The MeDiA Co-op
2nd Annual Digital Film Festival
DIGITAL DEMOCRACY 2003
September 3-7, 2003
Saturday Schedule
Java Cabana, 2170 Young
FREE Workshops
10:30-11:30 Local Filmmakers talk about why they make films, and just exactly what is happening locally with film in Memphis.
12:00-1:00 Todd Verow of Bangor Films explains his philosophy of Òmaking cinema cheapÓ
Congo 1
12pm A Legal Person (100:00)
Director: Donna Thomas and Paul Garstki, Plainfield, VT
Lawyer Steven Wise wants the courts to grant legal personhood to chimpanzees. Is it time to tear down the wall that separates humans from animals?
2pm Shorts
Beware of Dog (3:45)
Director: Marjoie Kaye, Echo Park, CA
Dont go on the couch, Blanche!
8986 Rosewood Lane (7:00)
Director: Vikram J Udeshi, Memphis, TN
Husband and wife move into a new home, to find that they are not alone in the house.
The Best Thanksgiving Ever (8:00)
Director: Jim Bernfield, Brooklyn, NY
At the kiddie table, no one can hear you scream.
Tech Support (6:58)
Director: Alan Benson
It's dinner time, and nothing goes better with fried chicken than a spiritual crisis. Luckily, help is just a phone call away.
Assignment 17 (5:00)
Director: Geoffrey Brent Shrewsbury, New York, NY
Watch it and see. School assigment
Fascism (2:45)
Director: Marjoie Kaye, Echo Park, CA
The Cramps & The Encyclopedia Brittanica unite in defiance of the traitors running the government.
Exile (18:00)
Director: Neil White, Oxford, MS
Adolf Hitler, Napolean Bonaparte, Vladimir Lenin, and James Joyce meet for a weekly game of Monopoly.
3:45pm The Cure (109:00)
Director: Craig Watkinson, Sherman Oaks, CA
A molecular biologist who may have destroyed a cure for AIDs, is held hostage in an effort to gain answers.
8pm Blood of the Beast (67:00)
Director: Georg Koszulinski, Gainesville, FL
In the year 2012, the 3rd great war comes to an end. The war claims no victors, but both sides succeed in executing their chemical warfare campaigns. The result is over 3 billion deaths. Over ninety eight percent of the male survivors are rendered sterile. Human reproduction is realized by means of cloning. The first strand of clones are harvested in December of 2012 and recieved with an ovewhelming success. I was not until 19 years later that the first problems arose.
10:00 Shorts
Under Things (7:30)
Director: Sarah B. Ledbetter, Paris, France
A whimsical and abstract look at the number Two in which one dreams of Three and wakes up laughing in the world of Two again.
Gravel ()
Suo Po (5:25)
Director: Yunn-Jwu Jewel Jau
According to Sanskrit, our human world is a "Suo Po" world where desire, toil, struggle and pain exist.
Joy Ode (2:50)
Director: Ben Siler, Memphis, TN
A young man's inability to operate on a social level leads to increased, and repetitive, solitary pleasures.
Track 13 (9:37)
Director: Joel. T. Rose, Memphis, TN
A cocky city boy steals the girl of a sweet country fellow. The betrayed goes to town to kill his rival.
This is My Job (8:00)
Director: Ian Hunter, Memphis, TN
The truth behind your friendly customer service.
The First Rule Of Seduction (8:00)
Director: Keith Hartman, Los Angeles, CA
A would-be temptress demonstrates the First Rule of Seduction: "If you're going to get what you want, you'd better know what you want."
Time? Awards Ceremony in Congo 1
Midnight? Post party at the Glass Onion!!
Congo 2
2pm
Town Meeting (29:43)
Director: Bond Sandoe
A Vermont Town Meeting debates the controversial issue of civil unions (the legalization of gay marriages).
Memphis on the Plain (27:00)
Director: Jim McDearman, Memphis, TN
Sixteen Memphians are asked to suppose the Mississippi River did not exist. Their answers reveal the many , sometimes, surprising blessings, and problems, the river has brought to the town.
The First Generation (17:10)
Director: Z. Eric Yang, Memphis, TN
A new immigrant is forced to make a decision between his mother and son.
4pm Third Party (105:00)
Director: Michael Burns, Vernon, CT
Third Party takes a comprehensive survey of today's major US political third party efforts, through interviews with dozens of party members and nationally renowned academics.
6:30pm The WLOK Story (57:00)
Director: Joann Self, Memphis, TN
An entertaining historical documentary about one of the nationÕs first
African-American owned radio stations, WLOK Memphis (1340 AM). Former
announcers and civil rights leaders recount hilarious stories and sobering
reminders of what it was like to be a part of a progressive, black-oriented
station before and after 1977, when black ownership of radio finally became
a reality in Memphis.
8:15pm Shorts
All We Know of Heaven
Lead Paint Double Date (30:00)
Director: Jay Marks, Yonkers, NY
Two remarkably lonely roomates lick the lead paint off their tenament walls and drive away from reality.
Water and Power
Time? Awards Ceremony in Congo 1
Midnight? Post party at the Glass Onion!!
Drum Shop
12:30pm The President's Best (67:00)
Director: Joey Woodruff, Memphis, TN
Two teenage cousins are recruited as temporary bodyguards for the former president of the US. They find adventure and the gift of forgiveness.
2:15pm McHitler (68:00)
Director: Reid Lyle & Brad Villane, Memphis, TN
Two neo-nazis clone Adolph Hitler. The baby Hitler is kidnapped by a Jew and raised as a Jew. Dolph McHitler learns his identity and battles the neo-nazis in search of the truth.
4pm Chris and the Dragon (90:00)
Director: Steve Boice
Three social outcasts fight with themselves while embarking on a quest for romance and fame.
7pm Shorts
Wiley
Rock Star (9:30)
Director: Helen Park, New York, NY
Part documentary, part visual poetry, Rock Star attempts to breakdown and examine the movement and character of the rock and roll performer.
Vigil (7:44)
Director: Marty Hardin, Wilmington, NC
Archival public domain footage, compiled and edited by director Marty Hardin, constitues a powerful indictment of the "nuclear age" mentality that led to the cold war.
Relative Dysfunction (13:00)
Director: Demi Pietchell, West Palm Beach, FL
A teenage girl feels trapped by her parents' dysfunction. She turns to drugs to combat her depression and suburban boredom. When the drug money runs out, she turns to burglary and prostitution.
The Chopping Block (3:30)
Director: Geoffrey Brent Shrewsbury, New York, NY
Das Butcher gets his own cooking show.
8:30pm Night of the Snakehead Fish (54:00)
Director: Richard A. Lester, Memphis, TN
A group of friends are trapped in the woods surrounded by aggressive killer fish.
Time? Awards Ceremony in Congo 1
Midnight? Post party at the Glass Onion!!
Comments or questions about the festival? Email us at festival@mediaco-op.org
