Pull over at the next exit and you’re gonna find sexy cowboys, donut eating, and black velvet paintings. The dreamy Super 8 landscape attests to how weird and alluring roadside America can be.
Filter Films
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Two girls going through a break-up try to avoid bitter drama and embrace the sweetness of why they liked each other in the first place. Through stop-motion animation their hearts burst and candy tears fill the screen to perform a sad crazy dance.
Candy Kisses
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Some people are too attached to their televisions. This film uses photocopies to animate one girl’s intimate afternoon with her TV set. As the world around her explodes with excitement, she remains plugged into the main drain. This is a love letter to a girl and the boob tube.
TV Did This to Me
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An historic film, set in the 16th century. There are two characters, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and Irbahim the Makbul, his favoured one. Ibrahim, as the chief caretaker of the royal chambers, comes into the room where the Sultan is awaiting him and brings the neccessary material for foot washing. The royal feet are washed and the toenails cut. These functions are practiced as a silent homo-erotic ceremony. History in “Makbul” is subjectively read. “Makbul” is a film about power and passion. It aims at questioning power. Who is more powerful, the sultan or the slave that he loves? How far can one go in lowering oneself to hurt the beloved and thus have complete control over him? Where is the line that separates ambition and passion?
Makbul – His Favoured One
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Alone on an island, a childlike man is haunted by the shadows, reflections and imprints of his own body, thus beginning the descent from innocence to madness.
Island
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WALK/ DON’T WALK/ WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A musical stroll along Christopher Street.
NY ‘NY ‘n why not
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A short clay-animated film which takes a humorous look at the phenomenon of Social Darwinism. The arbitrariness of the selection process becomes evident as three different characters are selected for or against, on the basis of quite dubious criteria. The ubiquitous hand of Darwin deals summarily with each character.
Eve-olve!
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A comic farce about Yasmeen Siddiqui, a young Muslim woman. She has just written her first novel and can’t understand why no less than fifty-nine publishers would reject a romantic epic like “The Unquenched Wench of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.”
Death Threat
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Set in the once-utopia of Brasilia, “Vacancy” looks out at a world where personality is no longer possible.
Vacancy
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Rescued from the filmmaker’s storage loft, this early Hoffman film is an allegory of modern man, journeying into an urban electronic maze, seeking human contact in a landscape of store mannequins and disco dancers.
Freeze-Up
