10:00 - Moviate

Welcome to the 18th Annual
Moviate Underground Film Festival
at ARTSFEST
May 27th-29th, 2016
Schedule of Events
(All events are free, but we suggest a $3 donation to help the festival.)
The 18th annual Moviate Underground Film Festival at Harrisburg's Artsfest continues
in the independent spirit of underground filmmaking with special in-person filmmaker
experiences, highlighting great filmmaking from around the world. This year we are excited
to project many of the films as super-8 or 16mm film prints.
This is our fourth year showing our daytime programming in the wonderful Civic Club
building along the Susquehanna River. We continue our tradition of our evening screenings
at the great Midtown Cinema on Reily Street.
To kick off the festival Friday night, we welcome filmmakers Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee
Huang presenting their film "HOTEL DALLAS" followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
(8:30PM)
On Saturday night, we welcome Carter Stevens, cult movie legend, showing a rare
restoration of "PUNK ROCK" from 1976, featuring a seedy crime story wrapped around the
burgeoning punk scene of Max's Kansas City in the 1970's. Carter will introduce the film
and chat about it afterwards. (8PM).
Immediately following, is a special sneak preview of a new Criterion Collection 2K
Restoration of "FANTASTIC PLANET" which will be released this summer. The advantage
here is that you can see it first, and in full 2K resolution at the Midtown Cinema! (10PM)
Also on Saturday night, the festival’s annual “Midnight Madness at the Midtown” will
feature one of the most terrifying cult horror films "SOCIETY". This film will be a great treat
at midnight. These screenings will be at the Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily St.
More highlights on Saturday include a curated animation block: "ANIMATION NUGGETS"
at 4pm by local animator Dana Sink, who will present his work as well in the program.
Always a blast of fresh air and family friendly!
The Artsfest Film Festival has been able to keep the film screenings free for 18 years
with gracious and generous support from: Jump Street, The Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts, the Midtown Cinema. In addition to these donations, we also fund this festival
using donations received from patrons during the festival and festival entry fees.
The festival is completely volunteer operated with a core group of volunteers.
Moviate core members include: Tara Chickey, James Hollenbaugh, Josh Drake, Jeremy
Moss, Michael Robinson, and Caleb Smith. A huge contribution by Dana Sink, who created
the animation bump and artwork for the program/posters/tshirts.
Special thanks to all the volunteers who dedicate time and passion to the
Moviate Underground Film Festival at Artsfest and to the staff of the Midtown Cinema,
Civic Club of Harrisburg, Jump Street, and JBShope Consulting.
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instagram.com/moviate_harrisburg
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[Midtown Cinema]
8:30
Fri May 27
8:30PM
"HOTEL DALLAS"
In Person Introduction and Q&A with Directors Livia Ungur and
Sherng-Lee Huang. 2016, 74 Minutes
HOTEL DALLAS, a Romanian-American feature film that combines
fiction and documentary, premiered at the Berlin International Film
Festival, as part of the Panorama Dokumente program (February 2016).
In the 80s, in the twilight of communist Romania, "Dallas" is the only
American show allowed on TV. It offers a vision of wealth and glamour
that captures the imagination of millions. Among them are Ilie and his
daughter Livia. He is a small-time criminal and aspiring capitalist; she is
in love with the show’s handsome leading man, Patrick Duffy.
After communism falls, Ilie builds the Hotel Dallas, a life-size copy of the
“Dallas” mansion. Livia immigrates to America, becomes a filmmaker,
and directs a movie starring Patrick Duffy, as a soap opera character
who dies in Texas and wakes up in Romania, in a hotel that looks just like
home.
Livia guides her childhood idol on a genre-bending road trip across a
Romanian dreamscape—through the failed utopias of communism and
capitalism, into a realm of ghosts and lost time.
http://www.hoteldallasfilm.com
“Hotel Dallas”
by Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee Huang
Fri
Sat May 28
12:00
Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 N Front St
Saturday May 28th, 2016: 12noon
El Chivo (2016) by Rod Murphy, 80 minutes
'El Chivo' (the Mountain Goat) is what the indigenous Tarahumara
Indians of Mexico's Copper Canyons call Runner Will Harlan ever since he
won the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon in 2009, a race made infamous in
the bestseller 'Born to Run.' Since Harlan's first visit with the Tarahumara,
who are reknown for long distance running and their sustainable life-style,
he's dramatically changed the way his family lives by moving to an off-thegrid farm in North Carolina, where they grow their food and run a non-profit
for the Tarahumara. El Chivo chronicles what motivates Harlan to live life
this deliberately by showing the physical and mental demands while also
detailing the toll it takes on the family of an altruistic, elite Ultra Marathoner.
