International/UT Competition: Midnight 2

THE CIRCLE OF LIFE

• Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Saturday 12:00AM

MEAT (KREAS)

GREECE 5:00 35mm
DIR, WR Cristo Petrou ED Yianni Cristoforou CINE Timios Bakadakis MUS Yiorgos Hadjinasios-Stelvio NAR Helena Papavasiliou
Meat, meat, meat! "Kreas" is a carnivore's delight. Sumptuous cuts of shoulder, flank, and filet captured fresh on film at their peaks of colorful, tasty perfection. A cinematic treatise on true carnal pleasure, in the philosophical vein of celebrity chef/epicurean bad boy Anthony Bourdain. Vegans are sissies; three cheers for meat! -- Jason Cortlund

KINETIC SANDWICH

USA 2:45 VIDEO
DIR Eric Dyer
Eric Dyer and his deli slicer compose this Dagwood Bumstead fantasia of bubbling cheese, snapping lettuce, and warbling lunchmeat marblization as a chamber piece for olive loaf and assorted fixins. -- Spencer Parsons

JULIA THOMPSON: A CASE STUDY

USA 4:00 SUPER 8
DIR Rene Pinnell
A Pathological fear of food and the harsh medicine used to treat it.

NUTRIA

USA 14:00 MIXED
DIR, PROD, ED Ted Gesing CINE Matt Pristave MUS D'Jalma Garnier
What is nutria and would you eat one? Nutria presents the people of Louisiana and the animal they love to hate.

AMERICAN PORK

USA 15:00 VIDEO
DIR Seth Grossman, Judd Frankel
"Christmas means carnage!" -- Ferdinand the Duck If we had words, we'd build a day for you, Farmer Hogget, for it takes a kind and steady hand to give us kosher holiday ham. That'll do pig. That'll do. -- Spencer Parsons

50 WAYS TO SET THE TABLE

USA 26:32 VIDEO
DIR,ED Judy Fiskin CINE Mike Jarmon
A look at the LA county Expo's annual "Tablscaping" competition that may gain the Manson family some new recruits, 50 Ways also takes deadpan aim at all those who set themselves up to judge the creative efforts of others. -- Anne Reecer

WILDCATTER

USA VIDEO
DIR Robert Melton
Got money?

FORCED INANIMATE CONNECTION: CLIMAX MODELLING 2002

USA 13:13 VIDEO
DIR Sterling Ruby
The best evidence yet that obscenity is easier recognized than defined. -- Anne Reecer