2002 Film Festival

This work is a video of a bridge you’ll never want to cross, no matter how desperate you are to get to the other side. Sit back and let this wild manipulation of image and music take you for a ride! Emile Tobenfeld is a Lexington-based videomaker who has been doing film and video, especially image manipulation, for many years. Elastic Slow Dance is from his compilation Video Music—The Ambient Set.

The streets are rough and tough, and the only law is the law of survival! Detectives K-Bomb and Kool Breeze match wits and fancy footwork with the evil drug dealer, Mr. E-Z ,and his crew of breakdancing gangsters. This action-packed video features original music and dancing by the Floorlords. Kevin Carson is Programming Coordinator for Cambridge Community Television.

Inexplicable fate deals a sudden blow to a melancholic table tennis player. Charlie Low and Dave Hobbs are students of video and film at Emerson College, and this video was completed for an advanced post production class.

With radiant good humor and insight into the rigid social pressures that constrict us if we don’t happen to fit the Vogue ideal, this story tells how one woman frees herself from the tyranny of body image. Debra Kirschner is a professional filmmaker who is now working on a feature film. Changing Clothes has been shown in a number of film festivals.

The hot breath...the heaving bosom....the smoldering glance...the sweet surrender—it’s all here, and it’s all for sale on the torrid covers of romance novels, brought to stirring life in this video. The Morphology of Desire won the Best Experimental/Animation film award at the 2002 Boston Underground Film Festival and has won other awards, both here and abroad. Robert Arnnold has an extensive resume of screenings and awards in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

This video documents a monthly performance ritual on the first Sunday of every month in which a group of people form a silent procession of empty shopping carts through a local Wal-Mart to register resistance to “the cathedral of consumption.” Andrew Lynn is an MFA student at Rensselaer Institute and a local community activist. His organization, Breathing Planet, promotes Whirl-Mart rituals throughout the country and the world.

A romantic comedy about a man who reads a “message in a bottle” that leads him to the Kowloon Restaurant where he learns to read the right message. Kowloon Castaway stars WNDS weather reporter Al Kaprielian. Garth Campbell (YIPeia Productions) is a filmmaker who works with WNDS.

In this experimental video, objects and figures move rhythmically to an audio background of psychic readings recorded in upstate New York. The viewpoint of the tape hovers uneasily between accepting the reality of the psychics’ out of body experiences and premonitions, and the more prosaic knowledge of the everyday that we think is real. Caz Mcintee is a videomaker from Troy, New York.

An exquisite dance tape in three movements, Baby Dance is not only pleasurable to watch but also explores the meaning of what it is to be a parent—the demands, the joys, and ultimately the evanescence of the experience. Kelli Edwards of Arlington, Massachusetts. is a choreographer and videomaker.

The mysterious Ros Bobos is back again this year from the enchanted wilds of Franklin, Massachusetts, sporting a new name and a new video. If you think your parents taught you how to breathe properly, this video will show how wrong you are. Ros Bobos is the name; video collage is the game.

This film was shot in 16 mm and Super 8 and tells the story of how a father enlists the family cat to fight in the trenches of the Second World War. For some reason Tom Brokaw left this chapter out of The Greatest Generation. Cat Lady won the Best Independent Film Prize at the New England Film and Video Festival this year. Liesel de Boor is a filmmaker and natural foods grocer living in New York City and is highly allergic to cats.

Three Australian directors tell their version of the famous story of a man searching for his missing part. An extra treat that comes with the tape of Kowloon Castaway.