Shorts Sunday: Shorts Program 4

Part of BAMcinemaFEST

Sun, Jun 28 at 9pm*
*Q&A with a selection of shorts filmmakers

81 min

No Idle Hands
Director: Sabrina Gshwandtner
US, 2008, 9 min
Part travelogue, part Surrealist narrative, the three-part film takes us on a symbolic tour through the history of knitting.

Memorias de una familia cubana
Director: Yan Vega
France, 2007, 16 min
Fiction short-film created with the photo album of a Cuban family, whose destiny is weaved together with the history of the Revolution from 1959 to today.

Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa
Director: Gary Huggins
US, 2008, 6 min
Illumination comes to a young boy at his grandfather's 95th birthday.

575 Castro St.
Director: Jenni Olson
US, 2008, 8 min
Set to the original audio cassette recorded by Harvey Milk in November 1977 to be played "in the event of my death by assassination."

Le Feu, le Sang, Les Etoiles
Director: Caroline Deruas
France, 2008, 16 min
Left-wing youth reacts the day after the elections, from helplessness to tears and anger. How to cope with it, or where to flee?

Out of Our Minds
Director: Tony Stone
US, 2008, 28 min
Featuring original music by Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins), the film depicts a fantasy world where a Viking heart, a car crash, and a bleeding forest connect.