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(35mm, BetaSP) 83 minutes
The Slamdance Film Festival, taking place annually along-side
the Sundance Film Festival each January in Park City, Utah,
has established itself as a festival "by filmmakers, for filmmakers",
and that description is most evident by the amount of attention
it gives to short films & videos. Continuing Maryland's connection
to Slamdance, we're pleased to present this collection of
shorts from Slamdance 2002, presented by Slamdance co-founder
Dan Mirvish and various Slamdance alum. Be sure not to miss
other Slamdance shorts, Vessel Wrestling and The Hunger Artist,
showing in the Animated Shorts Program.
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ANY CREATURE (dir. Patrick Daughters, NY, NY) 10
minutes, 35mm
A car accident echoes across the plain. A young girl
watches a life pass before her eyes. Filmed in Maryland.
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OPEN HOUSE (dir. Dan Mirvish, LA, CA) 5.5 minutes,
35mm,
EAST COAST PREMIERE
The lives of home-shoppers, cops, swingers, jewel thieves
and a real estate agent all intersect during an Open
House. Made as part of the Seattle Film Festival's Fly
Filmmakers challenge, where directors are invited to
shoot a short film during one week of the festival,
by Dan Mirvish (Slamdance co-founder, Omaha: The Movie),
who is currently developing it into a feature-length
musical.
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CANDY MONEY (dir. Chris Strother, LA, CA) 10 minutes,
BetaSP
An intimate look at a day in the life of two entrepreneurial,
prepubescent boys trying to make a buck in the backwoods
of Arkansas.
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HOME (dir. Paul Rachman, NY, NY) 5 minutes, BetaSP,
EAST COAST PREMIERE
A young woman's secret lonely life in New York takes
a sudden twist. Paul Rachman's feature, Four Dogs Playing
Poker showed at last year's Maryland Film Festival.
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LURCH (dir. Boris Hars-Tschachotin, Germany) 20
minutes, BetaSP
A man with the unlikely job of preserving animal corpses
at the Berlin Natural History Museum has a most unusual
accident that results in a most unusual addiction.
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THE MAN WITH THE DV CAM (dir. Justin Adam & Mike
Hawley, Canada) 10 minutes, BetaSP
Lindsey Farnsworth is a film poet who has just acquired
his first Digital Video camera. Watch him learn to express
himself in increasingly colorful ways.
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PEDRO + TONY? (dir. Don Thomas, SF, CA) 19 minutes,
BetaSP,
EAST COAST PREMIERE
It's the six month anniversary of a dog named Pedro,
and his "boyfriend-who-just-happens-to-be-a-chicken",
Tony. The two have planned a special date, but aren't
prepared to deal with the unexpected "little things"
that go wrong.
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PROJECT REDLIGHT (dir. Robert Peters, LA, CA) 9
minutes, BetaSP,
EAST COAST PREMIERE
A parody of HBO's Project Greenlight series (which documents
the making of an independent film), that makes fun of
the porn industry. A new short from Robert Peters whose
Mutual Love Life screened at the 2000 Maryland Film
Festival.
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