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Bearded Child Film Festival
Myles Reif Performing Arts Center
Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Screening Schedule
Friday and Saturday, August 8 and 9, 2003
Friday, Aug 8
7pm- MAIN PROGRAM #1
1. Cinema Slideshow (7:00) 
Animation by Jay Barba and Brian Farrelly
Astoria, NY-Just a little something to warm you up...
2. Northern Vignettes (15:00)
Documentary by Luke Taylor Minneapolis, MN-In
August of 2002, filmmakers Eric Dela Cruz, Jothan Sargent, and Luke Taylor traveled
to the prestigious "Bearded Child Film Festival". This is their story.
3. The Devil Makes Her Own Dessert (8:00)
Experimental Narrative by Thea Faulds Toronto,
CANADA-This video explores the changing aesthetics of rock 'n' rock
as it moves from analog to digital culture. The devil decides she must infuse
rebellion back into rock 'n' roll in a new form. Her answer is to make a delicious
dessert, using the cells from Joey Ramón, to re-infest consumers with the rock
'n' roll gene.
4. Famous Irish Americans (8:00)
Historical Perspective by Roger Bebee Gainesville,
FL-This one is about Shaq O'Neal. Really.
5. Where Is There Room? (7:00)
Experimental Documentary by Sonali Gulati, Byron Karabatsos,
and Antonio Paez Philadelphia, PA-This film explores an
Indian woman's journey to find relief after her mother's death. Rather than using
a conventional narrative structure, it relies on environments, landscapes, light
and sounds to convey her feeling of loss.
6. Wedding Nigun for Boruch and Menucha (6:00) 
Experimental Documentary by Neil Ira Needleman
Katonah, NY-A fleet and festive look at a Hassidic Jewish wedding
ceremony and simcha (party). The filmmaker presents his visual responses
to the Hebrew nigun (song) by looping and layering video footage. Although silent,
your eyes can hear the rhythms of joy. Prayer sets
the steady pulse that grows to a sacred-orgasmic climax.
7. Pisser (2:00)
Epic by John Allan Cambridge, MA-A
brief philosophical inquiry into the meaning of human existence.
8. Dissolve (15:00)
Experimental Found Footage by Aaron Valdez
Austin, TX-A meditative found film exploring the impermanence of being,
"Dissolve" is a continuous, rhythmic transition through time and place,
beginnings and endings. Removing the cinematic dissolve from its traditional role
as a transitional element, the filmmaker employs it as the film's basic building
block. Recurring motifs of transportation, the natural world, and the mundane
activities of everyday life emerge and collapse throughout the film, underscoring
its themes of renewal and regeneration.
9. Bataille (7:00)
Experimental by Nicolas Provost BELGIUM-Split-screen
experimentation using fight footage from Akiro Kurosawa's "Rashomon".
Music by Autechre.
10. Yes? Oui? Ya? (4:00)
Found Footage by Thomas Draschan AUSTRIA-This
delightfully dreamy film is put together using material from the filmmaker's personal
archive of some 500 films. Guaranteed to make you smile.
11. Requiem For A Chicken (10:00)
Action by Luke Morton San Diego, CA-Pocking
fun at popular cinema (Matrix, Tarintino films, kung-fu), this is the story a
man who, "gets greedy with money, wants it for himself."
12. Bonus! In The Red (4:00)
Comedyby Lucy Weismann New York, NY
Honorable Mention, 2002 Festival (Not in competition.)
9pm- Main Program #2
13. Automatic (7:00)
Experimental by Josef Dabernig/ G.R.A.M.
AUSTRIA14. I Was a Teenage Gangmember's Initiation
(12:00)
Experimental Narrative by Danny Perez Brooklyn,
NY-A man bikes home from work and encounters two conspicuously dressed
muggers. A dental tragedy ensues. This is the filmmaker's personal traumatic experience
told from a different perspective. (And believe it or not, it's damn funny.)
15. Skeleton Rag (2:00)
Experimental Animation by Lucinda Luvaas Hemet,
CA-A dream sequence which deals with a Christmas visit to Death Valley,
and the war in Iraq. This is a short segment from "Running Through History/Part
Three".
