The
2009 Nihilist Film Festival
was held at the Echo Park Film Center
on Sunday, December 20 at 7:30.
The Echo Park Film Center is located at 1200 N. Alvarado St. at Sunset in Echo
Park.
The
2009 Nihilist Film Festival was at
Echo Park Film Center on Sunday, December 20 at 7:30.
Program 2009
Pour Rien loop
Jeremiah Jones Brooklyn, NY
walk-in film
To enact collapse visually, is an antidote to the cultural premise that there
is a good way and a bad way. To see a person alive in this way, going on living
says to me that we think that life is worth it. He is placing himself in the
public eye, a real person in a video, a man exposed in the road, thrown in the
street “amongst mortals” us viewers, alive to see it.
Happy Birthday 11
minutes
Dane Vandewiele Eagle Creek, Oregon
A young man finds himself celebrating his birthday on the run from a most unorthodox
organization
Whiplash :28
minutes
Clint Enns Canada
2009, found footage
A video for Naked City's Whiplash inspired by Henry Hills.
Latitare is Better 20
minutes
Stefano Schirru Cagliari, Italy
What makes a cage perfect is not the solidity of its walls, the excellence
of its alarm and security systems, or the impossibility to escape. What really
makes a cage perfect is the absolute pointlessness of the outside world. So
the cage becomes the only available shelter.
El Hombre Orquesta 6
Minutes
Juan Martin Rosete New York
One man band arrives to play his music to a small village, but we will have
to face a tough audience.
Lesbian Werewolf Party 8
minutes
Michael Nirenberg Brooklyn, NY
Lesbian Lust! Lesbian Murder! Lesbian Werewolves!
My idea for “Lesbian Werewolf Party” was to make a traditional B-movie
without the boring movie part. All that is left is the thrills that the people
want from a B-movie, boiled down to 8 minutes.
“Lesbian Werewolf Party” was shot with an all female cast. The sets
were from Michel Gondry’s gallery exhibition “Be Kind Rewind”
at Deitch Projects in New York. I was the charge scenic artist who painted and
designed them. After getting permission I went ahead and shot the whole thing
in 2 hours.
Intermission
Audience Favorite Award
12 Steps 13:31 minutes
John Baldino Anaheim
Purgatory 15
minutes
Eric Falardeau Montreal, Canada
An hellish descent into a man's inner purgatory.
E Finita La Commedia 13
minutes
Jean-Julien Collette and Olivier Tollet Belgium
A car is parked in a residential area. Inside the car a father and son are having
an intense conversation about life, love, sex, death and the wife/mother of
the family. The two appear to be in collaboration over something, and it is
obvious that they have an unusually close relationship. Time goes by, and although
the questions keep coming, they remain unanswered. What are they waiting for?
Trip Down The Fallopian Tube 2
minutes
Cami Starkman Los Angeles
Trip Down The Fallopian Tube is an Eisensteinian-style montage tracking the
trials and tribulations of sexual awakening. We embark on this “trip,”
bombarded with symbolic images of the disorienting and sometimes frightening
world of puberty and juvenile sexual experience. After we struggle through this
journey, we end up in the beautiful an lush realm of erotic experience. Elegantly
incorporating found and original images, live action and animation, Trip submerges
the viewer in a visual exploration of the simultaneous fears and pleasures these
early sexual experiences can bring.
Do Pencils Go To Heaven 3
minutes
Steve Wright Los Angeles
Do pencils go to heaven? Short answer, no. Longer answer, please stop acting
crazy. A film by Steve Wright, starring The Wright Family & Jo-Jo. Photographed
by Jon Gerard. Edited by Brian Pearce. Harp performed by John M. Wright. A Manning
Road Production.
X 7:30 minutes
Gabriele Agresta Milano, Italy
Nothing.
Only a white wall.
Then a puzzle of memories or scraps of a dream.
Nothing but hints. No actors, no bodies, no actions. Nothing.
White wall again.
Beyond this candid universe.
Everything.
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