Monthly Archives: June 2008

PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY

By | June 2008

2008 DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM! Modern society is cold and impersonal, and has made humanity insensate and boring…

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PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY

Modern society is cold and impersonal, and has made humanity insensate and boring. This is the assertion of three guys in “Primitive Technology,” who...

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THE VAULT

Justin Owensby’s “The Vault” feels like a teaser for a feature film. The imagery and unusual narration recalls Lovecraft, and it wouldn’t surprise...

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YEAR AT DANGER

It’s the age of sanitized media, where coverage of current events is heavily diluted by “pool” restrictions and censored by the government for...

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OKIE NOODLING II

In 2001, director Bradley Beesley introduced most of the world to the sport of “noodling.” Noodling, also known as hand fishing, is the art of plunging...

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PLOT POINT

This particular short is difficult to review for two reasons: if you look at it from the context of how it is was made, it could be considered quite...

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WHY AM I STILL AWAKE?

Hey, Kate! It's around 4:30am, technically Saturday the 14th though I will be recounting events from Friday the 13th (ooh, scary). Basically, the first...

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DEFICIT

Gael Garcia Bernal's directorial debut, "Deficit" returns to some themes featured in his earlier work as an actor, notably the casual and pervasive racism...

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THE INCREDIBLE HULK

I’m going to get this out of the way now: I have loved the Hulk since I was a kid. He’s my favorite character in the Marvel Universe but I assure you...

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THE LAST CUP: ROAD TO THE WORLD SERIES OF BEER PONG

There’s a whole genre of documentaries based on people’s obsessive fixation on seemingly pointless games. Be it the Okie’s who fish for gigantic...

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BIG HEART CITY

Deliberately paced. It's a film critic's way of saying that the film is slow, that little happens, but saying it in a positive way (because few have any...

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