vffc 2013 festival guide

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WELCOME TO VISIONS

WELCOME //

Is a festival simply a space to screen films and

attend conference panels? Maybe for some. But at

Visions, we believe a great festival and conference

should be a game-changer; an event that thrusts

like-minded individuals in the way of future

collaborators and co-conspirators. Today, as we

celebrate our third year since opening our doors to

international submissions, Visions has become that

event.

The launch of the Visions Tour this year brought

undergraduate film to schools all around the

region, expanding the conversation about

undergraduate filmmaking and film studies well

beyond the scope of the festival itself. If there’s

one thing we learned on the road, it’s that, today

more than ever, cinema has become a symbiotic

evolution of motion pictures and the communities

that rise up around them. This year’s program of

films, panels, presentations, and events reflect this

very idea.

From activist filmmaking, to network narratives, to

discussions on emerging LGBT representations,

the lineup of young filmmakers and scholars you’ll

meet this year have each touched upon something

bold and invigorating within today’s rapidly

diversifying and globalizing media landscape.

A new generation of image-makers, storytellers,

critics, and theorists are taking center-stage,

tasked with blazing the trail into newfound

territories while building upon decades of tradition

and history. See how they’re meeting that

challenge today. Welcome to the 2013 Visions Film

Festival & Conference.

venues

Lumina TheaterFilms and panels

Fischer Student Center

UNCW Campus

(910) 962-4045

Clocktower LoungePassholder’s Lounge


UNCW Campus

(910) 962-4045

THE SoapboX

LAUNDROLOUNGEAfter Party

255 N. Front Street

Downtown Wilmington

(910) 251-8500

festival passes

registration DESKLumina Theater


UNCW Campus

(910) 962-4045

Festival passes can be picked up at

the registration desk all day,

beginning at

8 a.m. Passes are free and are

required for admittance to all events.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

9:00 AM - 10:00 AMLumina Theater

FSU graduate Gina Papabeis talks

about her undergraduate career,

activist filmmaking, and the Oceanic

Preservation Society’s new film, The

Heist.

CONFERENCE PANELSESSION 1

10:00 AM – 11:30 AMLumina Theater

Topics include: emerging LGBT

representations in queer cinema,

Cartesian perspectives of the handheld

camera, racial integration in 1949

American films, and 1980s heavy metal

horror films.

SHORT FILMS BLOCKSESSION 1

12:30 PM – 2:30 PMLumina Theater

Daytime short film screenings followed

by a Q&A panel with attending

filmmakers.

CONFERENCE PANELSESSION 2


Topics include: Maya Daren and Martin

Heidegger on creating poetic meaning

in film, rape myths in popular cinema,

American realist filmmaking, and the

electronic image.

SCHEDULESCHEDULESCHEDULESCHEDULE

1HOUR/1TAKEvideo race

4:00 PM – 5:30 PMCheck-in at registration desk

Teams will receive assignments and

equipment upon arrival.

1HOUR/1TAKESCREENING


View the films that made it past the

finish line and vote for the Audience

Choice Award winners!

PASSHOLDER’S LOUNGEVIDEO BUFFET

7:30 PM – 8:00 PMClocktower Lounge

Enjoy a coffee & dessert reception

with attending filmmakers, scholars,

and festival passholders, and explore

Matt Gossett’s interactive Video

Buffet!

SHORT FILMS BLOCKSESSION 2

8:00 PM –!10:00 PMLumina Theater

Evening short film screenings

followed by a Q&A panel with

attending filmmakers. Mature

audiences only.

RED-EYE AFTER PARTY

10:00 PM –!2:00 AMThe Soapbox Laundrolounge

Featuring Libraries, Most Golden,

ARCHIM!D!S and Dr. Sooze. All

awards will be announced at the

beginning of the night!

18+ to enter. Festival passholders

only.

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS

WITH A SNEAK PEEK

OF “THE HEIST”

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GINAPAPABEISGina Papabeis is a graduate of Florida

State University's College of Motion

Picture Arts, where she worked on

over thirty short films and completed

FSU’s Torchlight Program. She has

worked at Red Hills Releasing as an

executive assistant, contributing to the

online and grassroots promotion of a

dozen independent films, including

The English Surgeon, The End of

America, In a Dream, and JCVD.

In addition, she contributed to the

outreach campaign for the Academy

Award-winning documentary The

Cove, which exposed the secret mass-

murdering of dolphins in Japan. She

a l so managed the day- to-day

o p e r a t i o n s f o r t h e n o n - p ro fi t

organization behind the film, the

Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS).

