The video below was a 2009 interview of DC Shorts for Comcast.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
DC Shorts holds Closing Night Party at Atlas, near H St Festival; last showcase
Saturday September 15, 2012. I attended the DC Shorts
Showcase 12 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in NE Washington DC; link here.
It’s a good thing that I took the X2 bus, and didn’t try
to park. I didn’t even know that the
H-Street festival was going on at the theater site. After the film, I attended the Closing Night
Party, in a theater in the Atlas; it was
small as it stared.
The video below was a 2009 interview of DC Shorts for Comcast.
The video below was a 2009 interview of DC Shorts for Comcast.
“Try a Little Harder” (13 min) has a young man balancing his
dedication to art work against attentiveness to his girl friend , and a piece
of his art gets “stuck on her”, resulting in some public physical comedy. Matt Damon would approve.
“Viral” (13 min, dir. Dustin Waldman) examines the way
user-generated content gives “ordinary” people a chance to be noticed. He gives an example of a YouTube video of a
boy’s dentist visit that got millions of hits.
A Kansas State University professor talks about the relationship between
anonymity and temporary fame. The film
was sponsored by Florida State University.
“Controlled” (“Ferngesteurt”, Germany, 17 min, dir Hendrik
Maximilian Schmitt). A female therapist probes a handsome teenager Maik (Janik
Schumann) to learn why he stabbed an immigrant (not necessarily Muslim), and
the gradually revealed backstory reveals heavy stuff, including his being bullied and then called a “gay Nazi”, as if that were not an oxymoron.
“Outside My Window” (5 min.): A man’s opportunities pass him by, and then
comes tragedy.
“Advancing Age” (7 min.):
At age 30, you’re not yet ready for black balloons, but the colorful
ones will keep chasing you.
“The Christmas Tree” (11 min). A father tries to buy his son a Christmas
tree, only to have it stolen at a gas station.
Appears to be filmed on Long Island.
“Ideologies” (“Furet, Ommbitt”, Norway. 6 min). Military veterans recall their days as lifers
while now in a nursing home, and they don’t know they’re no longer in the Army.
“What’s Life Got to Do with It?” (16 min, dir. Noah
Weisberg). Noah directs himself as a
handsome and nerdish twenty-something bachelor looking for adventure and
finding he has signed an apartment lease in modern “Valley” LA with a zombie. He’s forced to make best friends. Compare to Strand’s 2011 feature horror
comedy “L.A. Zombie”.
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