Showing with:
El Jardin by Nicholas Bunch, Arcadia Hartung, 10 minutes
On his last day in Mexico, last day on Earth, a cursed man wakes from a
nightmare haunted by specters, unable to return home. In a buzzing stupor,
a lurching path leads him only back into the crystal prison of his own visions. The air is too crisp, the colors are too bright; the mezcal is too strong
as the main character drowns in a paranoid dream world. An homage to
Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, El Jardin is a pursuit for reality in an
unreal world.
2:00
Saturday 2PM NARRATIVE DETOURS
scamps & GOONS by Giancarlo Diaz, 20 minutes
This live action, black and white short film is about a group of
3rd Graders who attempt to rally other lower grade students to take back
their schoolyard from the grasp of a Bully and his 6th Grade classmates by
challenging them to an epic dodgeball match. http://scampsandgoons.com
Aster and Sidney by Sean Temple, 20 minutes.
After the collapse of society, a secret threatens to destroy two women's
relationship. http://www.seanrtemple.com/#!aster-and-sidney/ot0dw
Imaginary Fiend by Diana Galimzyanova, 10 minutes.
Everything goes wrong when an agoraphobic misanthropist orders
himself an imaginary enemy. This short film is an allegory for life with
Aspergers hence the lack of body language, facial expressions, tone of
voice, eye contacts etc. in the film. http://imaginaryfiendfilm.tumblr.com/
Sat
Civic Club
Sat May 28
3:00
Saturday 3PM INWARD/OUTWARD
To Summon and Chase Away by Madsen Mianx, 11 min.
Amid a ceaseless, still winter, coldness engulfs. Frolicking through a snowy
rural expanse and a legacy of post-industrial decay, a young boy encounters his
own death and bears witness to his past, present and future in this experimental
short. www.madsenminaxc.om
pm
From One’s Silence to Other’s by Panu Johansson, Annika Rapo, 9 min.
A fragmented collage reassembles a life lost. A radiant yet fractured narrative
replete with lacunae found in history and time, refracted through the half-light of
memory and film. The piece combines different kinds of materials in a collagelike way: it consists of short fragments, which all document certain places, objects
or events. All these are tied around one deceased person and his life-story.
www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en/art/16725
Ghost Ship by Peter Buntaine, 5 min.
In the tedium, so desolately green, of the glasshouse of sorrow, the flowers
entwine my heart with their evil stems. Ah! When will the dear hands return about
my head, so tenderly disentwining?' -Claude Debussy, Proses Lyriques
peterbuntaine.com/shorts
Clandestine by Atoosa Pour Hosseini, 15 minutes
Clandestine Layers both space and time, superimposing imagery and creating
entrancing patterns of repetition and startling interruption. Voyaging from one land
to another, from found footage to mysteriously evocative scenes shot by the artist
to the pure abstraction of hand-scratched film, it traces a haunting inner logic of
memory and discovery. www.atoosapourhosseini.com/
River by Stephanie Maxwell, 10 minutes
River presents a unique perspective on the exquisite beauty that is present in
infinite abundance when one focuses attention on the intimate motions of river
water and its animated reflections and refractions of sunlight and sky. Image
sequences of the river and the interplay of river motion and the changing patterns of light on the water are merged into a playful choreography with the music
score. What culminates is to marvel at the natural splendor of distinctively subtle
but profound impressions of a river. River was filmed on the Chetco River and
Moolack Creek in Oregon, and the Smith River in Northern California. The
work was shot digitally using a Canon Mark III 5D camera and an iPhone 4s.
vimeo.com/user8014452
Cont.
Sat
Cont.
Cont.
3:00
612 n. Front St.
Sat
Sat May 28
Civic Club of Harrisburg
Old Growth by Ryan Marino, 9 min.
Amid the arboreal giants and temperate organisms of a primeval rain forest lurks
an elusive luminous force. www.ryanmarino.com
From One’s Silence to Other’s
by Panu Johansson
Clandestine
by Atoosa Pour Hosseini
3:00
Sat
Saturday 4PM ANIMATION NUGGETS!
Curated by animator Dana Sink (in-person!)
Totem by Caleb Wood, 2 min.
