Friday, July 8th, 2005
8:30 - Live music by gothic Belacqua (details below)
9:00 - Small town horror in the big city
On the lawn at Automotive High School
50 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Dress warmly (it's cooler when you're sitting still).
In the event of rain the show is indoors at the same location.
Soft For Digging (plus shorts)
THE FILMS:
Soft For Digging (JT Petty / Brooklyn, NY / 1:15:00)
This eerie, quiet horror film is fast becoming a new cult classic. An old man, nearly alone in the woods, stumbles upon a gruesome scene: the murder of a young girl. But suddenly the evidence disappears, and further investigation indicates that there may be more malignant forces at work than it first seemed.
Inspired by the archetypal darkness of old fairy tales and classic silent films, but also by intensely visual action films such as George Miller's Road Warrior films, Petty tells this horrifying tale with hardly a word uttered throughout—though the film does include quite a few screams. The story unfolds seamlessly and the dread emotions are evoked by the lonely eyes of the old man and not by hackneyed horror film dialogue. Completed on a budget of less than $6,000, Soft for Digging terrorizes its audience via fine storytelling and creatively creepy craftsmanship, right up through its frantic surprise ending.
"A classic mind-fuck film."
ÙMonsters At Play
"'Soft for Digging' is an inventive little creeper."
-Film Threat
Crepitus (Jason Affolder / New Orleans, LA / 19:00) Northeast Premiere
A nightmarish short film that features dazzlingly clever camera work and all the logic of a bad dream.
Infested Head Manifested (Ethan Clarke / Brooklyn, NY / 5:30) New York Premiere
A short but terrifying little blast of animated childhood horror, courtesy of 9:37 Productions.
Patricia Grey (Anne Koizumi / Calgary, Canada / 5:39) East Coast Premiere
A creepy Canadian stop-motion about a crazy Canuck with a dark secret.
THE MUSIC:
The New Yorker says: "...an up and coming band with goth affinities, Belaqua plays intense, sparse music." You can check for yourself at www.belacquamusic.com.
