Halloweird 2008 X Version
CATALOG NO.
851
TYPE
Shorts Compilation, Mixed Genre
YEAR
2008
RUNNING TIME
55 minutes
TV SYSTEM
SYNOPSIS
FILMS IN PROGRAM
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Halloweird has become a yearly institution for Independent Exposure - bringing audiences the best in hallowed, strange, gross, controversial, odd and just plain weird films and this year’s program is no different. Themes ponder death, solitude and alienation, from the ironic homage to the cemetery of The Green Grass of Twilight to revisiting a relationship between a T-Rex and a Pterodactyl in Transrexia, or the obsessive body maintenance of Little Clips, this program is sure leave audiences appropriately unsettled for Halloween. This Rated X version features an added bonus, Le Feu au Cul which will give you a whole new perspective on the muscle car!
All films in a printable format
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Mama
directed by Hester Scheurwater
Netherlands,
Horror / Bizarre,
2005,
00:02:30
"Mama mama mama...," a woman calls out again and again, over and over. Is it her child that she mimics, or is she calling for her own mother? A desperate video performance in the first person.
... more info
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By the Kiss
directed by Yann GONZALEZ and SEDNA FILMS
France,
Mixed Genre,
2007,
35mm,
B&W,
Dolby SR,
00:05:00
Night. Kisses. A consumed heart.... more info
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Discusion y Lagrimas
directed by Rafaël
Spain,
Video Art / Film Art,
2007,
Color,
Dolby Digital,
00:02:30
Walls, characters, tears, papers & sounds.... more info
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A Message From Mary Davis
directed by Pekka Sassi
Finland,
Experimental,
2006,
digital video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:02:18
A film with dark humor. The Text is taken from the spam mail I recieved. ... more info
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Bowled Over
directed by Sietske Tjallingii
Netherlands,
Experimental,
2008,
HD Video,
Color,
Other,
00:02:30
An homage to the Coen brothers turns into a real bowl-o-drama.... more info
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The Mark
directed by Tom Barndt and Samara St. Croix
USA,
Comedy / Satire,
2007,
00:04:30
A lawyer rents a room to a human lightning Bolt
... more info
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Loka - Tabernacle 1
directed by Kathleen Lorden
USA,
Music,
2006,
35mm,
B&W,
00:03:18
A music video for the English electronic band, Loka.... more info
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Transrexia
directed by Aurelio Voltaire
USA,
Animation,
2008,
16mm,
Color,
Dolby SR,
00:01:00
In this ultra-short prehistoric postcard a stop-motion T-Rex ponders his past relationship with a Pterodactyl.
Narrated by Psychedelic Furs frontman, Richard Butler. Directed and animated by MTV and Sci-Fi C... more info
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The Green Grass of Twilight
directed by Richie Sherman
USA,
Science Fiction,
2007,
16mm,
Color,
Dolby SR,
00:07:30
As a single time-lapse shot of cemetery headstones progresses to night, we are surprised to see the occupant step out to mow the grass and prepare for anticipated morning guests. ... more info
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Il Etait Encore des Fois (Once upon many times)
directed by Aurélie Pedron
Canada,
Video Art / Film Art,
2006,
video,
Color,
Dolby Digital,
00:02:43
This work represents research on the deformation of bodies in movement. One single image of a starving body is the source. This body, emaciated and manipulated, is the prevailing symbol of young bodies as the... more info
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Tralala (director's cut)
directed by Magali Charrier
United Kingdom,
Animation,
2006,
35mm,
B&W,
Dolby A,
00:05:06
A poetic reflection on innocence, Tralala is a mix of a dance film, a performance, a poem and an animated film. This pure jewel draws the tender and metaphoric portrait of three women/child in total immersion... more info
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Fantaisie in Bubblewrap
directed by Arthur Metcalf
USA,
Animation,
2007,
digital video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
04:21:00
'Fantaisie in Bubblewrap' is told from the point of view of a society of animate bubblewrap as it faces its inevitable popping.... more info
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Little Clips
directed by Julie Perini
USA,
Experimental,
2007,
digital video,
Color,
Dolby Digital,
00:40:00
I wondered: What kinds of videos can we make with material from our own daily life activities? Is there beauty in the mundane, tedious, boring, routine things that we do? In reviewing footage I had shot on... more info
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Infinite Justice
directed by Karl Tebbe
Germany,
Political / Social,
2006,
35mm,
Color,
Dolby Digital,
00:02:20
Fragments from Iraq war reports shown on German television, reconstructed frame by frame
with action figures sold in the USA, suitable for children over 5.
CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts.
