hi/lo film festival DVD

HIGH CONCEPT/LOW BUDGET FILMS
for the adventerous and disenchanted... now on DVD

DID you miss the hi/lo film festival this year? Did you attend and wish you could relive the movie magic? Not to worry, you can!

BUY THE hi/lo DVD! Compilations of the 2005 and the 2004 dvds include 15+ films from each festival with total run times of over 80 minutes. The disks cost $15. Descriptions of the films on the 2005 hi/lo 2005 DVD are below and info on the 2004 hi/lo dvd is here.

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The films included on the 2005 dvd are:

Candy Girl [music video] - Charles Roxburgh, Burbank, CA, 5 min, 16mm
Gussied up in the bright red colors of a bygone Soviet era of space exploration, a girl races in her rocket to get back to the moon in time to save the universe and keep her dog from going crazy.

Spam-ku: I won a haiku contest about spam [fiction] - Steven Tsuchida, Los Angeles, CA, 5 min 35mm
If the X-files had a penchant for Japanese poetry (and for a certain Hormel meat-based product) you might get a metaphysical comedy like this.

Valium and Grass (Part 4) [experimental/music video/found footage] - Bill Macomber and Tony Schloss, Los Angeles, CA, 3 min, Super8
Assembling a collage that is as much sonic as it is visual, these filmmakers set hypnotic beats to an eclectic mix of b-movie and home movie footage. Then they scribble over it, cut it up, fold it in on itself, and get deliriously trippy with it.

Stall [experimental] - Brian Kerr, Lake Oswego, OR, 2 min, Mini DV
A micro-tour of an exhibit at the Exploratorium that is out of this world.

Financial Advice [fiction] - Fritz Donnelly, New York, NY, 5 min, Mini DV
The Wall Street Journal never tells it like it is. But alone in his apartment, Fritz breaks down all you need to know about taking stock of your assets, inventorying your friends, and hiding your cash in your closet.

Nature's Blueprints [documentary]- Mike Seely, San Francisco, CA, 10 min, 16mm
If all architects took their cues from nature, the world would look like a very different place, or at least Berkeley would.

Petunia [animation] - Aaron Hughes, New York, NY, 3 min, video
A charming love affair between a man and his flower bounces merrily along from this world into the next.

Natasha [documentary] - Jen Ashlock, Chapel Hill, NC, 13 min, Super 8
Three high-school gals form a band, name it after their collective alter-ego, write lyrics in class (and yes, some of those lyrics are physics problems and Noam Chomsky), and find beauty and complexity in the simplest of songs. Power to the Girls!

Secret Santa [fiction] - Alan Harris, Brooklyn, NY, 3 min, Mini DV
Good will during the holiday season is always appreciated, or is it?

Homoerotic Destination Tokyo [found footage] - Kurt Serbus, San Francisco, CA, 3 min, 35mm
Did you ever wonder what serving on a sub in WW II might have been like? Wonder no more, but please don't ask and don't tell.

Rotation [documentary] - Erin Hudson, Palo Alto, CA, 3 min, 16mm
Every filmmaker who has ever driven along 580 by the windmills at the Altamont Pass has wanted to put them in a movie; now someone has.

Magic Hostess: The Electric Can Opener [music video] - Rob Tyler, Portland, OR, 4 min, Mini DV/Super8
Charlie Chaplin critiqued industrialization with Modern Times and Jacques Tati satirized the automatic world in Playtime but here is a more reverent tribute to the wonders of 20th century technology.

Found Artists: Gary Crom [documentary] - Curtis Craven, Austin, TX, 9 min, DVCAM
Somewhere in the Deep South (we're talking serious Red State territory) Gary Crom stands up for a post-modern interpretation of 'art.' But he's not all talk - he makes things out of the junk (living and dead) he comes across, even things he picks out of his own body.

I Can Say It [fiction] - David Politzer, Syracuse, NY, 3 min, Mini DV
Practice, theoretically, makes perfect. When it comes to those magic words, however, it's all in the timing.

