Sunday, May 30th, 2004
Screenings at the UNDERGROUND AT STAGE TWO (WHITAKER CENTER)

12:00 Noon - Time to Experiment: Eclectic Experimental Endeavors

Fan (a love story)

By Lori Samsel, New York, NY
Animation, 5 min., Digital Video
A girl and her fan make it through a very hot summer day

Convulse

By Cara Marisa Deleon, Savannah, GA
Experimental, 3 min., Digital Video
An experimental piece that mixes found and original footage. It is an exploration of the futility of perfection and the obsession to achieve perfection.

Palm/Bellagio Roll/NYC Flower Film

By Sandra Gibson, Brooklyn, NY
Experimental, 9 min., Super-8
Three rolls of Super-8 film capture blades of a palm tree against a monochrome sky, a single-frame film shot while wandering in the flower gardens of Bellagio, Italy, and a single-frame film of wandering in the flower gardens of New York

Featured at the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

Closer to Heaven

By Diane Bonder, Brooklyn, NY
Experimental, 15 min., Super-8/16mm
Urban ghosts collide, abandoned umbrellas tumble down the streets, my father calls again and again to say good bye. A film about loss, longing and changing weather.

Forbidden

By Michelle Reagan, 8 minutes, Louisiana
Experimental. Digital Video. Mythological characters in a modern landscape are forced to adjust to various temptations and different atmospheres.

1:00 PM – Pushing the Envelope: Films That Make You Think

Intermission

By Cara Marisa Deleon, Savannah, GA
Experimental, 13 min., Digital Video
An experimental narrative that discusses Hollywood's commodification of ideals and the inability to appropriate it.

Heaven

By Todd McCammon, Astoria, NY
Experimental, 2 min., Super-8
Heaven is a personal journey through the history of cinema culminating in its earliest form.

Stall

By Brian Kerr, Lake Oswego, OR
Experimental, 2 min., Digital Video
This short digital piece explores the individual within the greater "and," embedded as part of a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful production machine.

Dissolve

By Aaron Valdez, Iowa City, IA
Experimental, 15 min., 16mm
A collage of vintage industrial and educational films reconstructed into a social commentary.

Making Things Meaningful

By Paul Tarragó, London, England
Experimental Narrative, 8 min., Super-8/Digital Video
A journey through home life where hope hangs by a tangle of fine and fragile threads. Few answers are supplied, but much meaning is gathered.

2:00 PM – The Art of Storytelling: Pennsylvania Filmmakers

Waiting Room

By Todd J. Shill, Harrisburg, PA
Narrative, 3 min., 16mm
Before learning her fate, a young woman pauses to revisit her past.

One Number 2

By Todd Bieber & Juliana Brafa, Wynnefield, PA
Narrative, 20 min., Digital Video
Look at any pencil. Who gave it all those bite marks? Who used it to sketch a beautiful piece of art? Who scrawled their final words with it? Follow a single pencil as it passes between 23 diverse characters and their often humorous, sometimes heartbreaking stories.

Brainwheels

By Lynn Rossi, Littitz, PA
Narrative, 19 min., 16mm
A surrealistic adventure into the dumpster dived world of an eclectic collector and the six personifications of his psyche who dwell there.

Slide

By Matt Coley, Pittsburgh, PA
Narrative Comedy, 7 min., 16mm
Ethan and Gabby are two young professionals who, with a help of a mysterious visitor, rediscover their lost youth.

3:00 PM – Clones & Kafka: Central Pennsylvania Filmmakers

The Clone Family

By Morgan Higby-Flowers, Mercersburg, PA
Narrative Comedy, 2 min., Digital Video
A brief and funny look at an odd group of characters who have a lot in common.

Offering

By Rick Blasdell & Jerry King Musser, York, PA
Experimental, 3 min., Digital Video
Explores the compelling nature of imagery - is this a mere random selection of ordinary objects? Like the age-old plum, "the hand is quicker than the eye."

Kafka's Hunger Artist

By Greg Madden, Lancaster, PA
Experimental/Mockumentary, 11 min., Digital Video
A man in a cage starves himself for 17 days for the entertainment of his fans. A look at reality TV over the edge.

Pictures

By James Hollenbaugh, Millersville, PA
Experimental, 17 min., 16mm
A patriotic portrait of sound and the moving image.

4:00 PM – Quirky Locals: More Central Pennsylvania Filmmakers

Local Area Network

By Jonathan Boal, Lemoyne, PA
Documentary, 11 min., Digital Video
An inside look at a local PC gaming club in Perry County.

Poultry and Prejudice

By Sherry Teleky Waple, Middletown, PA
Narrative Comedy, 34 min., Digital Video
When an award-winning chicken goes missing, intense accusations and arguments reveal small-town prejudices. Frank Perdue meets Jane Austen.

5:00 PM - Our Apocalyptic Landscape: Life Out of Balance?

The Remix

By Lisa Hutton, Euensberg, WA
Experimental, 6 min., Digital Video
Visual and aural comparison between unloading vehicles at the Miramar Landfill and loading vehicles at the shopping mall. A disturbing look at our disposable society.

Containment: Life After Three Mile Island

By Chris Boebel & Nick Poppy, Brooklyn, NY
Documentary, 60 min., Digital Video
A documentary that explores the legacy of the accident of TMI from the perspective of the nearby community of Middletown, PA.

Films end at 6:10 PM

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Awards Reception
Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, Harrisburg

Join us at Harrisburg’s hottest art museum as we announce the winners of this year’s festival. Awards are given for Best Animated Film, Best Documentary Film, Best Experimental Film, Best Narrative Film, and Best of Festival, as judged by an independent panel of filmmakers and film experts.

Meet and greet the filmmakers, enjoy food and drink, and check out the museum’s current exhibition, “Motorcycles & Art.”

10:00 PM - SPECIAL U.S. PREMIERE SCREENING: BODYSONG

by Simon Pummell. Original Score by Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead. To be screened in the Select Medical IMAX Theater inside Harrisburg's Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts.

Bodysong is the epic story of love, sex, violence, death and dreams. The story of our lives, told through moving images from around the world. From newsreel to home movies, from births to deaths, footage taken from across the last 100 years of cinema cut to an ambitious score by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. Bodysong is both a theatrical film and a website. The site www.bodysong.com gives us the stories of the people portrayed in each of the extraordinary images in this powerful debut feature.

www.bodysong.com

THIS IS THE U.S. PREMIERE OF THIS AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY.