2001 New York Underground Film Festival
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These are the films shown at the 8th New York Underground Film Festival
, held from March 7–13, 2001.
New York Underground Film Festival
Founded in 1994 by filmmakers Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, the New York Underground Film Festival was an annual event that occurred each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City from 1994 through 2008...
, held from March 7–13, 2001.
| Film Name | Director | Type | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ...An Incredible Simulation | Jeff Economy & Darren Hacker | Documentary Video | 60:00 | East Coast Premiere |
| _relifted | tinhoko | 7:00 | ||
| A Perfect Ass | Vanessa Renwick | Experimental Video | ||
| American Graffity | Seth Price | Experimental 16mm on video | 16:00 | |
| Anything for the Ladies | Ingivil Giske & Line K. Lyngstadaas | Documentary Video | 24:30 | |
| Audiovisions: New Videos + Music from Austria | Experimental Video | 62:00 | US Premiere | |
| Aus | Skot, Christian Fennesz | video | 4:00 | |
| Automatic Meat Probe | Shawn P. Morrissey | Experimental 16mm | 5:00 | |
| Back Against the Wall | James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos is an independent filmmaker and media artist living in Chicago, Illinois. His work is low-budget and rigorous, and consists of experimental narrative features, non-narrative shorts, and video installations... |
Feature 16mm | 94:00 | World Premiere |
| Beauty | Bibb Bailey | Documentary 16mm | 3:00 | |
| Bouncing in the Corner #36DDD | Dara Greenwald | Experimental Video | 2:30 | |
| Breathe | James Fotopolous | Experimental 16mm | 00:34 | |
| Burning Man: The Burning Sensation | Alex Nohe | Documentary 35mm | 75:00 | |
| Burnside | Corey Wade | Documentary Video | 6:00 | |
| Cat Number Six is a Coward | Jerome Gariepy Gariepy Gariépy is a surname mostly found in North America. The most ancient known bearer of the name is Jean Gariépy who lived in Montfort-en-Chalosse, Gascony, France, from 1568 to 1609 . His son, François Gariépy, came to Nouvelle-France where he married Marie Houdin in august 1657... |
Short 16mm | 8:00 | |
| Coffin Joe: The Strange World of Jose Mojica Marins | Andre Barcinski & Ivan Finotti | Documentary Video | 66:00 | East Coast Premiere |
| Come Softly | Bobby Abate | Experimental Video | 11:00 | |
| Communication | Zakery Weiss | Experimental Video | 6:15 | |
| comp.tot4 (romutation) | reMI | video | 16:00 | |
| Crazy | Bobby Abate | Experimental Video | 13:00 | |
| Curse of the Seven Jackals | Chris Jolly | Feature 16mm on video | 60:00 | New York Premiere |
| DaumEB | Ben Russell Ben Russell (filmmaker) Ben Russell is an American experimental filmmaker. Russell developed his reputation over the numerous shorts he made throughout the 2000s, many as part of his "Trypps" series, and as the curator of the Magic Lantern Cinema in Providence, Rhode Island... |
Experimental 16mm | 7:00 | |
| Dirty Girls | Michael Lucid | Documentary Video | 18:00 | |
| Do It | Jonas Mekas Jonas Mekas Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.-Biography:... |
Documentary Video | 3:00 | |
| Down to the Crux | Michael Lucio Sternbach | Documentary Video | 45:00 | East Coast Premiere |
| Drink Me | Lisa Barnstone | Experimental Super 8 on video | 4:00 | |
| Drop That Baby Again | Karen Yasinsky | Animation 16mm on video | 5:00 | |
| Drowning | James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos is an independent filmmaker and media artist living in Chicago, Illinois. His work is low-budget and rigorous, and consists of experimental narrative features, non-narrative shorts, and video installations... |
Experimental 16mm | 2:30 | |
| Election Collectibles | Bryan Boyce | Short Video | 4:45 | |
