2003 New York Underground Film Festival
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These are the films shown at the 10th New York Underground Film Festival
, held from March 5–11, 2003.
New York Underground Film Festival
Founded in 1994 by filmmakers Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, the New York Underground Film Festival was an annual event that occurred each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City from 1994 through 2008...
, held from March 5–11, 2003.
| Film Name | Director | Type | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #23.3, Book of Mirrors | Joost Rekveld | Experimental 35mm | 12 | |
| .airE | Maia Gusberti | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| 3 Point Perspective | Rebekah Rutkoff | Experimental Video | 1 | |
| 36 | Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Lotte Schreiber | Experimental Video | 2 | |
| 3D Trick Pony | Ben Coonley | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| A.W.O.L. | Robert Banks Robert Banks (filmmaker) -Biography:Banks attended the Cleveland School of the Arts, and has taught film at Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Cleveland State University.... |
Experimental 35mm | 3 | |
| Ablution | Eric Patrick | Experimental 16mm | 12 | |
| After Wegman | Anne Mcguire | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| American Dreams #3 | Moira Tierney | Experimental 16mm | 5 | |
| American Pork | Seth Grossman, Judd Frankel | Documentary Video | 15 | |
| Amy Goodrow: Tape 5925 | Eileen Maxson | Experimental Video | 6 | |
| An Alchemical Christmas | Thad Povey, The Scratch Film Junkies | Experimental 16mm | 6 | |
| An Injury to One | Travis Wilkerson | Documentary 16mm | 53 | |
| Asbury | Rick Charnoski, Coan "Buddy" Nichols | Documentary Super-8 On Video | 4 | |
| Become the Sky | Laura Dunn | Documentary Video | 60 | New York Premiere |
| Between Resistance & Community: The Long Island Do-It-Yourself Punk Scene | Joe Carroll, Ben Hotlzman | Documentary Video | 44 | |
| Big Bug Attack | Martha Colburn | Animation 16mm | 3 | |
| Buff...'n Muffin | John Davis | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Bullitt Remix | J.X. Williams | Experimental Video | 2 | |
| Camera | Kerstin Cmelka | Experimental 16mm | 9 | |
| Cat Power at Warsaw | Jem Cohen Jem Cohen Jem Alan Cohen is an award-winning New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats and collaborations with music artists. He is the recipient of the Independent Spirit Award and many first place awards for feature filmmaking... |
Documentary 16mm On Video | 5 | |
| Cats Amore | Martha Colburn | Animation 16mm | 3 | |
| Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys | Adi Sideman | Documentary 16mm | 60 | |
| Christmas 1990 | Jenny Stark | Experimental Video | 2 | |
| Composition in Red & Yellow | Roger Beebe | Animation Super-8 On Video | 2 | |
| Computer Smarts | Animal Charm | Experimental Video | 15 | |
| Construct | Daniel Gahr | Experimental 16mm | 4 | |
| Cooper/Bridges Fight | Christina Battle | Experimental 16mm | 3 | |
| Cortlandt Alley | Laura Kraning | Documentary Video | 19 | |
| Cry Baby | Sean Reynard | Short Video | 1 | |
| Cubica | M.Ash | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Dacari and Danelli's Demo Tape | Jonnie Ross | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 4 | |
| Dark Funeral: A Black Metal Documentary | David Frazier, Sean Scanlan | Documentary Video | 17 | |
| Desperate-Not Desperate | Susanne Oberbeck | Short 16mm On Video | 10 | |
| Did You Hear Something? | Jenny Stark | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Disquiet | K8 Hardy | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 11 | |
| Domestica | Zakery Weiss | Experimental Video | 18 | |
| Don't Need You | Kerri Koch | Documentary Video | 40 | |
| Double Your Pleasure | M.M. Serra | Experimental 16mm | 3 | |
| Earthquake | James Brett | Short 35mm | 1 | |
| Estranged | Todd Downing | Short 35mm | 14 | |
| Families | James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos is an independent filmmaker and media artist living in Chicago, Illinois. His work is low-budget and rigorous, and consists of experimental narrative features, non-narrative shorts, and video installations... |
Feature 16mm | 97 | New York Premiere |
| Flight | James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos is an independent filmmaker and media artist living in Chicago, Illinois. His work is low-budget and rigorous, and consists of experimental narrative features, non-narrative shorts, and video installations... |
Experimental 16mm | 3 | |
| Fluff | Todd Verow Todd Verow Todd Verow is an American film director who now resides in New York City, New York. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the AFI Conservatory. Together with his creative partner, James Derek Dwyer, he formed Bangor Films in 1995. He was also the cinematographer for Jon Moritsugu's... |
