Bearded Child Film Festival

1.

Light Speed

 (6 minutes)
-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.

2.

Dollies

 (9 minutes)
-Two baby dolls in solarized vision. Are they staring at us or are we staring at them?

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6pm: In the auditorium

3.

Places and Faces

- a program exploring different ways of seeing and being.

5.

Wanderland

 (24 minutes)  -A lone woman silently roams the city streets as humanity dreamily plays out around her.

6.

Elvis In Pieces

 (5 minutes)
-Elvis Presley, looking for love in a lonely world.

7.

Minot, North Dakota

 (18 minutes)
-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.

8.

Images of a Diary of Waiting

 (23 minutes)
-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.

9.

Repeat Photography and the Albedo Effect

 (8 minutes)
-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.

10.

erase remake

 (7 minutes)
-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.

11.

24 Frames Per Day

 (7 minutes)
 -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.

12.

Every 6 months...

 (9 minutes)
-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.

1hr. 40 min.

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8:00pm:

13.

To Be Regained

 (10 minutes) -An exercise in responsibility and interaction; where natural and artificial landscapes collide.

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8:15pm: Caitlin Horsmon show

14.

Filmmaker In-person!

Caitlin Horsmon is an artist making films, videos, and interactive works that scale the range of “old” and “new” medias. Her time-based work focuses on questions of visual history, pleasure, gender and absence, and her writing on contemporary experimental historiography. She was the director of the “Thaw Festival of Film, Video and New Media” in Iowa City, IA, and now teaches Film & Media Arts at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Works include:

15.

Themes & Variations for the Naked Eye

 (11 minutes)
-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.

16.

Portrait of an Imagined Woman

 (7 minutes)
-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.

17.

Video Calibration

 (2 minutes)
-Made in response to the repressed pleasures of the virtual vagina, Video Calibration uncovers the feminine figure evoked by the visual organization of mirrored videos and reflects on the structuring technology of video playback.

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9:15pm: Jodie Mack Show

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.

18.

Yard Work Is Hard Work

 (28 minutes)
-A musical that wants to be a romantic comedy.
-2D cut-outs + various stop-motion.

19.

Lilly

 (6 minutes, 30 seconds)
-A tragedy explored through photo-negatives.
-Direct/tabletop animation, optical printing, color hand-processing.

20.

Mannequins Harlequin

 (2 minutes 45 seconds)
-A stroboscopic dance party.
-Blue-screen composite.

21.

A Joy

 (3 minutes)
 -Music video for Fourtet’s “A Joy”
 -Direct animation: colored acetate and stained-glass contact paper.

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10:00pm Weird Show

Wild and wacky shorts from another planet

This program is intended for mature audiences only

22.

Three Minute Miracle

 (12 minutes 20 seconds)
-Three Minute Miracle explores the interior landscapes of a fictional world where wolves ride red felt bikes, bears perform dance routines, and gold teeth hold magical powers.

-A young woman struggles for sexual freedom in this dark comedy inspired by French New Wave of the 1960s.

24.

Between 4603 16mm frame

 (2 minutes 30 seconds)
-An experimentation in 16mm film (Painting, scratching, cutting) transferred to digital video and re-edited on a computer.

25.

The Millard Symphony

 (15 minutes)
-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.

26.

Un cadavre Exquis

 (10 minutes)
-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!!

27.

Yellow Fever

 (6 minutes 30 seconds)
-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.

28.

Running Sushi

 (28 minutes)
-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.

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Saturday, Aug. 9

On Installation #1:

29.

“Otto” & “Fluid Study”

 (8 minutes)
-Fluid experiments and the body as canvas.

On Installation #2:

30.

(cinema poetics 3)

 (9 minutes)
-A still image stolen from Vincinte Minnelli’s Some Came Running is gradually saturated with color over a period of nine minutes.

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6pm: In the auditorium

31.

Private Spaces

- personal obsession, confessions, and hidden histories

32.

Tape Film

 (5 minutes)
 -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)
-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)
 -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)  -A poignant, bittersweet look at generational gaps and how each person designs themselves in terms of their own happiness.

