2007 New York Underground Film Festival
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These are the films shown at the 14th New York Underground Film Festival
, held from March 28 - April 3, 2007.
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 28 - April 3, 2007.
| Film Name | Director | Type | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me) | Ryan Trecartin Ryan Trecartin Ryan Trecartin is an artist and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA in 2004... |
Experimental Video | 7:15 | |
| 3/60: Baume Im Herbst | Kurt Kren Kurt Kren Kurt Kren was an Austrian avantgarde filmmaker. He is best known for his involvement with the Vienna Aktionists and the group of films that resulted.-Biography:... |
Short 16mm | 5:00 | |
| According to... | Kevin Jerome Everson | Experimental 16mm On Video | 8:45 | |
| And We All Shine On | Michael Robinson | Short 16mm | 7:00 | |
| ANTM Cycle 7.5 - Episode 2: The Girl Who Gets Cut | MAXAM | Animation Video | 6:04 | |
| Ask the Insects | Steve Reinke | Animation Video | 8:00 | |
| Bacchanale | John Amero, Lem Amero | Feature 35mm On Video | 70:00 | |
| Battles of Troy | Krassimir Terziev | Documentary Video | 51:00 | |
| Battleship Potemkin Dance Edit (120 BPM) | Michael Bell-Smith | Experimental Video | 12:30 | |
| Beehive | Ewa Einhorn | Animation Video | ||
| Between Me and Earth | Christopher Miner | Experimental Video | 18:00 | |
| Blood of the Earthworm | Brittany Gravely | Experimental 16mm | 32:00 | |
| Blow: A Public Service Announcement | Dick Thompson | Animation Video | 1:16 | |
| Blue Light | Sandra Gibson | Short 35mm | 9:00 | |
| Capital | Ruth Maclennan | Experimental Video | 16:00 | |
| Celluloid #1 | Steve Staso | Feature 16mm On Video | 78:00 | New York Premier |
| Cervesa Atlas | Janicza Bravo | Experimental Video | 0:25 | |
| Chin Music | Mark Hood | Documentary 16mm On Video | 13:18 | |
| Colon Karaoke | Brina Thurston | Documentary Video | 6:00 | |
| Desert Pumps | Cathee Wilkins, Steve Hall | Short Video | 4:00 | |
| Do It | Michael Smith | Experimental Video | 3:03 | |
| Each Time I Kill Each Time I Kill Each Time I Kill is the final film that was written and directed by Doris Wishman. It was shot in 2002 shortly before Wishman's death from lymphoma, and post-production on the teen horror thriller was completed in October 2006... |
Doris Wishman Doris Wishman Doris Wishman was an American film director, screenwriter and independent film producer.... |
Feature Video | 83:00 | International Premiere |
| East 3 | Mr. Young | Documentary Video | 80:00 | New York Premiere |
| Evergreen | Robert Todd | Experimental 16mm | 15:00 | |
| Eviction | Steve Loff | Documentary Video | 5:00 | |
| Eyeshot | Diana Heise | Documentary Video | 19:54 | |
| Fading Star | John Standiford | Animation 16mm | 18:00 | |
| Famous Quotes from Art History | Michael Smith | Experimental Video | 1:24 | |
| First Firing | Kelly Oliver, Keary Rosen | Experimental Video | 2:38 | |
| For a Blonde... For a Brunette... For Someone... For Her... For You... | Mike Olenick | Experimental Video | 5:57 | |
| Frank & Cindy | GJ Echternkamp | Documentary Video | 73:00 | New York Premiere |
| Go For It | Michael Smith | Experimental Video | 4:49 | |
| Heap | Ewa Einhorn | Animation Video | 0:45 | |
| HUSKY | Jenny Drumgoole | Experimental Video | 18:00 | |
| i am dancin where you can see me | Iain Bonner | Experimental Video | 4:12 | |
| I Like This Sound | Mark Ther | Experimental Video | 5:56 | |
| I'm Keith Hernandez Keith Hernandez Keith Barlow Hernandez is a former Major League Baseball first baseman. He is currently a baseball analyst working for the New York Mets, for whom he played from –, on SportsNet New York and WPIX television broadcasts... |
