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Saturday, September 16, 9pm Glaxa
Studios TRT: 90 min.
The Best of Flicker:
DIRECT FROM SPACELAND
Curator: Norwood Cheek (Co-Presented by Flicker)
Over the last two years, cinemaficionado Norwood Cheek has held
a monthly "open screen" session at Silver Lake’s
lengendary music club, Spaceland. The program has developed into
one of the city's most innovative showcases for Eastside filmmakers.
The Best of Flicker showcases a satisfyingly eclectic collection
of super 8 and 16mm shorts spanning a wide spectrum of style and
content.
Saturday, September 16, 11 am Los Feliz Cinema 3 TRT:
95.5 min.
Camp Silver Lake:
TOTALLY WILD CELLULOID
Rise and shine Silver Lake aficionados of camp. Your ship has arrived
for a late-morning cruise through some of the wildest celluloid
this side of John Waters. Think gun-toting super-models (FUZZY
& WILD Dir: Carol Cetrone, 4 min.); loads of black leather
(L.A. GIRLS Dir: Atanas Radev, 14 min.) and leopard skin
(LUCY’S DREAM Dir: Relah Eckstein, 12.5 min.), and a
cool cat who does a mean Elvis – Chicano style (EL REY OF
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (Dir: Marjorie Chodorov, 65 min.). FREE
DONUTS AND STRONG COFFEE for those who just woke up and/or never
made it home to sleep.
Saturday, September 16, 10 am Vista
Theater TRT: 60 min.
Disney Vintage Animation:
CARTOONS FROM THE EARLY DAYS
(For kids of all ages!)
Did you know that the Mayfair Market on Hyperion was once upon a
time the site of the original Disney animation studio? Mickey was
born in the hood! Come see this cool collection of animation and
other fun stuff from the early days of Disney when Walt called Silver
Lake home. Your Host/Presenter is Mr. Rudy Behlmer who spent many
years as a television director, producer and executive in Hollywood.
FREE PROGRAM!
Saturday, September 16, 10 am Los Feliz Cinema 3 TRT:
72 min.
Dreams – Now and Forever:
THE OTHER SIDE OF REALITY
Experience prophetic dreams of a native American wise man
in DREAMER (Dir: Raymond E. Spiess Jr., Director/Producer.,
11 min.), guilty sweet dreams of a naughty young boy in SNOOZE
(Dir: Ron Vignone, 16min.), daydreams of an office worker unable
to seize the day in SPIRAL (Dir: Jeffrey Nicholson, 18 min.),
and the haunting dreams of an out-of-work actor in SWEET DREAMS
(Dir: Sergei Davidoof, 25 min.), and a non-conformist caught up
in a dreamy fantasy who would rather chase balloons in Central Park
than reveal his identity in SERGI (Dir: Paul Sullivan, 2
min.).
ALSO TODAY: Professor Lynn Gamwell’s film-and-lecture presentation,
"DREAMS 1900-2000" (see listing under Special Programs).
Friday, September 15, 5 pm Los Feliz Cinema 3 TRT: 61 min.
Golden Memories:
LIKE THE CORNERS OF OUR MINDS
Childhood memories of cotillion dances (COTILLION ’65 Dir:
Judy Chaikin, 22 min.), humorous romantic memories of recent widows
(THE MULLIGANS Dir: MIles Hood Swarthout, 23 min.) and the
fight to retain memory through midlife crisis (GRAY FRUIT
Dir: Thouly Dosios, 16 min.) form the focus of this program about
the second half of life.
Sunday, September 16, 2:30 pm Glaxa Studios TRT: 60 min.
Out There:
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
In CARGO (Dir: Timo Novotny, 15 min.), a young man tries in vain
to make delivery in the highly surveyed landscape of the Tokyo metro
lines. MAGAZINE (Dir: Dani Michaeli, 6 min.) collages frenetic
dance and on-the-scene interview footage of the dazed and charming.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (Dir: Anne Pass, 4 min.), about
the outskirts of circus life, is shot in the haunting style of Diane
Arbus. JANE AND I (Dir: Song-hun Lee, 17 min.) is a fractured
essay on the filmmaker’s relationship to blue-eyed Jane’s,
from kindergarten to adolescence. ON THE PASSAGE OF A FEW
(Dir: Mariana Botey, 16 min.) draws from Spanish Baroque to anarcho-punk,
producing a fractured narrative about terror and the state. TAKE
IT OUT ON THE CITY (Dir: Kimo Arbas, 2 min.) is an exploration
of urban turmoil.
Friday, September 15, 7 pm Glaxa
Studios TRT: 92 min.
Sick and Twisted:
YOU THINK THAT’S FUNNY??!!
Check political correctness in the lobby before viewing these
hilarious, sometimes X-rated shorts! In animation or live action,
these alien hunting plastic whoopee dolls (DEEP AFRICA Dir:
Steve Hall, 28 min.), crazed homicidal chickens (HATE Dir:
Drew Daywalt & David Schneider, 22 min.), squirrely squirrels
(COTTONTALES Dir: Jeremy Shaun, 17 min.), dirty wet Aussies
and monster fish (MUD and SHARKY Dir: Anthony Polkinghorne,
6 min and 4.5 min), and bungled bionic men (THE DEHUMANIZED
Dir: Mitch Watson, 2000, USA, Video, 15 min.) will tickle your fancy.
Saturday, September 16, 5:30 pm Los Feliz Cinema 3 TRT: 90 min.
Silver Lake Spectrum:
EAST OF THE HIGHLAND CURTAIN
A
drag queen spoof pays tribute to Lucy and Ethel in THE GAY GARDEN
SHOW (Dir: Jeffrey Wylie, 15 min.). Sex club fantasies abound
and twist around IT DWELLS IN MIRRORS (Dir: Paul Sbrizzi,
13 min.). A mortician beautician falls in love in the humorous necrophilia-laced
love story SYLVIA, (Dir: Trevin Matcek, 20 min.). GOD
SAYS SO (Dir: Marjorie Kaye, 7 min.) is a sinister tale of sisterhood.
Dream along with a patricide fantasy in BIG WHEEL (Dir: Jeff
Taupier, 12 min.). THE HOOK-ARMED MAN (Dir: Greg Chwerchak,
13 min.) tries in vain to find a new profession. A worker-bee rebels
against a sleazy boss and finds romance in the arms of a stunning
butch in OVERRIDE (Dir: Lisa Ginsburg, 10 min.).
Saturday, September 16, 8 pm Glaxa Studios TRT: 65 min.
Thugs and Mugs:
GRITTY, IRONIC, FRIGHTENING -- AND FUNNY!
Can’t get enough of The Sopranos? Gritty, ironic, frightening
and at times funny views of crime highlight this series of short
films filled with thugs and mugs. Here are the kidnappers (THE
FORGERY Dir: Erika Yeomans, 25 min.), strong arms (LOAN SHARK
Dir: Jay Robert Jennings, 15 min.), mobsters (LAST REQUEST
Dir: Tom Hodges, 16.5 min.), hit men (POP GUN Dir: Scott
Pittock, 3 min.) and bad cops (THE BROTHERHOOD Dir: Jake
L. Johnston, 5.5 min.) that we love to hate.
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