Archive for April, 2008
Tales of Mere Existence: How To Break Up
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Lev Yilmaz, 2:57—With his sharp, dry humor, Lev’s Tales of Mere Existence, cuts deep into life’s small yet painful truths.
Birthed from the real-life situations and obsessions of Lev himself, Tales captures Lev’s strange series of encounters including A Typical Conversation With My Mom, Procrastination, and I’m Not Going to Think About Her. As an introduction […]
Une Histoire Vertebrale
Monday, April 21st, 2008Jérémy Clapin, 9:10—In the eternal race to find love and happiness, some unfortunate souls start with a handicap. It is the case of the man we join as we start jump into Une Histoire Vertebrale (A Backbone Tale), a short animated movie by Jérémy Clapin, produced by Strapontin.
A malformation of his backbone forces our hero […]
Rapping at Fear
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Andrés Tabares, 6:44—Do movies really matter? Can a short film possibly make a difference in this world? Andrés Tabares, a high school senior from the slums of Bogota, Colombia sure thinks so.
Tabares is both the director and subject of Rapping at Fear, a short documentary currently competing in the 7th annual Media That Matters Film […]
Out There
Sunday, April 6th, 2008John Coven, 7:35—Originality is one of the greatest virtues a film can have. But few films are original, not in any grand way. Rather, they tell stories we’ve seen and heard and read hundreds of times before. The better ones present it a little differently, but the basics are old friends. […]