Screening Date: Sat. Nov. 16, 2024
Time: 2:45pm
Venue: The Main Cinema
Cost: $15
Select filmmakers will be in attendance for a post screening Q&A
SELECTIONS
Not the order they will play in
Film Title: À TOI LES OREILLES
Director: Alexandre Isabelle
Run Time/Year/Country: 13min, 2024, Canada
Synopsis: While the townsfolk are celebrating the village's anniversary parade, Étienne tries the impossible: to show them how beautiful his family’s cacophony really is.
Film Title: DION & DENVER
Director: Zack Hosseini
Run Time/Year/Country: 15min, 2024, USA
Premiere Status: MN
Synopsis: In the late 1960s, an aging Dion DiMucci, struggling to stay relevant in a rapidly changing America, meets and ambitious young John Denver who helps reignite his passion for music and reminds him of their place in the cultural spotlight.
Film Title: Holding Hour - “Parallel Lines”
Director: Hannah Rosalie Wright
Run Time/Year/Country: 4min, 2024, USA
Premiere Status: MN
Synopsis: Lying in this room right next to him, the weight of silence is suffocating. I don't make beds but I've been making the one we're in.
Film Title: KEEP THE PARTY GOING
Director: Mick Marseilles
Run Time/Year/Country: 15min, 2024, Canada
Premiere Status: North American
Synopsis: After the death of his wife, a heartbroken widower drifts through the neon-lit streets on a haunting, surreal odyssey to reconnect with her memory. As the line between past and present blurs, a pulsating soundtrack by Manchester band The Flints guides him through a journey of love, loss, and the strange beauty of grief.
Film Title: LOOK AT MY FURNITURE
Director: Michael X. Ferraro
Run Time/Year/Country: 21min, 2024, USA
Premiere Status: Midwest
Synopsis: Behold the mutant birth story of "David Lynch Has a Painting Made of Flies Eyes," a "documentary rock song" by Butch Vig + the Silversun Pickups . This film isn't so much a "making of" as it is a kaleidoscopic narrative cocktail-- distilling the creative energy that burbled up from the universe when Vig experienced a series of serendipitous encounters with the legendary "Eraserhead" auteur.
Film Title: SEESAW
Director: Daniel Bloch, Jan Bloch
Run Time/Year/Country: 6min, 2024, USA
Premiere Status: Midwest
Synopsis: Strangers who come across a foolhardy boy develop a friendship, but only after a tense game of back and forth.
Film Title: THE MACHINE ROOM
Director: Jack Ethan Perry
Run Time/Year/Country: 16min, 2024, UK
Premiere Status: North American
Synopsis: A grieving musician finds herself drawn to a decrepit church crypt as she seeks to break her creative block.