Rob Perri | Documentary Video | 19:00 | |
| I'm Serious, She is a Bitch | Rebecca Conroy | Short Video | 5:00 | |
| Interplay | Robert Todd | Experimental 16mm | 6:30 | International Premiere |
| Intervals and Transformations | Huckleberry Lain | Animation Video | 3:30 | |
| Jerry Ruis, Shall We Do This | Josh Safdie, Ariel Schulman | Short 16mm On Video | ||
| July Fix | Jason Livingston | Experimental 16mm | 2:00 | |
| K | Ewa Einhorn | Animation Video | ||
| Katunayake Free Trade Zone | Jesper Nordahl | Experimental Video | 15:00 | |
| La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo | Jim Finn Jim Finn (filmmaker) Jim Finn is the writer/director of what have been called "Utopian comedies." His first feature film Interkosmos is about an East German space colonization mission. His second feature La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo is about a day in the life of a Shining Path women's prison cellblock... |
Feature Video | 60:00 | World Premiere |
| Lake Affect | Jason Livingston | Experimental Video | 1:46 | |
| Life and Times of Robert Kennedy Starring Gary Cooper | Aaron Valdez | Experimental Video | 8:00 | |
| Light Work 1 | Jennifer Reeves | Experimental Video | 8:00 | |
| Losing Ground | Patty Chang | Short Video | 6:00 | |
| Lost | Jeanne Finley, John Muse | Experimental Video | 3:48 | |
| Lunchfilm | 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... , Kevin Jerome Everson, Jem Cohen, Ben Coonley, Mike Plante, Cam Archer, Roger Beebe, James Benning, James Clauer, Bill Daniel, Sharon Lockhart, Eileen Maxson, Carson Mell, Nina Menkes, Chris Peters, Elizabeth Skadden, Sebastian Wolf, Zellner Brothers |
Short Video | New York Premiere | |
| Mike | Michael Smith | Animation Video | 3:44 | |
| Mike Builds a Shelter | Michael Smith | Experimental Video | 24:05 | |
| Nature Mature | James N. Kienitz Wilkins | Experimental 16mm On Video | 17:00 | |
| Nice Bombs | Usama Alshaibi Usama Alshaibi Usama Alshaibi is an Iraqi-American independent filmmaker and visual artist.Starting in early 2004, Alshaibi worked on a documentary on his homeland, and its current situation, titled Nice Bombs... |
Documentary Video | 77:00 | New York Premiere |
| North of the Rug Fibers | Christopher Miner | Experimental Video | 2:00 | |
| Notes | Jenny Perlin | Animation 16mm On Video | 3:24 | |
| Nubile Nuisance | Carlos Lamontoni | Feature Video | 53:13 | |
| NYC Weights & Measures | Jem Cohen Jem Cohen Jem Alan Cohen is an award-winning New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats and collaborations with music artists. He is the recipient of the Independent Spirit Award and many first place awards for feature filmmaking... |
Experimental 16mm On Video | 6:15 | |
| Oh Boy! | Jessica Jagtiani | Experimental Video | ||
| Only Just Begun | Jennet Thomas | Experimental Video | 8:05 | |
| Origin | Hiromi Yoshida | Experimental 16mm On Video | 2:20 | |
| Outstanding Young Men of America | Michael Smith | Experimental Video | 9:20 | |
| Paterson - Lodz | Redmond Entwistle | Experimental 16mm | New York Premiere | |
| Paul and the Badger + Ben | Paul Tarragó, Ben Coonley | Experimental Video | International Premiere | |
| Qualities of Stone | Robert Todd | Experimental 16mm | 11:00 | |
| Quinquag | Michael Smith | Experimental Video | 7:58 | |
| Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled | Victor Zimet, Stephanie Silber | Documentary Video | 59:55 | New York Premiere |
| Red without Blue | Brooke Sebold, Benita Naschold Sills, Todd Sills | Documentary Video | 74:06 | New York Premiere |
| Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (notes on Camp) | Steve Reinke | Animation Video | 4:00 | |
| Review | Jenny Perlin | Animation 16mm On Video | 3:00 | |
