A fake documentary about a cop who innately holds a strange characteristic ? people somehow gather up and queue in line behind him automatically with or without their intention.
2005
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Short Program 8: Reflections from the East and BackReflections from the East and Back mixes narrative works with documentary and even includes one that falls nicely in-between. Reflections from the East and Back offers a number of views of the lives of people of several different cultures and how they interact, compare or contrast with familiar ones. From the United States, Japan, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, and even Mongolia, Reflections from the East and Back touches on ways of life that are strikingly different from ours while feeling nothing but familiar.
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Short Program 7: Student ShortsCinequest is proud to present a collection of student shorts that goes across all bounds of film. From around the nation, many of the top film schools, smaller schools and local institutions are represented. The subjects stretch from the highly comedic to the subtle and dark. This year?s selection from the next generation of filmmakers is sure to instill confidence in the future of film.
Chris Garcia
NOTE: Screening will include an intermission.
Amal (Sheridan College) - dir. Richie Mehta
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Short Program 6: Dark, Dangerous and Delightful
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Short Program 5: Show and TellA compelling series of shorts for today?s world, Show and Tell takes a look at that which we show every day and what we have to say about it. Stories are diverse, featuring Debra Jo Rupp (That 70?s Show) as a stand-up comic trying to make us hate her ex, explorations of how gay youth deal with their sexuality, a Yiddish tale of a little girl and her rabbi father and a woman waiting to see how a storm will ravage her world. Show and Tell makes you take a look at the world around you?and the ones we hope are never seen.
Chris Garcia
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Short Program 4: Animated World
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This year, Cinequest is pleased to present the fantastic crop of documentaries that comprise this year?s DocuNation. The slate of films covers the world around us, beneath us and behind the veil through cameras wielded with truth and grace. Several local works search out the truth behind our peculiar way of Bay Area living. DocuNation will introduce the audience to fascinating people, like an opinionated Centurian, a sea urchin diver or an early computer graphics pioneer and his daughter. Digital video lives with traditional film in a truly diverse DocuNation.Chris Garcia
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Short Program 2: The View from Higher UpShort films try to raise us to get a better look at the world that all too often passes us by. This program of shorts takes a look at worlds both foreign and familiar from perspectives we seldom encounter.
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Complete with mindless humanoids and talking cats, 'Robots Are Blue' is an absurd comedy about life in the future. In 2021, robots live and work among humans. Tensions rise at the workplace when John (a robot) writes Tom a poem for his birthday. Tom tries to silence his 'worker' before he is found out and reprogrammed. When upper management gets wind of the situation, Tom must decide whether to expose himself as a sympathizer or live in an opressive work environment under the cloak of secrecy.
Season:
2005
Director:
Bill Sebastian
Cinematography:
Toby Halbrooks
Cast:
Bill Sebastian, Casey Wickson, Clarke Lindsley
Editor:
Bill Sebastian
Producer:
Bill Sebastian, Toby Halbrooks
Co-Producer:
Bertha Salazar
Executive Producer:
Bill Sebastian
Composer:
Toby Halbrooks, Andrew Tinker, Jeff Talbert
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned
Sound:
Bill Sebastian
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Obscura opens the hidden life of Benoit - a man trapped by extreme photosensitivity...a hermit, plunged indoors near total darkness. How can such a being share in the richness of life? The answer is the traces of light flowing through several self-made pinhole cameras (camera obscuras), used to project images of his beloved Cecil, the woman across the street.
Season:
2005
Director:
Andre Lascaris
Cinematography:
Andre Lascaris
Cast:
James D. Lucy, Caitlin Shannon
Editor:
Garret Price
Producer:
Therese Suarez, Tatia Pilieva
Composer:
Minos Matsas
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned
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Lanie sings in a grubby bar in Queens, but tonight she shows up five hours late. It?s after closing and she has a proposition for Ross, who runs the joint. She wants him to take topless pictures of her to send in to Playboy?this will be the ticket out of her troubled, dead-end life. Scar-faced Ross is older, gruff, and has a shadowy past. He doesn't seem to think much of her naive plan. Gradually, she starts to come on to him, confident that he might easily be seduced.
Season:
2005
Director:
Robert Bailey
Cinematography:
Charles Gruet
Cast:
Jude Ciccolella, Dana Dewes
Editor:
Mick Legrande
Producer:
Cori Allison
Executive Producer:
Robert Bailey
Composer:
Joseph Mennonna
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned
Sound:
Chris Jacobson