Gideon curates Geronimo 2: Film and Music Festival
The Alabama Music Box is hosting the second Geronimo Film and Music Festival in collaboration with Climenole, LLC. Gideon has curated works both foreign and domestic that together make an impressive showcase of the short film medium. The festival is co-sponsored by the Crescent Theater and the South Alabama Film Festival. Here is the lineup.
Thurs April 16th 2009 - Random Greatness
“Dahlia” (3min) by Michael Langan
Made as part of the Slamdance Film Festival $99 Special series (films are made for $99 in 99 days), this short uses inventive stop motion techniques in real-world surroundings, combined with an vocal score, to create a breathless work of astonishing beauty.
http://www.langanfilms.com
“Horsefingers 3: Starfucker” (12min 43sec) by Kirsten Kearse
Emma is costumed and ready for her cult meeting but she’s got the wrong address. Uncomfortable in her wig and horse hooves, Emma hangs out at a local bar, not sure what to do. She bumps into Lem, an actor from a movie she worked on years ago. He doesn’t recognize her but he does like the cut of her hoof. What follows is a bizarre date between a script supervisor in a costume and a minor movie star. Funny, unsettling and a little creepy, HORSEFINGERS 3: STARFUCKER provides a life lesson to be remembered.
Though the film works as a unique piece, it is also part of the HORSEFINGERS TRILOGY. Tied to one another by costumes and characters, the films investigate the assumptions set up between animal and human, female and male, fate and self-determination.
http://www.horsefingers.com/
“ELA in Love at First Byte” (10min) by Fernando Sarmiento
An incredibly accomplished mashup of pop culture – with the most obvious influences coming from Tron, She-Ra, Space Invaders, and 1980s Saturday morning cartoons. All these nostalgic elements combine to create something wholly original yet eerily familiar. In this episode of ELA, the young warrior princess uses her power of light to fight the powers of darkness to find Havra the Merciless. A high-paced special effects-driven adventure-ride through space, low compression rates, pixels and love.
http://www.peppermelon.tv/
“Jerk It – Thunderheist” (3min 34sec) by That Go
Let them know you’re worth it. Dust it off and jerk it. A girl, a rooster, and a video for the song recently featured in “The Wrestler” by Canadian duo Thunderheist.
http://www.that-go.net/
Fri April 17th 2009 - Music Videos
“Glean – El Cantador” (5min 45sec) by Gideon C. Kennedy & Marcus Rosentrater
Premiere of Mobile, AL-based alt country group El Cantador’s latest video, for their song “Glean.” As the song title suggests, the video gathers useful remnants, bit by bit, of the band’s performance by filming their shadows, a visual synonym for the ephemeral nature of song. The video will precede El Cantador’s live set.
http://climenole.com
More music videos TBA.
Sat April 18th 2009 - Essay Documentaries
“My Dog Doesn’t Have a Job” (5min) by Karl Tebbe
So, if I come to think of it, we’re not really a good team. I don’t go hunting and I have a pointer. But nevertheless the dog makes me happy. Although he doesn’t really have a job when he’s together with me. Because his job is pointing at deer, isn’t it?
http://www.karltebbe.de/
“When the Light’s Red” (10min 45sec) by Keith Wilson
After moving to Austin, director Keith Wilson must face a daily moral dilemma when faced with the city’s large homeless population. An external exploration of an internal debate on how to treat “flyers” - the homeless who stake out freeway exits asking temporarily stopped motorists for spare change.
http://wall-eye.com
“Frog Jesus” (approx. 1min) by Ben Peters
Why say more? Besides, the film’s around a minute long, so any description beyond that is really just ruining it, isn’t it?
http://www.kijo.com/
“Rock Pockets” (5min 10sec) by Trevor Anderson
A sugar rush of sex, politics, and rock ‘n’ roll, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old-boy at the fair.
http://www.dirtycityfilms.com/
Sun April 19th 2009
“We Fun” (approx. 90min) by Matthew Robison
A document of the Atlanta music scene in all its strangeness, including the Black Lips, Mastadon, Deerhunter, the Carbonas, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, Mourdella, and many many more. One of the musicians and stars of the film, Jessica “Juggz” Reed, should be in attendance (barring her uber vida loca).
http://myspace.com/wefunmovie
