and the games don’t stop when he discovers an injured bird in their backyard. LITTLE LIONS is the story of Cosmo, a boy who’s just starting to figure it out.Tony Costello is confident that time is the storyteller’s greatest tool and he is interested in telling stories about characters as they exist in the moment. His work glimpses the sublime within human relationships through intimate portraitures of forgiveness between flawed characters. Tony has most recently worked as the Research Coordinator for Terrence Malick’s forthcoming IMAX nature documentary, Voyage of Time. After earning undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Political Science, Costello attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a Postbacc program in Film, Video, & New Media, and then moved to Austin to pursue his MFA in Film Production at the University of Texas. Little Lions is his directorial debut. vInCEnT vALDEZ: EXCERPTS FOR JOHn by angela and Mark Walley

Two years in the making, this short documentary film captures the creative process of artist Vincent Valdez. Filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley followed Valdez as he created a series of works dedicated to his childhood best friend John Holt Jr., an Army combat medic who died in 2009 after serving in Iraq.Mark and Angela Walley are a husband and wife filmmaking duo based in San Antonio, Texas. Since 2009 they have produced over thirty short documentary films following the work of artists and non-profit arts organizations

in Texas. Their films have been featured online at Roger Ebert’s Journal, NPR Picture Show, The Atlantic, and Vimeo Staff Picks. Mark and Angela have also received film grants from Southwest Alternate Media Project, The Idea Fund, and San Antonio Artist Foundation to continue their collaborative work. vULTURES OF TIBET by russell oliver Bush

In rapidly developing Western China, Sky Burial–a sacred ritual where the bodies of Tibetan dead are fed to wild griffon vultures–becomes a popular tourist attraction.Russell O. Bush is a rural Alaskan turned filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. He works in narrative fiction, documentary, and wildlife filmmaking and has screened his work at SXSW, The Palm Springs Intl. Short Film Festival, AFI DOCS, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Russell is also a cinematographer who’s worked in the comfort of the studio to waist deep snow in the Alaska Mountain Range with National Geographic Television’s Untamed America series. For Russell, Vultures of Tibet has drawn him in as a storyteller in its universal scope. Fascinated by myth, superstition, and obscurity as a place of discovery, Russell uses cinema as a tool to catalyze new understandings.

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58dallas videofest 26

ben britt Ben Britt photographs exotically dressed and body-painted models and burlesque performers and then digitally inserts them into thematically-appropriate, sometimes spectacular backgrounds to create bizarre yet eerily convincing fantasy scenarios.

Ben Britt bought his first Macintosh computer in 1984 and has been on the forefront of technology since. He is a professional photographer, videographer and interactive multi-media developer with clients ranging from corporate to advertising including Hewlet- Packard, Siemens, Budweiser, Texas Instruments, IBM, W Magazine, D Magazine and Coca-Cola. He is the co-owner and director for bbGun Interactive.

Kaleta doolinKing of the mountain

My installation is based on an ancient entertainment offered by observing the funny animal instincts of goats: climbing, challenging others to try to pass, butting, sniffing, rubbing, leading, following, nursing, and doing zany antics. The video invokes in the viewer a kind of recognition of the accumulated knowledge that he or she has about goats — from National Geographic magazines to PBS, Discovery channel, Marty Stouffer’s “Wild America”, animal programs on The Wonderful World of Disney and even to the folk children’s game, “King of the Mountain,” which involves children acting like goats. It is ironic that the oldest form of entertainment and one of the newest are brought together in this piece.

hanKy-panKy 2009 - present sliDe show oF MAnipulAteD DigitAl iMAges.


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Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReeder

Love J. Lawrence...but, please people...prepare something to say!!! Be fucking prepared to win and be articulate and thorough.


Zellweger seems wasted.


That girl from the vampire movies is always so mad...like her mom called her out of her room for dinner. Booooooored and Boooooring.


Also...why can’t anyone pronounce the name of that thing right...#lesMis


This guy who is the baby on that shitty show is making me nuts as host.


Could lick Ed Norton’s brain.


OUT.The game has changed. (about Jodie Foster)


Chastains speech was great....still her dress/hair was barfy. I could date Daniel day Lewis.


Also, I could lick Christian Bale...I know, I know, he’s a douche...but so pretty...

