Speechless Cinema Showcase 9:00 PM  Wednesday  17 October 2007
$5 admission Landmark Mayan Theatre 110 Broadway Denver, Colorado USA [ map ] [ Printer-friendly PDF version of this program ]
Speechless Cinema Showcase	Master of Ceremonies Ukulele Loki hosts an exhibition of 35mm short films, entirely without dialogue, highlighting works of pure visual storytelling and visceral experience. This motion picture collection represents the highest level of cinematic artistry and technique.
	Film Descriptions:
Phantom Canyon 2006 USA 11 minutes 35mm B&W stereo sound	Direction and Animation: Stacey Steers Music and Sound Design: Bruce Odland A curious woman meets an alluring man with bat wings in this pivotal journey. This animated film was created from over 4000 hand-made collages incorporating the photographs from Eaweard Muybridge's Human and Animal Locomotion, first published in 1887.
	official website: www.staceysteers.com
Triptych 1996 USA 3 minutes 35mm B&W silent	Direction: Robert Schaller An excursion into the world of hand-made film emulsion and an exposition of some formal possibilities of using three images side by side. A dancer's brief gesture is treated, repeated, and juxtaposed, becoming the fabric of visual construction that is less about representation than rhythm and time. Originally a work for three projectors, it is here composited onto a single strand of film.
Left 2006 USA 10 minutes 35mm color stereo sound and Dolby Digital 5.1	Direction: Alexandre Philippe Cinematography: Jeff Pointer Sound Design: Phil Hegel An impressionistic short film largely inspired by Andrew Wyeth's paintings Christina's World and Helga, LEFT centers around the heartbreaking separation between a woman and the man she loves. Devoid of dialogue, this haunting and operatic film poetically reveals the grief of a woman trapped by the memory of her husband's departure in the midst of windswept grasslands.
	official website: www.leftmovie.com
Sliding off the Edge of the World 2000 USA 7 minutes 35mm color silent	Direction: Mark Street A stab at depicting fatherhood: fleeting images burst onto the screen only to recede from view just as quickly, suggesting transition and decay. Tendrils of images cluster together and then dissipate. A snowy walk, kids enthuse and infuse with daily rhythms, affording great joy but also making it clear that all things change all the time.
Oft Not 2003 USA 1 minute 35mm color silent	Direction: Carl Fuermann A kinetic and mystical film of beautiful colors and geometry, Oft Not is a mix of traditional hand-painted film and digital manipulation. Carl Fuermann painted directly on the glass of a flatbed scanner and imported images into the computer. He then layered and 'folded' the material upon itself many times over.
A Map in the Head 2003 USA 20 seconds 35mm color silent	Direction: Carl Fuermann & Courtney Hoskins Last minute program addition! A hand painted film by Carl and Courtney.
	official website: www.quartzfilms.com
Winter 2004 USA 6 minutes 35mm color stereo sound	Direction: Andy Collen Art Direction: Amy Blumenstein-Collen Animation: Kyle Jones Illustration: Steve Hess This animated short captures a morning in the life of a young girl with a sick, bedridden mother, As the young girl tends to her mother, the family dog asks to go outside. The young girl takes her pet for a walk and returns with a gift for her mother. When her mother fails to respond, the young girl fears the worst. With no dialogue, this Edward Gorey inspired pen-and-ink animated tale subtly filter this winter morning through the eyes of its main character. (synopsis by Boston Motion Picture Awards)
	official website: www.happytrailsanimation.com
Refraction 2007 USA 6 minutes 35mm color stereo sound	Direction and Cinematography: Michael Lauter Music: Testube (aka Jeff Danos) Editing: Lyda Reeve An aging woman reflects upon her youth and early adult years in this phantasmagoric ride through the looking glass. This film makes extensive use of 4K Digital Intermediate (DI) techniques. WORLD PREMIERE !
	official website: refraction.clandestcine.com

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