| Encinitas Realization | Chris Johanson | Short 16mm on video | 3:00 | |
| Film Sketches (The Stewardess, Pizza Man & Food Critic) | Shannon Plumb | Experimental Video | 7:00 | |
| Flip Foot | Paula Kinsel | Experimental Video | 3:00 | |
| Forest-Views | Bart Vegter | Experimental 35mm (silent) | 18:00 | |
| Forever Bottom! | Nguyen Tan Hoang Nguyen Tan Hoang Nguyen Tan Hoang is a gay Vietnamese American video artist and academic. Nguyen's research interests include Asian American masculinity in gay male video porn and Hollywood and international cinemas.... |
Experimental Video | 4:00 | |
| Freaks on the Beach | Chase Lounge | Short Super 8 on video | 3:00 | |
| Fucked in the Face | Shawn Durr | Feature Video | 70:00 | |
| Gang Tapes | Adam Ripp | Feature Video | 81:00 | East Coast Premiere |
| Goldfish & Sunflowers | Robert C. Banks, Jr. | Experimental 35mm. | 9:00 | |
| Gone | Cecilia Dougherty Cecilia Dougherty (filmmaker) Cecilia Dougherty creates videotapes and digital films which focus on the themes of lesbianism and popular culture. While her early work places lesbians in a cultural territory separate from mainstream society, other projects portray the lesbian experience in terms of commonly-held norms; in her... |
Experimental 2-Channel Video | 37:00 | World Premiere |
| Greenidge Meantime | Oliver Griffin | Documentary Video | 8:00 | |
| Helium | Patty Chang | Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| Hey, Happy! | Noam Gonick Noam Gonick Noam Gonick RCA is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and artist.The son of radical Marxist and former Manitoba MLA Cy Gonick, Noam supplemented his formal film education by studying directors Guy Maddin and Bruce LaBruce. His survey of Maddin's life and work became the documentary Waiting... |
Feature 35mm | 75:00. | East Coast Premiere |
| His Holy Prepuce | Jane Gang | Experimental Super 8 on video | 5:00 | |
| Hot Broads | Brittany Hague | Short Super 8 & 16mm on video | 17:00 | |
| Hot Trash | Rick Spears | Short Video | 10:00 | |
| I Like Men | Anne McGuire | Animation Video | 00:40 | |
| I Only Have Eyes for You | Tom Jarmusch & Fabienne Gautier | Experimental Video | 7:51 | |
| In Love with Love | Brian Frye | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| In the Cycling Park | Masaki Hosokawa | Short 16mm. | 19:00 | |
| In the Ocean | Frank Scheffer Frank Scheffer Frank Scheffer is a Dutch cinematographer and producer of documentary film, mostly known for his work Conducting Mahler .-Education:Scheffer was schooled at the Academy for Industrial Design , the "Vrije Academie" Art College in... |
Documentary Video | 55:00 | |
| Indonesia | Rick Charnoski | Documentary Super-8 on video | 8:00 | |
| Instrument | JFCrgen Moritz | video | 5:00 | |
| It Did It | Peter Brinson | Experimental Video | 17:00 | |
| Jeffrey's Hollywood Screen Trick | Todd Downing | Animation 35mm | 10:00 | |
| Jerks, Don't Say "Fuck" | Zhao Liang | Experimental Video | 4:00 | |
| Jimmy Jang Jang | Monroe Bardot | Short Video | 3:00 | |
| Jogging | Josef Dabernig | Short 35mm | 11:00 | |
| Jugular | Fernanda Ramos | Short 35mm | 4:40 | |
| Karate Ruler | Anthony DiSalvo | Short Video | 15:30 | |
| Kukla Fran + Adolf | Monroe Bardot | Short Video | 3:00 | |
| letters, notes | Stephanie Barber | Experimental 16mm (silent). | 4:15 | |
| Looking for Willie | Tom Davis | Documentary Video | 6:00 | |
| Lucky | Bobby Abate | Experimental Video | 13:00 | |
| Maldoror | Kerri Sharp, Filmgruppe Abgedreht, Caroline Kennedy, Duncan Reekie, Filmgruppe Chaos, Colette Rouhier, Steven Eastwood, Jenigerfilm, Andrew Coram, Hant Film, Paul Tarraga, Jennet Thomas | Feature 16mm | 100:00 | US Premiere |
| Meditation #5 | Auguste Varkalis | Experimental 16mm (silent) | 6:00 | |
| Micromoth | Julie Murray | Experimental 16mm | 6:00 | |
| Mind Control Made Easy | Carey Burtt | Short 16mm | 13:00 | |
