2006 New York Underground Film Festival
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These are the films shown at the 13th New York Underground Film Festival
, held from March 8–14, 2006
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 8–14, 2006
| Film Name | Director | Type | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Short Film | Kelsey Kleiman | Short Video | 2:19 | |
| America's Biggest Dick | Bryan Boyce | 3:00 | ||
| Animal Mother | Jasmin Way | Documentary Video | 28:20 | |
| Ariel Pink: Bloody Bagonias | Nicolas Amato | :30 | ||
| Ariel Pink: Beverly Kills | Nicolas Amato | 2:15 | ||
| Around Sanford | Jeff Erbach | Short 16mm | 10:30 | |
| August in the Empire State | Gabriel Rhodes, Keefe Murren, co-directed by Michael Galinsky | Documentary Video | 70:00 | World Premiere |
| b-alles | Marina Gioti | Experimental Video | 2:00 | |
| BARR: Lights Out | Donovan Vim Crony | |||
| Battle of the Child Molesters | Ivan Van Norman | Short Video | 5:02 | |
| Because of the War | Jennet Thomas | Experimental Video | 13:30 | |
| Ben Coonley | 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 | 4:47 | |
| Binge Drinking | Anonymous Documentary | Video | 5:00 | |
| Black Mountain: Druganaut | Heather Trawick | |||
| Blockade | Sergei Loznitsa | Experimental 35 mm on Video | 50:00 | |
| Bobby Birdman: Steal Yr Face | Jona Bechtolt Jona Bechtolt Jona Bechtolt is an electronic musician and multimedia artist based in Portland, Oregon, United States. He is a former member of The Badger King and The Blow, and has released solo records under the name Yacht since 2003... |
3:30 | ||
| Bonus: Tone Trad | Jamie Potter | |||
| Buffalo Common | Bill Brown Bill Brown (filmmaker) Bill Brown is a "nomadic" filmmaker, photographer, and author from Lubbock, Texas. He has produced films on the United States–Mexico border, North Dakota missile silos, the Trans-Canada Highway, among other places. The films have been exhibited at numerous film festivals and museums, including the... |
23:00 | ||
| Bulldog in the Whitehouse | 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... |
Feature Video | 80:00 | |
| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone: The Subway Home | David Enos, Paul Stepahin | |||
| Chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet Synced and Played Simultaneously | Michael Bell-Smith | Experimental Video | 4:27 | |
| Cinnamon | Kevin Everson | Feature Video | 71:00 | East Coast Premiere |
| Comets on Fire: Beneath the Ice Age | Elise Irving | |||
| Commercial | Gustáv Hámos | Experimental Video | 9:00 | |
| Corpses of Waco (Indian Jewelry): In Love with Loving | ||||
| Cot Damn | Njena Jarvis | Short Video | 4:00 | |
| Cox and Combs | Brad Neely Brad Neely Brad Neely is a American comic book artist and television writer/producer known for his work on books such as Wizard People, Dear Reader, I Am Baby Cakes, The Professor Brothers, and China, Illinois, and TV series such as South Park and China, IL.-Personal life:Brad Neely is originally from Fort... |
Animation Videdo | 2:25 | |
| Crazy Girl | Jesper Nordahl | Documentary Video | 11:70 | |
| Crime in Choir: The Hoop | Tim Miller | 4:00 | ||
| Dangerous Men | John Rad | Feature 35mm | 80:00 | New York Premiere |
| Danielson: A Family Movie | JL Aronson | Documentary Video | 105:00 | New York Premiere |
| Day Is Done (Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #2- #32) | Mike Kelley Mike Kelley Mike Kelley is a contemporary American artist. Kelley's work involves found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance and video. He often works collaboratively and has done projects with artists Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler and John Miller... |
Feature Video | 180:00 | World Theatrical Premiere |
| Deerhoof: Wrong Time Capsule | Martha Colburn | |||
| Dialogue #3 (That's not for me to say) | Ruth Maclennan | Experimental Video | 11:00 | |
| dirtyglitter 1: Damien | Aron Kantor | Narrative Video | 14:00 | |
| Drosophilia | Ruth Maclennan | Animation Video | 4:00 | |
| Dynasty Handbag: I Can't Wait | Jibz Cameron, Sue Costibile, Indra Dunis | |||
| Eats Tapes: Pteryd | Nate Boyce | |||
