Nihilist Film Festival

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.

 



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, 2011.
If you have questions, you can e-mail Nihilist01@aol.com

 


 

 

See last year's program below.

Click here to see programs from previous years.


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.

 

 


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