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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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