Nihilist Film Festival

The 2009 Nihilist Film Festival
will be held at Track 16 gallery.
The show will be in December
.
Track 16 Gallery is located in the Bergamot Station art complex in Santa Monica.
Bergamot station is at 2525 Michigan Avenue, near Olympic and 26th Street.
The gallery is in building C-1. Admission is five dollars.
Thanks to all those who attended and submitted films.

 


Entries for next year:

"If you've made a video that has appalled and offended other film festivals,"
says Nihilist Film Festival organizer Elisha Shapiro, "we're looking for you."
Artists and video-makers who want to submit videos for this year should send
an unprotected DVD (ntsc) copy to the:


Nihilist Film Festival
Box 36422
Los Angeles, CA 90036
.
Include a self-addressed-stamped envelop if you want your DVD returned.
The deadline is September 15, 2009.
If you have questions, you can e-mail Nihilist01@aol.com

 


Watch for the Best of The Nihilist Film Festival DVD,
a collection of 10 films from the nine years of the Nihilist Film Festival.
The dvd should be available by the end of November. It's a great collection.

 


 

 

See last year's program below.

Click here to see programs from previous years.

Last year was the tenth edition of the Nihilist Film Festival. We had another amusing
and grotesque selection of short films from around the country and around the world.
2008 was again hosted by Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica.


The 2008 Nihilist Film Festival was at
Track 16 gallery, Friday, December 19
at 8 pm.

Program 2008

 


Machine Gun Jesus 4 minutes
Dustin Snodgrass Los Angeles
Jesus Christ returns to 1970’s Los Angeles to clean up the streets… one motherfucker at a time.

Pollination 1:33 minutes
Ms. Max Chan New York City
Pollination is a traditionally animated 2D short detailing the beautiful, delicate process of pollination.

Automatic 30 minutes
Sharon Mooney Chicago
In an attempt to take control of his life, a customer service employee becomes obsessed with a chronic complaint letter writer. Automatic combines humor with unbalance; live-action + stop-motion to slip the viewer through reality and fantasy until the line is no longer discernable.

The Gynaecologist 9 minutes
Alfoso Cararero Coruna, Spain
A gynaecologist is working in her office at the hospital as normal. But the next patient....is a boy! Naturally the gynaecologist throws out the joker. But he returns with the coordinator (the gynaecologist’s boss), who commands that the gynaecologist examine her (meaning the patient)! It’s not a joke; it’s a conspiracy! But the troubles of the gynaecologist are just beginning...

 

Intermission

Botched Eyeball Operation 1 minutes
Clint Enns Winnipeg, Canada
Botched Eyeball Operation casts a voyeuristic gaze at a common operation gone awry. This is the video documentation of someone losing his/her sight, and for this reason, this video is more horrific than your typical slasher film produced in Hollywood. Music by Sea Wizard.


Notes from Shanghai
3 minutes
Vienne Chan Montreal, Canada
An aggressive collage of urban Shanghai, cut to a live set performed by Chinese noise musicians Torturing Nurse.


Wading 11:23 minutes
Fred Guerrier Queens Village, NY
Sour-faced Martha has more in common with her creepy co-worker than she thought, as the two go about finding love.


Miserys 8 minutes
Isabelle Vossart Annacy-Le-Vieux, France

Stanley & Simon in the Backyard Event 15 minutes
Directed by Jeremy Maupin Hollywood
and starring Vito Viscuso and Jeremy Maupin
In the backyard of Ms. Supli’s home for intellectually disabled adults, guests Stanley and Simon innocently and accidentally stumble upon the quintessence of the revivification Phenomenon.


Petting a Dead Cat 4 minutes
Steve Wright Los Angeles
Strange things happen in the desert when a man realizes that dead cats need love too. Based on a poem by Steve Wright, published by Thieves Jargon Press.

 

Bonus Video
Clips from Nihilists' Corner TV
from the past 16 years, featuring LA artists.

 


See Programs from Previous Years

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