All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert
USA/74 min/Art
Vivian Ducat (Winfred Rembert In Person)
The brightly colored paintings of Winfred Rembert – executed on leather canvases he learned to make in prison – describe life in the 1950's and 60's Jim Crow south. This film chronicles his journey from a chain gang in Georgia to a top-tier gallery on Madison Avenue. The film also traces the contrast between his family life in a rough neighborhood and the art world of wealthy collectors. www.allmethemovie.com
Mon. Oct. 17, 12:15PM (Malco 2)
Fri. Oct. 21, 6:00PM (Malco 2)
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Among Giants
USA/14min/Environmental
Chris Cresci & Ben Mullinkosson
As clear cutting continues to ravage California's coastal redwood region, Farmer, an environmental activist, decides to tree sit to defend the McKay Tract. A hundred feet up in the ancient redwood canopy, Farmer must battle the elements and avoid isolation as he fights for a sustainable future. www.amonggiantsfilm.wordpress.com
Sat. Oct. 15, 9PM-Block (Malco 2)
Mon. Oct. 17, 9:15PM-Block (Malco 1)
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Big in Bollywood
USA/74min/Humor
Kenny Meehan, Bill Bowles, Matt McCroskey – In Person
American-born Omi Vaidya, a 27-year old struggling actor in L.A., lands a dream role in a huge Bollywood film, which quickly skyrockets to the most successful Bollywood film in history. Omi becomes a national sensation and struggles with the pressure of needing to continue his career while he is still 'hot,' and to care for his wife, who waits wistfully for his return to Los Angeles. www.biginbollywood.com
Mon. Oct. 17, 6:25PM (Malco 2)
Sat. Oct. 22, 6:40PM (Malco 1)
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Black Damp
USA/11min/Experimental
Lydia Moyer – In Person
A fire has been burning underneath the town of Centralia in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region for forty years, and it is believed there is enough coal underneath it to fuel the fire for at least two hundred more. Using archival photos and footage of the site as it appears today, the film explores the strange story of the town, the culpability of government in the face of disaster, and the experience of ownership.
Mon Oct. 17, 11:30AM-Block (Malco 1)
Sun. Oct. 23, 10:05AM-Block (Malco 2)
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Bound By Haiti
Haiti/47min/Global
Jon Bougher/Roman Safiullin – In Person
The story of Aaron Jackson and John Dieubon – two young international activists forced to deal with the tragedy of the Haiti earthquake first-hand. Featuring rare video and photos, Bound by Haiti follows these unlikely friends on a journey for change before and after one of the most catastrophic international events of our time. www.boundbyhaiti.com
Sat. Oct. 15, 1:55PM-Block (Malco 1)
Mon. Oct. 17, 4:25PM-Block (Malco 1)
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The City Dark
USA/82min/Environmental
Ian Cheney
A feature documentary about the loss of night. After moving to NYC from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks a simple question ‘do we need the stars’?, taking him from Brooklyn to Mauna Kea, Paris, and beyond. The City Dark is the definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars. www.thecitydark.com
Mon. Oct. 17, 1:00PM (Malco 1)
Thu. Oct. 20, 7:20PM (Malco 1)
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Crooked Beauty
USA/30min/Experimental
Ken Paul Rosenthal, Angel Vasquez
Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara's transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward patient to pioneering mental health advocacy. It is a portrait of her personal quest to live with courage and dignity, and a critique of standard psychiatric treatments. Poignant testimonials connect the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area. www.crookedbeauty.com
Mon Oct. 17, 2:55PM-Block...
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Devil’s Gate
USA/20min/Experimental
Laura Kraning
DEVIL’S GATE explores the metaphysical undercurrents of a Southern California landscape scarred by fire. Merging an observational portrait with an otherworldly textual narrative, it unearths a subconscious of the landscape, as the echoes of the past reverberate in the present and infect our perception and experience of place.
Sat. Oct. 15, 9:00PM-Block (Malco 2)
Mon. Oct. 17, 9:15PM-Block (Malco 1)
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The Florestine Collection
USA/31min/Personal, Animated
Helen Hill & Paul Gailiunas
Experimental Animator Helen Hill found more than 100 handmade dresses in a trash pile on one Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. She set out to make a film about the dressmaker, a deceased African-American seamstress. The dresses and much of the film footage were later flood-damaged by Hurricane Katrina while Helen was still working on the film. Helen was murdered in a home invasion in New Orleans in 2007. Her husband Paul Gailiunas completed the film, which includes Helen's original silhouette, cut-out,...
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The Great Dictator: Sam Kalow’s Collection
USA/8min/History
Nancy Kalow
An eccentric collection of mid-20th-century dictating equipment reflects one man’s zeal for the history and design of “Dead Media” wax cylinder, wire, and magnetic recording machines. www.ibiblio.org/deadmedia_dictation
Mon. Oct. 17, 10AM-Block (Malco 1)
Wed. Oct. 19, 1:45PM-Block (Malco 1)
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Hammock Longest Year
USA/8min/Music
Thomas Petillo – In Person
Our longtime photographer, Thomas Petillo, convinced us that our audience wanted to see more of us actually doing what we do. So that's what he filmed. He made a video specifically for you guys. Hope you like... -Hammock
Sat. Oct. 15, 9:00PM-Block (Malco 2)
Mon. Oct. 17, 9:15PM-Block (Malco 1)
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HN Hermann Nitsch
Italy, Switzerland/62min/Biography, Art, Music
For Mature Audiences Only
An intimate portrait of the human being behind the renowned and highly controversial Austrian painter, performer, composer and writer Hermann Nitsch, best known for his 'Theater of the Orgies and Mysteries', featuring images from Nitsch's private and unpublished archives. www.hn-movie.org
Mon. Oct. 17, 9:25PM (Malco 2)
Tue. Oct. 18, 9:20PM (Malco 2)
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I, Wombot
Australia/48min/Science
Andre Mueller & Cleo Mees
I, Wombot begins when Associate Professor Michael Heimlich kick-starts Australia’s first ever team to compete at the international FIRST® Robotics Competition. This underdog story follows the high school Australian team, 'Thunder Down Under', as they take on the challenge of designing and building a robot in only six weeks, accompany their robot to New Hampshire, USA, and compete in a high-octane sports tournament against forty-eight other robots.
