International Competition 07

ANOTHER GREEN WORLD

• The Hideout Up, Friday, 5:30PM
• Texas Union Theater, Saturday, 2:00PM

DECISION 80

USA 10:00 VIDEO
DIR Jim Finn
"Beam me up, Scottie, I think we really blew it." A timely look back at the mechanics of a painful historic moment. ­Julia Halperin

SOUVENIRS OF LOVE

USA 12:00 VIDEO
DIR Kyle Harris
Who would have thought that the measured and articulate sentiments of famed Unabomber Ted Kaczynski might amount to the "centrist" perspective on the political agenda and alleged crimes of Timothy McVeigh? A muddy, garish landslide of images and phrases rush by as we are treated to a minor treatise on the methodology of social protest and a reasoning behind who the targets should be. -- Sean Gallagher

OPERATION DOUBLE TROUBLE

USA 10:15 VIDEO
DIR Keith Sanborn
A simple double take on slick Madison Avenue/United States military propaganda produced for the movie version of the taking of Afghanistan. With no irony, the Spielberg touch has merged with the Riefenstahl look. Be very afraid...and register to vote! -- Kyle Henry

PILOTS ARE BADASS

USA 10:00 16mm
DIR Cheryl Park
"Are you man enough to be a Marine today?" No, but probably good enough for the Air Force reserve. A diffident, action figure-loving reservist is honest and self-aware enough to see through the hype, but still wishes it was true. -- Anne Reecer

VIVA LA GUERRA

USA 30:00 16mm
DIR, PROD DESIGN Paul Hanley WR Paul Hanley, Kieran Healy, Lee Sparks ED, CINE Kieran Healy
Paul Hanley delivers another round of Apocalypse Now Reduced, embedding the vinyl 12" version of Harrison Ford, national treasure, in every major American hostility since the Revolution. Beautifully animated, thoroughly juvenile and sporting the hottest shark attack action this side of Deep Blue Sea, it's obsessive, irresponsible, crass entertainment, which is to say, it's War American Style. -- Spencer Parsons

FIELDS

UNITED KINGDOM 17:30 VIDEO
DIR Julie Speechley ED Jerry Ramsbottom CINE Sarah Bartles-Smith SND Alexander Ellerington
Time may not heal all, but along with nature, it has obscured a series of WWI battlefields lovingly past recognition. Still, spectral voices of a tour guide and the BBC world service remind us of the violence visited upon these and other sites of man-made terror. The cycle continues endlessly onward today. -- Kyle Henry