Gina continues her work at OPS as the

associate producer of their next

feature film, The Heist, in which the

OPS team returns to call attention to

the planet's current mass extinction

event.

LUMINA THEATER GINAPAPABEISGINAPAPABEISGINAPAPABEIS

more about gina !

10101010AMCONFERENCE PANEL

SESSION 1

FOCUS FEATURES: A SAFE HAVEN FOR QUEER CINEMA

CARTESIAN PERSPECTIVE OF THE HAND-HELD CAMERA

Drawing upon the influences

of Descartes and Bazin, as

well as the Realist school of

thought, Coe explores how

the hand-held camera in

reflex ive documentar ies

stimulates the experience of

the bound consciousness as

interpreted through Cartesian

dualistic thought.

KATHERINE COEUniversity of Florida

kimberly behzadisuny oswego

Behzadi explores how recent films

released by Focus Features—Brokeback

Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005), Milk (Gus Van

Sant, 2008), The Kids Are All Right (Lisa

Cholodenko, 2010), and Beginners (Mike

Mills, 2010)—fulfill genre norms while

replacing traditional Hollywood straight

protagonists with openly gay protagonists,

reflecting a new switch in today’s cultural

politics.

LUMINA THEATER

the end OF SEPARATE CINEMAS: RACE IN 1949 AMERICAN FILM

heavy metal monsterS: reductio ad ridiculum and the 1980s heavy metal horror cycle

In 1949, four films were released in

America which transcended the norms of

so-cal led “race fi lms” f rom years

prior:"Home of the Brave, Lost Boundaries,

Pinky," and" Intruder in the Dust." Flesher

discusses how post-WWII escapism

allowed Hollywood to bridge the gap

between separate cinemas and integrate

African American actors and themes into

mainstream films.

felicity fleshercarleton college

Heavy Metal Monsters! examines the long

neglected heavy metal horror cycle in relation to

the well-known moral crusades against the music

throughout the 1980s. It propounds that these

films’ satirization of prevalent adversarial notions

are rhetorically consistent with the metal

subculture’s disposition for self-referential humor,

ultimately accounting for their appeal to its

members.

BRANDON KONECNYUNC-WILMINGTON

SHORT FILMS BLOCK

SESSION 1

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How’s Everything Meloncholy

Another Man’s Treasure

Night Air Got You Can We Be Happy Now

The Drop

This Vacuum Is

Too Loud A Girl Called Iba

The Understudy

Dechen

LUMINA THEATER

Dechen

Dir. Kaukab Basheer

School of Visual Arts

Animation (5 min.)

Dechen, a young Tibetan monk-in-

training, finds peace at last by learning to

eliminate the need to possess and control.

How’s Everything

Dir. Dylan Redford

Middlebury College

Short Narrative (5 min.) – Premiere

Redford peels back the façade of

pleasantries exchanged between two

friends, revealing the distance between

what we feel and what we say.

Meloncholy

Dir. Joseph Heinen, Matthew Kiel

Rochester Institute of Technology

Animation, Comedy (5 min.)

A mythical creature introduces Spencer to

a life of crime.

Another Man’s Treasure

Dir. Maryosha Eggleston

UNC-Wilmington

Documentary (12 min.) — Premiere

A documentary film about a man with a

troubled past that inspired him to create

his eccentric junkyard.

Night Air

Dir. Sunmee Dong

CalArts

Animation (3 min.) — Premiere

After a long day, a man decides to go on a

drive with his cat.

Got You

Dir. Bianca Morris

Emerson College

Short Narrative

When 8-year-old Lexi discovers her

mother’s having thoughts of suicide,

innocent games become downright

terrifying.

Can We Be Happy Now

Dir. Tahnee Gehm

CalArts

Animation (3 min.)

A man in a drab, grey world is taken on

an adventure by the spirits of nature.

The Drop

Dir. Jay Raja

Chapman University

Short Narrative, Sci-Fi (20 min.)

A couple drifting through space faces

the greatest challenge in their

relationship yet.

This Vacuum Is Too Loud

Dir. Gus Péwé

Denison University

Short Narrative (6 min.)

The story of a non-earthling stuck on

our planet, unable to return home.

A Girl Called Iba

Dir. Lydia O’Neil Bullock

Corcoran College of Art & Design

Documentary (8 min.) – Premiere

Decades of tradition have weighted

“honor” and “shame” as the two ends

of the moral spectrum for Kurdish

women.

