Peaches Christ does the unthinkable and returns with a second edition of the wild San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival in 2011! And this new event is a double blow-out with two back-to-back programs of shorts in one scintillating evening.
The fun starts on Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at The Victoria Theatre with the more genteel “Act 1″ block of shorts, compared to the sexy and ultra-violent programming of “Act 2: Shorts After Dark” that begins at 10:10 p.m.
However, with “Act 1″ featuring Waylon Bacon‘s gory and disturbing — and absolutely hilarious — Help Wanted, there’s plenty of outrageousness packed into that first program, so be sure to not miss any of it.
And if 33 short films packed into one night isn’t enough, the entire evening will kick off with Peaches and her co-host Sam Sharkey performing in a live rock show.
The full film lineup is below, but...
The fun starts on Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at The Victoria Theatre with the more genteel “Act 1″ block of shorts, compared to the sexy and ultra-violent programming of “Act 2: Shorts After Dark” that begins at 10:10 p.m.
However, with “Act 1″ featuring Waylon Bacon‘s gory and disturbing — and absolutely hilarious — Help Wanted, there’s plenty of outrageousness packed into that first program, so be sure to not miss any of it.
And if 33 short films packed into one night isn’t enough, the entire evening will kick off with Peaches and her co-host Sam Sharkey performing in a live rock show.
The full film lineup is below, but...
- 10/25/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Like its predecessors, the 3rd annual Oakland Underground Film Festival, which runs Sept. 22-24, is mostly devoted to music-based movies, both fictional and documentary.
There’s the docu-narrative hybrid Marimbas From Hell, the musical Devious, Inc., the Bollyood punk upstart Gandu, and the Bay Area documentary The Furious Force of Rhymes.
In addition, the Opening Night film is Victoria Mahoney’s Yelling to the Sky, starring rock royalty Zöe Kravitz; the cute Japanese children’s film Komaneko, The Curious Cat; plus, a program of experimental short films and more.
For more info on the fest, including screening locations, please visit the official Oakland Underground Film Festival website. The full lineup is below:
Sept. 22
8:00 p.m.: Yelling to the Sky, dir. Victoria Mahoney. A semi-autobiographical account of director Mahoney’s urban adolescence. Starring Zöe Kravitz and Gabourey Sidibe.
Sept. 23
7:30 p.m.: Marimbas From Hell, dir. Julio Hernández Cordón.
There’s the docu-narrative hybrid Marimbas From Hell, the musical Devious, Inc., the Bollyood punk upstart Gandu, and the Bay Area documentary The Furious Force of Rhymes.
In addition, the Opening Night film is Victoria Mahoney’s Yelling to the Sky, starring rock royalty Zöe Kravitz; the cute Japanese children’s film Komaneko, The Curious Cat; plus, a program of experimental short films and more.
For more info on the fest, including screening locations, please visit the official Oakland Underground Film Festival website. The full lineup is below:
Sept. 22
8:00 p.m.: Yelling to the Sky, dir. Victoria Mahoney. A semi-autobiographical account of director Mahoney’s urban adolescence. Starring Zöe Kravitz and Gabourey Sidibe.
Sept. 23
7:30 p.m.: Marimbas From Hell, dir. Julio Hernández Cordón.
- 9/20/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 14th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival is, once again, packed to the gills with worldwide wonderful, weird and revelatory filmmaking. The fest runs this year on July 14-24.
The highlight of the festival is the once-in-a-lifetime live performance of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, which will be performed on July 17 at 7:15 p.m. American animator Brent Green will be traveling Down Under to provide the live musical score and narration for his emotional, live-action animated tale about undying love and creation. He will also be accompanied by band mates and foley artists, Mike McGinley, John Swartz, Donna K and Drew Henkles.
Some other films to look out for at the fest will be the Australian premiere of Zach Clark‘s terminally twisted Vacation!, a black comedy about four girls on a debauched weekend of drinking and drugging that ends horribly for all involved; Marie Losier’s acclaimed...
