8th Annual
Bearded
Child Film Festival
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Wednesday - Saturday, August 13 - 16, 2008
Bedlam Theater
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, August 13
 On
Installation:
1.
Terminal
(3 minutes)
experimental by Miriam Needoba,
Vancouver, BC, CANADA
-This video marks the end of the line for one blue, cat-like pinata.
Sound by “coin gutter” http://www.coingutter.ca
6:00pm: “MN show”
New work by Minnesotan artists
 2.
Birds at Night (Might Fall)
(2 minutes)
by Bridget Riversmith, Duluth, MN
-Fatally young, asleep at the wheel, and heading over a cliff to the
sea, a boy and girl share a near-life experience as they turn into
birds. An animated short
illustrating the curious, dreamlike bossa nova of its namesake composed
and performed by
Bill Reichelt and Cheer Up Poems.
 3.
Hope and the Gateway to Despair
(14 minutes)
by R C Johnson, Duluth, MN
-A meditation piece. Part biography, part political history. Every
manifestation of creative work is a means of communication which allows
one spirit to
recognize another, so in the end, everything is language.
4.
Full Haus Tour
(10 minutes 30 seconds)
music documentary by Luke Holden
& Salah
A. Xanadu, Duluth, MN
-Tour footage from Haus Meeting in unlikely spots around the Duluth
area.
 5.
Tinnitus
(12 minutes 20 seconds)
narrative by Schuyler Tsuda,
Minneapolis, MN
-A young man believes his father will die of tinnitus. With a knack for
DIY machine building and his father’s trust, he races to find a cure.
6.
Thirst
(8 minutes)
by Ron Johnson, Minneapolis
-A vampire is out to get revenge for a premature murder.
7:00pm: Best of the Bearded Child, 2001-2007
In case you missed the past festivals in Gra nd Rapids, here is your
chance to experience the past with a few of our favorites from the last
seven
years! This program will be announced at a later date. To
request a
film,
email: bcfilmfest@gmail.com.
Thursday, August 14
On Installation:
 7.
Light Speed
(6 minutes)
experimental by Karen Johannesen,
Chicago. IL
-Time is a measure of space. A unit of time. Quantum
particles
inexplicably simultaneous. Flickers of a shadow, syncopated, a beat,
rhythm,
pattern, repeating. Energy. Single frame, magnetic gravitational force
field speeding at
the rate of light. Light Speed.
6:00pm:
Places and Faces
A program exploring different ways of seeing and being
8.
Wanderland
(24 minutes)
by Katarina Schroeter, NETHERLANDS
-A lone woman silently roams the city streets as humanity dreamily
plays out around her.
 9.
Elvis In Pieces
(5 minutes)
by Kate Pelling, UNITED KINGDOM
-Elvis Presley, looking for love in a lonely world.
10.
Minot, North Dakota
(18 minutes)
by Angelika Brudniak & Cynthia
Madansky, AUSTRIA/USA
-How do people get along with the knowledge that they live on an
enormous bomb? A penetrating portrait of a close community, Minot,
nicknamed ‘Magic
City’, is the proud home of a U.S. Air Force base guarding 150 nuclear
missiles buried
underneath the ground.
11.
Images of a Diary of Waiting
(23 minutes)
by Judith Zdesar, AUSTRIA
-A glimpse into the lives of young border guards stationed along an
untraveled road on the Austria/Hungarian border. Home video shot by the
guards themselves
over a period of several long winter months of isolation.
 12.
Repeat Photography and the Albedo Effect
(8 minutes)
by Caroline Koebel, Brooklyn, NY
-This work intermixes unlikely suspects, including Martin Scorsese’s
Raging Bull, NPR reportage, and British artist Katie Paterson’s audio
project, to
reflect upon the impact of global warming on glaciers.