| Monday with the Martins | Jeffrey Erbach | Experimental 16mm | 3:30 | |
| More or Less | Mirjam Unger | Short 35mm | 18:00 | |
| Mother and Son | Matthew Silver | Short Video | 15:45 | |
| Mountain Trip | Siegfried A. Fruhauf | Experimental 16mm | 4:00 | |
| Movies for the Blind: Episode 3 | Jeff Perkins | Experimental/Performance | 70:00 | |
| Mutant Aliens | Bill Plympton Bill Plympton William "Bill" Calvin Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.- Biography :Bill Plympton was born in... |
Animation 35mm | 80:00 | East Coast Premiere |
| Nature's Assistant: Short Films and Video | Vanessa Renwick | Experimental Video | 60:00 | |
| notdef./version one | maia./notdef | video | 4:00 | |
| Now Let Us Praise American Leftists | Paul Chan | Experimental Video | 2:30 | |
| o.T. | Michaela Grill, Takeshi Fumimoto | video | 5:00 | |
| Overfart | Ben Pointeker | video | 6:00 | |
| pedestrian errors | Cheryl Weaver | Experimental 16mm and Super-8 on video (silent) | 3:00 | |
| Pennies For Beer Short | Matthew T. | Super-8 on video | 3:50 | |
| Period | Stom Sogo | Experimental Super-8 | 27:00 | |
| Pie Fight '69 | Christian Bruno & Sam Wells | Documentary 16mm | 8:00 | |
| Pikkulzz | Xan Price | Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| Pixador | Guiomar Ramos | Documentary Video | 23:00 | |
| Planet of the Vamps | George Kuchar George Kuchar George Kuchar was an American underground film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic.-Early life and career:... |
Short Video | 25:00 | |
| Plaster Caster: A Cockumentary Film | Jessica Villines | Documentary Video | 103:00 | World Premiere |
| Pleasureland | Bryan Poyser | Short 16mm | 18:00 | |
| Private Movie | Naomi Uman | Experimental 16mm | 6:00 | |
| Psych-Burn | J. X. Williams J. X. Williams J.X. Williams is an American avant-garde filmmaker and director. Numerous critics have cited him to be one of the most influential figures in American avant-garde cinema . Williams was an innovative cult director for several notorious exploitation films produced in the 1960s and 1970s... |
Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| Punking Out | Maggi Carson, Juliusz Kossakowski & Frederic Shore | Documentary 16mm on video | 25:00 | |
| Quicksilver Boy | Anonymous | Documentary Video | 2:00 | |
| Receiver | Jon Leone | Documentary Video | 20:00 | |
| Rejected Rejected Rejected is an animated short comedy film by Don Hertzfeldt that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2000. It received 27 awards from film festivals around the world.... |
Don Hertzfeldt Don Hertzfeldt Don Hertzfeldt is the creator of many short animated films, including the Academy-Award nominated Rejected and Everything Will Be OK. His animated films have received over 150 awards and have been presented around the world. Before the age of thirty, his films were already the subject of several... |
Animation 35mm on video | 9:17 | |
| rewind | n:ja, shabotinski | video | 5:00 | |
| Route Master - Theatre of the Motor | Ilppo Pohjola | Experimental 35mm | 17:00 | |
| Ruins | Jesse Lerner | Feature 16mm | 78:00 | |
| Santora | JFCrgen Moritz, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Christian Fennes | video | 4:00 | |
| Satan Was a Lady | Doris Wishman Doris Wishman Doris Wishman was an American film director, screenwriter and independent film producer.... |
Feature 35mm on video | 80:00 | World Premiere |
| Scary Larry | Ron Beck | Documentary Video | 11:30 | |
| Scrotum Maximum | Derk Gerbode, Jan Braren & Rickmer Braren | Short Video | 3:46 | |
| Selections from Newpopart.com - "Boredom" | Randy Janson | Experimental Video | 3:00 | |
| Self-reflecting | Kirsten Stoltmann | Experimental Video | 00:55 | |
| Sharony! | Jennet Thomas | Experimental Video | 10:00 | |
