Shorts Program I
Friday 8pm & Saturday 9pm

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Fireplace Redux - Jeffrey Hands, Toronto, 4 min, betacam
Deleted scenes, director's commentary, and special features behind the holiday season video everyone (without a working fireplace) can't get enough of.

Fast Forward 1 - Alec Joler, Lawrence, KS, 3 min, dv
A $250 million dollar Jerry Bruckheimer action-adventure told in 180 seconds, scored by a human beat box, and made for the price of a box of Legos.

One Trick Pony - Ben Coonley, Brooklyn, NY, 5 min, dv
In which a singing pony and its human companion explain the Texas two-step.

Pop Song 1 - Meesoo Lee, Vancouver, Canada, 5 min, video
A remix of the final scene from King Vidor's 1949 The Fountainhead that transforms the ascent of the world's greatest architectural achievement into the world's most doleful elevator ride.

3D Trick Pony Trilogy - Ben Coonley, Brooklyn, NY, 6 min, dv
The pony is back. This time to educate us on historic semiotic innovations in film and audience participation.

Composition in Red and Yellow - Roger Beebe, Gainesville, FL, 2 min, 8mm
A University of Florida film professor got in his car and drove to Berkeley. Along the way he filmed some of the places where he stopped for lunch. This is his transcontinental menu.

Board Room - Fritz Donnelly, New York City, 4 min, dv
No stranger to the solo film project, Donnelly returns to the hi/lo with a serious film about market penetration, demographic analysis, and a high-power meeting ... with himself. And yes, that's his up-turned mattress behind him.

Crack Baby Series 1 & 2 - Keith Wilson, San Francisco, CA, 2 min, dv
The Folsom Street Fair and an Idaho National Park are very different places when seen through the starry eyes of an armless, naked, squeaky-voiced baby doll.

Arapadator (I feel so) - Anna Geyer, San Francisco, 5 min, 16mm
A mixed media experiment pairing the abstract forms of hand processed 16mm film with the seductively tender confessions of a Lena Horne melody.

Federal Truth in Music Project - Allan Allen-Gervis, USA, 6 min, dv
A series of micro-videos featuring some folks who look suspiciously like Chicago pop band OK Go. Topics covered include: physical education, parking, and professionalism in the work place.

Mr. Slow Burn in "Drinking Problem" - Colin Graham, Toronto, Canada, 4 min, animation
Traffic, meter maids, and the assailing force of time conspire to send this animated fellow over the edge. Line drawings and a martini-time score make the trip worthwhile.

Addendum - Bob Hurst, Iowa City, IA, 4 min, 16 mm
An emotionally devastating account of what it's like to lose a film about someone losing their mind. Made entirely out of trim and extra footage, this film is a potent metaphor for the Alzheimer's story it sought to capture.

Call of the Wild - Julia Sarcone-Roach, Brooklyn, NY, 8 min, animation on 35 mm
A hallucinogenic menagerie of flying cats and line-dancing bats populate the brilliantly colorful imagination of this RISD animator. Sarcone-Roach creates a Dr. Seussian zoo hopped up on goofballs going about their business and making prank calls, too.

Trick or Treat Pony - Ben Coonley, Brooklyn, 8 min, dv
In our final exciting episode, the pony dresses up for Halloween, pirates footage from ABC, and breaks down some professional football alignments. Man, this is weird.

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