13.
erase remake
(7 minutes)
by Jan Machacek & Martin
Siewert, AUSTRIA
-A camera module, mounted inside of a scanner, renders precise
close-ups and pans of its surroundings. The picture source
scans the body of the performer,
placing it in a charged field between live-action, recordings, and
reproduction.
14.
24 Frames Per Day
(7 minutes)
by Sonali Gulati, Richmond, VA
-24 Frames Per Day was conceived by combining 24 photographs taken each
day, over a period of 9 months. A daily meditation by the filmmaker
photographing
the front door of her
home makes this a very personal & political film that
raises important questions about immigration, cultural stereotypes, and
diasporic identity.
 15.
Every 6 months...
(9 minutes)
by Deniz Berkin, Ottawa, CANADA
-An experimental science fiction film about memories and
loss, set
during a future war. A man is haunted by the past, obsessed with the
present and terrified
of what may happen every six months.
8:00pm:
Dan Anderson Show
Bearded Child founder & director
throws modesty to the wolves
for an hour to present a selection of his own rarely shown short films.
16.
Idle Hours
(11 minutes)
-A super 8mm travelogue shot in Uruguay and Argentina.
17.
Auto Domestication
(10 minutes)
-Primal and restrained forces clash in a personal battle
for self
control.
18.
The Joy of Leisure
(6 minutes)
-A hand-processed color film made in response to the 2004
elections.
19.
On Vacation
(6 minutes)
-Two wealthy businessmen take a leisurely field day through
Middle
America.
20.
Cookies for Satan
(12 minutes)
-A corporate drone is paralyzed by his own subconscious
self-actualization.
9:15pm:
Jodie Mack Show
Filmmaker In-Person!
 Jodie
Mack is a Chicago-based animation artist working in various forms
of cut-out and stop-motion animation. Her films combine a
hyper-extension of
traditional feminine crafts with rhythmic editing and obsessive nuance,
presenting a form of
"radical domesticity" that is completely new and fresh to the film
world.
Tonight’s screening will be her first retrospective of all original
16mm
films.
Works include:
21.
Yard Work Is Hard Work
28minutes
2008
-A musical that wants to be a romantic comedy.
-2D cut-outs + various stop-motion.
22.
Lilly
(6 minutes 30 seconds)
2006
-A tragedy explored through photo-negatives.
-Direct/tabletop animation, optical printing, color
hand-processing.
23.
Mannequins Harlequin
(2 minutes 45 seconds)
2006
-A stroboscopic dance party.
-Blue-screen composite.
24.
A Joy
(3 minutes)
2005
-Music video for Fourtet’s
"A Joy"
-Direct animation: colored acetate and stained-glass contact
paper.
10:30pm: Douglas Steven Hawkinson
Live Spastic Performance
10:40pm: Weird Show
Wild and wacky shorts from another planet
 25.
Je Dis Non Ali
(8 minutes)
by Jim Eshom, Burbank, CA
-A young woman struggles for sexual freedom in this dark comedy
inspired by French New Wave of the 1960s.
26.
Between 4603 16mm frame
(2 minutes 30 seconds)
experimental by Thomas Audissergues
&
Jean-Simon Parent, Girardville, QC,
CANADA
-An experimentation in 16mm film (Painting, scratching, cutting)
transferred to digital video and re-edited on a computer.
 27.
The Millard Symphony
(15 minutes)
by Allan Brown, Montreal, QC, CANADA
-A hypnotic 4-part journey into the individualistic regime of
motivational salesmanship that travels through industrial, pastoral and
institutional landscapes
of catatonic conventionality and cultish capitalism.
28.
Un cadavre Exquis
(10 minutes)
by Volatile Works collective, Montreal,
QC, CANADA
-Adapted from the Surrealist parlor game of the same name, the
Exquisite Corpse or Cadavre exquis manifests itself in the hands of
five Volatile members.
Operating independently over a period of months with only three seconds
of
film/video footage to elaborate upon, each member, in succession
constructed the ‘corpse,’
the sum of our collective monster, piece by piece... it’s alive, Alive!!