| Short Film Series (excerpt) | Guy Sherwin | Experimental 16mm (silent) | 2:00 | |
| Shudder (top and bottom) | Michael Gitlin | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| Skateboarding Saved My Life (trailer) | Rob Rundquist, Woody Donahue & Mark "Mavis" Davis | Documentary Film/video | 3:00 | |
| slowfall | Cheryl Weaver | Experimental Super-8 on video loop (silent) | 5:00 | |
| Some New Romantic / t.v. sounds | Adrianne Jorge | Documentary Super-8 on video | 9:00 | |
| Sonic Genetics [New York underground re:mix] | Ian Kerkhof, Frank Scheffer, Dick Tuinder, Gerard Van Der Kaap & Philipp Virus | Experimental Video. | 60:00 | World Premiere |
| Sonnenland | Paul Divjak | Documentary 16mm | 16:00 | |
| Spit | Jeremy Drummond | Experimental Video | 2:27 | |
| Star Spangled Baby Doll | Skizz Cyzyk | Documentary Video | 4:00 | |
| Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator trailer | Helen Stickler Helen Stickler Helen Stickler is an American-born filmmaker whose works include Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator and Andre the Giant Has a Posse... |
Documentary Film/video | 3:00 | |
| Sub! | Jesse Schmal | Animation 35mm | 8:30 | |
| Sugar | Lisa Barnstone | Experimental Super-8 on video | 7:00 | |
| The Burley Boys Animation | Jesse Brown | Video. | 2:00 | |
| The Clandestine Nautical Carnality of Short I | Tony Conrad Tony Conrad Tony Conrad is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer... |
Audio composition CD Recording | 3:00 | |
| The Curse | Jacqueline Garry | Feature 16mm | 83:00 | World Premiere |
| The Escapades of Madame X | Kerry Laitala & Isable Reichert | Experimental 16mm | 10:00 | |
| The Last Olive | Alicia Scherson | Short 16mm | 17:00 | |
| The Lost Bundefjord Expedition | Matt Holm | Short | 16:00 | |
| The Magic of Radio | Greta Snider | Documentary 16mm | 23:00 | |
| The Moschops | Jim Trainor | Animation 16mm | 13:00 | |
| The Most Dangerous Game | Stephen Marshall | Documentary Video | 8:45 | |
| The Navel | Isaac Mathes | Feature Video | 78:00 | East Coast Premiere. |
| the residual artifacts of communication | Richard Mathias Sandoval | Experimental 35mm | 6:30 | |
| The Seedling (trailer/excerpt) | Thomas Campbell | Documentary 16mm on video | 6:00 | |
| The Stench of Satan | George Kuchar George Kuchar George Kuchar was an American underground film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic.-Early life and career:... |
Short Video | 40:00 | |
| The Sunshine | Phil Bertelsen | Documentary 16mm | 30:00 | |
| The Tumultuous Tears of Dorothy Dolittle | Derek Curl | Short Video | 15:49 | |
| Things to Remember About Daumier | Matthew Konicek | Experimental 16mm | 4:15 | |
| Three Legged | John Wood & John Harrison | Experimental Video | 3:00 | |
| Tokyo Escalator | Naoko Nozawa | Short Video | 11:30 | |
| Transistor | Michaela Schwentner | Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| traxdata | JFCrgen Moritz, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Christian Fennesz | video | 4:00 | |
| True Confessions of an Artist | Kirsten Stoltmann | Experimental Video | 5:00 | |
| Uncle Eugene | Aaron Lubarsky Aaron Lubarsky Aaron Lubarsky is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker known for his work on the HBO documentary Journeys with George, the PBS documentary Seoul Train and Sportsfan. After graduation from Stanford University's Documentary Film Program, he worked as a documentarian at Lucasfilm on "The... |
Documentary 16mm on video | 14:00 | |
| Unterwerk | Dariusz Kreczek | video | 2:00 | |
| Whack | Kent Lambert | Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band | Zev Asher | Documentary Video | 79:00 | US Premiere |
| Wired Angel | Sam Wells | Feature 16mm | 95:00 | East Coast Premiere. |
| You Can't Keep a Good Snake Down | Moira Tierney & Masha Godovannaya | Experimental 16mm | 4:00 | |