DAY 3--Shorts Program #1 Notes

My first day of the fest. I don't usually get the opportunity to attend these kind of events so I wasn't sure what to expect. Since it was a shorts progam, I'll keep this brief.

I walked in on a trippy, repeating image of what appeared to be flower petals falling down. Next up was "Five County Fair", which contained some great sound editing at a rural county fair. A few shorts in a row then featured computerized voices, which seemed a bit excessive, but they were funny and a reminder of the need for human/computer cooperation.

Other shorts of note for me:

"The White Bunny" was a fresh, foreign perspective on things, with some great dream sequence cinematography on a train.

Luke Lamborn's two segments, "Square Millimeter: Cars" & "Square Millimeter: Houses" were highlights for me--the combination of the wonderfully conveyed simple uniformity of life, and the strikingly abstract chaos stayed with me throughout the night. Check out lucidstraw.com to see these and other videos.

"Jawswipe" (it's exactly what it says it is) was cute but ultimately too trivial for me.

"Hotel Pinball Venus" deserves mention as probably the only short where I couldn't figure out what it was, or when it was actually starting (and for that matter, ending).

"Five More Minutes" seemed to require some prerequisite film to explain the dynamic of its two characters. I felt left on the outside of this one.

"Drew Getting Hit By A Car On Belmont" & its companion piece (not sure of the actual title, but it was something like "Drew Getting Bit By A Monkey While Trying To Take A Photo") were great, brief moments captured in apparent, non-scripted video documentation.

Well, that's all from me for now--excited to see the local shorts tomorrow!