 29.
Yellow Fever
(6 minutes 30 seconds)
experimental by Frederick Maheux,
Montreal, QC,
CANADA
-A visual and sonic assault reaching for visceral saturation. A
collision between Japanese pornography and European medical imagery,
this film is an
abstract meditation on colonialist erotica.
30.
Running Sushi
(28 minutes)
by Mara Mattuschka & Chris
Haring, AUSTRIA
-A film made up of dialogue between two people. Steffi and Johnny are
in a running sushi restaurant. The first conversation soon explodes
into a
performance parallel world of unspoken thoughts and emotions. Every
coming sushi evokes a story
from the unconscious repertoire of the chaos of human relationships.
Wish-machines are cranked up, creating grotesque parallel worlds and
extreme situations.
12:00:
Cell Phone
12:30:
Shield Your Eyes
Hacked and bent DIY electronics
& video
Warning: This
performance has been manufactured with machines that may have been used
to process peanuts. Smoking this music has been known to cause cancer
and may be hazardous to your health. The threat level is orange. If at
any time you find yourself nauseated, feel free to avail yourself of
the complementary motion-sickness bag. For the protection of yourself
and those around you, the federal government highly recommends that you
shield your eyes.
Friday, August 15
On Installation:
 31.
Otto
&
Fluid Study
(8 minutes)
by Justin Oakey, St. John’s,
Newfoundland, CANADA
-Fluid experiments and the body as canvas.
6:00pm:
Private Spaces
Personal obsession, confessions, and
hidden histories
32.
Tape Film
(5 minutes)
by Chris Kennedy, San Francisco, CA
 -Made as
an experiment in hand-processing, the film cycles through five
different film stocks and a variety of processing methods. The result
creates
dimensional havoc in the image. The concept of inside and outside is
troubled and the act of
enclosure creates a screen on which to project the filmmaker’s own
image.
 33.
Case Histories in Psychotherapy - Richard: Part II
(8 minutes 30 seconds)
experimental by Tony Gault, Englewood,
CO
-This film follows the progress of Richard, an Everyman who began the
psychotherapeutic process in a previous film, Not Too Much Remember.
34.
Mono a Mono
(5 minutes)
by J. Gluckstern, Boulder, CO
-A formal and personal homage to Spalding Gray, who committed
suicide
in 2004. The filmmaker delivers a monologue as Spalding Gray,
recounting Gray’s
brief encounters with the filmmaker, J. Gluckstern.
  35.
Family Dinner Conversation
(8 minutes)
by Yoshie Sakai, Gardena, CA
-A
poignant, bittersweet look at generational gaps and how each person
designs themselves in terms of their own happiness.
36.
Spider House
(25 minutes)
by Andrew Wilson, San Francisco, CA
-Ray Coombs and his mother are renting out the basement of their
distant relative’s suburban neocolonial home. Ray sneaks about and
borrows their
possessions, notably their video camera. He begins to make a movie
using in-camera editing.
 37.
ZomBees
(5 minutes 20 seconds)
experimental by Fred Wilder, Fullerton,
CA
-A
surreal serendipity into the chaos of man’s folly in genetic
engineering and the Colony Collapse Disorder (C.C.D.) that has become a
worldwide plague,
devastating the honeybee population of the entire planet.
http://www.myspace.com/zombiebees
 38.
In the Sun Room
(13 minutes 30 seconds)
experimental by Ed Rankus, Chapel Hill,
NC
-A chamber drama set in the confines of an apartment’s sunroom, this is
a work that explores dualities: conductor/performer, desire/revulsion,
constriction/release, among others.
 39.
Visions of Wasted Time
(4 minutes 30 seconds)
documentary/personal by Neil Ira
Needleman, Katonah, NY
-A personal piece reflecting on the filmmaker’s relationship with his
father through the use of narration and single-take images of decaying
human forms.
