Microcinema DVDs - Independent Exposure

Catalog Number: MC-518	Type: Shorts Compilation	Genre: Mixed Genre
Copyright: 2006	Length: 60 minutes	Format: DVD Region: 0 (All)
TV System: NTSC	ISBN:	UPC: 880198051899
Label: Microcinema International

This is a Microcinema Exclusive title.

Wholesale Purchasing: Microcinema is not authorized to sell this title wholesale.

Exhibition: Program MC-518 may be licensed for Exhibition.

Films In Compilation

Epic Drag directed by Dave Griffiths United Kingdom, Video Art / Film Art, 2005, Video, B&W, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:00 A heroic smoking feat becomes lateral frieze under the gaze of spycam Panavision.
Man directed by Annika Glac Australia, Documentary, 2004, 35mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:30 It could be one man's story, or the story of every man. Told through the portraits of seven men, from the ages of 80 to 3 weeks of age, Man is a film about the fragility of life.
Marvelous, Keen Loony Bin directed by Lizzi Akana USA, Animation, 2005, Hand-Drawn Animation, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:37 A day in the life of the headless, limbless, faceless, and brainless.
Chronic directed by Joe Kelly Canada, Experimental, 2003, 16mm, B&W, Optical, 00:03:30 Chronic is an experimental dance film that explores body machine ideas. It is inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge and other photographic pioneers who studied motion with photography before the advent of motion picture cameras. The new dance movements that were created for this film have rhythmical parallels to Marey and Muybridge's work. Their studies uncovered truths that had never before been known. The truths they were seeking were scientific in nature, but much more can be gathered from these studies than just measurements and frequencies. Their photographs broke down the most rapid and complicated movements into visible increments and left nothing to be hidden by the limitations of our perception. The visual aspect of the film was made using a photocopier which creates a high contrast low-res look that refers to the developing technologies used by the pioneers of the moving image.
A Very Small Guardrail directed by Andrew Evashchen USA, Documentary, 2005, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:06:01 In this short parody of an opening sequence montage, an object of seemingly little importance has a brief moment of significance.
Communications Factory directed by Jennifer Sachs USA, Animation, 2004, hand-drawn animation, digital compositing, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:06:30 Isolated by her job at a communications technology plant, a lonely young woman discovers escape through an unexpected use of her company’s product. Inspired by true events.
Option of War, The directed by Nick Fox-Gieg USA, Animation, 2005, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:06:30 In this animated adaptation of an early Kafka story, a soldier is taken prisoner in the night by a pack of jackals. Offering a pair of scissors, they demand that he use the makeshift weapon to kill his sleeping friends. They overwhelm his initial, shocked refusal. Slowly, incredibly, he begins to see their point of view. He takes the scissors, and….
Schindler’s Lift directed by Boris Despodov Bulgaria, Documentary, 2004, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:30 Norway, September 2004. A young filmmaker Boris Despodov met a famous Danish film director Jørgen Leth. They decided to make a movie together. The film has been shot for a day in the hotel’s lift, which was Schindler’s Lift. Documentary portrait of Jørgen Leth structured around his latest poem. Human behavior containing the familiar Leth themes.
traces directed by Claudia Leger USA, Narrative, 2005, 16mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:00 Signs that remain to show the former presence of a person or thing no longer there.
Love Is directed by Dave Schlafman USA, Animation, 2004, Animation, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:17 This music video explores love during the nuclear destruction of our planet. Boston-based band, Mollycoddle provided an innocent song about children falling in love. I wanted to put my own humorous twist on the subjects of love and destruction. The video follows a young boy who imagines the end of the world while everyone is too blind to notice because they are falling in love.
Silver Seeds directed by Kim Collmer USA, Animation, 2004, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:09:13 Using stop motion animation, Silver Seeds displays a place of technicolor brightness, fabricated gardens, glittering garbage, and places far away from home.
Torsten Kretchzmar: Entschlossenheit directed by Steffen Frech USA, Music, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:04 Torsten Kretchzmar the German electro pop performer is described as the love child of Kraftwerk and Sprockets and is now bringing you the next best German word since Fahrvergnügen with his project “Entschlossenheit”. His lyrics are interpreted by the abstract dance artist Tanner Coleman Stewart. More German than Kraftwerk, the Bauhaus, and Sprockets combined, Torsten Kretchzmar rocks the soft-spoken, androgynous artist to a tee in this excellent techno concept project. With a dead-pan behind-the-scenes documentary and videos complete with Oskar Schlemmer-esque dance moves and over-the-top filters, it's not only solidly catchy, teutonic music, but a completely fun and inspiring Gesamtkunstwerk.