Akbar Film Series
Monday, Sept. 16, 8 pm, Akbar

Independent filmmaker Jeffrey Wylie, who is also Grand Poobah of the Kasbah-style bar in Silver Lake, presents a selection of the best works screened at his popular weekly film event featuring local filmmakers. More information at 323-665-6810.

Alpha 60 Movie Drill
Drill: Saturday, Sept. 14, 8 am-8 pm
Screening: Tue., Sept. 17, 7:30 pm, Rudy's Barbershop

Echo Park-based film collective Alpha 60 presents a spontaneous movie-making experience open to anyone and everyone who has the mettle (and a camera). The objective: make a film of no more than 5 minutes during a 12-hour period. The films will be edited together and screened for prize awards. Interested film-making teams should pre-register via e-mail or at the SLFF office.

Art Crawl (Free Event)
Thursday - Friday, Sept. 19-20, 6 pm-10pm; Saturday.,
Sept. 21, Noon-7 pm, Multiple Venues

The annual three-day open house showcases galleries and artist studios in Silver Lake, Echo Park, and Los Feliz. More information online at www.ceart.com/artcrawl

Cinespia
Friday, Sept. 13, 8 pm, Gates open at 7pm.Ê Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Director George Franju's 1959 horror-thriller, EYES WITHOUT A FACE, is screened outdoors at the Eastside's own Hollywood Forever Cemetery with the movie projected against the wall of an immense mausoleum. (We're not making this up!). Bring your picnic gear and dine among some old friends.

Cockfight Arena (Free Event)
Friday, Sept. 20, 9 pm, C-Level

Audience volunteers don custom-made wireless game controllers with full-sized wings and feathered helmets to combat for control of the arena. Dare to be chicken. Sponsored by c-level, a cooperative public and private lab. More information at www.c-level.cc

Echo Park Film Center Showcase
Wednesday - Friday, Sept. 18-20, 8 pm, Echo Park Film Center

Three nights of the best programming of this community access center dedicated to inner city youth, Super 8 and 16mm movies, and independent filmmakers. For more information http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.orgÊor 213-484-8846.

Psychedelicious Pornadelica in Super-8
Friday, Sept. 13, 10 pm - 1:30 am, #B (Basement of The Echo)

Live mix of vintage Euro porn and French psychedelic, continental electro and experimental special effects. Curated by Marco & The Frenchman.

Film And Performance Evening
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 8 pm, Jeff Electric Co. of North America

Films created from performance and performances completed on film. Curated and produced by Conduit Artists: 323-953-3539.

Heads Down
Dir. Chris Barrish, Video, 2002, 78 min.
A gang of aliens visits the Earth taking the form of the young. They play records, get high, fall in love with Earth girls, then split and detonate the planet from orbit. Culled entirely from unrehearsed sounds and images gathered on the road with Southern California's Moontribe collective, the film recontextualizes its "true" material into a fictional sci-fi narrative.

Elevator Dance
11min. - TOUNGE Performance Group
Dance performance inside and outside of elevator to minimal, subtle techno soundtrack. (b&w, audio)

Laundromat
13 min. - Thomas Roche
The Laundromat interior as seen through the reflection in a front-loading machine. (b &w w/audio)

Throwing Stones at the Sun
19 min - Aaron Valdez
Silent film, a loving montage of images of America. (color & b&w, silent)

The Presence of Absence
6 minutes - Brandon Dougherty
Beautiful stop-motion animation of Hockney-esque photographic surveys of empty urban areas. (color, silent)

The Shortest Distance
7 minutes - Brandon Dougherty
Concise short with original score that studies the architectural environment of one street through contemplative images and editing.

Eden City State
7 minutes
A short glimpse of the work of the performance group Eden City State 1998- 2002

Leaf Blower
Bruce Thompson 5 minutes 2000
Artist Bruce Thompson puts his conceptual sculpture to use.

Input/Output: On
Saturday, Sept. 14, 10 pm-Sunrise, Location TBA

Co-sponsored by Conduit Artists and V Squared Labs, this evening, and early morning, of fun includes avant-garde presentations of film and video art, visual music and live performances that employ video. More information 323-953-3539.

Mobile Movie (Free Event)
Thurs.-Friday, Sept. 19-20, 6 pm-10 pm, Saturday, Sept. 21, Noon-7 pm, 1400 Echo Park Blvd

SLFF in conjunction with the Barnsdall Art Park host a mobile movie festival presented in a converted box truck focusing on experimental shorts. Also on-site multimedia performances, readings and art workshops.