7:30pm:
Organic Compounds
 A relationship
between human
and nature
40.
To Be Regained
(10 minutes)
by Zach Iannazzi, Amherst, MA
-An exercise in responsibility and interaction; where natural and
artificial landscapes collide.
 41.
Themes & Variations for the Naked Eye
(11 minutes)
by Caitlin Horsmon, Kansas City, MO
-This film borrows objects from still life and transforms them through
the use of the extreme close-up. A curious character evokes sensuality
through touch,
taking the audience through excavations of a series of bodies and
creating a
reflection on synchresis, objecthood, and interiority.
All at once beautiful, fragile, and gross.
42.
Portrait of an Imagined Woman
(7 minutes)
by Caitlin Horsmon, Kansas City, MO
-A meditation on expanded portraiture, Portrait of an Imagined Woman
with Totems and Domestic Detail cobbles a feminine figure through
glimpses of the
animal and the lived - predator, prey, and extreme close-ups of
domestic epiphanies.
43.
Vom Innen; vom aussen
(20 minutes)
by Albert Sackel, AUSTRIA
-The director, Albert Sackel, animates his own body with a series of
single frames exposed in the film camera.
8:30pm:Matthew Silver Show
Filmmaker In-person!
Matthew Silver is a New Jersey based filmmaker and performance artist,
whose violent absurdism and unparalleled intensity make him a unique
figure in
today’s underground film scene. His work is unrelenting; a
representation of a real world
gone mad. Tonight’s retrospective includes a brief live performance
before the
films.
Works include:
44.
Radiation Can Give You Brain Tumors
(15 minutes)
45.
Mother and Son
(15 minutes)
46.
Over Modulated Marriage
(15 minutes)
47.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
(30 minutes)
10:15pm:
peep show
Risque and randy shorts for a curious
culture
48.
Video Calibration
(2 minutes)
by Caitlin Horsmon, Kansas City, MO
49.
The Origin of Sin
(3 minutes 15 seconds)
experimental/ found footage by Shakrah
Yves,
Berkley, CA
-A montage of historical images of lust and sin, pondering the concept
of "original sin".
50.
I Missed?
(3 minutes)
by Rachel Wolther & Jason
Klorfein, Evanston, IL
-Wait, how does this go again?
 51.
Pornographic Apathetic
(5 minutes 30 seconds)
comedy by T. Arthur Cottam, Burbank, CA
-Oh, the excitement!
52.
The Passion of Dwight Pryce
(3 minutes)
by Max Margulies, Philadelphia, PA
-Dwight Pryce’s daily routine takes an unexpected twist.
53.
I Will Call You Marco
(6 minutes 30 seconds)
comedy by Tyrus Cukavac &
Matthew
Zellman, Brooklyn, NY
-When an idealistic young woman’s boyfriend cheats with a clown hooker,
she decides to build the perfect lover: a super-suave anthropomorphic
vibrator.
Eventually, though, she learns that real relationships are powered by
more than AA
batteries... they also require forgiveness and understanding.
54.
Kill John Wayne
(6 minutes 30 seconds)
animation by Vivian Wong, New York, NY
-John Wayne meets his own Heart of Darkness. In reference to the 1968
propaganda film, The Green Berets, that he made in response to the
Vietnam War,
John Wayne engages in a series of tribulations that involve
demonstrations of
masculinity, auto-eroticism, seduction, castration, and necrophilia.
55.
Touch Me Karaoke
(4 minutes)
by Roger Bebee, Gainesville, FL
-Mudhoney’s "Touch Me I’m Sick" collides with a 70s educational film
with horrifying (and hilarious) results.
 56.
The Philosopher-Villain
(2 minutes 30 seconds)
animation by R. Muff, location unknown
-An animated ode to the Marquis de Sade.
 57.
Vampyros Lesbos
20min.
by Mathew Saliba, Montreal, CANADA
-A sado-erotic homage to the 1971 Jess Franco film, told in still
images.