| Faith N Chaos | 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 | 2:30 | |
| Fever Dream | Programmed by Rebecca Cleman | |||
| Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher | David Di Sabatino | Documentary Video | 105:00 | East Coast Premiere |
| Full Effect | Jeremy Bailey | Experimental Video | 2:20 | |
| Get OVER It, Honey | Flavio Flaviani | Animation Video | 10:00 | |
| Getting Stronger Everyday | Miranda July Miranda July Miranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda... |
7:00 | ||
| Glitches, Hitches, and Hiccups 2 | Susan Giles | Experimental Video | 2:58 | |
| Good Times: Vol. 1 | Ken Hegan | Short 35mm | 3:05 | |
| Hot Throbbing Cock | Tung-Wang Wu | Short Video | 15:00 | |
| Hymm of Reckoning | Kent Lambert | Experimental Video | 7:00 | |
| I Went to Work Today, I Don't Think I'll Go Tomorrow | Julia Klaering and Nils Olger | Narrative Video | 9:00 | |
| If You See Something, Say Something | Josh Safdie | Short Video | 3:30 | |
| Interkosmos Interkosmos Interkosmos was a space program of the Soviet Union designed to include members of military forces of allied Warsaw Pact countries in manned and unmanned missions... |
Jim Finn Jim Finn James Finn, Jr. is an American football fullback who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Chicago Bears in the seventh round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Pennsylvania... |
Feature 16 mm on Video | 71:00 | US Premiere |
| Intersecticide | Tara Mateik | Experimental Video | 7:03 | |
| Invertisement #1 | Bryan Boyce | Experimental Video | 0:41 | |
| It Was a Crushing Defeat | Matt McCormick | |||
| Johnny Jimmy Joe | Michael Lucid and Amanda Barrett | Short Video | 1:00 | |
| Killing Babyface | John Skoog | Experimental Video | 2:30 | |
| Lay Down Tracks | Brigid McCaffrey and Danielle Lombardi | Documentary 16mm | 60:00 | World Premiere |
| Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 10, 9, 8, 7... | Leslie Thornton | Experimental Video | 19:40 | |
| Let's Get It On | Kirsten Stoltmann | Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| Little Spirits | Cecelia Condit Cecelia Condit Cecelia Condit is an American artist working in video. A storyteller producing videos since 1981, her work swings between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty... |
Short Video | 8:30 | |
| Mae Shi: Chop2 | David Park | 1:00 | ||
| Making Me Happy | Shiri Bar-On | Documentary Video | 9:20 | |
| Malibu | Mark Ther | Short Video | 3:42 | |
| Mark Roth | Animal Charm | 5:00 | ||
| Miss Krimi | Mark Ther | Experimental Video | 5:30 | |
| Mister Warning | C.C. and B.N. | Short Video | 2:30 | |
| Mom & Pop Shop | Robert Todd and Michael Dwyer | Documentary Video | 41:00 | |
| Momma's Boy | John Bryant | Narrative | 16:03 | |
| N Judah 5:30 | Sam Green | 4:00 | ||
| No Bra "Munchausen" | Susanne Oberbeck and Guy Nisbett | Short Video | 2:45 | |
| November | Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl has produced a variety of work as a filmmaker and author in the field of essayist documentary video and post-colonial critique. Her principal topics of interest are media and the global circulation of images. In 2004 she participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of... |
Documentary Video | 25:00 | |
| Numbers: Fuck You Garage | Eric Landmark | |||
| Oh, Daniel | C.C. and B.N. | Short Video | 3:10 | |
| Okhotnik (The Hunter) | Hitoshi Hirano | Short 35mm | 28:10 | |
| Palestine Blues | Nida Sinnokrot | Documentary Video | 80:00 | World Premiere |
| Panels for the Walls of the World | Stan Vanderbeek Stan Vanderbeek Stan Vanderbeek was an American experimental filmmaker.- Life :VanDerBeek studied art and architecture first at Cooper Union College in New York and then at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met architect Buckminster Fuller, composer John Cage, and choreographer Merce Cunningham... |
Experimental 16mm | 8:00 | |
| Paul and the Badger - Episode #1 | Paul Tarrago | Short Video | 11:20 | |
| Paying Tax is Sexy | Eva Linder | Documentary Video | 10:43 | |
| Phase Chancellor (members Matmos): excerpt from live performance | Phase Chancellor | |||
