1996 Film Festival
The Marblehead Festival of Arts presented the 1st Annual Film/Video Festival. Featuring a variety of experimental works, animations, shorts, documentaries and dramas, the Festival presented a selection of work from some of the most outstanding film and videomakers in the country, reflecting a range of subjects, styles and genres. Most of the presented works had received prestigious awards as well as domestic and international recognition.
The screening was held in the Marblehead/Swampscott YMCA's Screening Room.
Chairperson: Kim Foley
Committee: Sally Schreiber-Cohn
Buzz Cut
Rick Ashley
3 minutes
Buzz Cut provides an amusing voyeuristic experience in a visit to the barber.
The Place Between
4 minutes
Rhapsody in Orange
9:40 minutes
Going Surfing: Women and Surfing
Produced by Ruth Tofler-Riesel
Edited by Kim Foley, Executive Producer, New England Technology Group
3 minutes
Women and Surfing is one of the ten stories from an interactive videodisc installation on the history of surfing in Australia. The video was produced for the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney where it is on display as part of the museum’s permanent exhibit.
Yours for the Taking
Scene from Yours for the Taking
Karen Aqua
7 minutes
A three-legged cup embarks on a journey, filling itself with images and impressions of its surroundings. Karen Aqua collaborated with clay artist Jeanée Redmond. Music by D. Sharpe.
Arnold Escapes from Church
Scene from Arnold Escapes from Church
Craig Bartlett
2 minutes
Arnold, a chronic daydreamer, daydreams his way through a reading of the 23rd psalm.
Groundwork
Dorothy Shamonsky
Music by Kim Foley
3:20 minutes
This interesting short combines dance, photography and sound. It was created using a motorized camera and a WORM (Write-Once-Read Memory) videodisc recorder. (Historical note: The WORM recorder was one of the first available videodisc recorders in the mid-eighties and used an odd-sized 8-inch videodisc.)
“Hole in the Bucket” Spearhead
Directed by Guy Guillet
4 minutes
This music video presents the moral dilemma that nearly everyone in an urban environment has confronted one time or another: the decision as to whether or not to give a handout to one who asks. Will they use it for food or spend it on booze? Should they “get a job” or are they truly in need?
The Bridge
Kathleen Connor
Music by Constance Bunyer
11 minutes
This experimental film ponders the ultimate questions in life relating to truth, being, and humanity.
Perpetual Motion
Karen Aqua
5:15 minutes
A shrine to ritualized time. This film celebrates the cyclical nature of time, and the symbols and rites which have been created to mark and honor its passage. Music by Ken Field.
Flora Bella Rosa Mia
Kathleen Connor
3 minutes
This whimsical animated film offers a much needed happy perspective on femininity.
Radio Fishtown
Henry Ferrini
28 minutes
“The World I Know” Collective Soul
4 minutes
Clockwinders
Rick Macomber
4 minutes
This is a portrait of a group of men ranging in age from 30–80+, affectionately termed “the town cranks,” who religiously appear each Thursday morning at 8:00 AM and make their way up to the old bell tower to hand wind the 220 year-old clock at Abbot Hall in the historic town of Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Creation File
Written and produced by Guy Guillet and Peter Randlette
15 minutes
An experimental narrative about an alienated man’s escape into his personal computer. What’s interesting about Creation File is that it was made ten years ago, before Virtual Reality arrived, and yet is a prophetic vision of much that has come to pass in our technologically pervasive society.
Boston Driving
Nina Hasin
4:30 minutes
Boston Driving is a poetry video that tells the tale of one person’s experience with Boston drivers. Against the sights and sounds of the madness of driving in Boston, performance poet Ray McNiece and videomaker Nina Hasin collaborate to tell a story that every Boston driver will relate to.
“Fu-ge-la” Fugees
Directed by Guy Guillet
4 minutes
A hip-hop music video from the group with the #1 album in the United States.
Prey
6 minutes
Kakania
Karen Aqua
4 minutes
A striking blend of music and image, contrasting the tension and chaos of modern urban life with the ritualized order of tribal societies. Music composed by Karlo Tacky; performed by Skin.
Olivia
2:45 minutes
Tips for Living
28 minutes
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