58.
Lovely Andrea
(30 minutes)
by Hito Steyerl, AUSTRIA
-Hito Steyerl travels to Japan looking for a photo series that she
posed for in 1987 as a "rope bondage" model. She encounters a wide
array of experts and
authorities in the Japanese bondage arts field in a nearly impossible
search for the lost
photo.
12:00:
Texar
Live improvisational sounds-capes and
film collage
Darren Brown (Boy Dirt Car & Impact Test), electronics and
samples.
Rick McCollum (MoonMaan & Afghan Whigs), guitar and theremin.
D . Marty Peterson is Transportation Captain.
 12:30am:
Ice Volt
Live video and noise
ICE VOLT is Bryce Beverlin II's primary noise music project,
incorporating visual noise through the use of video and stroboscopic
elements. recordings
have been released on North American Hardcore, Umbrella Noize, Roil
Noise, and
Spongetheory. For more information please visit:
insidesmusic.com/icevolt
Saturday, August 16
On Installation:
60.
(cinema poetics 3)
(9 minutes)
by Jake Barningham, Chicago, IL
-A still image stolen from Vincinte Minnelli’s Some Came Running is
gradually saturated with color over a period of nine minutes.
6:00pm: Subliminal Messaging
Miscommunication and corrupted
transmissions
61.
Opteh 1
(3 minutes)
by Dan Monceaux, Coromandel Valley,
AUSTRALIA
-Inspired by Op-Art and the pulsing of its own electronic music score,
this is an animated screen-dance of deceptively simple geometric
figures.
61a.
Gates of Steel
4 minutes
music video by Karl Lind, Portland, OR
-A karoke music video for the Devo song, Gates of Steel.
62.
Wrong Time Capsule
(3 minutes)
by Martha Colburn, NETHERLANDS/USA
-An animated music video for the band, Deerhoof.
 63.
One Last Shock
(5 minutes 30 seconds)
experimental/found footage by Adam
Paradis,
Boston, MA
-An assemblage from a collection of 16mm educational and institutional
media. One Last Shock is a confrontational look into media use and
manipulation.
Part of an ongoing series which explores how the eye sees time-based
constructions.
 64.
Interrogation
(5 minutes 30 seconds)
experimental by Adam Trowbridge, River
Forrest, IL
-Seizing vocalization and movements, baseless, chaotic patterns rising
slightly above the noise level, they are misfires of neurons and
failure of
communication, passing through the interrogation structure.
 65.
ST/AB
(3 minutes)
by Jake Barningham, Chicago, IL
-A fraction of motion stolen from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho interacts
with a blood red rectangle. Frame-rate, vibration, rhythm &
saturation at play...
66.
How Mayan Lovers Might Find the Next Life
(4 minutes 51 seconds)
experimental/destroyed video files by
Evan Meaney, Iowa City, IA 
-An
exploration of the Mayan myth of the Celibas tree; the Earthly
connection between this world and the next - where dead lovers wait for
their counterparts
so the journey may be made together. This video employs the destruction
and
recombination of key frames within a digital file to uncover what is
hidden between the
binary code.
67.
This Is Box, This Is Machine
(2 minutes)
by Jim Olson, Victoria, BC, CANADA
-A guideline for living in today’s modern world.
 68.
Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett
(3 minutes 35 seconds)
experimental by Andrew Filippone Jr.,
Forrest
Hills, NY
 -Something
has happened to PBS favorite "Charlie Rose". The erudite
conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd
world where
illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule.
69.
Access of Evil
(3 minutes 35 seconds)
animation by Clyde Forrester, Denver, CO
-A satirical look at the presidency of George W. Bush.
 70.
Vote Reagan
(2 minutes)
by Charles Chadwick, Los Gatos, CA
-A found footage
tribute to Ronald Reagan.
 71.
i!
