<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> 2006 Maryland Film Festival
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Cycles Of Repetition
Director: Deborah Wing-Sproul
2:50 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: The people of Gujarat and Rajasthan are informally and candidly documented in their work environments during this series of vignettes which document the repetitive nature of fiber-based handwork in India.

Demolition 7
Director: Richie Sherman
9:00 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: A Super-8mm expressionistic recording of life at a demolition derby, irony included, complete with testosterone and hammers, bullhorns and hymns.

Escape Velocity
Director: Scott Ligon
28:00 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: An animated, stream of consciousness, multi-layered narrative that attempts to emulate the day-to-day Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D.) experience. The connection between A.D.D. and creativity is explored using self-deprecating, humorous examples from the filmmaker's own life.

Full Metal Slacks
Director: Scott Calonico
5:00 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: President Johnson orders a pair of pants from his tailor, amidst the confusion of a war called Vietnam.

Ghost Stories
Director: Jennifer Hardacker
12:30 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: In this short film, the filmmaker attempts to reconcile the difference between myth and reality with regards to female archetypes. She weaves the tale of three women -her mother, herself, and the ghost-legend Diana of the Dunes- to come to some understanding of her own role as a mother and motherless daughter.

The Waiting Time
Director: Sasha Waters
16:30 minutes, 16mm/BetaSP, USA

DESCRIPTION: An unsentimental 'thinking woman's' sex education film about desire, conception and first-time motherhood.

You Can't Get There From Here
Director: Liss Platt
8:00 minutes, DVD, Canada

DESCRIPTION: Burgeoning desire, adolescent rebelliousness, and family crisis collide in this kinetic scrapbook of being sixteen in a past era.

   

 

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