International Competition 04

I AM TODAY'S LESSON PLAN

• The Hideout, Thursday, 4:30PM
• The Hideout, Saturday, 3:45PM

POOLS OF SOLOMON

USA 5:40 MIXED
DIR Burton Bush
A scratchy girl group soundtrack playing forgotten B-sides, spinning gas station globes, and 3D postcard video interludes mark the way through this animated California of the mind. -- Anne Reecer

THE GUZZLER OF GRIZZLY MANOR

USA 12:00 VIDEO
DIR George Kuchar
"Nature Kills!" George Kuchar, the Hieronymous Bosch of video, documents his autumn travels, discovering the connections between nautical-themed cocktail lounges, Nicolas Cage's marriage to Lisa-Marie Presley, and grizzly bears. -- Julia Halperin

LEON GOLUB TO THE DOGS

USA 20:00 VIDEO
DIR Charlie Ahearn
Disarmingly straightforward, a totally unromanticized portrait of the painter Leon Golub. The Artist as a Man Who Grew Up During the '30s: "I've been kicked around, I've kicked others. I've fought all kinds, a million fights. I'm an old dog, and old dogs have their ways. They don't have the strength of young dogs. But we old dogs are pretty wiley." -- David Barker

MEDITATIONS ON REVOLUTION, PART 5: FOREIGN CITY

USA 32:00 16mm
DIR, CINE Robert Fenz ED Barbara Matas, Robert Fenz MUS Marion Brown Fenz
Inspired by jazz musician Marion Brown, confronts New York City as both muse and tormentor. The rooftops, fire escapes, storefronts and subway become the tabulature on which Fenz inscribes his own hopeful/mournful music. Emerging upon the background of the metropolis as both the refuge and graveyard of human dreams is a portrait of the filmmaker as a patient, honest poet of the everyday. -- Isaac Mathes

LEARNING STALLS: MODULAR SYLLABI AND ORGANIC EXCHANGE

USA 23:00 VIDEO
DIR, ED, SND Torsten Z. Burns, Darrin Martin CINE Torsten Z. Burns, Darrin Martin, Monica Panzarino CAST Torsten Z. Burns, Richard Cunningham, Kari Gatzke, Ed Luce, Darrin Martin, Monica Panzarino, Rachel Stevens
A multi-disciplinary, transplanar curriculum grid onto which Burns and Martin project exploding emissions and wireframe-enhanced psychic surgeries to demonstrate an altogether new educational paradigm for philosophical and physiological inquiry based on total graphic agitation and super-sized Gymboree. Class meets anytime anyplace anywhere any way. -- Spencer Parsons