(20 minutes)
by Nate Callahan, St. Louis, MO
-A dazzling array of special effects and plasmatic patterns bring you
into the surreal surroundings of fictitious science. Evil scientists,
monsters and
bizarre machines are peppered throughout this manasory of optical and
sound stimulation.
Strobing color pulses will cause seizures for those with epilepsy.
7:30 Candy Eye
Factory
Filmmakers In-person!
Raised on a steady diet of fashion magazines and music
videos,
Minneapolis filmmakers JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees met as
11-year-old schoolmates in the late 1980's and quickly formed a
friendship founded
in cinematic collaboration. Funneling their style-minded, angst-fueled
lives into a series of
quirky, female-focused short films, the duo founded their award winning
CandyEyeFactory.com video label in 2003. Weaving graphics, text, and
self-penned pop music
into their sweetly sassy work, The Factory’s lo-fi films have screened
in
festivals and museums around the globe.
Works include:
72.
Betsy Benson
& the Bowtie Boy(s)
(10 minutes)
 -A
punky teenager
adapts her favorite children’s book about wicked
chocolate Easter bunnies into a lo-fi, feel-good film warning against
the dangers
of self doubt in this candy-colored flick.
73.
Digits
(8 minutes)
-A mockumentary/music-video hybrid, Digits tracks
the rise and fall of
two finger-giving Euro terrorists and their soda-pop sucking foe.
 74.
Brite
(24 minutes)
-Set in 1980s suburbia, two foolish suburban girls
stumble into a
suspicious scheme to become Bollywood stuntwomen in this blackest of
comedies.
 75.
The Epicene
(4 minutes)
-Famed lovers Bruno and Filippa vanish for 300
nights to conceive the
most alluring creation the world had ever known in this Greek-chic
movie
myth.
9:00pm: Potter-Belmar Labs present
76.
Fortune
Audience-Participatory Live Cinema from
San Antonio, TX
-What does the future hold? What follows us from the past? What more
can
we learn about the present? Multimedia artists and performers,
Potter-Belmar
Labs, will answer these questions and more in their
audience-participatory live cinema
performance, "Fortune."
Potter-Belmar Labs is Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens,
collaborating artists since 1999, with internationally exhibited work
including live cinema
performance, single-channel video, and installation art.
10:15:
The Indomitable Human Spirit
Brent Coughenour, Milwaukee, WI
The Indomitable Human Spirit is a live audio-visual performance for
thumb piano, Guitar Hero video game controller and computer.
Incorporating a broad array of
audio and video analysis and synthesis strategies, the piece creates a
hinted and
tenuous relationship between sounds and images, between abstract and
concrete,
between performance gesture and software response.
11:00:
It Came from the 60s!!!
A wild collection of 16mm dumpster dives
curated from Minnesota high school dumpsters
Films include:
77.
Numbers
-A long-lost numbers nightmare from JAN SVANKMAJER!!!
78.
Sergeant
-Psychotropic anti-war children’s animation!!!
79.
Help! My Snowman is Burning Down
-Surrealist mindplay madness!!!
80.
Run
-Cryptic consumerist paranoia!!!
12:00: Panic and Terror!!!
A midnight assault of nightmares and
sadomasochism
81.
Playing With Dolly
3 minutes
experimental by Jose Antonio Vicenty,
Bronx, NY
-A hairbrush... Scissors... A drill.... A knife... A doll gets tortured
by a devil-masked kid.
82.
VCR
6 minutes
horror by Justin Oakey, St, John's,
Newfoundland, CANADA
-A young man discovers his VCR eats more than just videotapes.
83.
Broken Flesh Ecstasy
16 minutes
horror by Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt and
Frederick Maheux, Montreal, CANADA
-The prey becomes the predator on a quest for murder-fueled orgasm.
12:30: Jason Wade presents
A truly unwholesome experience
Local filmmaker and member of FAGGOT takes the stage to spread the
wonders of noise, stag, burritos, and AIDS.
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