Mon Oct. 17, 10:00AM-Block (Malco 1)
Wed. Oct. 19, 1:45PM-Block (Malco...
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Kudzu Vine
USA/20min/Experimental
Josh Gibson
Through images of kudzu-covered forms, radiating with the luminance of early cinema, this ode to the climbing, trailing, and coiling vine species Pueraria lobata evokes the agricultural history and mythic textures of the South, while paying tribute to the human capacity for improvisation.
Sat. Oct. 15, 9:00PM-Block (Malco 2)
Mon. Oct. 17, 9:15PM-Block (Malco 1)
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Lioness- World Premiere
Kenya/25min/Human Interest
Lisa Cole – In Person
A story of hope and survival in one of the World’s most notorious slums, where one out of four girls is raped every year. This short documentary film personalizes crisis and promotes self-defense as a sensible solution.
Sat. Oct. 15, 1:55PM-Block (Malco 1)
Mon. Oct. 17, 4:25PM-Block (Malco 1)
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Moroloja - US Premiere
Italy/10min/Experimental
Alexander Ingham Brooke
Italian w/ English Subtitles
In 1962, Cecilia Mangini, an Italian filmmaker, made Stendali, a documentary about a group of women who practiced an Ancient Greek funeral rite in the southern Italian town of Martano (Puglia, Lecce). Shortly after the filming of Stendali, the women died out. With no one to replace them, the rites disappeared, leaving the town in its silence. In 2011, 50 years later, the film Moroloja looks back upon the site of the funeral, revisiting the town of Martano, revealing that some of the women...
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Mississippi Innocence
USA/60min/Crime
Joe York
Mississippi Innocence tells the story of Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer, two men who combined spent over thirty years behind bars for crimes they did not commit.
mississippiinnocence.org
Mon. Oct. 17, 6:10PM (Malco 1)
Sat. Oct. 22, 3:00PM (Malco 2)
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Penultimate
USA/4min/Art & Collecting
Paul Myers
Discarded pens take on new life in this portrait of Californian artist, designer and pen collector, Costas Schuler.
Mon. Oct. 17, 10AM-Block (Malco 1)
Wed. Oct. 19, 1:45PM-Block (Malco 1)
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Rabbi and Cesar Chavez
USA/14min/Historical
Daniel Robin
A short film about fathers and sons, an assassination plot on Cesar Chavez that was buried in history, and how storytelling becomes a catalyst for reverence and love.
Mon. Oct. 17, 3:00PM-Block (Malco 2)
Wed. Oct. 19, 3:20PM-Block (Malco 1)
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Skydancer
USA/75min/Native American
Katja Esson
For more than 120 years, six generations of Mohawk Ironworkers have raised America's modern cityscapes. They are called 'sky walkers' because they walk fearlessly atop steel beams high above the city streets. On 9/11, Mohawk ironworkers from all over the country rushed to Ground Zero, dismantling what their grandfathers and fathers had built. Skydancer takes a different look at Mohawk Indian Ironworkers. Jerry McDonald Thundercloud, Sky Fox and their families must master the delicate and dangerous balancing act each in their very own way - dancing...
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Stuff
USA/82min/Personal
Lawerence Johnson – In Person
Stuff relates the personal odyssey of a Portland, Oregon filmmaker dealing with his father's death and the garage-sized storage unit full of the stuff he left behind. The film also follows the filmmaker's long-time friend who drives to Iowa to bury his father's ashes. Part road movie, part meditation, Stuff is an intimate and unflinching examination of the father/son relationship. www.stuffthefilm.com
Mon. Oct. 17, 4:35PM (Malco 2)
Sat. Oct. 22, 11:45AM (Malco 1)
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Unchastened
USA/4min/Cancer, Dance
Brynmore Williams
The story of one woman's journey beyond breast cancer, utilizing dance as a means of survival. www.unchastened.com
Mon Oct. 17, 11:30AM-Block (Malco 1)
Sun. Oct. 23, 10:05AM-Block (Malco 2)
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The Voyagers
USA/17min/Experimental
Penny Lane
In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyagers 1 & 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Together and alone, they will travel until the end of the universe. Each spacecraft carries a golden record, a massive complication of images, and sounds embodying the best of Planet Earth.
Mon Oct. 17, 11:30AM-Block (Malco 1)
Sun. Oct. 23, 10:05AM-Block (Malco 2)
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Zero Percent
USA/104min/Prison
Tim Skousen
Filmmakers were given rare access within the walls of the notorious Sing Sing Correctional facility, to follow the lives of several of society's forgotten men. They experience the transformative power of education, while going through a rigorous college program called Hudson Link-- with astounding statistical results.
Mon. Oct. 17, 10:05AM (Malco 2)
Thu. Oct. 20, 8:00PM (Central)
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