(World Premiere)
Screening Time: Friday, May 2, 9:30 PM, Charles Theatre 3
Director: Mitch McCabe
Cast: Elisabeth Seljevold, Hobey Echlin, Beatrice
Scheyler, Julie M. Finch, Mark Chamberlain, Carmine Franceze,
Beth Tapper, Serenity Thompson, Cynthia DeMoss
Country: U.S.
Year: 2003
Running Time: 75 minutes
Format: Beta SP
 Student
Academy Award-winning director Mitch McCabe’s debut feature
plays like The Big Chill for the Goth crowd. Still grieving
the death of her grandmother, Farrah celebrates her 30th birthday
by going off her meds and attending an annual Winter Solstice
party with her hair-dyed, velvet-caped, Goth friends from high
school. As the film lurches backwards and forwards in time, across
Farrah’s mental trajectory, her ne’er do well friends
carry on with the night’s debauchery. To make matters more
complicated, Farrah has arrived with a mysterious, mute, wheelchair-bound
woman whose identity Farrah has no knowledge of. She tries to
tie together the disparate pieces of the metaphysical puzzle -
a ringing cell phone, a violent fight with her sister, an approaching
police car - only to unravel an even darker riddle. Throughout
the evening, her friendships and lifestyle choices are examined
and tested, putting her life and mental state into perspective.
--Skizz Cyzyk
Presented By: Mitch McCabe and Joan Wooter-Reisin
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Detroit’s Mitch McCabe
studied filmmaking and literature at Harvard University, where
she received the Mary Agassiz Arts Award and Hoopes Prize for
outstanding thesis. Her 1995 film, Playing The Part,
screened at Sundance and New Directors/New Films at the Museum
of Modern Art, and has won many awards including the Academy Award
for best student documentary, the New England Film Festival Short
Film Award, Hamptons Student Award and Special Jury Prize at Ann
Arbor Film Festival. Her 1999 film, September 5:10pm was nominated
for a Student Academy Award, and won a Best Documentary Award
at the Big Muddy Film Festival. Another of her films, The Longest
Night, was awarded the 2000 Princess Grace Award from the Princess
Grace Foundation and subsequently made into her first feature
film, This Corrosion. She is currently developing a documentary
called Velocity, and a new feature film called Frosted
Blonde With Dark Roots.
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