Slamdance Film Festival

THOSE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH

By | January 2014

2014 SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS SELECTION! The film is strange and somewhat random. Yet it is as complete of a document of a person’s life as anything else…

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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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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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