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A collection of 20 short films by independent, underground and alternative filmmakers featured at the Movieside Film Festival, the world's largest short film festival. Includes
Knuckleface Jones - Todd Rohal - (16 mins.) - Slamdance Entry Monkey vs. Robot - Nathan Pommer - (3 mins.) - San Fransisco Indie Film Festival Entry Dance Habibi Dance - Usama Alshaibi - (4 mins.) - New York Underground Film Festival Entry Warplay - Bryan Lefler - (8 mins.) - Slamdance Entry State of the Union - Bryan Boyce - (3 mins.) - Cinematexas Entry
0502 - Mark Hejnar - (3 mins.) - Chicago Underground Film Festival Entry And Knowing was Half the Battle - Eric Fensler - (3 mins.) - Museum of Contemporary Art Harry Knuckles - Lee Demarbre - (5 mins.) - Microcinefest Entry Printer Jam - Doug Lussenhop - (3 mins.) - Select Media Festival A Primer for Dental Extraction - Carl Weidemann - (5 mins.) Ann Arbor Film Festival Cabrini Green - Brett Foxwell - (5 mins.) 30 FPS - Micah Scarpelli - (6 mins.) - Stray Show Grain - Eric Medine - (3 mins.) Communista - Jim Finn - (3 mins.) - Cinematexas Damn You Mister Bush - Skizz Cyzyk - (3 mins.) - American Film Institute A Moment - Bob Hurst - (4 mins.) Track One: Incomplete (Locust Video) - Ricky Cozzolino - (1 mins.) Construction: One - Christine Hart - (4 mins.) Monkey Walken: An Intimate Portrait - Jason Woliner & James Dean Conklin - (3 mins.), Forced Entry TV State - Christian Matts - (6 mins.).
| Catalog Number: MC-554 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Short Collection |
| Copyright: 2005 |
Length: 70 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC/EAN: 8 80198 05549 1 |
| Label: New Eye Films |
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Films In Compilation
Knuckleface Jones directed by
Todd
Rohal
USA,
Drama,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:13:00
Just as things begin to turn ugly, a new folk hero emerges from the depths of America. Based on a traditional folk legend, Knuckleface Jones is a tale of broken hearts and beaten minds, a story of hope and misshapen dreams.
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Monkey Vs. Robot directed by
Nathan
Pommer
USA,
Music,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:00
"Nathan Pommer has created an absolutely hilarious music video, chronicling a hokey battle between yesterday's primate, and tomorrow's cyborg. Four Stars! - FilmThreat.com
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Dance Habibi Dance directed by
Usama
Alshaibi
USA,
Comedy / Satire,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:00
Mythological creatures parade and swim in an acid Greek mythos.
This is the broadcast from beyond, with lurid flesh and Arabesque disco.
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Warplay directed by
Bryan
Lefler
USA,
Drama,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:08:00
Warplay is a story of a young boy's inability to separate his imaginative perception of himself from reality. Playing war evolves into real war, blurring the line between friend and foe, between childhood play and violence.
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State of the Union directed by
Bryan
Boyce
USA,
Comedy / Satire,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:00
Bryan Boyce combines CNN footage of George W. Bush with clips from The Teletubbies to make one the most hilarious spoofs on "Homeland Insecurity"
ever!
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0502 directed by
Mark
Hejnar
USA,
Horror / Bizarre,
0,
B&W,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:00
A cut up, found footage, experimental nightmare of boys with guns and girls with guts and gusto.
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And Knowing was Half the Battle directed by
Erin
Fensler
USA,
Animation,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:00
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Harry Knuckles directed by
Lee
Demarbre
USA,
Comedy / Satire,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:00
"A loving homage to the over-the-top action style of the Asian film market, Harry Knuckles blends martial arts fury and breakneck physical comedy as leading man Phil Caracas socks his way through a legion of rogues and miscreants to save the life of every man, woman, and child on earth. Not for the faint of heart or the smooth of skin. Hell hath no fury like a man with hairy knuckles."
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Printer Jam directed by
Doug
Lussenhop
USA,
Comedy / Satire,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:00
A hilarious office comedy about an angry man who can't get his printer to work. His co-worker sets the machine straight and gives it some rythme and the duo dance the night away.
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Cabrini Green directed by
Brett
Foxwell
USA,
Documentary,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:00
A beautiful super 8 color film about the destruction of Chicago's notorious housing project Cabrini Green.
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30 FPS directed by
Micah
Scarpelli
USA,
Music,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:06:00
A fantastic skate video shot in an urban cityscape with a dynamite soundtrack.
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Grain directed by
Eric
Medine
USA,
Animation,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:00
Animated architecture jumps and moves with the camera's unflintching eye.
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Communista! directed by
Jim
Finn
USA,
Comedy / Satire,
0,
00:03:00
3 little karaoke movies on communism and love.
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Damn You Mister Bush directed by
Skizz
Cyzyk
USA,
Political / Social,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:00
A man, a ukelele, an idiot for president, and a recording studio...
an open letter to the man that makes many people's lives horrible.