16. Fast Film (14:00)
Animated Found Footage
by Virgil Widrich AUSTRIA/ LUXEMBOURG-A
woman is kidnapped, and her lover sets off to save her. A dramatic rescue begins,
leading to the center of the Earth and the enemy's headquarters. The catch is
that the entire film is animated from over 300 different films produced over the
course of film history. Must be seen to believe.
17. Going Back Home (1:00)
Found Footage by Louise Bourque Malden, MA-Turmoil
of unsheltered childhood: the dwelling as self.
18. The Manipulator and the Subservient (11:00) 
Experimental Narrative by Matthew Saliba Montréal,
CANADA-The closest thing to "surrealism" on the menus this
evening.
19. Gas 'N Fuel Employee Training Video #4A: Makin' It Happen!
(15:00)
Comedy
by Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher St. Paul, MN20.
Tango and Dervish (15:00)
Found Footage Manipulation by Neil Ira Needleman
Katonah, NY-In the mid-1980's, Neil Ira Needleman stole a collection
of unwatched videos from his advertising agency. They were tapes of old "focus
group" meetings that were so mundane, nobody even bothered turn off the camera
after the meeting. This is an episode from Neil's "Unfocused" series,
a reworking of those forgotten tapes, in which the group members suddenly put
on their dancing shoes and boogie down. 
21. Gestalt (5:00)
Experimental Computer Animation by Thorstein Fleisch
Berlin, GERMANY- 4 dimensional quaternionic fractals are visualized
by projecting them into 3 dimensional space. This complex experiment with math
and geography took the filmmaker two years to complete.
22. Mas Fuerte (16:00) 
Experimental Documentary by Thorstein Fleisch
Berlin, GERMANY*Offensive language.
-Three friends on a mission to morocco. They travel by car. It is a spiritual
journey for them. After maturing through traveling they perform an act of liberation.
23. Papillon D'Amour (4:00)
Experimental by Nicolas Provost, BELGIUM-Provost's
second Rashomon experiment. It is advised that you relieve your bowls before this
film explodes on the screen this evening. After the one-eyed Cyclops stares
it's piercing eye into your soul, you may lose them in a heartbeat.
24. Experimental music by Ian Stenlund and
Mikko Errikila of Grand Rapids. (Used to be on Saturday)
25. 11:30pm- Midnight Show #1 Sex, Death, and Vacuum Cleaners
This program includes the cleverest, funniest, and most offensive films shown
at this year's festival. **Due to the graphic nature and general rudeness (nudeness?)
of these films, this program is for mature audiences only.
26. Losing Your Cherry (10:00)
Found Footage and Animation by Jay Barba and
Brian Farrelly Astoria, NY *-An educational film from the late
1950's where an animated fruit pie helps guide young boys into the scary but thrilling
world of adult sexuality.
27. Natasha (9:00) 
Animation by Signe Baumane New York, NY *-Natasha
is a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance.
28. TitBit (4:00)
Found Footage by Janene Knox New York,
NY-Watch closely. The cameraman says to the editor: "Check this
out. I think that one chick bit the other one's tit!" Largely unedited "found
footage" with enhanced sound and image. A moment of jouissance (?) between
two friends or lovers, somewhere on a dance floor in New Jersey, c. 1988.
29. The Year Christmas Almost Wasn't (10:00) 
Animated Found Footage by Jay Barba and Brian Farrelly,
Astoria, NY-Santa is forced to cancel Christmas after he learns the
shocking truth behind all the children of the world losing interest in toys...
that is until Rudolph once again saves the day.
30. Five Fucking Fables (7:00)
Animation by Signe Baumane New York, NY-"This
film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out of me, totally uncensored unfiltered
ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done- usually it is more of a
controlled process. I let myself free to express, and the result is these 5 surreal
bizarre stories." -Signe Baumane
31. Love and Death at the Romp (29:00) 
Underground Comedy by Robert Flanagan
New York, NY*Powerful graphic images.
-Zaza receives an invitation to a late night debauchery where inhibitions are
stripped away. Encountering the demons of her unconscious, she is tricked into
killing her uptight fiancé, Tim. After he is resurrected as a Rock n' Roll
stallion, the party explodes!