A celebration of anima. vimeo.com/calebwood
Sat
Cont.
pm
4:00
Sat May 28
L’ Oeil du Cyclone by Masanobu Hiraoki, 5 min.
Matching scenes with music, the forms of humans and shapes change. This expresses the
wandering heart. vimeo.com/user6065152
Afternoon Class by Seoro Oh , 4 min.
The drowsiness flocking towards me during the afternoon lessons, the head gets heavier
and I try to stay alert. oseoro.tumblr.com/
Inaudible by Gints Zilbalodis, 8 min.
A musician becomes deaf and struggles to adapt to a new life.
gzilbalodis.tumblr.com/
London by Peter Millard, 2 min.
I live in London. The capital city of England. One of the busiest cities in the world. I grew
up in Great Malvern. Animation commissioned by Winsor and Newton to promote their new
range of Pigment Markers. www.hellopetermillard.com
Bicycle by Dana Sink, 2 min.
I want to ride my bike. www.danasink.com
The Poem by Chen Xi & An Xu, 7 min.
An ancient was looking for the plum blossom in the snow storm during the trip.
Cupids Serenade by Jeca Martinez, 4 min.
What happens when a carefree young god of romance meets his first love? A musical
fiasco, that's for sure! jecamartinez.com/
Love Ball Trilogy by Dana Sink, 8 min.
The Love Ball Trilogy is a series of animations that explore the different stages in life through
a complex maze that a ball travels through. This will be a world premier for Love Ball: part 2
vimeo.com/user13860696/
Snowfall by Conner Wheelan, 5 min.
An anxious young man has a moving experience at a friend’s house party.
www.conorwhelandesign.com Perfect Houseguest by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, 2 min.
A house is visited by a clean, organized and well-mannered guest.
www.tinyinventions.com
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Episode 4) by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling, 5 min.
If only there was some way to learn everything about the world.
beckyandjoes.com/
Sat
Sat
Saturday 8PM PUNK ROCK
Location: Midtown Cinema - 250 Reily St, Harrisburg, PA 17102
Cont.
pm
8:00
Sat May 28
PUNK ROCK (1977)
In Person Introduction and Q&A with Director Carter Stevens
Classic Sexploitation Director Carter Stevens delivers a dose of sex, drugs and
Punk Rock in this Authentic Grindhouse Cult Feature Film from the heyday of the
NYC Punk movement - 1977!
On the track of a teenage runaway, a trail of murder, sex, and drugs leads private
eye Jimmy (Wade Nichols) into the decadent New York City night world: from
massage parlors to penthouses and after-hours nightclubs; from sex slavers and
pimps to the dangerous members of a killer rock'n'roll band!
Featuring live performances at legendary New York City Punk Club - Max's Kansas
City - by Elda and The Stillettos (which originally featured Chris Stein & Debbie
Harry from BLONDIE) plus rare performances by The Fast, The Squirrels, and
Spicy Bits!
See classic golden age adult film stars in one of their non-adult film roles! Featuring NYC performers Wade Nichols (disco star Dennis Parker) & Robert Kerman
(Debbie Does Dallas, Cannibal Holocaust). This crazy caper must be seen to be
believed! (77 Minutes, 1977)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0124083/
PUNK ROCK by Carter Stevens
Sat
Saturday 10PM Midtown Cinema - 250 Reily St, Harrisburg, PA 17102
Cont.
10:00
Sat May 28
FANTASTIC PLANET, by René Laloux
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel
Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction.
The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the
playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow
Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly
surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain
Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973
counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and
violence. JANUS/CRITERION 2K Restoration, shown in 2K!
(1973, 72 min.) www.criterion.com/films/28636-fantastic-planet
Showing with: REGAL by Karissa Hahn, 3 min.
from: film (theater) to > youtube (home) > to film (theater) // torrented/pirated (digital)
images as found footage // printed from a household printer onto 16mm clear film // //
Such as the loading dial, REGAL aims to circulate and find its way back to the screen.
Take this proxy and see that the ghost has become tangible.
www.karissahahn.com/regal
10:00
pm
FANTASTIC PLANET, by René Laloux
Sat
midnight
May 28
12 Midnight SOCIETY & Midnight Short Films!
Midtown Cinema - 250 Reily St
SOCIETY by Brian Yuzna
"IT IS A MATTER OF GOOD BREEDING. REALLY."
-After producing Stuart Gordon’s hit Re-Animator, Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead III) turned his hand to directing with 1989’s Society, and gave birth
to one of the ickiest, most original body horror shockers of all time.
Teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) has always felt like the odd one out in his wealthy,
upper-class Beverly Hills family. For some reason, he just doesn’t seem to fit in. But his
sense of alienation takes a sinister turn when he hears an audio recording of his sister’s
coming-out party, which seems to implicate his family and others in a bizarre, ritualistic
orgy. And then there are the strange things he’s been seeing – glimpses of people with
their bodies contorted impossibly out of shape… Is Bill going mad or is there something
seriously amiss in his neighborhood?
Packing stomach-churning gore and thought-provoking social commentary in equal measure, Society is a biting horror satire which culminates in one of the most gag-inducing
“climaxes”’ in all of horror history. (99 minutes, 1989)
www.arrowfilms.co.uk/society/
SOCIETY
by Brian Yuzna
12:00
Sat
midnight
May 28
Showing with:
La Colombiana by Ibai Vigil–Escalera, 4 minutes.
A naive girl finds herself trap in a male bathhouse, where a dark secret is hidden.
vimeo.com/ibaivigil
Slow Creep by Jim Hickcox, 12 min.
Fifteen-year-old Otter is excited that she's finally found the horror film she's been
seeking for weeks. She brings it home to watch with her brother and his friend, not
realizing that she's doomed them to an encounter with the Slow Creep.
www.foulsanctum.com
Gwilliam by Brian Lonano, 6 min.
A recently released criminal is looking for a good time. He can forget his sins but he
can never forget...Gwilliam. vimeo.com/brianlonano
La Colombiana
by Ibai Vigil–Escalera
12:00
midnight
Sun May 29
Civic Club of Harrisburg
612 n. Front St. Harrisburg.
12:00
pm
Sunday 12PM
OFFBEAT/UNIQUE
Monster Movie by Neil Ira Needleman, 22 min.
A lovingly assembled mash-up salute to low-budget monster and science fiction
movies of the 1950s. As a kid, I feasted my eyes on a steady stream of these flicks,
relishing the site of every alien monster, radiation-instigated mutation, and giant
creature I could find on my old black-and-white TV. My constant childhood diet of
these movies goes a long way to explaining why I've become the demented fool I am
today. Nyah-ha-ha. www.NeedlemanArt.com
stray gods by Sara Santos, 8 min. A film about ruin, disobedience and shadows.
cargocollective.com/saramorgadosantos/deuses-vadios-stray-gods
A Noodle in the Rain by Minki Hong, 8 min.
In a rainy day, I just want something warm or hot. So I boil the water to eat a Korean
instant ramen.
The Nude by Brian Zahm, 10 min.
A satirical look at a male nude model with a God complex who poses for a group of
painters and ponders his relation to art, artists and the known universe. bzahm.com
A B C A M by Richard Martin, 8 min.
A B C A M (or A & B Cam) presents a scene from a TV movie where the angles have
been superimposed to explore cinematic conventions. It reveals the narrative, angles
as well as the adjustments in performance to observe the process in its rawness and
mesmerizing predictability. www.richardmartinfilm.com/
Privy by David Finkelstein, 20 min.
A young woman is forced to live with an unsympathetic stepmother, and spends
much of her time in an outhouse, escaping into books and her own vivid fantasy
life. “Privy” uses oblique, poetic language, fanciful images and musical interludes to
depict her daydreams and her evolving plans for escape. Based on an improvisation
by actors David Finkelstein and Ian W. Hill. www.lakeivan.org
12:00
Sun
Sun May 29
Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 n. front st.
Sunday 1:30PM
1:30
DIARY & OBSERVATIONAL
Monument by Marcin Gizycki, 3 min.
A secret life of monumental sculptures from The Soviet Military Cemetery in
Warsaw, Poland.
Red, Blue and Purple by Janek Ambros, 4 min.
A man's mind jumps back and forth between collectivism and objectivism.
www.assemblylineentertainment.com
My Phenix City Story by Neil Ira Needleman, 4 min.
Some thoughts about the changing nature and depiction of violence in a
world in which terrorism and bloodshed are becoming part of the daily routine.
www.NeedlemanArt.com
Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six by Josh Weissbach, 11 min.
Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six displays the physical changes of the maker’s
heart since being born with the congenital disorder, Transposition of
the Great Vessels. This chronicle showcases a movement from human
to cyborg that connects personal vulnerability to 1980s science fiction.
www.fandor.com/filmmakers/director-josh-weissbach
The Bags, Probably 1971 by Yates, 6 min.
