<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> 2006 Maryland Film Festival
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Credo
Director: Keith Snyder
9:10 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: An original screen opera in which God, realizing that "Thou shalt not kill" has never worked, takes responsibility for the world's religious violence and lays out his new policy.

Crystal's Sigh
Director: Yu Hasegawa-Johnson
5:23 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: Crystal finds the ultimate beauty in a perfect death, and that is where she thinks she's going. The problem is… death is not beautiful. Oops!

Daylight Hole
Director: Matt Palmer
6:00 minutes, BetaSP, UK
DESCRIPTION: A sound rec
ordist descends into an isolated cave. Only when it may be too late does he begin to suspect that he might not be alone.

I'm So Bored That I Could Cry
Director: Nikc Miller
3:00 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: A cow and the devil have a trashcan-throwing contest. Music by Brian Adam Ant.

Love Is Blindness
Director: Changa Bell
8:41 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: A man must choose between the woman he loves and his addiction.

The Misadventures in Drifting Laterally
Director: Andrew Payton
4:34 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: After being dumped by his girlfriend, a boy embarks on a journey to run away from home.

Model KSS9004
Director: Phil Davis
8:47 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: An innocent breakfast transitions into a spectacle of the death and consumption of a lo-fi media gaze. This is just one part of an ongoing series of video experiments, dealing with the death and destruction of obsolete analog video technology in the digital age.

Park Avenue
Director: Olivia Ontaneda
8:00 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: A story about desire and the incessant search for something non-existent, or existent only because we make it exist in our minds.

A Short Film Regarding Possibility
Director: Matthew Fishel
12:00 minutes, BetaSP, USA

DESCRIPTION: An organized and successful individual contemplates scale and potential in a variety of settings.

Substrata
Director: Carol Hess
5:20 minutes, video, USA

DESCRIPTION: An experimental dance/video piece in which a woman is pulled into a dance which progresses down the entire length of a long, narrow tunnel.

The Temptation of Victoria
Director: Michael Shamberg
7:45 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: In a new music video for the New Order song “Temptation,” Victoria wanders the streets of Paris and discovers that music provides the one thing that is missing from her life.

Untitled
Director: David Brauns, Connor Scalzi, Brad Willard
6:30 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: An experimental film that deals with the issues of time and space.

   

 

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