This year’s student-run Milwaukee Underground Film Festival will screen on May 1-4 at various locations on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus and off-campus at the Microlights Cinema. Once again, the festival will feature eclectic and amazing avant-garde and experimental short films in video, 16mm and 8mm formats.
The fest opens on May 1 with a screening of films made by this year’s three-member jury — David Witzling, Diane Kitchen and Scott Stark — followed by a special presentation of works from NYC’s Lgbt screening series, “Dirty Looks,” including Michael Robinson‘s hilarious The Dark, Krystle, Luther Price‘s recently restored Home and Michael Lucid‘s online video sensation Dirty Girls.
Other films to look out for are a pair of award-winning pieces: The May 2 at 2:00 p.m. shorts block will conclude with Jennifer Reeder‘s absolutely amazing A Million Miles Away, which took home the Best Short Film at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
The fest opens on May 1 with a screening of films made by this year’s three-member jury — David Witzling, Diane Kitchen and Scott Stark — followed by a special presentation of works from NYC’s Lgbt screening series, “Dirty Looks,” including Michael Robinson‘s hilarious The Dark, Krystle, Luther Price‘s recently restored Home and Michael Lucid‘s online video sensation Dirty Girls.
Other films to look out for are a pair of award-winning pieces: The May 2 at 2:00 p.m. shorts block will conclude with Jennifer Reeder‘s absolutely amazing A Million Miles Away, which took home the Best Short Film at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
- 5/1/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 52nd annual Ann Arbor Film Festival will be a jam-packed experimental feature and short film screening event running for six days and nights, this time on March 25-30.
Opening Night will feature a reception and an after-party, and stuffed between those will be a block of nine short films, including new ones by Bryan Boyce, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Reeder and Martha Colburn, as well as a never-before-released work by the legendary Bruce Baillie called Little Girl in which Baillie captured scenes of natural beauty.
Special Events scattered throughout the festival include a retrospective of indie filmmaker Penelope Spheeris that will feature her rock ‘n’ roll-based work, including the original The Decline of Western Civilization, plus The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, her influential punk film Suburbia (screening twice) and a collection of short films.
There will also be several films and presentations by filmmaking scholar Thom Andersen, such...
Opening Night will feature a reception and an after-party, and stuffed between those will be a block of nine short films, including new ones by Bryan Boyce, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Reeder and Martha Colburn, as well as a never-before-released work by the legendary Bruce Baillie called Little Girl in which Baillie captured scenes of natural beauty.
Special Events scattered throughout the festival include a retrospective of indie filmmaker Penelope Spheeris that will feature her rock ‘n’ roll-based work, including the original The Decline of Western Civilization, plus The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, her influential punk film Suburbia (screening twice) and a collection of short films.
There will also be several films and presentations by filmmaking scholar Thom Andersen, such...
- 3/18/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
This is the second of four dispatches on some of the goods offered by the 57th London Film Festival’s ‘Experimenta’ section.
A spectre is haunting cinema—the spectre of commune porn. At a time when alternative ways of thinking, living and coexisting are becoming ever more urgent, a number of filmmakers are looking to more collectivist contexts as a platform for more profitable (if not unproblematic) narratives. At the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), one may have so far seen no less than three feature-length films dealing with life amidst a co-op: Kelly Reichardt’s minimalist eco-thriller Night Moves, Paul-Julien Robert’s documentary My Fathers, My Mother and Me and Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s spiritual pilgrimage triptych, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness.
The latter film is one of two works by Russell at this year’s festival. The other is Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget...
A spectre is haunting cinema—the spectre of commune porn. At a time when alternative ways of thinking, living and coexisting are becoming ever more urgent, a number of filmmakers are looking to more collectivist contexts as a platform for more profitable (if not unproblematic) narratives. At the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), one may have so far seen no less than three feature-length films dealing with life amidst a co-op: Kelly Reichardt’s minimalist eco-thriller Night Moves, Paul-Julien Robert’s documentary My Fathers, My Mother and Me and Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s spiritual pilgrimage triptych, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness.
The latter film is one of two works by Russell at this year’s festival. The other is Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget...
- 10/17/2013
- by Michael Pattison
- MUBI
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