Experimental Video | 2 | |
| Gentle Jesus and Drugs | Fernando Mole | Documentary 16mm On Video | 5 | |
| Gentle-Man | Sean Reynard | Short Video | 5 | |
| God Hates America | Jon Nothin' | Documentary Video | 5 | |
| Hand Eye Coordination | Naomi Uman | Experimental 16mm | 10 | |
| Happy Peppy Sparky Doggy | Robert Todd | Experimental 16mm | 2 | |
| Helleskellevision | Martha Colburn | Animation 16mm | 10 | |
| High School Reunion | Sarah Jacobson Sarah Jacobson Sarah Jacobson was an independent filmmaker who wrote, produced, and filmed her own movies.-Career:... |
Documentary Video | 16 | |
| Hitler's Hat | Jeff Krulik Jeff Krulik Jeff Krulik is a director of independent films and a former Discovery Channel producer.Krulik's work frequently explores the fringes of popular culture from an enthusiastic and appreciative point of view.... |
Documentary Video | 50 | |
| Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography | Becky Goldberg | Documentary Video | 37 | |
| How Do I Feel About That? | Anthony Disalvo | Short Video | 2 | |
| Hunter Dawson | Andrew Dickson | Short Video | 10 | |
| Hymn | James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos is an independent filmmaker and media artist living in Chicago, Illinois. His work is low-budget and rigorous, and consists of experimental narrative features, non-narrative shorts, and video installations... |
Experimental Video | 90 | New York Premiere |
| I Love You | Haruko Tanaka | Experimental 16mm | 2 | |
| I'd Known All Along Exactly What was Going to Happen | Jenny Stark | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Ich Bin Eine Manipulator | Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Clare Rojas | Animation 16mm On Video | 4 | |
| In Order Not To Be Here | Deborah Stratman | Experimental 16mm | 33 | |
| Infomercial Aesthetics | Daniel Martinico | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Inga | Joe Sarno | Feature 16mm | 84 | |
| Joseph & Julia | Kitao Sakurai | Short 35mm | 10 | |
| Just Like Golf | E.S. Wochensky | Documentary Video | 26 | |
| Kandy Mansion | Lawrence Klein, Joe Pasciascia | Documentary Video | 8 | |
| Key West | Thomas Aigelsreiter | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Kinetic Sandwich | Eric Dyer | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Kitchen Sink Opera | Sean Reynard | Short Video | 1 | |
| Lick | Mary Magsamen, Stephan Hillerbrand | Experimental Video | 1 | |
| Liminal Lumen | Luis Recoder | Experimental 16mm | 90 | |
| Magnetic Fields Forever | Robert Beck Memorial Cinema | Experimental 16mm | ||
| Mam | Sean Reynard | Short Video | 1 | |
| Mark Set Burn | Christine Khalafian | Experimental 16mm | 8 | |
| Me Ewid Fella | Sean Reynard | Short Video | 1 | |
| Meeting Strangers: Red Light, Green Light | Bill Brose | Animation 16mm | 20 | |
| Milk | Sean Reynard | Short Video | 6 | |
| Misty | Joe Sarno | Feature 35mm | 104 | |
| Moving Back From the Beyond | Paul Tarragó | Short Super-8 On Video | 14 | |
| My Kingdom for a Lullaby #4 | Michaela Grill, Billy Roisz | Experimental Video | 12 | |
| National Archive V.1 | Travis Wilkerson | Documentary 16mm On Video | 15 | |
| Noble Sacrifice | Vatche Boulghourjian | Documentary Video | 40 | |
| Northwest | Rick Charnoski, Coan "Buddy" Nichols | Documentary Super-8 On Video | 45 | World Premiere |
| Outline | Sandra Gibson | Experimental 35mm | 5 | |
| P.I.F. | Sean Reynard | Animation Video | 3 | |
| Perfect Spot | Jennet Thomas | Short Video | 14 | |
| Pink Socks | Leighton Pierce | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Pornographic Apathetic | T. Arthur Cottam T. Arthur Cottam T. Arthur Cottam is a screenwriter, actor, producer and film director. A graduate of the Film and Television Production program at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, Cottam resides in Los Angeles, California... |
Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Powwow | Kristin Pepe | Experimental 16mm | 7 | |
| Psyche Out 2K3 | Beige, Seth Price Collective | Experimental Video | ||
| quadro | Lotte Schreiber | Experimental Video | 10 | |
| R.B.'s Eastern Journey | R.B. Umali | Documentary Video | 6 | |
| Raised Ranch Complexus | Peggy Awesh, Bobby Abate | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 65 | |
| Recc Center | Jay Maldonado | Documentary Video | 3 | |
| Scotch Hop | Christopher Maclaine | Experimental 16mm | 5 | |
| Scumrock | Jon Moritsugu Jon Moritsugu Jon Moritsugu is an American underground filmmaker.Jon Moritsugu started filmmaking in 1985 when he went to school at Brown University. His Thesis film "Der Elvis" was called by critic J... |
Feature Video | 79 | New York Premiere |
| Security Anthem | Kent Lambert | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Self Portrait Post Mortem | Louise Bourque | Experimental 35mm | 2 | |
| Sideshow | Edie Faig | Animation 35mm | 9 | |
| Snow White Wakes Up in Wonderland | Tracey Mcguirl | Experimental Video | 14 | |
