This year's Nihilist Film Festival was hosted by Track 16 gallery again.
The show was Friday, November 30 at 8 pm.
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.
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.
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 next 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, 2008.
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.
Last year was the ninth
edition of the Nihilist Film Festival. We had another amusing
and grotesque selection of short films from around the country and around the
world.
2007 was again hosted by Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica.
Near Life Experience
7:30 minutes
David Cangardel Paris
Cyn 5 minutes
Alex Ferrari Hollywood, Florida
Cyn is a twisted tale by writer/director Alex Ferrari about Cynthia, a young
woman who is taken away by two psychopaths (Mr. Sugar and Otto) in the middle
of the night to an old abandoned kindergarden. Cyn quickly turns the tables
on them, and soon the night becomes a cat and mouse mind game. While this drama
is unfolding, a lone figure watches from a closed circuit monitor. Who is Cynthia
and what the hell is going on in this twisted tale?
Secret Son: 14 minutes
Life Has Become A Stranger To You
Doo Byung Chae Los Angeles
This film is a futuristic tale of an old remorseful man who transplants his
brain into the body of his clone for the second chance of life. What for?from
the Best of The Nihilist Film Festival 2004
Revolution 10 minutes
Juan Pablo and Martin Rosete Madrid, Spain
intermission
Nihilist Olympics 1984 10 Minutes
Tim Keenan and Elisha Shapiro Los Angeles
The Pit And The Pendulum 9 Minutes
Gabriele Agresta Milano, Italy
In an obscure cell, a prisoner attempts to explore the space around himself,
a space only made by darkness. First he risks sinking into a circular pit; then
he is at the mercy of a sickle of steel that swings closer and closer to his
bound body while many enormous rats invade the floor of the prison.
Summer 1988 5 minutes
Aaron Hraba Syracuse, NY
What is at the crux of how others identify one another? Is it our careers, our
upbringing, our gender or race? These are all contributing factors, but when
someone knows you or is getting to know you, it’s the stories that you
share with them that really make up how they will identify you. Be it a coming
of age epiphany or your experience in the checkout line at the grocery store,
the manner in which you disclose your stories and which stories you choose to
share with others greatly influence how they perceive you. Summer 1988 is from
a collection of narrative videos in which I use my own experiences as a text
for analysis. I approach my life as a kind of cultural artifact that can be
interrogated to expose truths about social structures, power and desire.
Eggmycar: Kaveman, Interrupted
6:00 minutes
Alex Mendoza Tokyo, Japan
One sunny afternoon, alex took his lovely wife, kaveman, for a car ride. The
birds were churping, and marvin gaye was on the radio. but kaveman was chomping
air with her fuckin mouth, and alex could not hear and enjoy the scene, so this
nigga GRABS THAT STINK BUG BITCH BY THE WIG AND AHHHHH
-WORLD WAR FUCKIN 3...
p.s. www.youtube.com--eggmycar, team alex, <--more of my films
Mary Bug 1:15 minutes
Aaron Oldenburg Baltimore, MD
This video was originally footage to be used in a voice-activated computer game
where the user makes butterfly noises to sneak an insect Virgin Mary past butterflies
(and bat noises to sneak her past bats, etc.)
Pop Went The Weasel 4:20 minutes
Dana Sink New Cumberland, PA
“Pop Went the Weasel” is a short video about an ice cream truck
and a seemingly common man. Discover what happens when the man and his ice cream
truck meet a man that hates life, animals, and anyone involved; watch justice
prevail in the most of unexpected of ways.
Serao “Will Be” 4
minutes
Joana Toste Lisboa, Portugal
“To have or not to have control over our future...…this is the question.”
Freakshow 2:15 minutes
Nabih Iqal Birmingham, AL
A bully who picks on people that are “different” gets sent to a
circus to go see freaks perform! What happens next involves roller coasters,
condiments, and a flying dolphin.
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