Jennifer Reeder @JenniferReederHathaway should have written a speech. Zzzzzzzzzz


jennifer reeder tWeets About the oscArs


For several years many commentators have proclaimed the impending demise of television. Social media and gaming have been anointed the new conquerors of leisure time. But TV has stood tall against the latest digital challengers, revitalizing its role as a serial storyteller. Although its audiences are diminishing, television is offering characters as deep and three-dimensional as any contemporary art form. Television fictional storylines have become as messy and problematic as real life. Many series, including Mad Men and Breaking Bad tackle mature themes, presenting a world in flux where things will probably go very badly. The era of TV as the comforting storyteller has long since passed; complicated characters face even more complicated situations. Don Draper and his establishment are now coping with the contradictions of the sixties where societal freedom helped to usher in personal chaos. Few series have probed the darkness within as has Breaking Bad with its lead character Walter White confronting the evil of his soul as he loses everything he has valued. Such portrayals elicit so many contradictory emotions in today’s audience; in fact, watching TV 2013 style can be a very demanding and draining experience. Over the past few years two new sensibilities emerged to revolutionize the entire TV gestalt. Louis C.K. and Lena Dunham have used digital technology to transform the traditional television-by-committee into very personal statements, where an individual controls almost all aspects of production. Both have also experimented with subject matter, creating raw, unsettling emotions in portraying their alter egos’ desperate search for professional and sexual identity. There are no easy laughs in their respective series Louie and Girls.

So television isn’t quite dead, but keeps evolving as the medium has when faced with previous challenges. In fact, it seems that every 10 years or so there is a major upheaval in defining what television means to most viewers: from live programming out of New York City in the ’50s to Hollywood entertainment and variety shows in the ’60s to socially conscious programs reflecting modern life in the ’70s to a magazine, niche model of cable in the ’80s and ’90s to the wave of reality television that has overtaken every network since 2000. But most people never speak of television in the abstract; they have always been more interested in its programming, their individual shows. And the best of this so-called content is now being produced at a very high level, reflecting the anxieties of the industry and contemporary life. Television and film too are confronted by an uncertain digital future. But both media, rooted in 20th century practices, seem to be flourishing amid unprecedented technological upheaval and fragmentation of audiences. Maybe this technological unease seems to be fostering a radical creativity, however unsettling.

essAy the temperAture of 2013 teleVisionby ron simon

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The LED surface of the OMNI hotel has an effective resolution of 147x20, and in the age of 4K projection, this is below miniscule. And the 147 effective horizontal “pixels” represents the whole building, so if only one side of the building is being considered, one image has half that resolution. Not even Sadie Benning’s Pixelvision videos were this visually constrained. Despite this limitation, the opportunity for creating meaning by working on such a conspicuous building is nearly limitless. The challenge is finding a balance of images that will translate well (no small task), to not lean on accompanying audio too heavily to determine the piece’s meaning, and to be distinct from the abstractions and advertisements that normally cover the building’s surface. In the first year, most artists (including myself) tended toward simple images and sounds. My video was composed of shifting monochromatic images of a dancer I had rotoscoped, with a digitally modified jazz composition to accompany her. Other works were even simpler, such as Jenny Vogel’s lovely Save Our Souls, which was visually restricted to alternating patterns of white and black that suggested Morse code. Many pieces attempted to consider Dallas’ inconsistent relationship with architecture. Certainly, Dallas is a city that does not shy away from the spectacular, and many of the works took this into account. But Vogel’s piece was a standout for me in that it so dexterously analyzed the dissolving boundary between private and public spaces, real and virtual, and was so incredibly economical in its meditation on 21st century loneliness. This year, artists seem to be taking a different approach. Rather than visual and conceptual economy, many of the participating makers have thus far tested works that are exponentially more complicated. In many works, including my own, sound will be a more important factor than it has been. It wouldn’t be a stretch to

call a few of the pieces visually decadent, either. In this second decade of the 21st century, what is the state of the monumental gesture? If this next 100 year period ends up reading like a novel, the first large scale acts of the previous decade might read like a horrible epigraph: the destruction of the towers in Manhattan and the “Shock and Awe” campaign that marked the beginning of the undeclared Long War. While it’s problematic to narrativize history this way, these two events have left such deep scars on most Americans’ perception of subsequent events that to mention them has become a banality. It follows that these events will have had a noticeable, if not directly legible, effect on the art being created in their wake. I suppose what I’m getting at is that these spectacular events and the events that unfolded from them (many of which continue to unfold) undoubtedly have affected artists and audiences in regard to spectacles. Combine this with the dramatic shift in how art and media are received: the spatially and temporally common experience of movies evolved to the spatially separate but temporally common experience of television (the E Unibus Pluram of David Foster Wallace), which has now arrived at a situation of double separation through web based media. To borrow the term from cultural studies, we’ve moved to a situation of E Pluribus Plures, or many out of many. Yes, yes. These things have been explained to us many times. But consider this context in relation to artists who work with durational media like film and video.

