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 2006 and the 2005 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 2006 hi/lo dvd are below and info on the 2005 hi/lo dvd is here.

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The films included on the 2006 dvd are:

Profiles in Science - Wes Kim, Seattle - 6min, 8mm - figuring there needs to be a scientific explanation for all natural phenomena this mockumentarist trains his camera on missing socks and couch potatoes.

Square MM of opportunity - Luke Lamborn, Syracuse - - 2 min - DV - Magritte had his boulders and men with umbrellas hanging impossibly in mid-air and so too does this filmmaker and the phenomenon no one seems to notice on a street corner in suburbia.

Let's Start Again - Charlie Tweed, London UK - 7 min, mini-dv - if the Unabomber had a British sense of humor he might look like this...of course he'd also have to be about 16 and a lot more creative. Animals of the forests beware!

Pretty Things - 'Straight for a Minute' - Michael Lucid, Hollywood - 3 min, dv - for those times when gay guys need to go undercover it's handy to have this instructional music video.

Pretty Things - 'Always a bad girl' - Michael Lucid, Hollywood - 3 min, dv -the LA sketch comedy-music-film-group recounts a brief history of famous bad girls, replete with snappy lyrics and catchy dance moves. If this isn't edutainment we don't know what is.

Backseat Bingo - Liz Blazer, Glendale - - 6 min, animation - This illustrated documentary throws the spotlight on an array of aging horn dogs grappling with the crisis of mortality.

Bartholomew's Song - Allison Welch, Lowell Frank and Destin Cretton, San Diego - 11min, Super 16 - in a low-rent dystopia life has been reduced to the mindless stamping out of luxury items of the most useless sort. But in the spirit of Brazil and a Brave New World one automaton begins to sing his own song to heart-breaking, if predictable, effect.

Recliner Dance - Tom Gingell, San Diego - 2 min, DV - like popping the bubbles in bubble-wrap, like goofing around with the stuff you'll never buy at the Sharper Image store, this quick homage will gratify anyone whose ever sat in a La-Z-Boy recliner.

Who is Lewis? -- Christopher Schilz, Bochum, Germany - 4 min, Flash animation - Miller is a bunny, Pete is a dog and Rex is a pig (naturally), so who is Lewis? And, for all his troubles, bad choices, and reptilian skin, isn't he really just one of us?

I should have been a taxi driver - Anders Osterballe, San Mateo - 6 min, 16mm - A rapturous ode to the ultimate urban chauffeur is about as far from Martin Scorcese's and Robert De Niro's take on the same subject as you'll ever see. This is a much more pleasant ride.

Afloat - Erin Hudson, Palo Alto - 6min, 16mm - a mesmerizing documentary featuring geriatrics and the swimming pools they love. In between the slow-moving walks through water creep heady thoughts about our own limited time in the pool of life.

Totally Real TV - - Brendon Lloyd, Los Angeles - 4 min, mini dv - this fake-real-fake-reality show poses the inevitable question every boyfriend of a girl on a reality tv show is bound to ask....but to hear the answer someone needs to sign some paperwork.

Lift Off - Terri Timely, Berkeley - 50 seconds, 16mm - an interstellar flip-book adventure takes off and travels the universe without ever leaving a restaurant counter.

Surrounded - David Politzer, Brooklyn - 4 min, mini DV - the returning hilo filmmaker ("I Can Say It" - 2005) is woken in the middle of the night and while it takes him a moment or two to get his gear together the calls of the wild are well-recorded for our benefit.

Mi Burrito Escondido - - Dewayne Austin, San Francisco --2 min, mini-dv - every year there is one film so weirdly insane that we have to program it even though we have no idea what's going on. This is that film. Yes the sound track is shrill and haters of tie-dye shirts will be made even angrier.

A Bad Hair Day - Meesoo Lee, Vancouver - 7 min, mini-DV - echoing the Fresh Prince's pronouncement that parents just don't understand, a filmmaker visits his parents in Seoul for a week and fights a perennial battle pitting his own scruffy-doo against his father's perm.

