Friday, June 13th, 2003
7th Annual Summer Series Opening Night
8pm: Music by Tyondai Braxton & Craig Colorusso [details below]
9pm: This is what we mean by short films
11pm: party, including music by Pale Horse and Rider [details below]
This is what we mean by short films.
A short film works fast, takes chances, and shows you things in daring detail. A short film creates a new world, dives into it, and dares you to follow along for a few minutes. There's no set up. No explanation. Just life, peeled open and boiling. And when your working at speeds and temperatures like these, there's a tendency to breakdown and burn. Here then, is our short film show, "Breakdowns: Sexual, Occupational and Universal."
HolidayW. Clay (18:30)
The first film of the year is fittingly a movie funded in part by the Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund, a beautifully bizarre metaphysical detective story which very likely contains the power to control life and death in the universe. And all we can tell you is, "tesnyatenotekeo."
Our Very First Sex Tape Amy Talkington (9:10)
Amy Talkington (On the Train, Rooftop 6/27/99) continues her work playing with clever camera technique, and in this film a married couple set out to make a kinky sex tape, but everything comes out wrong.
Martina and PerezJeanne Holznecht (3:00)
When your heart gets broken, life may not be worth living, especially if you're a cockroach.
Pantoof Nina Voets (1:00)
A beautifully shot, dark, surreal dream, replete with naked women and bunny rabbits. (Brought to us by the One Minute Video Festival)
Perpetual Life of Jim AlbersMatt Goldman (12:13)
Mr. Albers is also looking to locate himself in reality, because the workaday one he's trapped in is painfully overloaded with dizzying effects, brilliant sound design and an amazing array of useless scientific facts. Maybe he could use a dose of "tesnyatenotekeo."
Anxiety Meesoo Lee 1:30
The prolific Meesoo Lee (Procrastination, 6/28/02) notices an electrical outlet screaming into the abyss.
INTERMISSION
Are you Feeling Lonely?Rosario Garcia-Montero (14:00)
Garcia-Montero, who was raised in Peru, creates a garish and lovely character study about an isolated immigrant mortician.
Untitled (Santas) Peter Eudenbach (0:45)
Father Christmas in a death race with himself. Watch your back.
MarcillaJenelle Troxell (12:00)
A spooky, wordless lesbian vampire flick, beautifully shot, crisply edited and with a fascinating sound design.
Just Like Golf E.S. Wochensky (25:30)
One of the most horrible images in our society is a school-bus accident. Unless it's at a demolition derby. Watch as a group of guys who, rather than drinking or womanizing, custom build and destroy a fleet of yellow monsters.
Gay Boyfriend Ryan McFaul (4:00)
A hilarious and sophisticated music video for the ukulele-rock duo The Ukes of Hazard, filmed over one weekend and digitally composted over hundreds of hours. "Romantic comedies sure are great."
Music
8:00pm: Tyondai Braxton -- Solo music based on building in real time "orchestrated loops" with voice, guitar and found objects, and manipulating them with guitar pedals, in essence creating a self-contained ensemble.
8:30pm: Craig Colorusso
11:00pm: Pale Horse and Rider, Brooklyn's ragged and staggering country boys. They play drunken waltzes for the drinking boys and girls out to represent. What is typically a quiet medley of pedal steel, vocal harmonies and banjo becomes a wild hoedown at night when PHR perform live. Their newest album "These Are The New Good Times, "was recorded by Alan Sparhawk (Low) and released on Darla Records earlier this year.