A southern family of four is reincarnated during this hand-processed assemblage
of their previously unearthed audio/visual keepsakes. thisisyates.com
Idyll by Mary Billyou, 6 min.
Fewer families were born, lived, and died in the same place. People, especially
young ones, were ready for a new life, as far removed from the old one as possible. Living space was much smaller and there were few, if any, servants. Many
wives were working outside the home and leisure was not to be spent doing
housework, but in being out of doors as much as possible. Emphasis was on
informal living and informal entertaining. marybillyou.com
Abandoned Generations by Linda Fenstermaker, 10 min.
A portrait of farmland in the Pacific Northwest, "Abandoned Generations" explores relationships with land and time in different generations. Told through the
perspective of a female farmer in the 1940s, the film questions the distance that
modern society has from the earth and how that relationship informs daily life.
cargocollective.com/lindafenstermaker
Two Aries by Josh Weissbach, 4 min.
Two Aries that are simultaneously the same and different.
www.fandor.com/filmmakers/director-josh-weissbach
PM
1:30
Sun
2:45
PM
Sun May 29
Sunday 2:45PM
EXPERIMENTAL MEDLEY
Location: The Civic Club of Harrisburg - 612 N Front St, Harrisburg, PA 17101
SPIDER, spinner of worlds by Melissa Myser, 8 min.
They say Spider was living in a village by the ocean. She had moved East, in her
old age to a place many older animals lived. But Spider had never lived anywhere
other than the western desert. In her days here, she spun webs from her memories
of home. She looked up at the sky and remembered how night came in the desert.
Suddenly, and in purple.melissamyser.com
Men at Work by Panu Johansson, 6 min.
Cinema has always had a special interest in factory workers. In fact the first
Lumière brothers film "Workers Leaving the Factory" from 1895 has often been
credited as the first motion picture ever made. In the 20th century also many
experimental filmmakers depicted the rat race of modern life in their own way.
"Men at Work" depicts one average workday in the factory environment. The
repetitive and dull nature of industrial work is underlined by speeding up the
time code of the original material and by looping the material back and forth
every now and then. When all natural movement is destroyed, the machines
and the people working with them blend together and eventually become one.
www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en/art/16726
DRONE by Steven Lapcevic, 5 min.
An infinite routine. www.stevenlapcevic.com
The first ant to come out by Stefano Schirru, 4 min.
You take three matchboxes, put 1,000 black ants in the first, 10,000 in the second
and 50 in the third, together with one red ant in each, shut the boxes, and bore a
hole in each of them, small enough to allow only one ant to crawl through at a time.
What will come out first? A free adaptation of C. G. Jung's Synchronicity: An Acausal
Connecting Principle.
Street Twenty-Seven Number Ten Sixteen by Josh Weissbach, 3 min.
In Street Twenty-Seven Number Ten Sixteen there is the memory of a bedroom
in an apartment on the third floor of a building. There is a reverie of a melancholic
love song playing on an airplane, flying towards an island, straddling an ocean and
a sea. There is the soft haze of an embargo slowly lifting into the celestial blue.
www.fandor.com/filmmakers/director-josh-weissbach
Annie by Haleema Gondal, 3 min.
Hollow and lost in her voice, a life formed by voicemails.
www.youtube.com/user/Treebulbbook
Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 n. front st.
SUN
Civic Club of Harrisburg
2:45
Sun May 29
Cont.
612 n. Front St. Harrisburg.
Invocation of Uzi by Ross Meckfessel, 5 min.
Ostensibly an abstracted portrait of actress Jojo Hill as she portrays five different
characters in this behind-the-scenes documentary of Uzi’s Party: an experimental
pagan teen drama by Lyra Hill. However, the film is also a ritual in and of itself; it
captures the energies within the pagan temple used as a filming location, while visually portraying the disintegration of identity that occurs throughout the narrative of
Uzi's Party. www.rossmeckfessel.com
The Last Place I Saw It by Zach Reese, Dustin Stuppy, 9 min.
A meditation on loss and our attachment to the material world.
www.vimeo.com/zachreese
theoria by Josh Weissbach, 6 min.
