2008 New York Underground Film Festival
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These are the films shown at the 15th New York Underground Film Festival
, held from April 2–8, 2008.
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 April 2–8, 2008.
| Film name | Director | Type | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Jenny Stark | Documentary Video | 7:30 | |
| 4 Films in 5 Minutes | Skizz Cyzyk | Experimental 16mm | 6:00 | |
| 4 Ways he tried to tell you | Jennet Thomas | Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| Adventure Poseidon, The | Anne Mcguire | Feature 35mm On Video | 117:00 | New York Premiere |
| America's Biggest Dick | Bryan Boyce | Short Video | 3:00 | |
| Amy Goodrow: Tape 5925 | Eileen Maxson Eileen Maxson Eileen Maxson is an interdisciplinary artist working at the confluence of video, installation and performance.Maxson received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, her BFA from the University of Houston and attended the De Ateliers program in Amsterdam, Netherlands.Maxson's works have been... |
Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| Andre the Giant Has A Posse | Helen Stickler Helen Stickler Helen Stickler is an American-born filmmaker whose works include Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator and Andre the Giant Has a Posse... |
Documentary Video | 20:00 | |
| Armored Cars: Protect Yourself from Ballistic Attacks | Angie Waller | Experimental Video | 8:26 | |
| Beirut Outtakes | Peggy Ahwesh Peggy Ahwesh Peggy Ahwesh is an American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Ahwesh's work has been shown at the Solomon R... |
Experimental 16mm On Video | 7:00 | |
| Broad Day | Kevin Jerome Everson | Short 16mm | 1:00 | |
| CALIFORNIA/blue | Abbey Williams | Experimental Video | 7:27 | |
| Call and Response | Aaron Valdez | Experimental Video | 3:24 | |
| Cats and Pants | Jennifer Matotek | Short Video | 1:00 | |
| Chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet Synced and Played Simultaneously | Michael Bell-Smith | Experimental Video | 5:00 | |
| Chronicles | Kirsten Stoltmann Kirsten Stoltmann Kirsten Stoltmann is an artist based in Los Angeles.Stoltmann was born in Milwaukee. Her art career began in video but has progressed to embrace object-making... |
Experimental Video | 12:45 | |
| Crack | 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... |
Experimental 16mm | 1:00 | |
| Decision 80 | Jim Finn | Experimental Video | 10:00 | |
| Degradation #1: X-ray: Part 2, Government Radiation | James June Schneider | Experimental 16mm | 3:30 | |
| Destiny Manifesto | Martha Colburn | Animation 16mm On Video | 8:00 | |
| Deviant | 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 | 2:52 | |
| Dirty Pictures | John Smith | Experimental Video | 14:00 | |
| Discoveries on the Forrest Floor 1-3 | Charlotte Pryce | Experimental 16mm | 4:00 | |
| Don't Be a Stranger | 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 | 1:00 | |
| Don't Forget About Me | 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 | ||
| Drowning | 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 | 3:00 | |
| East of the Tarpits | Feature Video | 74:00 | International Premiere | |
| Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on My Cell Phone | Darrin Martin | Experimental Video | 7:40 | |
| False Future | Matthew Buckingham | Experimental 16mm | 10:00 | |
| Faustus's Children | David Jones, Tim Jackson, Michele O'Marah | Feature Video | 43:00 | |
| Figures in the Landscape | Thomas Comerford | Experimental 16mm | 11:00 | |
| Foggy Mountains Breakdown More Than Non-Foggy Mountains | Jessie Stead | Feature Video | 59:00 | |
| Hambone | Steve Hall, Cathee Wilkins | Experimental Video | 3:00 | |
| HANES | Mark Ther | Experimental Video | 4:50 | |
| Harmony | Jim Trainor | Animation 16mm | 12:00 | |
| Heavy Metal in Baghdad | Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi Suroosh Alvi Suroosh Alvi is a Pakistani Canadian journalist and film-maker who was among the co-founders of Montreal-based Vice magazine alongside Shane Smith and Gavin McInnes in 1994. As well as being a media critic, Alvi has also worked on creating documentaries about places deemed dangerous in the Middle... |
Documentary Video | 84:00 | New York Premiere |
| Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love | Steve Reinke | Experimental Video | 14:00 | |
| Hommes a Femmes | Gerard Byrne | Experimental 16mm On Video | 40:00 | |
| Hoopeston | Thomas Bender | Documentary Video | 78:00 | International Premiere |