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essAy I just watched over 200 documentary films back to back, and I am deeply moved by the filmmakers who got their hands dirty enough, many literally, to bring the stories they wanted to tell to fruition. It is exciting times in the documentary arena with record numbers of festival entries, an increase in exceptional films and more filmmakers willing to take a chance on telling an unpopular story. One exciting trend this year is the emergence of music documentaries that do more than provide linear histories of bands and musicians. These films allow us to observe, for example, a group of musicians determined to make dangerous political statements with risk of prison time in their country, or one man helping to break down cultural and religious barriers and defy fear using dance lessons and music in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. Music docs this year also bring to the forefront those behind the lens who spent lifetimes in anonymity, documenting musicians and music and stories that are an important part of the world’s rich musical history. These films spotlight the powerful role music continues to play in the lives of everyday people. Technology in film excites me this year. As it quickly becomes more advanced, it propels many individuals into filmmaking who otherwise wouldn’t have the chance to tell smaller stories through documentaries. This doc season, a son picked up a video camera and for several years, with complete participation of friends and family, recorded his mother’s life with Alzheimer’s. And a successful filmmaker, with the help of his family, pointed the camera at himself as he dealt with life after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. These stories are important as they put focus on the challenges chronic disease bring to everyday life of those afflicted and their families and friends.

A young man in Rwanda, armed with limited training and equipment, embraced technology and movies themselves to lift the spirits of his fellow citizens after mass genocide in the country. This is a film about giving people the opportunity to deal with past tragedies and move beyond it into new lives. It is a film filled with hope, a film about the depth of the human spirit. As further proof of that spirit, a young man in 1960 travels small town America by car for 40 years with only a recorder and microphone, chronicling the legacy of real American roots music. That takes persistence and passion and spirit. These films and others bring to the forefront important stories that illustrate the commonality of man. This is documentary filmmaking at its finest - sharing stories of triumph that demonstrate one person can make a difference. At the end of the day, documentaries this year are just as passionate as the filmmakers themselves. And that’s quite a story.

Beth Jasper is a filmmaker and film festival programmer in Austin whose most recent documentary, The Devil’s Box, the story of Texas-style fiddling, is set to air on PBS in early 2014.

stAte of the documentAryby beth jasper


Since the dawn of (wo)mankind humans have had the keen, pro-cinematic ability to assess our surroundings in ways not unlike the quick, rack focus of a movie camera. That is, we move instantly from close examination (a form of deconstruction) to an anamorphic view of the world (contextualizing the minutiae of our dailiness within deep philosophical inquiries about the nature of existence). Think, for example, of the many (disembodied) hands drawn on the prehistoric walls in Werner Herzog’s documentary film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Also keep in mind that the specificity of this “I was here” gesture was paired with other carved images suggesting the grand narratives of history (this is WHY I was here). Although visionary film artist Stan Brakhage insisted that the true nature of cinema exists in the gutter-space between the frames (or perhaps, according to the ancient inhabitants of Herzog’s movie, the true nature of being might lurk in the dark, undulating shadows of a cavern), it seems that the “pulling apart” and “putting back together” cannot be separated. There is no isolated and autonymous moment of “in-betweeness,” as we begin to understand the physics of co-existence and the elasticity of time. Let’s not forget the tenents of Gestalt psychology in terms of the holistic functioning of the human brain. We take things apart because it is in our nature to put them back together again. We simply cannot help ourselves. The careful, studied and deep examination of the human condition that is a fundamental tenent of un-dependent cinema must therefore always be in conversation with more popular (and often uncomfortably saccharine sweet) re-constructions of experience that we have come to know as “going to the movies.”

There is magic in this (sometimes strained) dialogue not unlike the illusionist who, before our very eyes, dramatically saws his assistant in half and then, in the blink of an eye, returns the two halves to their original human form (a single narrative is collaged together from a sequential group of individual parts). One might go so far as to identify a valuable lesson within this failure: That is, a failure in the dissection and a failure in the deconstruction. In other words, take heart in knowing that the whole always emerges triumphant through the narrative arc of this particular illusion. Consequently, one might infer that the true meaning of cinema is only revealedwhen “it” is put back together. However, the putting back together only happens because of the all-important “taking apart.” To this end the un-dependents - “the walla group” - must be vigilant and prepared. We must be ready (at a moments notice) to go proudly and defiantly into the world with fists raised high and our experimental torches, saws, editing tools and pitchforks ready for engagement as we chant “watermelon-watermelon-watermelon.”

essAy frAcKing (With) post modernism or there’s A lil’ dr frAnKenstein in All of us. by bryan Konefsky

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