The highlight of the festival is the once-in-a-lifetime live performance of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, which will be performed on July 17 at 7:15 p.m. American animator Brent Green will be traveling Down Under to provide the live musical score and narration for his emotional, live-action animated tale about undying love and creation. He will also be accompanied by band mates and foley artists, Mike McGinley, John Swartz, Donna K and Drew Henkles.
Some other films to look out for at the fest will be the Australian premiere of Zach Clark‘s terminally twisted Vacation!, a black comedy about four girls on a debauched weekend of drinking and drugging that ends horribly for all involved; Marie Losier’s acclaimed...
- 6/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Calgary’s $100 Film Festival is a celebration of film. Not “film” as a concept, but of actual celluloid. This year, their 19th, is three nights of strictly 8mm and 16mm films — No Video! — screening at the historic Plaza Theatre on March 3-5.
Each night starts off with a real bang: A unique live film and music performance by local musicians and filmmakers. Thursday features the combination of blues musician Erin Ross and a film by Farrah Alladin and Nathan Taylor; Friday is experimental indie band Axis of Conversation and a film by Alex Mitchell; and Friday is musician Kris Ip Ryzak and a film by Ben Tsui.
Also on Friday, mixed in with the regular lineup of films, is a mini-retrospective of Montreal-based experimental filmmaker Alexandre Larose, featuring four of his films — Artifices, 930, Ville Marie and Brouillard. Then, after all films have screened for the night, Larose will host a...
Each night starts off with a real bang: A unique live film and music performance by local musicians and filmmakers. Thursday features the combination of blues musician Erin Ross and a film by Farrah Alladin and Nathan Taylor; Friday is experimental indie band Axis of Conversation and a film by Alex Mitchell; and Friday is musician Kris Ip Ryzak and a film by Ben Tsui.
Also on Friday, mixed in with the regular lineup of films, is a mini-retrospective of Montreal-based experimental filmmaker Alexandre Larose, featuring four of his films — Artifices, 930, Ville Marie and Brouillard. Then, after all films have screened for the night, Larose will host a...
- 2/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
It’s time for the 16th annual Austin Film Festival (October 22nd ‐ 29th). The Aff always features a strong competition in the narrative and documentary categories, as well as high profile “marquee” premieres (An Education, Youth in Revolt, The Road, The Fourth Kind, Calvin Marshall, and Precious to name a few). Serious_Moonlight_still Opening the festival will be Serious Moonlight (directed by Cheryl Hines and written by the late Adrienne Shelly) on October 22nd at 7pm at the Paramount Theatre with Hines in attendance. up-in-the-air-clooney Closing the festival will be Up in the Air (directed by Jason Reitman and written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner) on October 29th at 8pm at the Paramount Theatre with Reitman in attendance. Along with the film festival, there is also a four-day conference (October 22nd – 25th) featuring over 80 panels, ranging from very personal “Meet and Greets” and round-table discussions to larger Q&A sessions.
- 10/21/2009
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Director: Jim Granato Pat Spurgeon is a musician whose lifelong dream of being in a successful rock band is coming true with his band Rogue Wave. Unfortunately, just as Rogue Wave starts to take off, Spurgeon’s kidney (a transplant he received 13 years prior) begins to show signs of failing. As a career musician, Spurgeon is uninsured and has no “back-up plan.” Faced with twice a day dialysis and a search for a new kidney, Spurgeon simultaneously prepares to embark on a grueling tour with Rogue Wave because he does not want to forfeit his lifelong dream (and career). The tour is nicknamed the “D tour” because Spurgeon needs to get a “D” (for dialysis) fix twice a day. D Tour follows Spurgeon on his rocky and emotional quest for a matching kidney and overall health. Produced, directed, shot and co-edited by Jim Granato D Tour deals with two seminal...
- 10/21/2009
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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