| House | Ben Rivers | Experimental 16mm | 5:00 | |
| How to Behave or: A Story of Kindness | Tran Van Thuy | Experimental 16mm On Video | 43:00 | |
| Huge Flag | Jessie Stead | Experimental Video | 12:00 | |
| Hymn of Reckoning | Kent Lambert | Experimental Video | 7:00 | |
| I Am The Fred Astaire of Karate | Tommy Button | Experimental Video | 3:15 | |
| I Was a Teenage Serial Killer | Sarah Jacobson Sarah Jacobson Sarah Jacobson was an independent filmmaker who wrote, produced, and filmed her own movies.-Career:... |
Short 16mm | 27:00 | |
| I-Be Area | Ryan Trecartin Ryan Trecartin Ryan Trecartin is an artist and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA in 2004... |
Feature Video | 108:00 | |
| i.Mirror | Cao Fei | Documentary Video | 28:00 | |
| Inside, Outside, Upside Down | Short Video | International Premiere | ||
| Internet Alphabet | Joe Nanashe | Experimental Video | 6:32 | |
| Interplay | Robert Todd | Experimental 16mm | 7:00 | |
| It Only Takes a Second | Found Footage Festival | Short 16mm On Video | 4:00 | |
| JME in MySpace: Tropical Feelings | Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn | Documentary Video | 3:51 | |
| Junky | Tony Nittoli | Experimental 16mm On Video | 5:00 | |
| Kenedi is Getting Married | Zelimir Zilnik Želimir Žilnik Želimir Žilnik is a Serbian film director. He is noted for his socially engaging style and criticism of censorship that was commonplace during the Yugoslav communist era... |
Feature Video | 80:00 | US Premiere |
| Key to the City | Kevin Jerome Everson | Short 16mm | 1:45 | |
| King of Porn | 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 | 7:00 | |
| Kittypie | Jennifer Macmillan | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 4:00 | |
| Light is Waiting | Michael Robinson | Experimental Video | 7:00 | |
| Little Flags | 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... |
Experimental 16mm On Video | 7:00 | |
| Looks Like It's Going to Rain | Ken Nordine | Experimental Audio | 3:29 | |
| Lovely Andrea | 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... |
Experimental Video | 30:00 | |
| Market sentiments | Barbara Musil | Experimental Video | 4:00 | |
| Michael Dancing On New Year's Eve, 1985 | Michael Lucid | Documentary Video | 1:36 | |
| Mild People in Aggressive T-shirts | Lyn Elliot | Short 16mm On Video | 3:00 | |
| Mit Mir | Kerstin Cmelka | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| Nasty As U Wanna Be | Experimental Video | International Premiere | ||
| Neighbors | Robert Todd | Experimental Video | 4:30 | |
| New York Marathon | Koh Yamamoto | Experimental 16mm | 1:00 | |
| Night Tide (for Sailors, Mermaids, Mystics) | Drew Heitzler | Experimental Video | 17:09 | |
| Nook and Cranny | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | ||
| Number One | Leighton Pierce | Experimental Video | 10:05 | |
| Observando el Cielo | Jeanne Liotta | Experimental 16mm | 19:00 | |
| Office Suite | Robert Todd | Experimental 16mm | 15:30 | |
| Oh Daniel | CC & BN | Short Video | 3:00 | |
| Oh Great, Now Look What Happened | Gerbrand Burger, Tijmen Hauer | Experimental 35mm | 4:04 | |
| On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can The Avant-Garde Artist be Wholed? | Owen Land | Experimental 16mm | 17:00 | |
| Orchard Gallery Presents | Experimental 16mm | 76:00 | ||
| P.R. | Bryan Leister | Animation Video | 1:10 | |
| Paradise (excerpts from a work-in-progress) | Michael Almereyda Michael Almereyda Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet , starring Ethan Hawke.-Early life:... |
Experimental Video | 13:00 | |
| Photography is Easy | Leslie Thornton | Experimental Video | 4:28 | |
| Playing Dead | Kevin Jerome Everson | Short 16mm | 1:30 | |
| Priciest Homes | Jesper Nordahl | Experimental Video | 3:00 | |
| Prison Images | Harun Farocki Harun Farocki Harun Farocki is a German filmmaker.He has made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries... |
Experimental Video | 60:00 | US Premiere |
| private_eyez.mid | Frankie Martin, Cory Arcangel Cory Arcangel Cory Arcangel is a Brooklyn, New York artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance,, and video game modifications, for which he is perhaps best known... |
Experimental Video | 3:00 | |
| Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller | Manual De Landa | Experimental 16mm On Video | 30:00 | |
| Rejected or Unused Clips | Seth Price | Experimental Video | 10:00 | |
| Return of the Black Tower | Experimental Video | 15:00 | ||
| Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema presents REVOLUTION 9 | Experimental 16mm | |||