36.

Spider House

 (25 minutes)
-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)  -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)
-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)
 -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.

40.

Vom Innen; vom aussen

 (20 minutes)
The director, Albert Sackel, animates his own body with a series of single frames exposed in the film camera.

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8:00pm: “MN show”

New work by Minnesotan artists

41.

Birds at Night (Might Fall)

 (2 minutes)
-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.

42.

Happy

 (9 minutes)
-Found this broken tape in a box of old cassettes at my mom’s. Patched it with a piece of tape, and found the root of “Happy” (I recorded in 1976). Here are extracted memories of a moment from my childhood when I caught this illusive feeling with song.

43.

Hope and the Gateway to Despair

 (14 minutes)
-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.

44.

Full Haus Tour

 (10 minutes 30 seconds)
-Tour footage from Haus Meeting in unlikely spots around the Duluth area.

45.

The Mallory’s Go Black Market

 (13 minutes)
-In this style-minded comedy, a team of Big Apple fashionistas export two suitcases worth of vintage clothing to Russian teenagers in a cursed black market scheme.

46.

Tinnitus

 (12 minutes 20 seconds)
-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.

47.

Thirst

 (8 minutes)
-A vampire is out to get revenge for a premature murder.

48.

Bigfoot Confidential

(10 minutes)

49.

No Heroes

(9 minutes) -Short video made at the University of Wisconsin Superior.

50.

Ruina

(7 minutes) -Short video made at the University of Wisconsin Superior about a man and a lot of stairs.

50.

Bullmoose

 - Grand Rapids, MN

Miscommunication and corrupted transmissions

51.

Opteh 1

 (3 minutes)
-Inspired by Op-Art and the pulsing of its own electronic music score, this is an animated screen-dance of deceptively simple geometric figures.

51a.

Gates of Steel

 4 minutes
-A karoke music video for the Devo song, Gates of Steel.

52.

Wrong Time Capsule

 (3 minutes)
-An animated music video for the band, Deerhoof.

53.

One Last Shock

 (5 minutes 30 seconds)
-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.

54.

Interrogation

 (5 minutes 30 seconds)
-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.

55.

ST/AB

 (3 minutes)
-A fraction of motion stolen from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho interacts with a blood-red rectangle. Frame-rate, vibration, rhythm & saturation at play...

56.

How Mayan Lovers Might Find the Next Life

(4 minutes 51 seconds)
-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.

57.

This Is Box, This Is Machine

 (2 minutes)
-A guideline for living in today’s modern world.

58.

"Charlie Rose" by Samuel Beckett

 (3 minutes 35 seconds)
 -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.

59.

Access of Evil

 (3 minutes 35 seconds)
-A satirical look at the presidency of George W. Bush.

60.

Vote Reagan

 (2 minutes)
-A found footage tribute to Ronald Reagan.

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10:45pm: “peep show”

Risque and randy shorts for a curious culture
This program is intended for mature audiences only

61.

The Origin of Sin

 (3 minutes 15 seconds)
-A montage of historical images of lust and sin, pondering the concept of “original sin”.

62.

I Missed?

 (3 minutes)
-Wait, how does this go again?

63.

Pornographic Apathetic

 (5 minutes 30 seconds)
-Oh, the excitement!

64.

The Passion of Dwight Pryce

 (3 minutes)
-Dwight Pryce’s daily routine takes an unexpected twist.

65.

I Will Call You Marco

 (6 minutes 30 seconds)
-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.

66.

Kill John Wayne

 (6 minutes 30 seconds)
-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.

67.

Touch Me Karaoke

 (4 minutes)
-Mudhoney’s “Touch Me I’m Sick” collides with a 70’s educational film with horrifying (and hilarious) results.

68.

The Philosopher-Villain

 (2 minutes 30 seconds)
-An animated ode to the Marquis de Sade.

69.

Vampyros Lesbos

 (20 minutes)
-A sado-erotic homage to the 1971 Jess Franco film, told in still images.

70.

Lovely Andrea

 (30 minutes)
-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.