2001 Film Festival

A film about the famous “Beat Generation” writer and his connection with Lowell, the city of his birth and a deep influence on his writing, containing layered images, readings of his novel Dr. Sax, excerpts from a radio interview with Kerouac, and an improvised soundtrack. Henry Ferrini is a Gloucester filmmaker with a long career whose many works have received critical acclaim here and elsewhere. Lowell Blues was shown at the Boston MFA; on WGBH; and, most recently, in Toulouse, France.

Motion-laced still lifes from the garden you’ll never have, no matter how hard you try. Walter Wright is a video maker and “video shredder” from Chelmsford whose recent work has been the live accompaniment of innovative musicians and dancers in the area.

A boy and his mother attempt to cope with a family tragedy and find themselves lost in the woods, in more ways than one. Shep Abbott is a filmmaker and Executive Director of Fishtown Artspace in Gloucester.

A hypnotic collage using found footage. Breathe in, breathe out, and watch what these characters do. Then watch out, or they’ll do it to you. Andrew Hannah is a videomaker associated with Fishtown Artspace in Gloucester.

A film in which a performer moves through a landscape of rocks and rushing water, light and sound. Jeff Silva is a filmmaker from Somerville who is a producer/director of educational media at MIT. Ebbing was shown at this year’s New England Film and Video Festival.

An elegantly constructed piece in which city images are overlaid with sound, silence and voice.

A suburban vignette in which a local landscaper discovers that one of his clients has an unusual twist on family values. David Kartch is a filmmaker working out of San Francisco. Zen and the Art of Landscaping was a recent hit at the Boston Underground Film Festival.

They may argue about evolution, but this collage of found images is something they’ve never taken into account.