Slamdance Film Festival

BETWEEN REGULARITY AND IRREGULARITY

By | January 2014

2014 SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS SELECTION! I’d say it was like a bad acid trip, but that wouldn’t be fair to director Masahiro Tsutani, who did not just toss stuff at the screen for the sake of weirdness but put some effort into it…

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BETWEEN REGULARITY AND IRREGULARITY

One time, when I was younger and wilder, I got really drunk at a friend’s place and tried to navigate my way down a tricky flight of ice-covered stairs...

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THOSE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH

How do we remember our lives? Do we remember them in a three act narrative? When we think of the first day we went to school, for example, do we start with...

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ROUGH TRADE

Okay… okay… wait a minute. How in the heck was Rough Trade picked for the “experimental” category at Slamdance? True, it has no dialogue, which is...

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REAL ETHEREAL

I like to see films that are weird and artistic for a very specific reason: Because the surrealism makes it impossible for me to understand what I’m...

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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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