We are so thrilled to present our first show of the Season!
Nothing better on a winter’s night than some cozy company, hot popcorn and huge variety of international short films. See you at our favorite microcinema-
Hideout
1354 W. Wabansia St. (off Elston)
Show starts at 8:30 PM.
Running time approximately 90 minutes, includes a break.
Tickets are $7 at the door.
Advance tickets are recommended, though there is a $2 fee.
This one’s going to be a doozy! We bring you:
PIE CYCLE
Christina McClelland, Iowa City (Animation/Experimental)
Hand-drawn illustrations make up a fresh, swift series of interactions between mysteriously quilted humans, big dark bears and cherry pies.
GESTURE DOWN (I Don’t Sing)
Cedar Sherbert, California/Mexico - Documentary
First-person rumination on place, longing, and identity - themes of significance for the director, who is a descendent of (and sometimes estranged from) the La Huerta Indian community of northern Baja California, Mexico - where the film is shot.
THANK YOU, MASK MAN
Lenny Bruce/Jeff Hale (Vintage Animated Comedy)
Local folks are upset with the Lone Ranger because he won’t stay around to be thanked after a good deed. Based on classic comedy routine by Lenny Bruce.
LOS OJOS DE ALICIA (The Eyes of Alicia)
Ugo Sanz, Basque/Spain - Live-Action Thriller
Andrea awakes in an empty room… From a TV across the room, a woman guides Andrea through a harrowing gauntlet of emotion - giving her a choice between her painful past and the option to live.
SOME GHOSTS…
Aay Preston-Myint, Chicago (Animation/Experimental)
Enter the dream world of a spaceman in his sleep chamber, where malevolent spirits escape from a haunted medicine cabinet to descend on landscapes of quilted hutments among houndstooth hillsides.
STILL LIFE
Jon Knautz, Ontario (Live-Action Thriller)
A young college student suffering from post-finals sleep deprivation stops through a small town and makes an unnerving discovery. An eerie, Twilight Zone-style experience.
RIDE OF THE MERGANSERS
Steve Furman, Minnesota (Documentary)
Just 24 hours after hatching, tiny Merganser ducklings must make a perilous leap to the ground below in an age-old rite rarely observed by humans.
KaBOOM!
PES, New York (Stop-Motion Animation)
An elaborately built city made of vintage household items and toys is under the threat of a looming peanut.
THE MAKING OF KaBOOM
PES, New York (Documentary)
WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES
Jesse Epstein, Brooklyn (Documentary)
A Brooklyn barber covers his wall with magazine pin-ups and wishes real women could look more like the babes on his “wall of beauty”.
THE WITCH AND THE COW
Signe Baumane, Latvia (Animation)
A tiny witch tries to milk an immense and unmoving cow. With one absurd turn after another, things get out of control.
