For the Record – 2017

Show Title: For the Record
Competition Shorts
Wednesday, April 5, 1:00 PM

Three Red Sweaters
Director: Martha Gregory
Documentary
10 min
USA

A short film about memory and how we document our lives.

Athens Halloween 16mm Film Booth
Director: Christopher Lange
Documentary
5 min
USA

16mm film footage captured in 2009 at the Athens Halloween block party.

Pierre Andre Simmons
Director: Jenny Groza
Documentary
9 min
USA

To what lengths are you willing to go for freedom?
Pierre chooses collecting cans rather than a “regular” job to focus on playing the piano.

Seeds
Director: Todd Chandler/Jeff Stark
Documentary
15 min
USA

A simple question activates a punk pilgrimage from a tiny community garden in Los Angeles to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.

Roger Ballen’s Theatre of Apparitions
Director: Emma Calder/Ged Haney
Animation
5 min
UK

A theatre of dismembered people, beasts and ghosts dance, tumble, make love and tear themselves apart in a nightmarish subconscious world.

Ink, Cocks & Rock’n’Roll
Director: Matthew Harlock
Documentary
15 min
UK

Controversial graphic artist Steve Martin is interviewed about his alter ego – the perverted lounge lizard monster Krent Able. Where does Krent stop and Steve start… and who is in control?

My Friend Nearly Killed Patti Smith
Director: Richard O’Connor
Animation
6 min
Ireland

Kate Sweater stopped short at the last moment as Patti Smith unexpectedly appeared in middle of Vermont street.

Too OLD to Die YOUNG
Director: Clark Slater
Documentary
11 min
USA

A collector sells an extensive collection of hip-hop-oriented photos to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.