Shorts: Meditations

The Eternal Cycle

Director: Gamal Thabert Amer
Country: Egypt
Year:
Running Time: 17 minutes
Format: 16mm

Synopsis: A day in the life of Mona, a 12 year old village girl who lives in the southern town of Luxor, once the capital of Ancient Egypt known as Thebes. Throughout one day, we learn a great deal about Mona’s life. We learn about her religious, social, economic and personal beliefs, and examine her link to her ancient past. It is a trip inside a social class that not many films have taken before.

Print Source: (410) 665-0151, ETERNAL5757@aol.com

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Still

Director: Joshua Zucker
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Running Time: 11 minutes
Format: BetaSP

Synopsis: “A short film about the presence left behind in certain spaces; the decay of forgotten objects and secret landscapes.” Shot on location in Baltimore’s Clipper Mill Industrial Park by Baltimore native, Joshua Zucker.

Print Source: joshua@prosaics.com,

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O Sprinklers!

Director: Cindy Stillwell & Bill Neff
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Running Time: 7 minutes
Format: BetaSP

Synopsis: A celebration of the ordinary, O Sprinklers! looks closely at the seemingly mundane concept of sprinklers and reinterprets them with sound and editing as possible residual artifacts of human life.

Print Source: Cindy Stillwell, 406-994-6521, cindys@montana.edu

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If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now

Director: Diane Bonder
Country: USA
Year: 2001
Running Time: 15 minutes
Format: 16mm

Synopsis: An examination of the divisiveness over land, the relationship of public and private space in small town America, and the concept of home. Using documentary strategies, landscape stills are juxtaposed to stories” ripped from the headlines” of a small-town newspaper. The struggle over public space described in the stories, reflect universal concepts of space, privacy and property ownership everywhere.

Print Source: 703 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 718-783-6303, dabonder@earthlink.net

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Freamh

Director: Pegeen Quinn
Country: Ireland
Year: 2003
Running Time: 10 minutes
Format: BetaSP

Synopsis: This lyrical short follows a man as he returns to his family’s cottage, and to his past. Based on a selection of poetry written by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. Cast and shot in Co. Donegal, Ireland.

Print Source: 383 Highland Ave. #2, Somerville, MA 02144, 617-640-9623, pegquinn@yahoo.com

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To Eat

Director: Mike Fleisch
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Running Time: 20 minutes
Format: BetaSP

Synopsis: Believing the world to be on the verge of biological warfare, a French-Canadian man escapes to a remote cabin in the snow with his father, his American wife, and her brother. A film that seeks to explore the presentational and consumptive qualities of communication and desire, particularly narrative itself.

Print Source: 383 Highland Ave. #2, Somerville, MA 02144, 617-718-2402, mikefleisch@yahoo.com

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Day Dreamer
(World premiere)

Director: Bennii D.
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Running Time: 19 minutes
Format: DVD

Synopsis: Colorful, manipulated images form a beautiful, experimental landscape. Best viewed through 3D glasses, but not necessary.

Print Source: (443) 802-5270, benniid@hotmail.com

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