| Portrait #1: Cascadia Terminal | Vanessa Renwick | Experimental 16 mm on Video | 6:00 | |
| Puce Moment | Kenneth Anger Kenneth Anger Kenneth Anger is an American underground experimental filmmaker, occasional actor and author... |
Experimental 16mm | 6:30 | |
| Punk House | Matt Reilly | 6:30 | ||
| Push {H}it (Abe's the S Stands for Suppa Glitch Out for all You Sukkas! Mix) from Universal Acid | Marisa Olson, Abe Linkoln | |||
| Relax!!! | Flavio Flaviani | Short Video | 5:00 | |
| Removed | Naomi Uman | 7:00 | ||
| Rhinoplasty | Yoshua Okon | Experimental Video | 40:00 | |
| Rite of the Black Sun | Bradley Eros | Animation Video | 10:00 | |
| Serendipity, 1967 | Anonymous | Experimental 8 mm on Video | 6:30 | |
| Sexy Midi: Wizards | Kelly Sears | |||
| Shoot | Joe Nanashe | Experimental Video | 2:25 | |
| Skating Becomes Vermoutha | David Ozanich | Narrative 16mm | 23:00 | |
| Space Computer | C.C. and B.N | Short Video | 2:40 | |
| Sports | Robert Greene | Experimental Video | 13:00 | |
| Starter Set: In Can Can Descent | Lindsay Beamish | |||
| States of Unbelonging | Lynne Sachs in collaboration with Nir Zats | Documentary Video | 63:00 | |
| Sword Boy | Tristan Orchard | Animation Video | 5:00 | |
| Tales From The Vertical City | Morgan Currie | Documentary Video | 13:00 | |
| Tales of Mere Existence | Lev Yilmaz | Animation Video | 7:00 | |
| The Abominable Freedom | Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin | Experimental Video | 41:00 | |
| The Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the HauntedHouse #1: The Very Long Fuse | Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins | Short Video | 4:10 | |
| The Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the HauntedHouse #2: The Birds | Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins | Short Video | 5:25 | |
| The Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the HauntedHouse #3: Your Pet Cat | Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins | Short Video | 4:25 | |
| The Elk Hotel | Skye Thorstenson and Daniel Paul Bates | Feature Video | 87:00 | World Premiere |
| The Gossip: Standing in the Way of Control | Wyld File Wyld File Wyld File is a commercial music video production company formed in 2005 by the Paper Rad collective and Eric Mast . The company has produced music videos for the band The Gossip , Beck and Islands... |
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| The Maryland Trilogy | ||||
| The Movie Set | William Ault | Experimental 16mm | 10:00 | |
| The Octopus of Infinity | ||||
| The Ontological Cowboy | Marie Losier | Documentary 16mm | 10:00 | |
| The Other Side | Bill Brown | Documentary 16mm | 41:00 | |
| The Pig | 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 | 3:00 | |
| The Samantha Smith Project | Irene Lusztig | Documentary Video | 50:25 | |
| The Story of Birgitta | Eva Linder | Documentary Video | 34:00 | |
| The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal | Matt McCormick | 16:00 | ||
| The Underminer | Todd Downing | Short Video | 5:55 | |
| The Wind | Kirsten Stoltmann | Short Video | 1:45 | |
| Toilet | Chris Chiappa | Experimental Video | 2:30 | |
| Towlines | Matt McCormick | Documentary 16 mm on Video | 22:00 | |
| Trinity | 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 Video | 108:00 | World Premiere |
| Tussle: Entre Chien et Loup | Alison Childs | |||
| Twenty Minutes | Kevin Jerome Everson | Experimental 35mm | 3:00 | |
| Two-Week Vacation | Kevin Jerome Everson | Experimental 16mm | 1:16 | |
| Untied | Deborah Stratman | 3:00 | ||
| Valley Girl | Michelle O'Marah | Feature Video | 113:00 | World Theatrical Premiere |
| We Saw it - Like a Flash | Ruth Maclennan | Experimental Video | 45:00 | |
| White Rainbow: Full Spectrum Healing Center | Adam Forkner Adam Forkner Adam Forkner is a musician from Portland, Oregon who, since 2003, has performed as White Rainbow.-as White Rainbow:*"Humidifier Plaza" digital, self-released via whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com 2011... |
3:00 | ||
| Why Overweight Preteen Girls with Glasses Often Like Unicorns | Jennifer Matotek | Experimental Video | 4:15 | |
| Yodeling Lesson | Vanessa Renwick | 5:00 | ||