A Greek man, once a guide on the island of Delos, started discussing what the
word theory meant. Our ensuing conversation was the initial inspiration for this film,
entitled theoria [theh-oh-ree-ah].
www.fandor.com/filmmakers/director-josh-weissbach
The Last Place I Saw Itby Zach Reese, Dustin Stuppy
Sun
4:00
PM
Sun May 29
Sunday 4PM HOW THE SKY WILL MELT
Location: The Civic Club of Harrisburg - 612 N Front St, Harrisburg, PA 17101
How the Sky Will Melt by Matthew Wade, 89 min, 2015.
Gwen, a musician with a growing paranoia disorder, returns to her hometown
after a traumatic event. Diverting their emotional issues with a strange and unholy
discovery, she and her friends begin to deteriorate the fabric of the universe.
howtheskywillmelt.com
Showing with:
Shadowbox by Ryder Thomas White, 13 min.
A man, lost in the disjunction between a joke and its punchline, tries to escape the
physical void space in which he becomes trapped.
ryderthomaswhite.com/#shadowbox
Delusions of Grandeurby Patrick Loy, 6 min.
The story of a man's subconscious coming alive and threatens to take over his
body. vimeo.com/dreamelusive
How the Sky Will Melt by Matthew Wade
Civic Club of Harrisburg 612 n. front st.
SUN
8:00
PM
Sun May 29
FRACTION INFRACTION
(Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily St.)
FRACTION INFRACTION: A Contemporary Short Film Program
Curated by James Hollenbaugh
David Fair Is The King by Skizz Cyzyk, 7 min.
A visit with David Fair, retired bookmobile librarian and underground music legend (co-founder of the hugely influential art punk band Half Japanese), as he shows off collections of thrift
store paintings, Mr. Peanuts, his Nancy tattoo, and his sunny outlook on life and art.
www.skizz.net/
Nuthouse Drawings by James Hollenbaugh, 6 min.
Susan Lowe is most well known as an actress in the early movies of filmmaker John Waters.
This short portrait film focuses on Susan's life as an artist and in particular her works known
as 'Nuthouse Drawings'. Sometimes thought of as painting friends, Susan started creating
these works while staying at a psychiatric hospital. Serving as a way to battle her depression,
fear, and loneliness, the 'Nuthouse Drawings' are a one of a kind look into the mind of one of
Baltimore's most imaginative artists. vimeo.com/hollenbaugh
Trial Run by Lawrence Klein, 26 min.
Following a humiliating job search, Gabe looks set for success after answering an online
recruitment ad. He soon finds himself on a bizarre cross-country odyssey filled with strange
signs and symbols, seedy hotel rooms, dead prostitutes, and possibly extraterrestrial garbage men. Can Gabe put the pieces together and maintain his composure, or will he stay a
victim of his own neuroses? And just who are Gabe’s seemingly otherworldly employers, and
how much of his own mysterious past will affect his future?
Starring Bryan Lewis Saunders and Jasmin St. Claire trialrunfilm.com/
Grey Water / Black Water by Josh Drake, 4min.
A short portrait of a father’s anxiety told through an in-camera Super 8 double-exposure.
vimeo.com/whipplewash
Pickle by Amy Nicholson, 15 min.
Pickle is an ode to man’s capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly
protracted existence until their occasionally sudden and unfortunate demise.
vimeo.com/amybnicholson
Take What You Can Carry by Matthew Porterfield, 30 min.
A character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space,
TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY is a picture of a young woman seen through the interiors
she occupies and the company she keeps. A North American living abroad, Lilly aspires to
shape an intimate and private place of her own while connecting to the world around her.
When she receives a letter from home, it provides the conduit she needs to fuse her transient
self with the person she's always known herself to be. Starring Hannah Gross (I Used To Be
Darker, Valedictorian) hamiltonfilmgroup.org/
PM
8:00
Sun
10:00
PM
Sun May 29
AT ONE FELL SWOOP
Location: Midtown Cinema - 250 Reily St, Harrisburg, PA 17102
At One Fell Swoop by Michael Higgins, 75 min. 2015
At One Fell Swoop deals with a stone carver and his metamorphic wander through rural
Ireland. In passing he slips through the film’s frames into a re-imagining of his surroundings
in which he finds himself trapped on an intense cataclastic path towards a dead end. Photographed on expired 16mm black and white film and entirely hand-processed, At One Fell
Swoop resembles a phantom-like film lodged amid multiple stratums of time and space.
atonefellswoopfilm.com/
Showing with:
XO by Brian Ratigan, 4 min.
Fearing her own memories, a girl begins the cerebral journey of longing for escape before
completely fading away. non-films.com
PM
10:00
At One Fell Swoop by Michael Higgins
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