The Understudy

Dir. Hayley Kosan

Arizona State University

Short Narrative, Musical (14 min.)

On opening night of the highly-

anticipated Broadway musical Blind

Ambition: the Story of Hellen Keller,

understudy Kate Lovelace decides she

will tread on the boards instead of

leading lady Rose Fairwell.

SHORTS AT A GLANCESHORTS AT A GLANCE

CONFERENCE PANEL

SESSION 2

PM2:302:302:302:30

VERTICAL THINKING: BUILDING MEANING IN FILM THROUGHMAYA DEREN AND MARTIN HEIDEGGER

kimberly behzadisuny oswego

Drawing upon Maya Deren’s panel

contribution at the 1953 Cinema 16

Symposium and Martin Heidegger’s

“Memorial Address” from" Discourse on

Thinking, Zera uses Deren’s vertical/

horizontal investigations theory and

Martin Heidegger’s ideas on calculative/

meditative thinking to describe how the

mechanics of filmmaking contribute to

the process of poetically creating

meaning in film.

RAPE MYTHS IN POPULAR CINEMA

Uti l iz ing psychological case

studies, Powell analyzes how four

popular Hollywood films—Straw

Dogs"(Sam Peckinpah, 1971),"Nine

1/2 Weeks"(Adrian Lyne, 1986),"The

Accused" (Jonathan Kaplan, 1989),

and! Thelma and Louise" (Ridley

Scott, 1991)—reinforce common

public misconceptions about rape

regarding victim blame.

JOEY POWELLUNC-WILMINGTON

LUMINA THEATER

MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO: REALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ELECTRONIC IMAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Nunoda uti l izes queer theory,

B a k h t i n i a n l i n g u i s t i c s , a n d

postmodern psychoanalyses to

examine Gus Van Sant’s" My Own

Private Idaho! (1991) as a uniquely

d e v e l o p e d , m e d i u m - p u s h i n g

example of Amer ican Real is t

filmmaking.

ERIN NUNODAUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO

McCarthy traces the trajectory of

video manipulation from Nam June

Paik’s early films to the present day,

l ink ing the b i r th of v ideo to

contemporary video art forms and

explor ing how the impact of

consumer-grade digital cameras,

edit ing systems, and internet

distribution has lead to a wholly

different media landscape.

BEN MCCARTHYUNC-WILMINGTON

1HOUR/1TAKEVIDEO RACE





CHECK-IN!

4:00 PM

Registration Desk

Find your crews, get your swag,

grab your camera, and start

schemin’! Prompts will be

announced as soon as all crews

have checked in.

SHOOT!

4:30 PM –!5:30 PM

You have one hour to create a

minute-long video shot as a single

take. Shoot as many takes as you

want and pick your best one!

Vids to make it past the finish line

get screened to festival audiences

and compete for the Audience

Choice Award.

SCREEN!

5:30 PM – 6:15 PM

Lumina Theater

Now enjoy all of your hard work.

RULES

• All filming must occur on

campus

• Completed videos must be no

longer than one minute in

duration

• Participants have one hour to

choreograph and shoot their

video

• The video must be orchestrated

in one continuous take

• Participants can shoot as many

takes as desired, but there can

be no cutting between multiple

shots or takes

• The film must incorporate the

mystery prop/prompt

• Slate the beginning of your film

with your team’s name on

camera

• Only films that are submitted by

the deadline will be screened

and eligible for awards

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Editors-in-chiefLiza Palmer University of North Carolina [email protected]

Tim PalmerUniversity of North Carolina [email protected]

ISSN 2042-1869 | 4 issues per year, Vol 4, 2013

Film Matters is an exciting film journal, celebrating the work of undergraduate film scholars. Published four times a year, each issue will contain feature articles, as well as a healthy review section. In addition, with an undergraduate audience in mind, Film Matters will include occasional service-oriented pieces, such as profiles of film studies departments, articles that engage the undergraduate film studies community and prepare students for graduate study in this field, and resources and opportunities that undergraduate scholars can pursue.

Please contact Liza Palmer with any queries or submissions.

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ISSN 16516826 | 6 issues per year, Vol 11, 2013

Film International covers film culture as part of the broader culture, history and economy of society. We address topics of contemporary relevance from historically informed perspectives. We wish to bridge the gap between the academy and the outside world, and encourage the participation of scholars from a variety of disciplines.