| Soul Circus | Dylan Griffin | Documentary Super-8 On Video | 6 | |
| Springtime for Eva | Russ Forster | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Sundog Verga Matrix | Simon Tarr | Experimental 16mm | 4 | |
| Take the Bus | Michaela Schwentner | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Terra Incognita | Ben Russell Ben Russell (filmmaker) Ben Russell is an American experimental filmmaker. Russell developed his reputation over the numerous shorts he made throughout the 2000s, many as part of his "Trypps" series, and as the curator of the Magic Lantern Cinema in Providence, Rhode Island... |
Experimental 16mm | 10 | |
| The Carpenters | Sean Reynard | Short Video | 8 | |
| The Cucumber Incident | Melodie Calvert, Bonita Makuch | Documentary Video | 68 | |
| The Dear Hunt | Gritt Uldall-Jessen | Experimental Video | 9 | |
| The End | Christopher Maclaine | Experimental 16mm | 34 | |
| The Horribly Stupid Stunt (Which Has Resulted in His Untimely Death) | The Yes Men The Yes Men The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos. Through actions of tactical media, The Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about what they consider problematic social issues. To date, the duo has produced two films: The Yes Men... |
Documentary Video | 45 | |
| The Last News | Reynold Reynolds, Christophe Draeger | Experimental Video | 13 | |
| The Magic Kingdom | Jim Trainor | Short 16mm | 7 | |
| The Planets | Francesca Talenti | Animation 35mm | 6 | |
| The Price of Getting Up | John Carluccio | Documentary Video | 12 | |
| the quarry | Ben Russell | Experimental 16mm | 4 | |
| The Sand Pit | Jay Magher | Documentary Video | 5 | |
| The Scythe | James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos is an independent filmmaker and media artist living in Chicago, Illinois. His work is low-budget and rigorous, and consists of experimental narrative features, non-narrative shorts, and video installations... |
Experimental 16mm | 2 | |
| The Sex Cycle | Joe Sarno | Feature 35mm | 72 | |
| The Silence of Green | Andreas Horvath | Documentary Super-8 On Video | 48 | North American Premiere |
| The Stairway at St. Paul's | Jereon Offermann | Experimental Video | 9 | |
| the Unamerican Film Festival | Esther Bell, Ted Passon | Documentary Video | 90 | |
| The Very Long Fuse | Steve Hall, Cathee Wilkins | Short Video | 3 | |
| The Weather Underground | Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Documentary Video | 90 | New York Premiere |
| There There Square | Jacqueline Goss | Experimental Video | 14 | |
| The_Future_of_Human_Containment | Michaela Schwentner | Experimental 35mm | 5 | |
| To Re-edit the World | David Sherman | Documentary Video | 32 | |
| Trailer Town | Giuseppe Andrews Giuseppe Andrews Giuseppe Andrews is an American film actor, writer, and director known for his roles as Lex in the 1999 film Detroit Rock City, a bizarre sheriff's deputy in Cabin Fever , a small role in Never Been Kissed , as well as appearances in The Smashing Pumpkins videos "1979" and "Perfect".Andrews has... |
Feature Video | 80 | World Premiere |
| Truck | Adrianne Jorge, Tamy Ojala | Documentary Video | 55 | World Premiere |
| U | Yuri A | Experimental 16mm | 3 | |
| Underground | Emile De Antonio, Mary Lampson, Haskell Wexler Haskell Wexler Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. is an American cinematographer, film producer, and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild.-Early life and education:Wexler was born to a Jewish... |
Documentary 16mm | 88 | |
| Unkle God | Sean Reynard | Short Video | 1 | |
| Untied | Deborah Stratman | Experimental 16mm | 3 | |
| Untitled | Eileen Maxson | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Untitled | Andrew Gosselin | Documentary Video | 8 | |
| Urban Shift | Zohar Kfir | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Useless | Glen Sanford | Documentary 16mm | 27 | |
| Value-Added Cinema: A Product Placement Conpendium | Steve Seid, Peter Conheim | Documentary Video | 45 | New York Premiere |
| Vincit Veritas | Remi | Experimental 35mm | 10 | |
| WARS | Josef Dabernig | Experimental 16mm | 10 | |
| World's Fair World | Bryan Boyce | Experimental Video | 9 | |
| Wüstenspringmaus | Jim Finn Jim Finn (filmmaker) Jim Finn is the writer/director of what have been called "Utopian comedies." His first feature film Interkosmos is about an East German space colonization mission. His second feature La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo is about a day in the life of a Shining Path women's prison cellblock... |
Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Ye Are The Light of the World (Don't Stare Into the Sun) | Robert A. Greene | Experimental 16mm | 10 | |
| Yes | Abbey Williams | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Your Kiss | Euphrosyne P. Konti | Experimental 16mm | 3 | |
| Your Name Here | Unknown | Documentary 16mm On Video | 10 | |