Saturday, May 29th, 2004
Screenings at the UNDERGROUND AT STAGE TWO (WHITAKER CENTER)

12:00 Noon - Pessimism Vs. Optimism: Which is Better?

Red Eye

By Kevin Gordon, Brooklyn, NY
Experimental, 17 min., Super-8/Digital Video
A film that looks at racism, stereotyping, and police profiling from a different perspective…a wordless perspective.

Did you Ever…*

By Justin Leonard Stauber, Berlin, Germany
Dramatic Narrative, 20 min., Digital Video
A road movie with ploys and fantasies, arm wrestling, one-upmanship, many twists, and couple of surprises.

1:00 PM – Survival of the Fittest: 2 Documentaries

Two Survivors

By Neil Ira Needleman, Katonah, NY
Documentary, 19 min., Digital Video
An old couple reminisces fondly about their 69 years of marriage.

I, Zombie

By Jeremy Newman, Elyria, OH
Documentary, 56 min., Digital Video
I, Zombie is a television horror host. Behind the makeup, he's a survivor. As a child, he was severely burned and disfigured in a fire, but has persevered for 28 years.

3:00 PM – Strangers Among Us

Diamonds are Golden

By Derrick Dean, New York, NY
Animation, 9 minutes, Digital Video
A hectic day in the life of a bowling alley manager who learns that a customer's lost diamond is somewhere in the building. Hand drawn, Flash-assembled animated comedy.

Chubby Buddy

By Erika Yeomans, New York, NY
Dramatic Narrative, 13 minutes, Super-8/Digital Video/Archival
Based on the memories of a man who gave up his career and marriage in order to act upon some peculiar impulses.

Routes

By Gordon DelGiorno, Wilmington, DE
Narrative Comedy, 29 minutes, Digital Video
The adventures of a misanthropic trash man who undergoes a startling change.

4:00 PM – Meet The Angry Filmmaker: Films and a Filmmaker’s Workshop

Kelley Baker, a.k.a. The Angry Filmmaker, is the Sound Designer on Gus Van Sant's films, as well as animated features, network specials and his own feature films. In 2000 he set out to make a full-length feature for the sum of $1000. He failed miserably. But when the dust settled, he had completed The Gas Cafe, a 90-minute DV, for $4,000. (including a website and behind the scenes footage for a documentary.)

Watch three of Kelley Baker’s films, stay and meet him, and then participate in his “guerilla filmmaking” workshop, where Kelley will walk you through the entire process from scripting through post-production. Learn how to get the most for very limited resources, asking the right questions to get free stuff, and working in an atmosphere where people share your vision and put in very long hours for no money, and enjoy it!

4:00 PM: The Films of Kelley Baker

You'll Change

Comedic Documentary, 3 min.
Advice to a filmmaker just prior to the birth of his first child.

Enough with the Salmon

Comedic Documentary, 7 min.
Comic memories from Pacific Northwest family vacations of days gone by.

Bird Dog

Dramatic Comedy, 97 min.
The story of an over-educated used car dealer, the 1948 Vanport Oregon Flood, friendship, greed, racism and the local Kiwanis Club thrown in for comic relief.

Q&A with Kelley Baker, aka The Angry Filmmaker

6:00 PM Filmmaker’s Workshop with Kelley Baker
“Making the Extremely Low-Budget Feature”

9:00 PM – 11:00 PM Filmmaker’s Meet and Greet
The Mantis Collective, 202 North Street, Harrisburg

Everyone’s invited to Harrisburg’s hottest art gallery to meet and greet filmmakers and film fans. Meet many of the filmmakers who will be in town for the screening of their films, enjoy some food and drink, and see an intriguing art exhibit featuring Death Row Convict and Victim Family Artwork.

12:00 Midnight – Midnight Madness at the Midtown
Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily Street

Dark Side of the Rainbow
(The Wizard of Oz meets Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon)

Several years ago a rumor began to circulate about a strange connection between Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and the MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939). If you properly synchronize the film and the album, as the rumor goes, a number of coincidental events occur. So many, in fact, that a large audience is convinced that Pink Floyd intentionally created Dark Side of the Moon as an alternative soundtrack to the film. Just to cite a few examples, side one of the LP is the same length as the first black-and-white segment of the movie; "The Great Gig in the Sky" begins as the tornado approaches Dorothy's farm, builds as the storm worsens, and slows when Dorothy is knocked unconscious; "Brain Damage" plays as the Scarecrow sings "If I Only Had a Brain"; and the album concludes with the sound of a heartbeat as Dorothy puts her hand on the Tin Woodsman's chest. Fans have found many more coincidental events and the combined film and music soundtrack has gained a cult following.

Don’t miss the chance to find out if the rumors are true. Be there at midnight to find out.