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SOUTHFIRST: PRESENTS
Halloween
Horror Films
Saturday, October 30, 8-10 PM
SOUTHFIRST presents six short
low-budget horror films by local artists. At 8 PM on October 30, the Saturday
night before Halloween, we’ll screen recent films by Matthew Brannon,
KaBoom Press with Dan Torop, Xan Price, Scott Roberts, Noah Sheldon & Roger
White, Miss Liz Wendelbo and Lisa Skogh and Monica Hellstrøm. The program includes the premiere of The
Isle of the Dead, Die Toteninsel.
We’ll show them again Sunday afternoon at 4PM. Free.
The program as it will appear:
Scott Roberts
"My Favorite Character is a
Wizard"
animation, 2002
length: 4 minutes 45 seconds
“[at] Gencon, the largest gaming convention in the world...we interviewed
thirty ‘gamers’ about role-playing, and their favorite characters.
This animation brings those idealized alter egos to life.”
Matthew Brannon
“The Unending
Horrible,” 2004
16 mm film, shown here on DVD
length: 4 minutes
“If I miss the
previews I feel cheated. If I miss the credits I won't go.
Sometime in the 1980s they started to add previews to rental VHS films. I loved
it and I never grabbed the remote to fast-forward through them. If i was with a
girlfriend/boyfriend I would always find myself arguing for watching them. A
preview is a promotional tool to encourage viewers to attend, rent or buy a
film. Most often these are made by manipulative agents of the corporate machine
not the auteur/directors. It is very interesting and informative to watch
coming attractions of films you are already familiar to see the drastic
inappropriate or exaggerated characteristics. The world of the DVD reissues has
made this even more accessible. Foreign films will typically have pretentious
quotations from critics. Independent films will address film festival awards
like name dropping whores. Major studio previews offer the widest breadth. Some
are even made years before the release, giving only glimpses of the titles, and
actors names. A reminder of the "Hollywood Babylon" style board room
recipe films. Voice overs dominate and direct you how to interpret &
anticipate your ten plus dollars.
Credits have a bit of the same suggestion and sensitivity. Opening credits have
evolved over the years to play off audiences expectations. 40 years ago most
films featured the film's entire credits before any image began and ended
simply with the words "The End." A structure was in place. Now in a
tired, no longer clever, but still effective gesture films will replace
"the end" with the films' title as the first credit shown. The
Unending Horrible is a self conscious exploration of this terrain. A ridiculous
attempt at balancing sound, image, animation & text for a film that will
never be made.
You don't have to watch the film to know the story. It's about sex, money &
power. It's about self destructive impulses & fear. You don't have to watch
the film to know the story.”
by Matthew Brannon October 23rd, 2004
With original music by
David Griffen and Noah Sheldon, cinematography by Noah Sheldon, editing and
animation by Francis Coy.
Miss Liz Wendelbo, Lisa Skogh and Monica Hellstrøm
“The Isle of the Dead, Die
Toteninsel”
Super 8 Black and White, on DVD NTSC, 2004
length: 10 minutes 32 secs
Shot in stark super 8 black and white, this tale of minimal horror features the
filmmakers as she-vampires. Posing as scientists, they hunt young men's virgin
flesh to satisfy their eternal hunger. Their thirst for blood transforms them
into jet-setting femme fatales, who leave a trail of dead bodies and gore
wherever they go. Haunting analog noise soundtrack by Andrew Giles and Sean
McBride. With Michael McCrory, Clay Lacefield, Rosa Pollack, and graphic design
by Hanna Johannson. Thanks to Anna Lundh, Xan Price and David Insley.
Xan Price
“Friend of Oo”
DV on DVD NTSC, 2004
length: 4 minutes
One cat’s dream...
KaBoom Press
“The Baxters: A Psychedelic
Cop Family Horror”
Mini DV on DVD
length: 22 min, 2004
A trash-horror flick based on the novel by KaBoom Press. The summer
offering by their “movie of the month collective” featuring zombie
cops and a family of witches; this cut was created by director and
cinematographer Dan Torop. Music by Dennis Acupolco and Clay Lacefield.
Edited by Pretzel World. Costumes by Tyson Reeder. Cast: Tyson Reeder, Inju
Kaboom, Nouri Zander, Mike Carpio, Steve Schmitz and Patrik Graham, with
additional performances by Eden Gauteron, Robin Martin, Paul Galdames, Clay
Lacefield and Josh Weinstein.
Noah Sheldon & Roger White
“How I became a Vampire, by
Marco 5C”
animation and mini DV on DVD NTSC
length: aprox. 4 min, 2004
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