1. passe partout
   Dir. Stephanie Maxwell (animated imagery) & Allan Shindler (music), Video, 6min.
   An operetta of abstract visuals created using computer animated mattes with hand-painted and etched 35mm motion picture film. The score is completely computer-generated.
2. Bad Coffee
   Dir. Elizabeth Moore, Video, 3min 5 sec.
   Surreal flashback of a young woman incarcerated in the Middle East for urinating in public after drinking too much coffee.
3. Relation Trip
   Dir. Michael Jortner, Video, 10min.
   A gay man narrates his memories of a failed attempt at a relationship with a straight woman.
4. Sanctuary
   Dir. Maryam Keshavarz, Video, 17 min. 30 sec.
   A middle eastern woman momentarily escapes her overwhelming life in San Francisco only to torment herself with visions of herself as a child, a bride, and an old woman.
5. Bhakti (Devotion)
   Dir.V. Prasad, Video, 6 min. 30 sec.
   devotion is explored through the merging of two art forms: film & bharat-natyam ( a classical Indian dance rooted in Hinduism).
6. Hatching Eggs
   Dir. Amy Hicks, Video, 10 min.
   An experimental short chock-full of stop-motion animation, vintage stock footage, and a farmers market of produce that leads us on a journey through the subconscious of a woman selling an ovum.
7. Deer Stop
   Dir. Nao Yamagami, Video, 5 min. 32 sec.
   A girl. Her heart in pain. The sea is a desert is an axe. The chains are broken, all fall down.
8. container
   Dir. Jean Hester, Video, 2min. 30 sec.
   container draws parallels between work, death, elevators, caskets, cubicles. It examines how mindsets restrain emotions, create fear, quash new ideas, and discourage independent thought.
9. visceral
   Dir. Goichi Murakami, Video, 4 min 52 sec
   On the boundary between life and death; blood becomes water becomes waste.
10. 6 Short Films
    Dir. Amy Caterina, Video, 10min. 40 sec.
    Intimate views into the joys and the struggles of a video artist.
11. in check.
    Dir. Bill Stone, Video, 6min. 5 sec.
    Like chess pieces, human game tokens battle for ground. Armed with the strength of Truth and strategic Deception, they advance and retreat in an infinite game of black and white.
12. If you lived here you'd be home by now
    Dir. Diane Bonder, Video, 15 min.
    Romantic, Vernacular, and Abstract views into the town of Northampton, Mass.
13. A Death in the Family
    Dir. Andrea Wallace, Video, 9 min. 06 sec
    A patriarch's death reveals the seamier side of each family member through the devices of split-screen and portraiture.
14. dive/ awake
    Dir. Jean Hester, Video, 4 min. 10 sec.
    dive/awake explores awakening from a coma of living by other peopleõs rules. Once awake, do we dive into an unpredictable, unknown state of wakefulness?
15. Check Out Your Mind + Drunk People
    Dir. Olivia Urban, Video, 10min.
    Video art indie-rocks with gregarious local rockers, Menthol Hill!
16. TRULULU: Acts of Gravity
    Dir. Sergio Zenteno, Video, 12 min
    A seminal work by a cross-disciplinary Los Angeles - artist. An allegorical film/video piece exploring issues, topics and themes akin to the creative process in the post-modern language of our times, filled with symbolisms and metaphors common in the artist's work. Sensuality, playfulness and social commentary are melded into a unitary expression of power, gestural inventiveness and grace. Without assuming a final, proselytizing thesis, this work suggests that the contemporary experience is an open system, as is the artistic quest.
17. Coup de foudre + Absolutely No Sex
    Dir. Lincoln Hiatt, Video, 3 min.
    Its tease or be teased with this short double feature.
18. Loop
    Dir. Neil Kendricks, Video, 3min
    A man and a woman share a fleeting moment of transendence amidst the chaos of a modern city.
19. Golden Afternoon
    Dir. Jason Wade, Video, 3 min.
    Dark and wet account of two men's fleeting joy seamy imagery and shadowy soundtrack by the director.
20. Home
    Dir. Broderick Fox, Video, 10min 30 sec.
    Digitally manipulated collage of home movie formats, documentary/ autobiographical examination of a bi-national gay couple's search for home .
21. The First Time
    Dir. Chris Rowland, Video, 3min.
    The First Time is a short piece illustrating through metaphor the process of a relationship. Using signifiers such as a truck and the act of smoking for the first time, the first time brings these two elements together in a satirical manner.

Onramp Arts (Free)
Sept. 12-21

OnRamp Arts, a nonprofit digital arts studio engaging youth and artists in creative projects, will present an online festival of animation created by kids. Visit www.onramparts.org

Short Film Forum
Sunday, Sept. 15, 8 pm, Les Deux Cafe

A screening presented in the notorious back room at Les Deux Cafe; a specially selected array of short films and video from this westside weekly film club. More information at 323-653-0543.

Bean Cake
Dir.David Greenspan
*winner of Palme d'Or 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Eyeball Eddie
Dir.Elisabeth Allen

Jesus and Hutch
Dir.Paul Harrison

Learning to Swim
Dir.Christopher Olness "My Life is a Movie" Dir.Jeff Bacon, Jordan Capell, Odoi Odotei

One
Dir. Stewart Hendler

Prairie Dogs
Dir.J.W Wolterman.

The Barber
Dir.Michael Horelick

The Wormhole
Dir. Jessica Sharzer *winner of Student Academy Award 2002

Telephone
Dir. Terry Montlick Starring Spencer Beglarian

Skinn and Eclipse
Thurs-Friday, Sept.19-20 6-10pm , Saturday, Sept.21 Noon-7pm

This new outdoor exhibit space in the heart of Silver Lake will present a foretaste of a larger emergent traveling exhibition by Marcos Lutyens and Tania Lopez that charts a linkage process of the unconscious to architecture and clothes design. Visitors can experience a live demonstration of immersive navigation as well as examine forms extracted and constructed directly from the conscious. Antonio Aguilar (recently reviewed in the L.A. Weekly) is the featured clothes designer. During the three final days and evenings of the festival, Eclipse, a projected video installation by Marybeth Ward illuminates theÊsubliminal construction of consumer-based reality. More information is available at www.emanate.org and www.lutvens.net.