| The Films Within Best of Independent Exposure 2002 | |||
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Cellular Crimes
directed by Brett Simon USA, Comedy / Satire, 0, Mini DV, Color, 00:02:00 A PSA about turning off your cellphones before a film.... more info | ||
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Cynicisimine
directed by Steven Scott USA, Animation, 2002, Digital Video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:00 A commercial for today's modern pharmaceutical.... more info | ||
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Post Nasal Drift
directed by Britta Johnson USA, Animation, 2002, Super-8, 00:11:00 Someone has come down with a bad case of inter-species resource competition.... more info | ||
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Tales of Mere Existence
directed by Lev Yilmaz USA, Animation, 1999, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:07:00 8 episodes from this series of true stories about everything and nothing.... more info | ||
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My Summer Vacation
directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Narrative, 2002, Digital, Color, 00:03:00 Just like any other summer vacation.... more info | ||
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Line Up
directed by Julie-Christine Fortier Canada, Experimental, 2001, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:00 Fire!... more info | ||
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Right Road Lost
directed by Victoria Gamburg USA, Documentary, 2001, 16mm, Color, Optical Stereo, 00:11:50 All Phil Rios wanted to be was an artist. His life, however, took another direction. The story of Phil Rios, a Vietnam and Gulf War veteran, and his attempt to cope with the memory of an unspeakable US military operation conducted in the Kuwaiti desert during the first Gulf War. Right Road Lost begins with a dreamlike image—the figure of Phil Rios descending a dark, heavily wooded hillside. In voiceover, we hear him reciting from Dante’s Inferno: “Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost. To tell about those woods is hard—so tangled and rough and savage…” Phil Rios was born in Sacramento, California into a Mexican-American family of eleven childre... more info | ||
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Vortex
directed by Jorge Calvo and Michele Beck USA, Experimental, 2002, Mini DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 Uses two performers with their heads wrapped in packing tape (sticky-side out) to explore in-between spaces.... more info | ||
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Transfixed
directed by Jason Britski Canada, Experimental, 2001, 16mm, Color, Optical Monaural, 00:01:48 A meditative film that celebrates the beauty found within the small details of existence. “Transfixed evokes the boundless joy of the vicarious unlimited experience of childhood, while at the same time reminding us of life’s accelerated velocity and transitory nature.” Antimatter Underground Film Festival 2002 ... more info | ||
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Film Music
directed by Stephanie Bolt and Eric Lesdema United Kingdom, Music, 2001, Game Boy Camera, 00:03:30 Low-tech-no-budget piece; overt dramatics; crude special effects rudely borrowed from early cinema.... more info | ||
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Le Silence Est En Marche
directed by Pierre-Yves Cruaud France, Experimental, 2001, Video, 00:03:30 Insuperable barriers limit vital space of more or less human activities. We attend the development of already regulated lives.... more info | ||
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Vision Test
directed by Wes Kim USA, Documentary, 2002, DV, Color, 00:06:00 What begins as a routing eye exam turns into a troubling dramatization of attitudes towards minorities in the United States.... more info | ||
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Dance Machine
directed by John Benson and Ward Evans USA, Comedy / Satire, 2002, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:40 A man pursues his dream of becoming the ultimate dance machine.... more info | ||