Humans! Nature! Animals! …and of course, Politics.
THURSDAY APRIL 10, 8:30p
and
SUNDAY APRIL 13, 5:30p (same program, different day)
Celebrate spring with hot popcorn, brand new posters by Jay Ryan, and an
unparalleled variety of international short films at our favorite Microcinema:
Hideout 1354 W. Wabansia St. (off Elston)
Tickets are $8 at the door. Advance tickets are recommended, though there is a $2 fee
Show runs approximately 90 minutes, includes a break.
FILM BRIGADE IS PROUD TO PRESENT:
THE NATURE OF REBIRTH (documentary) *Chicago premiere!
Johanna Lampi, Helsinki
We all die… but what is dying? Puszcza Bialowieska, Europe’s oldest forest, straddles the border between Belarus and Poland. This film follows the cycle of life and the relationship between human and nature through four people living in the forest.
BAG OF HAMMERS (claymation) *Chicago premiere!
Clyde Petersen & Forrest Baum, Seattle
Colorful music video with a band of rowdy clay people, ice cream, and one grumpy grandpa. Music by Thao With the Get Down Stay Down.
CROSSIN’ ALL THE BOUNDARIES (documentary) *Chicago premiere!
Rebecca Parrish & Brooke Bassin, Chicago/New York
Journey across boundaries of race and class through a small town on the Mississippi Delta three weeks before the 2008 presidential primary. Find out how people relate to the candidates and to national politics as a whole.
PEOPLE IN ORDER:
“AGE” and “BIRTH” (documentary) *Chicago premiere!
Lenka Clayton & James Price, London
Two films that populate human scales. AGE gives us a person of every age from 1 to 100, BIRTH introduces us to thirty-four women in stages of pregnancy from 4 to 41 weeks.
FOR THE MASSES (animation) *Chicago premiere!
Corrie Francis, California
City-dwellers flock to an urban wilderness looking for a brief escape from the city’s constant presence. Though tamed and tied by its surrounding metropolis, the mountain is anything but passive…
THE SADDEST BOY IN THE WORLD (live-action tragicomedy)
Jamie Travis, Vancouver
Timothy Higgins, picked last for the team, is the saddest boy in the world. Friendlessness, suburban complacency, and prescription drugs have conspired against the youngster to make this his worst year yet. Musical chairs and birthday cake can’t save him now.
I STILL LIKE JESSICA (animated)
Rodney Rothman & Arthur Jones, New York
Rodney dated Jessica for about two weeks when he was 13 and she was the first girl he ever kissed. “I have probably thought of the kiss fifty-thousand times”, he tells her on the phone. Jessica, now an adult, doesn’t remember.
THE BROTHER’S IN TROUBLE (experimental) *Chicago premiere!
Sara Strahan, New York
Using super-8 home movies, found footage, and camera-less techniques, TROUBLE explores the relationship between media and our construction of memory. Original score by Melissa Grey.
VETERINARIAN (animation) *Chicago premiere!
Signe Baumane, Latvia/New York
The vet’s job is never done and to make it worse, he’s suffering from a broken heart. One night, the animals he has treated come to him in a dream.