Glass Crow [animation] - Steven Subotnick, Providence, RI, 6 min, Beta SP Using a highly original animation style, the history of Central Europe's 30 Years War is told from the perspective of the birds that flew over it all.

Candy Girl [music video] - Charles Roxburgh, Burbank, CA, 5 min, 16mm Gussied up in the bright red colors of a bygone Soviet era of space exploration, a girl races in her rocket to get back to the moon in time to save the universe and keep her dog from going crazy.
Spam-ku: I won a haiku contest about spam [fiction] - Steven Tsuchida, Los Angeles, CA, 5 min 35mm If the X-files had a penchant for Japanese poetry (and for a certain Hormel meat-based product) you might get a metaphysical comedy like this.
Valium and Grass (Part 4) [experimental/music video/found footage] - Bill Macomber and Tony Schloss, Los Angeles, CA, 3 min, Super8 Assembling a collage that is as much sonic as it is visual, these filmmakers set hypnotic beats to an eclectic mix of b-movie and home movie footage. Then they scribble over it, cut it up, fold it in on itself, and get deliriously trippy with it.
Stall [experimental] - Brian Kerr, Lake Oswego, OR, 2 min, Mini DV A micro-tour of an exhibit at the Exploratorium that is out of this world.
Financial Advice [fiction] - Fritz Donnelly, New York, NY, 5 min, Mini DV The Wall Street Journal never tells it like it is. But alone in his apartment, Fritz breaks down all you need to know about taking stock of your assets, inventorying your friends, and hiding your cash in your closet.
Nature's Blueprints [documentary]- Mike Seely, San Francisco, CA, 10 min, 16mm If all architects took their cues from nature, the world would look like a very different place, or at least Berkeley would.
Petunia [animation] - Aaron Hughes, New York, NY, 3 min, video A charming love affair between a man and his flower bounces merrily along from this world into the next.
Natasha [documentary] - Jen Ashlock, Chapel Hill, NC, 13 min, Super 8 Three high-school gals form a band, name it after their collective alter-ego, write lyrics in class (and yes, some of those lyrics are physics problems and Noam Chomsky), and find beauty and complexity in the simplest of songs. Power to the Girls!
Secret Santa [fiction] - Alan Harris, Brooklyn, NY, 3 min, Mini DV Good will during the holiday season is always appreciated, or is it?
Homoerotic Destination Tokyo [found footage] - Kurt Serbus, San Francisco, CA, 3 min, 35mm Did you ever wonder what serving on a sub in WW II might have been like? Wonder no more, but please don't ask and don't tell.
Rotation [documentary] - Erin Hudson, Palo Alto, CA, 3 min, 16mm Every filmmaker who has ever driven along 580 by the windmills at the Altamont Pass has wanted to put them in a movie; now someone has.
Magic Hostess: The Electric Can Opener [music video] - Rob Tyler, Portland, OR, 4 min, Mini DV/Super8 Charlie Chaplin critiqued industrialization with Modern Times and Jacques Tati satirized the automatic world in Playtime but here is a more reverent tribute to the wonders of 20th century technology.
Found Artists: Gary Crom [documentary] - Curtis Craven, Austin, TX, 9 min, DVCAM Somewhere in the Deep South (we're talking serious Red State territory) Gary Crom stands up for a post-modern interpretation of 'art.' But he's not all talk - he makes things out of the junk (living and dead) he comes across, even things he picks out of his own body.
I Can Say It [fiction] - David Politzer, Syracuse, NY, 3 min, Mini DV Practice, theoretically, makes perfect. When it comes to those magic words, however, it's all in the timing.
Glass Crow [animation] - Steven Subotnick, Providence, RI, 6 min, Beta SP Using a highly original animation style, the history of Central Europe's 30 Years War is told from the perspective of the birds that flew over it all.

hi/lo film festival DVD

HIGH CONCEPT/LOW BUDGET FILMSfor the adventerous and disenchanted... now on DVD

HIGH CONCEPT/LOW BUDGET FILMS
for the adventerous and disenchanted... now on DVD