We refuse the facile dichotomies of ‘high’ and ‘low’, Hollywood and independent, art and commercial cinema. We discuss Hollywood films seriously, and ‘art’ movies critically. We aim at becoming a truly international journal, recognising local specificities, but also the ultimate interconnectedness of an increasingly globalised world.

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CLOCKTOWER LOUNGE

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installation: Video buffet

MAtT GOSSETT UNC-WILMINGTON

Join attending filmmakers, film scholars,

and festival passholders for a coffee &

dessert reception while exploring the

interactive Video Buffet installation by

Horse Computer’s Matt Gosset.

what the @#!% IS a video buffet? !

PASSHOLDER’SLOUNGE



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SESSION 2

DEAR HUNTERSDIR. ZACK BORNSTEIN, ERICBINSWAGER, DAVID SHUCK

BROWN UNIVERSITYSHORT NARRATIVE, COMEDY

9 MIN.

Little Milos worships his family’s tradition of hunting.

When his father and grandfather tell him he’s too

young to go, Milos stows away to find out what

exactly goes on in the woods.

OTZIDIR. EVAN BORJA

SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTSANIMATION

6 MIN.

The story of a man who finds a man.

FOCUS ON THE FAMILYDIR. LENNON BATCHELOR

THIS IS LENNON !

THE CONVERSATIONDIR. PIOTR SULKOWSKI

university of central floridaexperimental narrative

7 min.

Two people who have learned everything they know

about values from the television allow the child they

are charged with caring for to wander away.

the polish national film,

television, and theatre

schooldocumentary

17 min.

Agnieszka and Janusz were both convicted of murder.

They wrote to each other for eight years but never

met… Until today, when Agnieszka goes on leave to

see him for the first time.

AND THE

PETER

PAPERWOLVES

DIR. DANIEL OBZEJTA

wesleyan universityshort narrative – festival premiere

13 min.

Peter is a boy with his head in the clouds

when his hands should be helping his

grandfather on the farm. After hearing the

sounds of a passing carnival, Peter runs away

during a snowstorm. In the Woods, a dubious

pair of circus performers coax him into a

grotesque circus world and enlist him to help

with a new trick aimed at removing a song

stuck in Lobo the Clown’s head.

3 BY 3 1 BY 1 DIR. CHRISTOPHER CARULLO

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDAEXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE

14 MIN.

3 by 3, 1 by 1"examines the complexities

of contemporary youth culture by

chronicling the intimate lives of eight

characters and their relationships

through a myriad of perspectives,

mediums, and styles which present a

multi-dimensional portrait of the 21st

century. It also features a panda and a

couple of dogs.

more from

this director !

VOWDIR. BRIDGET UNDERWOOD

MIRUNADIR. PIOTR SULKOSWKI

savannah college of art & designanimation

4 min.

A mother gives up her life to protect her younger

daughter. The daughter, in turn, makes it her

mission to see vengeance. With a sad twist of

fate,!Vow"tells the story of how far someone can

go for a loved one.

the polish national film,

television, and theatre

schoolshort narrative – U.S. premiere

20 min.

After an argument with her lover, a young

woman recklessly gets into the parked car of a

mysterious stranger. Through a maze of colorful

flashbacks, intricately related to the man’s

painful past, the destiny of the young woman is

inevitably connected to that of an imaginary

fish.

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Special thanks

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Mariana Johnson

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David Kreutzer

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Alexander Markowski

Mark Millhone

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Glenn Pack

Liza Palmer

Tim Palmer

Ed Rankus

Sue Richardson

Andre Silva

Woody Sutton

Simon Tarr

Pat Torok

FESTIVAL STAFF

Shannon Silva

Festival Director

Hamilton Hudson

James Martin

Assistant Directors, Programming

Matt Gossett

Brandon Konecny

Programming Coordinators

Jon Whitaker

Assistant Director, Public Relations

Joey Powell

PR Coordinator, Staff Writer

Ben Blevins

Chris Keefe

Digital Media Managers

Brianna Barker

Animator

Natasha Alden

Assistant Director, Hospitality/Events

Sarah Reedy

Hospitality Coordinator

Marge Streb

Josh Powell

Video Race Coordinators

Mary Schweers

Outreach Coordinator

Sway Thompson

Chandler Baucom

After Party Coordinators

AJ Hallatt

Assistant Director, Fundraising

Will Davis

Development Coordinator

Matt Marlowe

Awards Coordinator

Channing Duke

Operations Manager

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