| Rock My Religion | Experimental Video | 55:00 | ||
| Rocket | Luther Price | Experimental 16mm | 7:00 | |
| Ruhe im Stalle furtzt die Kuh (Be Quiet, there is a Cow farting in the Stable) | Mark Ther | Short Video | 7:47 | |
| Serendipity 1967 | Aaron Valdez | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 6:00 | |
| Seven Days Til Sunday | Reynold Reynolds, Patrick Jolley | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 10:00 | |
| Slave #13 | Koh Yamamoto | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| Smells Like Teen Spirit | 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... |
Short Super-8 On Video | 7:37 | |
| Social Visions | Redmond Entwistle | Documentary 16mm | 20:00 | |
| Songs of Azores | Adrienne Jorge | Documentary Super-8 On Video | 9:00 | |
| Stranger Comes to Town | Jacqueline Goss | Animation Video | 28:00 | |
| Super High Me | Documentary Video | 89:00 | New York Premiere | |
| The Black Tower | John Smith | Experimental Video | 24:00 | |
| The Disappearance | John Menick | Experimental Video | 8:00 | |
| The End of the Light Age | James June Schneider | Feature 16mm | New York Premiere | |
| The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography | William E. Jones | Experimental Video | 20:00 | |
| The Film - An Epic Adventure, or The Other Kwai | Jesper Nordahl | Documentary Video | 11:00 | |
| The Golden Age of Fish | Kevin Jerome Everson | Feature Video | 60:00 | New York Premiere |
| The Juche Idea | 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... |
Feature Video | 62:00 | New York Premiere |
| The Lincoln Library of Essential Information Volume 20 | Kelly Oliver, Keary Rosen | Experimental Video | 2:28 | |
| The Magician's House | Deborah Stratman | Experimental 16mm | 5:45 | |
| The Manipulators | Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Claire E. Rojas | Animation 16mm On Video | 2:00 | |
| The Only Possible City, part 1 | Experimental 16mm | 73:00 | ||
| The Only Possible City, part 2 | Experimental Video | 60:00 | ||
| The Only Possible City, part 3 | Experimental Video | 93:00 | ||
| The Operation | Jacob Pander, Marne Lucas | Experimental 16mm On Video | 10:00 | |
| The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry | Hrag Yedalian Hrag Yedalian Hrag Yedalian is an Armenian-American documentary film director and producer. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and has attended UCLA School of Law and the AFI Conservatory.-Filmography:... |
Documentary Video | 59:00 | New York Premiere |
| The Third Body | Peggy Ahwesh Peggy Ahwesh Peggy Ahwesh is an American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Ahwesh's work has been shown at the Solomon R... |
Experimental Video | 9:00 | |
| The Vyrotonin Decision | Matt Mccormick | Experimental 16mm | 7:00 | |
| Throwing Paint Tins off the Roof | Vibeke Bryld | Documentary 16mm | 20:15 | |
| Tiger Me Bollix | Andrew Lampert, Moira Tierney | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 3:30 | |
| Toute la Memoire du Monde | Experimental 16mm | 21:00 | ||
| Tube Time! | Short Video | |||
| Two Black Towers | Short Video | |||
| Two Black Towers | Animation 16mm | International Premiere | ||
| Unfolding Continuum | Nate Boyce | Experimental Video | 9:00 | |
| Untied | Deborah Stratman | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507) | Nao Bustamante | Experimental Video | 5:00 | |
| Untitled (Pink Dot) | Takeshi Murata | Experimental Video | 5:00 | |
| Victory Over the Sun | Michael Robinson | Experimental 16mm | 13:00 | |
| We are Wizards | Josh Koury | Documentary Video | 79:00 | New York Premiere |
| We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass | Julia Meltzer, David Thorne | Documentary Video | 47:00 | |
| What I'm Looking For | Shelly Silver Shelly Silver Shelly Silver is a New York based artist utilizing video, film and photography.-Life:Silver attended Cornell University, graduating in 1980 with a B.A. in Intellectual History, and a B.F.A... |
Experimental Video | 15:00 | |
| What's On? | Martha Colburn | Animation 16mm | 2:00 | |
| When The Light's Red | Keith Wilson | Documentary Video | 10:45 | |
| Whispering Pines #5 | Shana Moulton | Experimental Video | 6:32 | |
| Window of Time | 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 | 22:32 | |
| Window of Time #2 | 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 | 15:28 | |
| X: The Baby Cinema | 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.... |
Documentary 16mm | 16:00 | |
| Ya Private Sky | Stom Sogo | Experimental Video | 3:00 | |