Saturday, Aug. 9
32. 5pm- MAIN PROGRAM #3
33. Rich (84:00) 
Feature Rock Mockumentary by Darrell D. Collett
Highlands Range, CO-Rich is a musical genius. Unfortunately, things
don't always come easy for our chain-smoking friend. From a manager who suddenly
loses his hearing whenever convenient (like when asked about stealing from Rich's
wallet), to running for his life after an ill-planned trip to Burma, this film
recounts Rich's career from the late-70's to the present.
34. Radiant Emanators (19:00)
Experimental Performance Video by David Finkelstein
Brooklyn, NY-A meditation on the effects of written language on our
collective consciousness, presented in the form of an illuminated manuscript.
7pm- Best of the Pikes Peak International Film Festival
A selection of the
more experimental and bizarre works from the Colorado festival.
7:30pm- Minnesota-made Films
A wide range of films from the state of Minnesota.
35. The Kiss (30:00)
Comedy by Max Page with Ben Anderson-Bauer Cohasset,
MN-A boy seeks a kiss, plays mini-golf.
36. Monster Truck Demo (5:00)
Company Promo by Mike Nead Minneapolis, MN37.
Grimnarschnar (10:00)
Comedy by Jesse Holcomb Minneapolis, MN38.
Everything You Need (3:00)
Animation by Luke Holden and Sam Liberto Bemidji,
MN-Punk rock sharpie animation recounts a journey to the Southdale
mall. From the writers of "Detrimental Information".
39. LSD (0:45)
Educational Cartoon by Madeline McCarty, Plymouth,
MN-A video created to show 6th graders the danger of LSD.
40. Mostly Silent Movie (25:00)
Action by Seth Marty and Mike Ryan, Grand Rapids,
MN-There's always a hero. There's always a damsel. And, of course,
there's always a villain. The villain always changes the damsels status to "in
distress" whereupon the hero always saves her, and they live happily ever
after. A Classic story for the new age.
41. Abstractions of Dreams and Memories (19:00)
Experimental Music Video by Ryan Rapsys Duluth,
MN-Entering the mind of the average college student on morning, we
see his thoughts in a chaotic stream of consciousness (or sub-consciousness) form.
Movements: I. Transport, II. Some Days, III. Stress, IV. Release, V. Processes
Note: some of the fast moving images and fast editing may be disorienting. If
you are sensitive to fast changes in visual stimuli, please use discretion in
viewing.
42. 9:30- Local Experimental Music
43. Electronic composition by Ryan Rapsys, music
major from UMD.
44. Used to be Experimental music by Ian Stenlund
and Mikko Errikila of Grand Rapids.
45. 10:30pm- Midnight Show #2 Madness and Mayhem
-The wildest and craziest
films we can find.
46. Miss Edmonton Teen Burger 1983 in: It's Party Time! (18:00)
Comedy by Amy Lockhart, Vancouver, CANADA-Miss
Edmonton Teen Burger 1983 is committed to reliving her glory days in Edmonton
through her revolting oversized baby. A birthday party soon develops, which
brings with it a whirlwind of vagrant party games, magic cake, vomit, and
dancing mice. A complete and utter riot!
47. Miss Edmonton Teen Burger 1983 in: Your Eternal (7:00)
Comedy by Amy Lockhart, Vancouver, CANADA-Miss
Teen Burger graces our screens again. This time she must battle the deviant pull
of the three evil princesses.
48. id (10:00)
Nightmare by Mara Mattuschka, AUSTRIA-Mimi
Minus on the escalator of horror!
49. Flesh Orgy of the Zombie Totem (14:00) 
Exploitation by James W. Harris Rydal,
GA-A professor steals a fabled zombie totem from Amazon natives. He
is plunged into a depraved maelstrom of blood, horror, sexual perversion, soul-death
and mind control. Innocent and guilty alike are trapped in an abnormal cesspool
of twisted degenerate mire. More real than reality itself!!! Edited completely
in-camera, and directed by a member of Alabama's first know punk rock band (Last
Exit, 1979-1980)
50. Eat My Dust- A Fairy's Tail (11:35)
Experimental by Glenn Webb Stony Brook,
NY-Fairy Quite Contrary is a servant to the Fairy Queen who rules
Fairyland with an iron wand. Behind Fairy Quite Contrary's resentful servitude
is a burning desire to overthrow the Queen and rule Fairyland. To the victor go
the spoils of Queendom- a golden crown and a sexy mate (or in this case- a Pesky
Rabbit.)
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