This isn't Disney.... more info
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Blissful
directed by rainer ziehm
USA,
Animation,
2007,
HD Video,
B&W,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:00:35
Blissful is a collaborative, psychological landscape that describes the internal struggle of a heartless individual. Within the gaps that are created throughout years of pain and suffering, wicked yet blissfu... more info
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Kaltes Klares Wasser
directed by Hester Scheurwater
Netherlands,
Horror / Bizarre,
2005,
00:04:00
Kaltes Klares Wasser shows a woman, between her legs on the floor a lot of blood. Another woman is getting near …
... more info
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Le Feu au Cul
directed by Vincent Laurent
France,
Animation,
2006,
00:02:00
Music video for "Gilles de la Tourette"
link:http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=73909355
... more info
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2008-10-31 SF Examiner
By Christopher Smith
Before the Internet vacuumed up every bit of celluloid ephemera and VHS video art (and spawned through the simplification of availability, a new generation of kooky content) and made it available on anything with a screen and internet connection, if you wanted to see hard-to-find, weird-as-hell films, you had to make an effort. Maybe you had to know a guy who knew a guy. Kind of like trying to find clean LSD in Texas. In 1996, a dedicated gaggle a film kids in Seattle who shared a love of whacked-out, crazy films began screening hard-to-find (and even harder to comprehend) short films to small but dedicated audiences. This passion beget an organization named INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE.
INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE screened their annual HALLOWEIRD installment a couple nights ago at Bollywood Café.
Of course, now with teh Wbe, I can watch a dozen of bizarre films of all flavors and genres in the comfort of my own fold-out bed. But due to the sheer numbers of films, it helps to have a trusted source like Independent Exposure to handpicked the good ‘uns.
After a surprisingly good dinner (Hint: Get the somosas),I settled back, watched Joel Bachar give a quick intro, and opened my brain to movie madness.
While the films were hit and miss, I think the important thing was the basic exposure to the work. Simply seeing something so unfamiliar and unlikely. If you consider yourself a filmmaker, I think this is a great reason to see experimental, weird or oddball films. These films are risky half-accidents, purposeful points of perplexing perspective and raging ruminations on the good old What If?. They are, well, weird.
But it is this "otherness" that I think is important to filmmakers. You may see a technique or approach in a risky, experimental film that you won’t see most anywhere else. A filmmaker that has nothing to lose is willing to make moves that someone with a producer or logical plot in the way won’t make. With no one to answer to – nor apologize to – a maker can spin and spit furiously, stab wildly or tear slowly in a pure effort to express his or her own Raw Reason For. There are a lot of good ideas out there in left field.
And while, for most people, an entire work consisting of nothing but full-on “effect” gets a bit tedious or annoying, a good filmmaker may be able take that new look or complicated shot sequence and use it in a more sparing or strategic manner to snap-up his/her own more industry-standard film.
The screening ran the awesome Rubber Johnny short before the films. I had forgotten how incredible that is.
HIGHLIGHT: The English band LOKA had a music video in the show. The song is excellent.
| 2008-10-29 San Francisco Bay Guardian
By LOUIS PEITZMAN
The short films showcased at Independent Exposure's "Halloweird 2008" are mostly more bizarre than they are spooky, but that doesn't mean they're not holiday appropriate. There's something deeply unsettling about many of the offerings, which offer a more lingering impression than your standard scares. Loka "Tabernacle 1" is haunting precisely because we're given so little of the overall picture. As the camera glides gracefully alongside gorgeous violins, we find a glowing, floating man, with no explanation. By the Kiss is similarly devoid of context: a woman pressed against a wall greets a sequence of suitors who — quite literally — smother her with kisses. It's hypnotizing but wholly unpleasant. Of course, with 17 films on the agenda, there are bound to be some clunkers: Mama, which features a ghoulish woman crying "mama" for two-and-a-half minutes, might be disturbing if it weren't so annoying. Kaltes Klares Wasser is also overlong. But hey, "overlong" is a relative term here, and it's worth zoning out for a few minutes to make it to the best films.Here, the real standouts are firmly planted in the comedy genre: Transrexia, a short but sweet stop-motion animation about a T-Rex's love for a pterodactyl, and Fantaisie in Bubblewrap, in which individual Bubble Wrap bubbles are alive and rather chatty. That is, until they're popped.
| 2008-10-22 SF Weekly
By Michael Fox
Halloween exists — in theory, and sometimes in practice — to provide a socially acceptable, once-a-year outlet for the citizenry to confront its fears and embrace its mortality. The holiday also grants license, for those who need it, to venture through the looking glass into alternate, and altered, states of mind. The annual Halloweird edition of Microcinema’s Independent Exposure series of stunning shorts from around the world is the visual equivalent of taking a pickaxe to a panoply of peculiar psyches. The mysterious organ-propelled music video “Loka — Tabernacle 1” conjures levitating chairs and people, while the entrancing “Tralala” combines the dreamy movements of a trio of British dancers with dreamlike stop-motion animation. One stranger after another passionately embraces the statuesque French beauty of “By the Kiss,” taking as much as they give in a haunting metaphor for the vampirism of love affairs. The fast-paced program abounds with astonishing craft and eerie ambiguity, but there’s also plenty of evil humor. The excruciatingly hilarious “Fantaisie in Bubblewrap” masterfully enlists our empathy for anthropomorphized bubbles slaughtered by an anonymous, unfeeling human. Nothing says Halloween like pained laughter.
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