The
2011 Nihilist Film Festival
will be held at the Echo Park Film Center
on Friday, December 2 at 8:00.
The Echo Park Film Center is located at 1200 N. Alvarado St. at Sunset in Echo
Park.
For the twelfth year, the Nihilist Cultural Foundation presents
the Nihilist International Film Festival. This year’s evening of films
will be presented at the Echo Park Film Center. The show will start at 8:00
pm on Friday, December 2. The festival includes two hours of short films from
around the country and around the world. The films range from troubling to hilarious,
from profound to completely silly. Pretty much, something for everyone (except
children and clergy).
Festival Director Elisha Shapiro commented, “Twelve years of hilariously
offensive short films…I really thought we would have caused the rapture
by now. Guess there’s no downside to mocking all that’s holy.”
As a special feature, all those who bring their own televisions and arrive fifteen
minutes early will be able to include their appliances in the traditional ritual
Blessing of the Televisions featuring the high priestess of performance art,
Anna Homler.
The
2011 Nihilist Film Festival was at
Echo Park Film Center on Sunday, December 2 at 8:00.
Program 2011
Thy Kill Be Done
17 minutes
Greg Hanson Brooklyn
and Casey Regan Boston
The Monsignor priest of an inner city church is killed by a gang of hoodlums
and their drug lord leader, so the nuns in the church’s clergy vow bloody
revenge. But these are no ordinary nuns...
Déjà Vu 19 minutes
Munkh Orgil Tumur Mongolia
This film is about the guy named Dorj. Dorj is experiencing Deja Vu. Actually
film is about the Mongolian life, about politics, about entertainment, mongolian
socialism, cheap labor for Korea, mongolians without horse, nomads without horses--all
those nihilist things. In the little Ger (Yurt), Dorj is struggling to get out
of there, get free of the prison of his mind. His nomadic way of life and thinking
is limiting in civilization. Then suddenly technology appears in his life, and
he gets free.
When Dorj is making his speech, it doesn’t have meaning in mongolian either.
It is giberish like, “ Star... in the sky... I am Star... I will disapear
to dust.” That is what he is saying.
What is she making? 1:47 minutes
Aaron Garcia Los Angeles
What is she making? Why is she making it? Who knows?
Just Pretending 11 minutes
Benjamin Teh Auckland, New Zealand
John loves Amy, Amy dumps John, so John asks Kate to pretend to be Amy. Kate
agrees, on one condition.
Nancarrow - study N°5 4 minutes
Gabriele Agresta Milano, Italy
In an abandoned factory, the study No 5 by Conlon Nancarrow for mechanical player
piano comes to life, a music beyond human performance ability.
The Secret to a Better Life 5 minutes
Scotch Wichmann
and Elisha Shapiro Los Angeles
A self help guru finally explains the true secret to a better life.
Finger Me to Death 1:20 minute
Jason Marsh South Wales UK
A short piece which opens with a young girl vomiting then delves into a dirty
garbage disposal and emerges in a swamp. A very skinny woman preens her ribcage
like it was an insect exoskeleton. The scene is accompanied with a poem in Italian
as the girl-insect struts through the swamp. Cleverly, and in a very short time,
this filmmaker shows us the beautiful in the grotesque and the grotesque in
the beautiful.
Jason is an Artist/Producer. As a musician he has worked with many independent
artists, UK band Godsticks and American Composer Dann Glenn, Baba Elefante,
Ronnie Ciago. In video he has produced several other titles: Flexos Assassin,
Rubber Cripple, POJC, Informed Of Stretch, Unannounced!
Making Counts 3 minutes
Sergio De Vega Sanchez Madrid, Spain
Any time is good to evaluate the life. The numbers can open the mind.
Audience Favorite Award
Inanimate Pornography 2 minutes
Richard Hackney New Zealand
Like all good pornography - There is no plot, the acting is terrible, and when
you’ve finished watching, it you’ll feel mildly ashamed.
Normal People 25 minutes
Piotr Ziotordwicz Lodz, Poland
724 14th St 10 minutes
Ching Yi Tseng San Francisco/Taiwan
This film explored a specific location and a specific kind of light and life.
This film is silent.
See
Programs from Previous Years
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