Flickerings 2005 Featured Screenings Film Showcase Seminars & Workshops Schedule
Film Showcase

Our fifth Flickerings Film Showcase features an outstanding program of works in many styles and genres by filmmakers at a variety of levels. This year's shorts program includes both entries and curated works, including one of our Select Shorts series.


FRIDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM

MCSD
, Carl Rust 2:00
My Cornerstone Documentary.

Blackroom
, Sara M. Lindberg & Ginna Lauré 13:00
Hallucinogenic chronicle of a man’s struggle to remember the past.

Super-Anon
, Stephen H. Plitt 10:00
A support group for the families and close relatives of superheroes.

Small, Beautiful Hands
Elizabeth Ladd Lee 28:00
A woman’s psychological journey through flashbacks of her childhood towards a reclaiming of innocence.

Why Are You So Sad?
, Heidi Phillips 7:00
Chemicals used to process footage of a winter walk create shapes making for a different kind of journey.

FRIDAY, 10:00-11:00 AM

Bridge
, Sean Garrity 2:30
People walk across a bridge.

Juliet at 2:13, Kevin Nikkel 9:00
He’s not the greatest Romeo, but he’d better learn fast if he wants to keep his Juliet.

Virginal Young Blondes
, Mark L. Feinsod 16:34
An escort mistakes an unemployed 20something for a trust-funder, and shares more than she’d intended.

lonesole
, Ja Miller, Nathaniel Su 6:24
Even when one is far from love, Love is not far from them.

two minus one
, Kevin Nikkel :46
A man and a woman. Then just a man after a woman.

Counting, John Campbell 6:00
An autobiographical piece that touches briefly on a number of personal events and themes, each tied to the childhood act of counting.

Cigarettes
, Patrick Payne 19:00
A glimpse into the life of two people living out the day to day monotony of the suburbs and searching for significance within it through a relationship formed around a habit.

SATURDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM

Postcard from Ireland, Brent Finnegan 52:00
Two American brothers take a road trip of discovery through the Emerald Isle.

The Second Coming, Brett David Potter 7:00
Yeats’ terrifying visionary poem is re-interpreted as a sci-fi cultural apocalypse.

SATURDAY, 10:00-11:00 AM

Before, Hans Stiritz 5:00
Old family travel footage is used to consider how cherished memories can be affected by world events.

City Beings (Nadine), Bok Joong-Eun 12:00
The first of three stories that explores the dissonance of modern existence. A young woman must confront the death of her sister four years after her departure.

People Can Change, Mike Hertenstein 5:00
The weight of history – especially recent history – bears down on a traveler who may have already seen too much of the world.

Baggage, Kevin Nikkel 6:00
What percentage of travelers with Canadian flags on their baggage are American? Does the average American soldier in Iraq feel like a tourist?

The Salt Pillar, Daniel Eskin 20:00
In the weeks following his liberation, a German Jew wanders across the vast and dangerous Polish countryside as he makes his long and somber trek back home to the once peaceful village of his youth.

Like Twenty Impossibles, Annemarie Jacir 17:00
In one more example of “Outlaw Cinema,” a Palestinian film crew is hassled by the Border Patrol at an unexpected checkpoint. (Palestine/USA, 2003) Part of the Select Shorts series.

SUNDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM

American Cafe, Jenn Swank 19:00
A young woman explores memory and the relationship between people and time through her conversations and her filmmaking.

Black & Blue: Concerning Faith, Love & Bar-B-Que, Kyle Merryman 6:00
Excerpt of a feature in which young adults sort through their baggage of inspiration and hypocrisy.

How Lasts the Daylight, Psalm Swarr and Suhail Stephen 19:00
Three characters struggle to reconcile their relationship to the beauty and transience of time.

Blush, Christopher J. Sherman and Andrew W. Mahler 19:00
A young woman confronts the dominating culture around her by systematically stripping her life of that which clouds her identity.

SUNDAY, 10:00-11:00 AM

Flesh, Stephen Zumbrun 5:12
A girl tries to deal with her hurtful parents. Her only perceived outlet is self-mutilation.

Flickering Blue, Harper Philbin 23:00
A lonely, reclusive old man turns off his TV and ventures out into the city.

Riff Raff, Rob Haacke 3:00
A beautiful look at street life.

The Show, Bevan Klassen 5:00
Now playing: a cold-hearted landlord reaping what he’s sown

I Wish, Tasha Vinci 8:50
Keely lives in a trailer park with her worst nightmare, her Dad. One night she is given an opportunity to change her life.

On a Sunday, Bevan Klassen 16:00
In a 1950s Canadian prairie town, a son’s long-time desire to attend a church camping retreat with his father unearths a long-standing grudge held by a controlling church leader.