dA CENTER FOR THE ARTS PROUDLY PRESENTS:
SMOGDANCE ’02--The Fifth Annual Pomona Film Festival
WESTERN UNIVERVISITY, PREM REDDY HALL, LINDEN AND SECOND, DOWNTOWN POMONA
Fri. Nov. 15, 7pm Sat. Nov. 16 7pm Sun., Nov. 17 5pm
THE FILM SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:
FRIDAY - Curator: Charlotte Cousins
A LITTLE REDEMPTION - (Fuccillo 12 min.) Addict meets his match
LARRY IN RELATIONSHIP TO GROUND (Fisher, 3 min) Lawn chair pilot takes flight
DOWNSIZING (Wilke, 16 min.) Little Johnnie gets “downsized” out of his own family
MATCH SCRATCH FEVER - (Solid, 3 min.) biopic about a match
THE TUNNEL -(Abed, 15 min.) Eagle eyed view of life’s check-out line
PAINTING (Thorp, 4 min.) Hand that holds the paintbrush rules the world
THE OFFERING -(Lee, 10 min) Monk and disciple confront love and death
[INTERMISSION] Pristine carpet gets fouled with popcorn
THE PROVIDER -(Shute, 20 min.) Desperate dad of the future haggles over brain goulash
EL MOIN GRO UCHLAND (Dowsett, 3 min.) Those lips, those eyes, that typewriter!
@%#! -(Miller, 6 min.) Writer awakens in scarifyingly G-rated world
BIRDS OF PREY (Smith, 14 min.), Teen flirts with death
SPUTNIK vs. VANGUARD (Keller, 3 min.) Computerized sendup of Cold War space race
THROUGH A WINDOW - Kitigawa, 14 min.) Boy befriends pianist neighbor
SATURDAY - Curator: Enid Baxter-Blader
THE FLOATER (Dee, 1 min) Iconic film clip—punk rock style
BLACK LINED FLOOR MATS (Guthrie, 3.5 min) 210 seconds of grrrrl band rage UNTITLED ( Maxson 3 min.) Cinderella’s new zip is 90210
SPIN (Arnold, 6 min.) Perpetrator’s unpunished visual assault
CHRISTMAS 1990 -(Stark, 4 min.) Two memories—one pre Gulf War and one pre Reagan are overlapped using out-dated video technique
THE BIRD (Cousino, 5 min.) Avian victim has moment of clarity
THE VALETTE (Vaill 14 min.) Femme parking valet takes teen girl on a joyride
EUCLID’S TROPHY (Hesik, 10 min.) Adolescent girls get real, form a punk band [INTERMISSION] Yesterday’s popcorn palmed off as fresh
THE LAST DAY OF NOVEMBER (Basquin, 4 min.) Hunting--a visual art!
CONVOY (Estis, 3 min.) Ode to the I-5 Freeway
TUNE (Otto, 30 min.) Narrator’s tour of Mojave Desert, accompanied by insipid music of the only local radio station
WILD WEST (Beadman, 5 min.) Excerpt of documentary about Native American spiritual leader
SUNDAY - Curator: 1st Half-Enid Baxter-Blader, 2nd Half-Charlotte Cousins
UNTITLED (Thompson 6 min.) Color palette drops LSD
STARRING: ROSA FURR (Martin, 35 min.) Dead ringer for early silent film features lesbians of color
FATHER’S DAY (Burton, 21 min.) Evocative, unedited “found footage” of belly dancer at family gathering
[INTERMISSION] popcorn vendor gets down to the crunchy stuff
THE GOODS (Banas, 3 min.) snowboard tone poem
BRIGIT SAVES WINTER (Roth, 3 min.) Cartoon ingénue takes on global warming MY NEIGHBORHOOD -(Rubenstein, 3 min.) Insider’s tour of a really cool ‘hood
WHAT MAKES A HERO: BILLY BOB (Pollock, 9 min.) La Verne performance artist accosts pedestrians
911 -(Loney, 5 min.) portrait of 9/11 tragedy
ART HACKS BABBLE (Craig, 8 min.) How to make a film about nothing
UNTITLED (Lucas, 4 min.) Struggles of people of color in Pomona
THE BLESSING (Contreras, 8 min.) Daughter comes to terms with her neighborhood
WANDERING THOUGHTS (Miller, 4 min.) Girl squares her reality with “Vogue Magazine” ideal
CANDIDE (Davis, 10 min.) TV clips that never mean what they say
Special Thanks: Western University and the City of Pomona Cultural Arts Commission
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