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RAVEL

By | January 2014

2014 SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS SELECTION! You wouldn’t think watching a woman drag half a dozen or so bottles tied around her through the desert for seven minutes could be enthralling to watch. Yet that’s the long and short of it…

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RAVEL

Ravel is amazing to look at. I rarely use the term “A feast for the eyes” because that’s a terrible and lame cliché that I’d be ashamed to ever...

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R/B/G

Did you know that Dostoyevsky had epilepsy? Well… I think he did. I don’t know this in the true absolute historical sense mind you. I just happened to...

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FLOWER

Flower is filled with abstract images that may or may not represent what the film’s narrator is talking about, kind of like those ink blots that...

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THE CORAL REEF ARE DREAMING AGAIN

This is one of the more esoteric entries in the Experimental Short category at the 2014 Slamdance Film Festival. It’s not bad, not by a long shot, but...

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BIRD SHIT

Bird Shit is a young man’s film. I have no idea how old director Caleb Wood is. He could be seventeen for all I know, or he could be older than me. I...

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MOVING

You know those multi-media art installations that that require complex mission statements to understand? “Moving” is one of those. Director Marc...

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MOTHER CORN

“Mother Corn” is the story of an orphaned teenage girl who lives with her grandmother among the Triqui Indians in Mexico. The girl loves her...

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GRAND MORELOS

A Bleeding Gums Murphy type receives word from his doctor that he has come down with an O. Henry of a condition whereby should he continue with his...

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A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT

Coming into Sundance, Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was one of my hottest tickets. I love seeing premieres from established...

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NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME 1

Few filmmakers are more button-pushing, divisive, and controversial than Lars von Trier, the enfant terrible behind Breaking the Waves, Dogville, and...

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