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2008 FLICKERINGS FILM SHOWCASE
This year's Showcase presents our most varied and impressive lineup of newer
short films (with the occasional not-so-short-film) yet. From filmmakers at
every level, the program features animation, documentary, fiction and
experimental — and this year from around the world (thanks to our
affiliation with the online film festival submission service, Without-A-Box).
Thanks to all who sent entries (a record 93!) and congratulations to all
those filmmakers whose work was chosen for this year's Film Showcase. We
hope to see many of these filmmakers at the festival. And be sure to click on
the "Entry" link above to learn how you can submit your film for next year.
THURSDAY, 10:00 AM
The Panther and Opossum, John Osborne 4:00
Animated interpretation of an original jazz composition, animal interaction
synchronized to percussive music
Salvation, Dana Burman & Rachel Johnson 20:00
He's lost everything and is looking for answers. Is he willing to accept
them?
A Diamond Forms Under Pressure , Paul O Donoghue 6:00
Real-time audio reactive animation.
Balaton Monks , Mark Edgington 13:00 (Hungary, USA)
Friends help another friend get over a painful breakup by going fishing
and vowing celibacy.
Glimpse, Dustin Grella 9:00
Experimental animation, stream-of-consciousness narrative featuring
painter Willem de Kooning.
THURSDAY, 11:00 AM
Five Minutes to Five Steps, David Lumsden, 6:00 (UK)
A dark horror about a man and his obsession with hunting and cleansing
homeless people.
Silencium, Davor Medurecan & Marko Mestrovic (Croatia) 10:11
Based on a work of Croatian literature, a story for our time of social
disintegration and countries in transition.
Tom's Place, Alex Patsos 7:00
Haunted by the past, Tom lives an endless nightmare, each night revisiting
his deepest, darkest fears.
My Memories, Jacquie Schnabel 2:58
Journey to find a cultural New Orleans Identity as the Katrina memories
dissolve in the waters of time.
Bishmalachooga, Aaron B. Smith & Rik Swartzwelder 1:34
Blind butcher wields his meat cleaver in all the wrong places.
princess, Ethan Clarke 7:00
A likely story of an unbreakable friendship between a woman and her
cat — all she needs. Or is it?
Forged, Sarah Gibson 17:00
Documentary about Christian heavy metal, featuring Doug Van Pelt, among
others.
Spider Cookies, Kevin Nikkel 1:30
Baking cookies with dad, two kids face this question: who wants to eat
a cookie with spider guts in it?
FRIDAY, 10:00 AM
Icyizere: Hope, Patrick Mureithi 52:00 (USA, Rwanda)
Documentary on the Healing and Rebuilding our Communities workshops
with perpetrators and survivors of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
FRIDAY, 11:00 AM
Passage, Peter Byrne 7:00
An inquiry into memory, landscape and departure, with streams of imagery
and sound.
Time Machine, Carl Rust 4:32
A video collage / poem about clocks, cameras, memory, kids and vision.
de la tete aux pieds, josie-Anne lemieux 6:00 (Canada)
"From Head to Toe" is a self-portrait done by pixilation and coloration
of the film.
Illuminarium, Rik Swartzwelder 14:00
A man who rises to the top of his career only to find he has lost his
passion.
February Stars, Sean Heyboer 11:00
A young deaf man on his way home to take care of his bed-stricken grandmother
has a chance encounter.
5 Tears, Colin V. Barton 4:00
This all "scratch-on" animation purges the mind of unwanted thoughts.
Afuera (Outside), Florencia Krochick 6:30
A young Argentine immigrant must decide how much she is willing to give
up in order to belong.
SATURDAY, 10:00 AM
Optech 1, Dan Monceaux 3:00
Inspired by Op-Art, an animated screen-dance of deceptively simple geometric
figures.
Raccoon and Crawfish, Terrance Frederick 8:00
Animation based on an Oneida Indian legend.
The Home of Split Pea Soup, Amy Adrion 16:00
Things get worse before they get better when Kelly is stuck for the
night in a sleepy small town.
Hungry God, Sukhada Gokhale-Bhonde 9:00
A reflection on the irony of idol worship.
Kivumvu: Basket Boy, Pacifique NZITONDA (writer Abdul
Karim BAKUNDUKIZE) 12:00 (Burundi)
From the Burundi Film Center's 2007 pilot-project, teaching young people
filmmaking.
L'amie de Zoe, Danny Robashkin 2:00
A story of friendship between children from two different planets.
SATURDAY, 11:00 AM
Evolution, John Osborne 3:00 (Canada)
Experimental animation in which computer-generated patterns evolve according
to a set of rules.
Tuesday, Emily Kathryn Curry 8:49
A man stuck in a mundane routine wakes up to unexpected freedom one
not-so-normal Tuesday.
Bring Me Joy, Debbie Howard 10:00 (UK)
Sophie sees beautiful a white sofa in a shop window, promising the happiness
she craves...
Just a Lawn, Megan Durnford 13:00 (Canada)
Documentary on the dark side of those immaculate, velvety suburban icons
of the "good life."
Madam Bovary's Dishwasher Broke, Jacquie Schnabel.
4:24
When America runs out of oil, how will we get to the Suburbs? What happens
to Soccer moms?
I Just Want to Eat My Sandwich, Julia Radochia 7:00
Susan tries to eat her lunch at her desk but keeps getting interrupted
by her co-workers.
Whirling Dervish, William Fisher 3:00
A little girl reads a letter from the past.
SATURDAY,
7:00 PM
Ztracena dovolena ("Lost Holiday"), Lucie Kralova 84:00
(Czech Republic)
A suitcase containing 22 rolls of undeveloped film discovered in a Swedish
dumpster. This film searches for Chinese tourists in the photos in a
world where every fourth person is Chinese.
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