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Moment, A directed by
Bob
Hurst
USA,
Drama,
0,
00:04:00
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Track One: Incomplete directed by
Ricky
Cozzolino
USA,
Music,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:01:00
A blisteringly fast video for the grindcore band the Locust.
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Construction: One directed by
Christine
Hart
USA,
Experimental,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:00
Part of an ongoing exploration of creating personal dialogues and subjective narratives out of cultural debris.
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Monkey Walken: An Intimate Profile directed by
Jason
Woliner
USA,
Comedy / Satire,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:00
Christopher Walken's primate doppelganger displays the woes and pleasures of the Hollywood machine.
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Forced Entry TV State directed by
Christian
Matts
USA,
Political / Social,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:06:00
A deconstruction of America's addiction to news media outlets and violence.
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2008-01-30 Montreal Gazette
By Al Kratina
Movieside Film Festival (2007, Microcinema). I also resolve to increase my attention span, a process not helped by my compulsive looping of the 20 surreal shorts in this collection from Chicago's Movieside Film Festival. Filled with quick, psychotic bursts worthy of a schizophrenic cocaine dealer, films like a series of bizarrely co-opted G.I. Joe public service announcements don't do wonders for my lucidity, either.
| 2008-01-30 comicbookbin.com
By Al Kratina
You might be forgiven for never having heard of the Movieside Short Film Festival. It’s got little to offer in terms of glitzy red carpet photos or Britney Spears crotch shots, as the only celebrities it attracts are the kind that make video store clerks drool and everyone else shrug their shoulders in indifference while renting I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. But horror director George A. Romero, indie darling Jim Jarmusch, and cult filmmaker John Waters, all fans of the festival, can’t possible be wrong. This DVD from Microcinema contains 20 films from the festival, range from the strange to the strange and uncomfortable, though not quite as uncomfortable as that Britney Spears crotch shot.
Knuckleface Jones – Todd Rohal
The longest and possibly the weirdest of the films on this disc, Knuckleface is a primer for what the rest of the collection has in store. It has a linear narrative, provided your train of thought is conducted by a schizophrenic, but explaining what goes on would take longer than the film’s 16 minutes.
Monkey vs. Robot – Nathan Pommer
The title says it all. Essentially a music video for the titular James Kolchalka Superstar song, Monkey vs. Robot has a hypnotic beauty, and also a monkey fighting a robot. Apparently Andy Samberg, the SNL comedian successfully basing a career on the juxtaposition of Jewish middle class with hardcore rap, is the monkey.
Dance Habibi Dance – Usama Alshaibi
Think White Zombie go-go-dancers with Persian flair.
Warplay – Bryan Lefler
Video games don’t make kids kill. They do, however, make them aggressive losers with weight problems, as evidenced by Warplay.
State of the Union – Brian Boyce
When I think of George W. Bush, I don’t necessarily think of him shooting bunnies with his laser mouth on the set of Teletubbies. Or at least, I didn’t before.
0502 – Mark Hejnar
My favourite film in the collection, black and white stock footage of children somehow quickly makes the viewer feel like a murderous pedophile.
And Knowing was Half the Battle – Eric Fensler
These are G.I. Joe public service announcements. With crazy people doing the voices. I have rarely laughed this hard.
Harry Knuckles – Lee Demarbre
A fake trailer for the greatest movie never made, though the fact that kung-fu star Harry Knuckles carries his knapsack like a middle-school science nerd is somewhat unnerving.
Printer Jam - Doug Lussenhop
Office Space mashed-up with Casio keyboard–created techno. Works better than you’d expect.
A Primer for Dental Extraction – Carl Weidemann
Subversively experimental stuff that plays like Stan Brakhage with an oral fixation.
Cabrini Green – Brett Foxwell
A quiet calm in the eye of the storm, classical music plays over the destruction of a condemned building in this short.
30 FPS – Micah Scarpelli
A skate video that reminds me of high school with less Beastie Boys playing in the background.
Grain – Eric Medine
A beautiful mix of animation and video art with elements of Norman McLaren.
Communista – Jim Finn
Soviet communist folk songs juxtaposed with American standards that reminds me why I like neither country.
Damn You Mister Bush – Skizz Cyzyk
Likely the best ukulele-based music video I’ve ever seen.
A Moment – Bob Hurst
A series of mundane moments are expanded visually to warp time and space.
Track One: Incomplete – Ricky Cozzolino
If Aphex Twin liked black metal and hated everything else, this would be his next single.
Construction: One – Christine Hart
I don’t really know what’s going on in this strange animated film, but I know that I am now very sad.
Monkey Walken: An Intimate Portrait – Jason Woliner & James Dean Conklin
Exactly what it sounds like, but so much better.
Forced Entry TV State – Christian Matts
Another effective experimental film, that feels like found poetry created by that talking Internet dolphin from Johnny Mnemonic.
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