Film
9th Annual Standing Rock International
Short Film Fest Saturday, January 28th, 8pm, 2012
- Independent Short Films from around the world!
- Animation, music videos, short comedy, experimental films, documentaries
and more!
- Silent films with live music accompaniment!
- Featured Filmmaker Miles Kalbach live in person
- Live Music to Films with The Trepanning Trio
at the Kent Stage, 175 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio www.kentstage.org
Film Fest Wrap Up
Congratulations to Jamie Stone from Australia for winning the People's
Choice and The Audience Choice Award for his insightful
and amusing "Space
Travel According To John" short film ! A great piece of sand animation
and dialog that could only come from the mind of a kid.
It was great to have Miles Kalbach make an appearance to explain his dark comedy, "Sonny
Mails A Letter", which won the Juried Choice for last year's festival. It was
an exceptionally difficult competition this year due to the number of outstanding
films. The audience had a sound and visual feast from which to choose; from the
blighted streets of Los Angeles to the futuristic robots of post-apocalyptic,
London. The festival spanned the globe and beyond.
A special thank you to The Trepanning Trio for performing Live Music. Thanks
also to Mike Hovancsek for directing the festival and volunteering so much time
and talent. And finally, thanks to our audience for such a great turnout and
enthusiastic response. We hope everyone brings a friend next year and we have
to hold the festival on two nights instead of one.
The Results are as follows:
WINNERS:
JURIED CHOICE:
1. "Space Travel According To John". Jamie Stone ( Australia )
2. "Astronaut on The Roof". Sergi Portabella ( Germany )
3. "As Above, So Below". Ryan Uzinevsky (NYC)
AUDIENCE CHOICE
1. "Space Travel According To John". Jamiew Stone ( Australia )
2. "Robots of Brixton". Kibwe Tavares ( England)
3. "Astronaut on The Roof". Sergi Portabella ( Germany )
3. "As Above, So Below". Ryan Uzinevsky (NYC)
3. "Crosses". DuckEye ( United Kingdom)
HONORABLE MENTION
1. “Animation Hotline”. Dustin Grella (NYC)
Thank you to all the participants, film makers and our audience, for making this
year’s festival a great success!
We have begun to accept films for next year's festival and we'd like to hold
a music video competition as well. Please spread the word. Deadline December
31, 2012.
Images from this year's event
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FESTIVAL PROGRAM:
International Films:
1) Space Travel According to John – Jamie
Stone ( Australia ): This beautiful and playful film gives us
an animation piece made out of sand to explain space travel as
seen by a child. anders@malade.se (3:06)
2) Let the Arts Roam – I
Am Los Angeles ( United States ): This is a straightforward
documentary about two graffiti artists who collaborate on huge murals around
Los Angeles. hello@iamlosangeles.com (4:46)
3) Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus – Patrick
Clair ( Australia ): This terrifying but well animated piece
tells the story of the world’s
most dangerous computer virus (so far). hello@zapruder.com.au (3:21)
4) Shark’s Tooth – Ferry
Gouw ( England ). This is a music video for a group that goes
by the name The Archie Bronson Outfit. We love the mix of high
tech and low tech in this sci-fi journey through modern music.
(3:12) http://www.archiebronsonoutfit.com/
5) Robots of Brixton – Kibwe Tavares ( England ): Brixton
has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London 's new robot workforce
- robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no
longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting
in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline. kibwetavares@gmail.com (5:36)
6) Animation Hotline – Dustin Grella ( United States ): We have shown a
lot of our friend Dustin’s films in the past and we were not planning on
showing any more because we didn’t want to spend too much
time on any particular filmmaker. Then, Dustin told us about
his Animation Hotline project and it was just too good to pass
up. Every day people call a hotline and leave messages. Then,
every day Dustin makes a chalkboard animation of one of them.
Here are a few highlights. e-mail@dustingrella.com (5:00)
7) Astronaut On The Roof – Sergi
Portabella ( Germany ): A comical road movie about two scriptwriters
who write a film about two scriptwriters who write a film about
a teenage couple who become bank robbers. sergiportabella@yahoo.es
8) As
Above, So Below - Light Harvest Studio(USA): “As
Above, So Below” is a study in immersive cinema, utilizing
multiple locations and monumental scales. The work was 3D projection
mapped onto the Manhattan Bridge, in September of 2011. Covering
over 30,000 square feet of architecture, it unfolded like a moving
modern Botticelli painting, flowing above heads and spreading
outward in every direction, “As Above, So Below” immersed
both architecture and audience in the story. Created by: Farkas
Fülöp, Ryan Uzilevsky, Simon Anaya Sina Taherkhani
, John Ensor Parker, Johnny Moreno, Richard Jochum. Sponsors
and Production: Light Harvest Studio, Senovva, Inc, Resident
Creative Studio, Leo Kuelbs, Anaya Visual Effects, D.U.M.B.O
Arts Festival, NYC Department of Transportation. ryanuzi@gmail.com
9) Crosses – DuckEye ( United Kingdom ): A series of mandala-like
circles pull us toward eternity. This is a music video for Zero 7. http://duckeye.co.uk/work.html (7:00)
10) The Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Lincoln – Drew
Christie ( United States ): An animated interpretation of the
strange life of Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes
Booth. It was animated in charcoal, pastels and crayon on the
pages of 12 paperback books. geniuschristie@gmail.com (5:24)
11) Streamschool - Péter Vácz
( Hungary ): A little girl has an adventure with water as she
travels from a small brook to the sea. A tale of growing up based
on a Hungarian poem. vaczpeter@gmail.com (1:52)
12) Swing of Change - Harmony Bouchard, Andy
Le Cocq, Joakim Riedinger, and
Raphael Cenzi (France): This story takes place in the New York of the
1930s: Harry, a racist barber is transformed by the arrival of a magical
trumpet. contact@swing-of-change.com (6:35)
Featured Filmmakers:
1) Miles Kalbach – Miles won our Juried
prize last year and he agreed to share more of his quirky animations
with us this year. www.mileskalbach.com
2) Kate VanDevender – Kate won our Audience Choice award
last year and we invited her to share more of her work this year. Last year Kate
shared her films about her attempts to break into show business. Her more recent
films follow her as she has taken a job at an advertising agency while she maintains
a standup comedy career on the side. www.actordiaries.com
Live Film Soundtracks:
1) Prizmatic – Film by Mike Hovancsek. It was the result
of some experiments with optics to create a collage of organic materials. Live
musical accompaniment by Trepanning Trio. http://mikeh.8m.com/ (5:00)
2) 10 Things I Learned As A New Parent – Film by Mike Hovancsek. The nice
thing about babies is you don’t have to pay them for their work. Live musical
accompaniment by Trepanning Trio. http://mikeh.8m.com/ (3:00)
CLICK HERE for PROSPECTUS
6th Annual "Who's Your Mama?" Earth Day and Environmental Film
Festival 2012. April 22-28, 2012.
April 22. 4th Annual Vegan Iron Chef Competition. KSU 2nd Floor Dining
Location.
April 27. Environmental Film Festival. KSU Campus.
April 28th. Main Street Block Party. Downtown Kent, OH
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