Profiles in Science - Wes Kim, Seattle - 6min, 8mm - figuring there needs to be a scientific explanation for all natural phenomena this mockumentarist trains his camera on missing socks and couch potatoes.
Square MM of opportunity - Luke Lamborn, Syracuse - - 2 min - DV - Magritte had his boulders and men with umbrellas hanging impossibly in mid-air and so too does this filmmaker and the phenomenon no one seems to notice on a street corner in suburbia.
Let's Start Again - Charlie Tweed, London UK - 7 min, mini-dv - if the Unabomber had a British sense of humor he might look like this...of course he'd also have to be about 16 and a lot more creative. Animals of the forests beware!
Pretty Things - 'Straight for a Minute' - Michael Lucid, Hollywood - 3 min, dv - for those times when gay guys need to go undercover it's handy to have this instructional music video.
Pretty Things - 'Always a bad girl' - Michael Lucid, Hollywood - 3 min, dv -the LA sketch comedy-music-film-group recounts a brief history of famous bad girls, replete with snappy lyrics and catchy dance moves. If this isn't edutainment we don't know what is.
Backseat Bingo - Liz Blazer, Glendale - - 6 min, animation - This illustrated documentary throws the spotlight on an array of aging horn dogs grappling with the crisis of mortality.
Bartholomew's Song - Allison Welch, Lowell Frank and Destin Cretton, San Diego - 11min, Super 16 - in a low-rent dystopia life has been reduced to the mindless stamping out of luxury items of the most useless sort. But in the spirit of Brazil and a Brave New World one automaton begins to sing his own song to heart-breaking, if predictable, effect.
Recliner Dance - Tom Gingell, San Diego - 2 min, DV - like popping the bubbles in bubble-wrap, like goofing around with the stuff you'll never buy at the Sharper Image store, this quick homage will gratify anyone whose ever sat in a La-Z-Boy recliner.
Who is Lewis? -- Christopher Schilz, Bochum, Germany - 4 min, Flash animation - Miller is a bunny, Pete is a dog and Rex is a pig (naturally), so who is Lewis? And, for all his troubles, bad choices, and reptilian skin, isn't he really just one of us?
I should have been a taxi driver - Anders Osterballe, San Mateo - 6 min, 16mm - A rapturous ode to the ultimate urban chauffeur is about as far from Martin Scorcese's and Robert De Niro's take on the same subject as you'll ever see. This is a much more pleasant ride.
Afloat - Erin Hudson, Palo Alto - 6min, 16mm - a mesmerizing documentary featuring geriatrics and the swimming pools they love. In between the slow-moving walks through water creep heady thoughts about our own limited time in the pool of life.
Totally Real TV - - Brendon Lloyd, Los Angeles - 4 min, mini dv - this fake-real-fake-reality show poses the inevitable question every boyfriend of a girl on a reality tv show is bound to ask....but to hear the answer someone needs to sign some paperwork.
Lift Off - Terri Timely, Berkeley - 50 seconds, 16mm - an interstellar flip-book adventure takes off and travels the universe without ever leaving a restaurant counter.
Surrounded - David Politzer, Brooklyn - 4 min, mini DV - the returning hilo filmmaker ("I Can Say It" - 2005) is woken in the middle of the night and while it takes him a moment or two to get his gear together the calls of the wild are well-recorded for our benefit.
Mi Burrito Escondido - - Dewayne Austin, San Francisco --2 min, mini-dv - every year there is one film so weirdly insane that we have to program it even though we have no idea what's going on. This is that film. Yes the sound track is shrill and haters of tie-dye shirts will be made even angrier.
A Bad Hair Day - Meesoo Lee, Vancouver - 7 min, mini-DV - echoing the Fresh Prince's pronouncement that parents just don't understand, a filmmaker visits his parents in Seoul for a week and fights a perennial battle pitting his own scruffy-doo against his father's perm.

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