| Sand Quarry | Raphael Grisey | Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| Schweigen | Ewa Einhorn, Misha Stroj | Animation Video | 0:37 | |
| Secret Horror | Michael Smith | Experimental Video | 13:24 | |
| Shhh... They're Getting Closer | Todd Verow Todd Verow Todd Verow is an American film director who now resides in New York City, New York. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the AFI Conservatory. Together with his creative partner, James Derek Dwyer, he formed Bangor Films in 1995. He was also the cinematographer for Jon Moritsugu's... |
Experimental Video | 5:00 | |
| Slow Jamz | Karthik Pandian | Experimental Video | 7:24 | |
| Something Else | Kevin Jerome Everson | Experimental 16mm On Video | 2:00 | |
| Sway | Richard Sandler | Documentary Video | 33:00 | |
| TERROR! | Ben Rivers | Documentary 35mm On Video | 24:00 | World Premiere |
| The Boy in the Air | Lyn Elliot | Experimental Video | 2:00 | |
| The General Returns from One Place to Another | Michael Robinson | Experimental 16mm On Video | 11:00 | |
| The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief | Jake Clennell | Documentary Video | 75:44 | |
| The Insignificant Other | Nail Chiodo | Feature 16mm On Video | 88:55 | International Premiere |
| The Mendi | Steve Reinke | Animation 16mm On Video | 9:00 | |
| The MUSCO Story | Michael Smith | Experimental Video | 5:48 | |
| The Night Before Christmas | Sam Bassett | Short Video | 8:00 | |
| The Pig Bromise | Ewa Einhorn, Misha Stroj | Animation Video | 1:00 | |
| The Professor | Jason Price | Documentary Video | 25:00 | |
| The Results of Energy Neither Being Created Nor Destroyed on a Sunny Day | James Yamada | Experimental Video | 4:00 | |
| The Sky Song | 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 Video | 79:52 | World Premiere |
| The Truth and the Pleasure | Jennet Thomas | Experimental Video | 4:30 | |
| Through These Trackless Waters | Elizabeth Henry | Experimental 16mm On Video | 12:30 | |
| Towards | Ewa Einhorn | Animation Video | 1:00 | |
| Tube Time! | Short Video | |||
| Ultimate Reality | Jimmy Joe Roche | Experimental Video | 18:00 | |
| Underscan | Nancy Holt Nancy Holt Nancy Holt is an American artist famous for her public sculpture, installation art and land art. Throughout her career, Holt has also produced works in other mediums, including film, photography, and writing artist’s books.-Biography:... |
Short Video | 21:00 | |
| Untitled Film, No. 9 | David Butler | Experimental Video | 5:23 | |
| Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, the Law, and Poetry | Paul Chan | Documentary Video | 17:30 | |
| Valley of the Castles (Hunting Eagles) | Ruth Maclennan | Experimental Video | 19:50 | |
| Viva Viva (film) Viva is a 2007 feature film directed by Anna Biller. It's a faithful homage to sexploitation films from the 1960s and 1970s, but with a feminist twist. The film has received mixed reactions, and "illustrates cinema’s unique ability to blend high and low culture." Viva premiered at the Rotterdam... |
Anna Biller Anna Biller Anna Biller is an independent American filmmaker. She is known for her visual style, and for her use of period genres and satire. Her 2007 sexploitation feature film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and won the Best of Fest Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival... |
Feature 35mm | 120:00 | New York Premiere |
| Welcome to Normal | Marianna Ellenberg | Animation Video | 7:00 | |
| Wing Bowl 13 | Jenny Drumgoole | Documentary Video | ||
| You Don't Understand He is a Painter by Nature | 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 Video | 0:40 | |
| You're Not Supposed to be Here | 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 Video | 0:52 | |